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.
Try it free for 7 days, then $59.99 a year. No account. Nothing you block leaves the phone.
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
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.
Soft session — breathe first, then decide
Strict Mode — runs to the end
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
Coins
Every milestone is a real ancient coin.
Twenty-eight famous coins of Greece and Rome, and the rarer the coin, the harder the step: a Roman bronze as for your first block, Julius Caesar's elephant denarius, the Colosseum sestertius of Titus — up to the gold EID MAR aureus of Brutus, one of three known, for 1,000 days in a row. Each one opens its story, a notable auction sale and where to see one.
The honest numbers are still there: the hours you blocked, your streak, and a report every Sunday evening with a card you can share.
Meet the 28 coins
