Tyma vs buriko

Tyma is a simple, visually beautiful focus timer for iPhone. Pick a time. Start focusing. That's it. Tyma isn't a task manager, a calendar, a habit tracker, or an AI assistant — it's a timer that helps you begin and finish a block of focused work. It works entirely offline, with no account and no sign-up. • Live Activities & Dynamic Island — see and control your session without opening the app • Session history with daily and weekly focus patterns • Optional Hyper Focus mode — block distracting apps for the length of your session • Multiple visual themes No ads. No tracking. No account required.

buriko pairs your phone with one small object you print yourself: a brick. Tap the brick and pick a length. The apps you chose go behind a shield. Then you leave the brick where it is — on a shelf, in another room, at home — and take your phone with you. The only early way out is walking back to it, and only once the minimum you agreed to has passed. Before that, the app tells you how long is left and nothing else. There is no streak to protect, no score to raise, no plant that dies if you fail. Those make the phone matter more, and the whole value of this app is not caring about it. How a session works • Tap the brick. Your tag's UID is matched against the paired one; a foreign tag does nothing. • Pick a length. Fifteen minutes is the floor — Apple's scheduler refuses anything shorter. • The shield goes up, and the end is scheduled before the shield is trusted. • Blocked apps show minutes remaining and the note you wrote about where you left the brick. • It ends by itself, with the app closed, at the time you set. • Or you go back and tap the brick again, once the minimum has passed. • Or you use one of three emergency unlocks per rolling week, behind a ten-second hold. The valve has to exist. It just shouldn't be something a thumb does by reflex. What it never does • No account, no sign-in, no sync. • No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising. • No networking code of any kind — the source is public and that is checkable. • The app never learns which apps you blocked. Apple hands it opaque tokens, and it stores them without ever decoding them. No brick yet? Face ID can stand in for one. Sessions start and end the same way, and the minimum duration and the emergency quota are identical — but the key is in your hand instead of across the room, and the app says so where you choose it. Pair a brick later and it takes over. What you need An NFC tag — an NTAG215 sticker or card costs about a euro — and, if you want the object, a printed shell. The models and print profiles are public domain, in the same repository as the app. Without either, Face ID gets you started. One thing no app can fix Deleting buriko removes every restriction it applied. If you want that door shut, turn on Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions → App Deletion → Don't Allow.