Your home, in your order
Home is now a deck of tiles you arrange yourself. Put what you actually open where your thumb already goes, and drop the rest.
New Version 2.2: a home you arrange
Study without the scroll.
Pick one task and start a focus session. Distracting apps wait behind a gentle gate, and your focused time helps your own railway station grow.
- Free timer and app blocking
- No ads
- No perfect streak required
How it works
Make your next session count.
Real screens from the app. Pick a method, give it your attention, and see what you finished.
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Choose your next session
Start a plain timer, or give the session a plan — like the five-step SQ3R reading method. A little structure for what matters.
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Make room for the work
One task, one timer, your attention. The countdown stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while the phone rests.
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See what you finished
A clear ending to the time you set aside, and progress for your station. One finished block is a fine place to start.
App blocking · free
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 a few cycles. It opens for a few minutes, then closes. You can always turn back.
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Easing off takes a moment
Strengthening a block happens at once. Easing it off waits for a delay you set, so the decision stays with the calmer you.
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Free. Always.
Schedules, per-activity profiles, pass length and both free gate styles. Not a trial, not a tier.
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Two extra gates with Pro Pro
The Signal Box puzzle, and new in 2.2, a small sum to work out before the app opens.
Uses Apple's Screen Time. iPhone only.
This stop is gated
You set this window aside. One breath, then you decide.
One app, not five
Five ways to grow. One place to come back to.
Focus, fitness, habits, calm and sleep add up in one place, instead of scattering across five apps.
Make it yours.
22 themes, each with a high-contrast version. 5 are free from day one, 5 you unlock with Focus Credits, and 12 come with Pro. On Automatic, the app is bright while you work and dark after hours.
- First Light
- Arcade Console
- Gilded Obsidian
- Neon Console
- Focus Canvas
- Zen Flow
- Grounded Anchor
- Midnight Tides
- Cognitive Forest
- Bioluminescent Void
- Nord Light
- Nord Dark
- Latte Macchiato
- Monochrome Paper
- Sakura Blossom
- Dracula Focus
- OLED Pure
- Synthwave
- Solarized Light
- Solarized Dark
- Corporate Clean
- Cyberpunk City
Last 14 days
12 sessions
93%
Showed up · last 14 days One missed day. It dipped — it didn't reset.
Progress
Miss a day. Nothing resets.
Showing up is measured over the last two weeks, so a missed day nudges the number instead of wiping it out. Come back tomorrow and it climbs again.
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It forgives out loud
One page lists every rule already protecting you, with your live numbers in it.
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Gentle days and time away
Tell the app when a day asks for less, or when you're away. Free, like the rest of your progress.
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Ten ranks to climb
Finished sessions move you up the ladder, one rank at a time.
New in 2.2 · October 2026
A home you arrange.
Version 2.1 gave the app room to breathe. Version 2.2 hands you the controls.
Ask out loud
Start a run, make today gentle or open First Aid with Siri, from Shortcuts, or from a Control Centre button.
Where your things live
If you lost this phone tonight, what would come back? One page lists what's on the device, what's backed up, and what never leaves.
A new gate Pro
Work out a small sum before a blocked app opens. And if the gate you picked can't reach an app, the app now says so, with the one tap that fixes it.
Start with one session
A shorter introduction gets you to your first session. Reminders, app protection and backup can come later.
Keepsakes
Hit 7, 30 or 100 days on a habit or a detox and keep the moment as a card — the count and the name you chose, nothing else.
Privacy by default
Your focus is nobody else's business.
Focus Tycoon is made by one developer who found, the hard way, that calm is a skill. Breathwork and honest structure did more than any streak-shaming app — so the panic and anxiety tools are free for everyone, forever.
Built by one person who needed it first
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Works offline
Everything lives on your iPhone. Cloud backup is optional, and yours to turn on.
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Your writing stays put
Your journal and session notes never leave the device, even with backup on.
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No ads, no feeds
No ad networks and nothing to scroll. Analytics are opt-in, and off by default.
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A coach that stays home
ATLAS learns your best focus windows and nudges, never lectures. All on your phone.
Pricing
Free where it matters.
Pro adds depth for people who want it. It never takes anything away.
Free
$0
No ads, no trial clock, no time limit.
- Focus sessions and the timer
- App blocking, with schedules and profiles
- Both free gate styles, and turning back
- Gentle days and time away
- Habits and detox
- Every breathwork protocol and the First Aid kit
- Workout tracking and Apple Health sync
- Unlimited analytics history
- Missions and ranks
- Live Activities and private Crew accountability
Pro Optional
$29.99/year
Or $4.99/month. A 14-day free trial on the yearly plan for eligible subscribers.
Everything in Free, plus:
- The custom template builder, and journeys you chain yourself
- Premium rituals and journaling
- The full audio and meditation libraries
- In-workout coaching, body metrics and guided programs
- Multiple goals with pace projections
- The Signal Box and Arithmetic gates, and Commitment Lock
- Your weekly deep audit
- Premium themes and cloud backup
Upgrade inside the app, any time — or never.
US prices. Prices vary by region. Subscriptions renew through your Apple Account until you cancel. Nothing core is ever locked away.
What is Focus Tycoon?
A study timer and app blocker for iPhone. Choose one task, start a focus session and give distracting apps a pause. Your focused time helps your railway station grow. When you need them, habits, workouts, breathwork and sleep sessions live in the same app.
Do I have to like trains?
No. Out of the box the app speaks plain words — Start, Progress, Focus Credits — and the railway is the backdrop, not homework. The themed transit words are a setting you can turn on if you enjoy them.
Is this another streak app that punishes me?
No. Showing up is measured over the last 14 days, so a missed day dips the number instead of resetting it to zero, and coming back lifts it again. Gentle days and time away are built in. Your day streak still exists — it just isn't the headline.
Is app blocking really free?
Yes, permanently. Blocking apps and categories, schedules, per-activity profiles, pass length and both free gate styles are free — not a trial, not a tier. Only the two extra gates (the Signal Box puzzle and the Arithmetic sum) are Pro. Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time on iPhone.
What's free and what's Pro?
Everything core is free: focus sessions, app blocking, gentle days, habits and detox, every breathwork protocol, the First Aid kit, workout tracking, unlimited history, missions and ranks, Live Activities, Apple Health sync and Crew. Pro ($29.99/year or $4.99/month in the US, with a 14-day trial on yearly for eligible subscribers) adds depth: the template builder, premium rituals and journaling, the full audio library, in-workout coaching, guided programs, multiple goals, the extra gates, Commitment Lock, the weekly deep audit, premium themes and cloud backup.
Does my data leave the phone?
Not unless you ask it to. Everything lives on your iPhone and the app works offline. Analytics are opt-in and off by default, and there are no ads. Cloud backup is optional and part of Pro — encrypted in transit and at rest — and your journal and session notes never leave the device, even with backup on. A page in the app shows exactly what's stored where.
Which phones does it run on?
iPhone only, running iOS 16 or later. It leans on Apple frameworks for Screen Time blocking, Live Activities, the Dynamic Island, Siri and Apple Health. There is no iPad or Android version.
Does it respect accessibility settings?
Yes. The app respects Reduce Motion, supports Dynamic Type and ships a high-contrast version of every one of its 22 themes. It's available in English and Spanish.
Where can I get it?
Focus Tycoon is on the App Store for iPhone, running iOS 16 or later. It's free to download, with no ads and no trial clock.
Make time. Build something.
Download Focus Tycoon on your iPhone and start your first session free.
Get the occasional update
New features, a few times a year. Nothing you have to keep up with.