Last 14 days
92% on-time rate · dips, never resets
Out now on the App Store
Your time. Your rules.
Focus sessions, workouts, habits and breathwork in one iPhone app — with app blocking that asks you for a breath instead of slamming a door. A wellbeing toolkit dressed as a transit game, built by one person who needed it first.
No feeds. No streaks shouting at you. No shame. Your data stays on your phone.
This page describes Focus Tycoon 2.0, a free update on its way. Version 1.0 is on the App Store today.
Reality check
You've been on your phone longer than you think.
It never feels like much in the moment — a glance here, a scroll there. Then the evening is gone. Focus Tycoon doesn't shame you for the hours. It gives them somewhere better to go: a route to run, a station to reach, a network that only grows when you do.
Your focus timer should feel like a game — not a punishment.
A gate, not a wall.
Blocking shouldn't feel like fighting your own phone. Open a blocked app and you meet a gate: hold still a moment, or breathe through a few cycles. Then it opens for a few minutes, and closes again.
You can always turn back — and turning back earns you something. Nothing traps you.
- Two free fares, one Pro. Hold still, or breathe. The Signal Box — a small levers puzzle for the days a breath isn't enough — is the only fare that is Pro.
- The Late Train. Making your block stronger always happens straight away. Only making it weaker waits — for a delay you set — and you can cancel a waiting change at any time. The decision stays with the calmer you.
- Lock it down, if you want. Commit for one, two, four or eight hours. You can always leave; turning it off early simply lands at the end time you chose. Nothing is unescapable.
App blocking, schedules, per-activity profiles, strictness and passes are free — permanently. Not a trial, not a tier. Uses Apple's Screen Time on iPhone.
Blocked app · Focus Tycoon
This stop is gated
One breath, then you decide.
Press and hold — or hold Enter — until the ring closes.
Passes are short by design. The idea is a pause you can pass, not a wall you cannot.
One world, not five apps
One app, four ways to grow.
Focus, training, habits and calm add up in one place instead of scattering across five apps. Every session, every workout, every breath builds the same world.
Focus
Open with intention. Close on purpose.
A calm Pomodoro-style timer with 80 session templates (68 free) — study methods, deep work, breaks. Live Activities and a Dynamic Island countdown keep the session on your Lock Screen. Turn the phone sideways for a wider Desk View.
Train
Sets, reps and PRs sit beside the rest of your day.
Log workouts as you go — sets, reps, weight and rest — from 180 built-in exercises, with progression trends, records and optional Apple Health sync.
Build
A slip is data, not failure.
Turn small habits into routines, stack them into rituals, and quit the ones you want gone. 19 habit, 12 detox and 14 ritual templates to start from — or write your own.
Breathe
Crisis tools are free. Always.
Guided breathwork — all 5 protocols free — meditations and sleep tools, plus a First Aid kit for the moments overwhelm shows up. 23 audio tracks, 4 free.
Home
Good morning. Your usual session is one tap from here.
Tap the dial for Home · hold it to start
Start straight away
- Deep Work52m
- Box breathing5m
- Mobility12m
Tap: Home Hold: start Running: tap to go back
Start before you overthink.
A dial sits at the centre of the bar. Tap it for Home. Hold it to start a session straight away. While a session runs it shows your time left, and takes you back.
Five places instead of a pile of screens: Browse, Crew, Home, Progress, Account. Nothing to set up first.
- A calmer Home. Home leads with a sentence, not a scoreboard — the one thing worth doing next, over a scene that changes with the time of day. Prefer the numbers? Arcade mode is one tap away in Appearance. Same data, two tones of voice.
- Buttons became plates. A solid edge, travel on press — everywhere except the calm screens, which deliberately get no depth. Depth marks the action.
- Progress is one screen. Where you stand, what you have covered, and four ladders to climb.
Consistency you can recover.
Showing up is measured over the last 14 days, so a missed day dips it instead of resetting it to zero. Your day streak is still there — the headline number just stops punishing you.
Last 14 days
92%
On-time rate
Rolling 14 days. It dips and recovers — there's no zero to fall to.
- Day streak
- 5
- Held for you
- 1 rest day
- Missed
- 1 — and it lit again
Miss a day. Nothing shames you.
Every streak app in this category destroys the number at midnight. Here the number is how often you showed up in the last two weeks — so one missed day nudges it, and coming back lights it again. A rest day you spent something real to hold isn't counted as a miss at all.
Firsts get marked. Then ATLAS gets out of the way.
ATLAS turns up for your first session, your second day (Second Light), your first week and the days that matter — then leaves you to it. Seven days in a row lights a signal lantern.
Progress is one screen: where you stand, what you have covered, and four ladders to climb — 10 ranks from Platform Sweeper to Grand Central Overlord, tracks per activity, tenure on days, and the season on minutes.
Make it yours.
22 themes, every one with a high-contrast version. The app is light by default now — First Light — and on Automatic it follows the clock on its own: bright while you work, Arcade Console after 19:00. Pick one below and this whole page repaints in the app's real palette.
Free from day one 5 palettes
Earn with Focus Credits 5 palettes
The Pro vault 12 palettes Pro
Every value here is the app's own — contrast-audited in the app first, so text stays readable in all 22. 5 are free from day one, 5 are earned with Focus Credits, 12 live in the Pro vault.
Meet your dispatcher
A nudge, never a lecture.
ATLAS is the coach in your cockpit: a weekly briefing, post-session insights, and one relevant daily suggestion — your best focus window, a signal worth saving, a gentle word when the phone has had you a while. It runs entirely on your phone.
Arriving in 2.0 ATLAS now turns up for firsts — your first session, your second day (Second Light), your first week and the days that matter — then gets out of the way.
“Your Signal is fading. A short ride restores it.”
“Signal fading. One ride. Back on the rails.”
“Your Signal is fading — but it's still recoverable. A short ride brings it back.”
“Signal fading. One ride.”
“Your Signal is slipping and we are NOT letting it die today. One ride. Go.”
“A small matter — your Signal is fading. Might I suggest a brief ride to set it right?”
6 voices · 4 free, 2 Pro · you pick the tone
One closed loop you fill together.
Run a line together — up to 6 people, one shared loop of track with a station for each of you. You see who has been out today. Nothing more, and nothing anyone can lose.
It is not a leaderboard and it is never sorted. A circle has no first place — that is the whole point. Complete with one member, complete with six.
- Invite with a link or a QR code. They scan it in person or tap the link. Nothing about you is public either way.
- A nudge when someone shows up for you. Check-in, nice run, keep going, quiet day — signals, not scores.
- No session contents, no app names, no location. Nothing is public and nothing is searchable.
4 of 5 out today · 312 / 600 min this week
No ranking here. Just who showed up.
Why this exists
Built by one person who needed it first.
Focus Tycoon is made by a solo developer who found, the hard way, that calm is a skill — breathwork and honest structure did more than any streak-shaming app ever did. So this one is different: a wellbeing toolkit dressed as a transit game, where the anxiety and panic First Aid tools are free for everyone, forever.
No feeds. No ads. No guilt mechanics. Just a network that grows when you do.
Joyful execution
Focus should feel like something you get to do. Every run, rank and station is built to make showing up genuinely pleasant — never guilt-driven.
Honest economy
No pay-to-win, no fake urgency, no countdowns engineered to scare you. Focus Credits buy cosmetics; progress is only ever earned by focusing.
Privacy by default
Everything lives in local storage on your phone. Cloud backup is optional (and Pro), encrypted in transit and at rest; your journal and body measurements never leave the device. No ads, and analytics are opt-in — the default is off.
Fares
Everything core is free. Forever.
Focus Tycoon Pro adds depth for people who want it — it never takes anything away. Nothing core is ever locked behind it, and nothing to do with app blocking ever will be.
Free
$0
No trial clock, no ads, no time limit.
- App blocking, schedules and per-activity profiles — free, permanently
- Strictness, passes and the whole Turnstile except the one Signal Box fare
- Apple Health sync (iPhone only)
- Focus sessions and 68 of 80 templates
- All 5 breath protocols and the entire First Aid kit
- Habits, detox and rituals — 45 templates (5 premium rituals are Pro), plus your own
- Full analytics with unlimited history
- Missions and all ten ranks
- Live Activities and the Dynamic Island (iPhone only)
- Crew — private, opt-in accountability
- Local export and import of your data
- 4 of 6 coach voices
- 5 themes from day one, 5 more earned with Focus Credits
Pro 21 capabilities
$29.99/year
Or $4.99/month. 7-day free trial on the yearly plan — about $2.49 a month when billed annually. US App Store prices. Your storefront may differ.
- Custom template builder, premium rituals and journaling
- The full audio and guided-meditation libraries
- In-workout coaching, body metrics and trends, multi-week guided programs
- Multiple goals with pace projections, and your weekly deep audit
- The Signal Box gate — an extra fare for the days a breath isn't enough
- Commitment Lock, session wagers and route bundles
- Crew live shifts and the seasonal Pro track
- Premium map styles and portrait share, premium coach voices, the theme vault
- Cloud backup — optional, encrypted in transit and at rest
No pay-to-win. Progress is only ever earned by focusing — Pro buys depth and polish, never rank. Gold means Pro inside the app, and it never sits on anything free.
Good questions
Before you board.
What is Focus Tycoon?
A wellbeing toolkit dressed as a transit game: focus sessions, workouts, habits and breathwork in one iPhone app, with app blocking that asks you for a breath instead of slamming a door. Every focused minute builds a small world you can see. It never guilt-trips you, and your data stays on your phone.
Do I have to like trains?
No. One switch turns the whole world off. Plain mode gives you a quiet timer, a blocker, a habit tracker and breathwork, with none of the railway language — and it is the default. Out of the box the app says Focus Credits, Progress, Collection and Start; the themed words are an option you can turn on.
Is this another streak app that punishes me?
No. Consistency is measured over the last 14 days, so a missed day dips it instead of resetting it to zero, and coming back lights it again. A rest day you spent something real to hold is not counted as a miss. Your day streak still exists — it just is not the headline number, and nothing shames you.
Is app blocking really free?
Yes — permanently. App and category blocking, schedules, per-activity profiles, strictness and passes are all free, and so is the whole Turnstile except one Pro fare (the Signal Box). Not a trial, not a tier. It uses Apple's Screen Time on iPhone.
What's free and what's Pro?
Everything core is free forever — sessions and 68 of 80 templates, all 5 breath protocols, the First Aid kit, habits and detox, full analytics with unlimited history, missions and ranks, Live Activities, Crew, Apple Health sync and app blocking. Pro ($4.99/month or $29.99/year in the US, with a 7-day trial on yearly) adds 21 things for people who want depth: the custom template builder, premium rituals and journaling, the full audio and meditation libraries, in-workout coaching, body metrics, guided programs, multiple goals, the Signal Box gate, Commitment Lock, the weekly deep audit, premium themes and cloud backup. Nothing core is ever locked.
Does my data leave the phone?
Not unless you ask it to. Everything lives in a local database on your iPhone. Analytics are opt-in and default to off. There are no ads and no feeds. Cloud backup is optional and part of Pro — encrypted in transit and at rest — and your journal and body measurements are excluded from it entirely. Sign-in is with Apple or Google only; there are no passwords to keep.
Which phones does it run on?
iPhone only, for now — running iOS 16 or later. It leans on Apple frameworks for Live Activities, the Dynamic Island, Apple Health and Screen Time blocking. There is no iPad app.
Does it respect Reduce Motion and accessibility settings?
Yes. The app respects Reduce Motion, supports Dynamic Type, ships a high-contrast version of every one of its 22 themes, and its VoiceOver labelling has been audited. This site does the same: motion is optional, every theme keeps AA text contrast, and everything works with a keyboard.
Where can I get it?
Focus Tycoon is on the App Store for iPhone, running iOS 16 or later. It's free to download — no trial clock, no ads.
All aboard
The line is open.
Focus Tycoon is on the App Store for iPhone. Everything core is free, forever — no trial clock, no ads, no countdowns.
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