Just 5min
Focus Shield — an app blocker for focus sessions
Block the apps you actually reach for, for the length of a session. Start the timer and the exits are gone until it ends.
Solves: "I started the timer and opened Instagram anyway."
Features
Everything is built around one problem: you can’t begin
Four things do most of the work. Each one removes a specific excuse — the exit you take mid-session, the broken streak, the lost session, the twenty minutes gone to a feed.
A streak that forgives a missed day
One finished session a day keeps the streak. Miss a day and a freeze absorbs it automatically — your record is kept either way.
Solves: "I broke the chain on day four, so I gave up."Sessions that keep running when you close the app
Lock the phone, take a call, let iOS kill the app. The countdown finishes on time and the session is recorded when you come back.
Solves: "I lost my session, so what was the point."Start a session from the Home Screen, one tap
A widget that begins a focus session without opening the app — so the reflex that reaches for a feed lands on the work instead.
Solves: "I picked up my phone and lost twenty minutes."All of it, free on iPhone.
Five minutes by default, one tap to start. It hits the App Store next week.