CircuitGet Circuit

Screen time blocker for iPhone

Trip the breaker and your phone stops pulling at you.

Hold once and the apps that eat your day close — no negotiation, no notification to swipe away. They just don't come up until your time is done.

Free includes one schedule, the Breaker up to 30 minutes and a week of stats. No account. Nothing you block leaves the phone.

Circuit home screen: a big volt-green Trip the breaker button, six presets from 15 minutes to 12 hours, and the apps being blocked
Circuit running a Strict Mode session: a countdown ring reading 1:05:52 for Deep work

How it works

01

Pick the apps

Apple's own picker. Circuit gets an opaque token for each app — never its name, never what you do inside it.

02

Hold the breaker

One press-and-hold. 15 minutes or a whole quiet day. Or let a schedule trip it for you.

03

They stay closed

iOS enforces the block, not the app. Force-quit Circuit, restart the phone — the shield holds until the time is up.

The Breaker

Hold the dial. Your apps close.

Six presets, from a quick fifteen minutes to a whole quiet day. Start it in the app, from Control Center, or by asking Siri. A Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen the whole time.

Quick

15m

Focus

30m

Deep work

1h 30m

Reset

4h

Detox

8h

Quiet day

12h

Circuit home screen with the Trip the breaker button and six presets

No way out

Soft sessions make you breathe. Strict Mode makes you wait.

Ending a soft session early means sitting through a breathing pause first — long enough for the urge to pass. A Strict Mode session has no early exit at all. You decide once, at the start, instead of every time the itch shows up.

End Study early? A breathing countdown reads 24, with the Hold on… button greyed out

Soft session — breathe first, then decide

A Strict Mode session counting down 1:05:52 for Deep work

Strict Mode — runs to the end

My Apps: apps blocked by the breaker, a Never Blocked list with maps, bank and phone, and Study and Sleep schedules

Circuits

Schedules that trip themselves.

Study on weekday evenings. Sleep from 10:30 to 7. Set a Circuit up once and the decision is already made for every day it applies — nothing to remember, nothing to re-negotiate at 11pm.

  • Never Blocked — maps, your bank, whatever gets you home. Nothing here is ever shielded, not even by Strict Mode.
  • Daily limits — not blocked, just finite. Thirty minutes, then it's gone until tomorrow.
  • Per-schedule lists — Study can block more than Sleep does.

Sound

Something to work to.

Rain, fire and waves are public-domain field recordings. Deep and Pulse are synthesised on the device, so they never loop. Start a sound with your session and it plays until you stop it.

Rain

Steady, no thunder

Fire

Logs and the odd crack

Waves

A swell every ten seconds

Deep

The low, even noise

Pulse

A slow beat to work to

Honest numbers

Milestones, not a made-up score.

A streak flame, the hours you blocked, and eight milestones tied to things that actually happened on your phone. Every Sunday evening a report lands: total, week-on-week, best day, and a card you can share.

First block

Ten hours

Seven days

Five clean

No way out

Four-hour day

Fifty hours

Thirty days

Stats: hours blocked this week, a seven-day bar chart, and a row of milestone medallions

Free to start. One schedule, the Breaker up to 30 minutes, a week of stats.

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