Vana vs Bloc

Vana is a focus timer with other people in it, and a gentle app blocker when you want one. It is free, and you can start without making an account. Press Begin and your animal companion settles into a small grove beside everyone else who is focusing right now. Nobody talks. Nobody scrolls. The light drifts from morning to dusk while you work. Think of the last time you got real work done in a library. You stayed in your seat because the people around you were staying in theirs. People with ADHD call this body doubling. Vana is that library, open at whatever hour you need it. HOW A SESSION WORKS Grove sessions run 30 or 60 minutes, and your timer is your own, so you can arrive in the middle of someone else's hour and still finish on yours. A grove holds eight people at most. Tap any companion to see how long that person has been focusing. There is no chat. You can send a wordless bubble, or a heart to someone who sat through the hour with you. Every animal in the ring belongs to a real person. Vana will never pad a quiet room with bots, so on a slow night your grove may be just you and your egg. THE GATE If you like, close the gate when a session begins: the apps you choose wait outside until it ends. If you came looking for an app blocker, this is that, but gentler. You are never locon opens the gate, and every focused minute still counts. The gate never closes on its own. It uses Apple's Screen Time on your device, and Vana never sees which apps you choose. WHAT THE HOURS TURN INTO Your first full grove session always ends with an egge grove session leaves one too. Eggs hold a newcompanion, something to wear or place, or more honey, so no hatch is ever wasted. There are nine species, and every animal comes out one of a kind, with its own coat and temperament. Honey is earned by focusing and cannot be bought. Spend it on cozy things to wear, cushions to meditate on, and decor for a garden of your own. The garden is a golden hilltop above the clouds, and you can focus up there alone, 5 to 90 minutes, whenever the grove feels like too much. The rarest pieces in the shop never come from eggs, so anything unusual on a companion was worked for. THE LANTERN Thirty minutes of focus lights that day's lantern. You get one grace day, your longest run is always remembered, and nothing here will ever tell you that you failed. Leaving a session early still counts every focused minute. No plant dies if you stop. Sign in with Apple whenever you like and your companions come with you to a new phone. A Live Activity keeps your session on the lock screen, and a home-screen widget carries your lantern streak. Vana sits beside your work and asks nothing of you except the time you already meant to spend.

Are you losing 3 to 5 hours every single day to mindless scrolling? Do you open Instagram or TikTok for "just one minute" and snap back to reality two hours later feeling guilty, exhausted, and behind on your goals? Meet Bloc—the minimalist screen time blocker that transforms your focus into a thriving Scandinavian metropolis. Instead of fighting your phone with pure willpower, Bloc gives your brain a peaceful visual incentive. Every minute you stay away from distracting apps builds your personal dream city. Give in to doomscrolling, and construction stops. WHY BLOC WORKS WHEN WILLPOWER FAILS - Deep App Shielding: Block social media, games, or any addictive apps using Apple's official Screen Time API. - Strict Deep Focus Mode: Need strict control? Enable Deep Focus. Once started, apps remain locked until your session timer ends—no cheating, no bypasses. - Visual Progress: Watch tiny Nordic houses turn into glowing eco-skyscrapers as you complete work or study sessions. - Life Impact Analytics: Track reclaimed hours in human terms—see how many books you’ve read or miles you’ve run by simply putting your phone down. - Minimalist & Calm UI: Designed with soft Scandinavian pastel aesthetics (Tiimo-inspired) to calm your mind rather than overwhelm it. RECLAIM YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR If you save just 2 hours a day with Bloc, you gain back 30 full days of your life every single year. What will you do with an extra month? Download Bloc today, block the noise, and start building your focus. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/