App blocker for iPhone

The app blocker that makes you earn your screen time.

Many blockers just say “no”. Attenya makes every unlock a decision: focus to earn time, then spend it on purpose on the apps you choose. When the time is up, they lock again by themselves.

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Earn focusSpend deliberatelyRe-lock automatically
Your balance, live

Your attention,
now a balance you own.

A blocker tells you no. Attenya turns every unlock into a decision — so the time you keep is the time you chose.

How it works

One honest loop

No points, no streaks for their own sake. The reward is the attention you keep.

1

Earn

Finish a focus session and earn its full length as spendable credit. Cancelled sessions add nothing — only real focus counts.

2

Spend deliberately

A withdrawal spends your credit to unlock chosen apps for a set time, with a countdown. You can never spend more than you earned.

3

Re-lock

When the time is up, your protected apps lock again — automatically. No willpower needed, no negotiating with yourself.

Try it

Focus in, credit out

Drag to set a focus length. Flip on Smart Ratio to see how banking credit gets gently harder after your first hour of credit each day. This preview assumes nothing earned yet today.

You focus 25min
You earn 25min credit
5 min240 min
Smart Ratio ProOff — every focused minute earns credit 1:1.

Cancelled sessions earn nothing — only completed focus counts.

Spend deliberately

Unlock on purpose — then it re-locks itself.

A withdrawal spends your credit to open chosen apps for a set time. A calm countdown runs; when it ends, your apps lock again — automatically, no negotiating with yourself.

Balance 25 min
A preview — in the app, spent credit really comes off your balance.
Locked
Your account

Focused time, turned into currency you own.

Your balance, protection status and next deliberate step — all on one calm home screen. Earn credit by focusing, then spend it on purpose.

  • Earned credit, never more than you focused.
  • An unlock opens chosen apps — with a countdown.
  • Apps re-lock automatically when time’s up.
Attenya home — your attention account
Insights

See where your focus goes.

Focus time by day and by subject, your streak and rhythm, and a countdown to your next exam. Everything is calculated on your device from your own sessions.

  • Tag sessions by subject and count down to exams.
  • This and last week or month free; the year view and the long view with Pro.
Attenya Insights — focus time by day and subject
In the moment

Stay with it.

While a focus runs, your protected apps stay locked and your credit grows — a calm live ring, not a nagging timer. Cancel anytime; only completed sessions earn credit.

Attenya — focus in progress
Make it yours

Premium themes, light and dark.

Pick an accent that fits your mood — including the signature Gold and Midnight — with full light, dark and system support. Calm by default, yours to tune.

  • Ten accent themes: Gold, Ocean and Classic free, the rest with Pro.
  • Light, dark and system — switches instantly.
Tap a colour to preview an accent theme. Gold, Ocean and Classic are free; the others come with Pro.
Attenya — premium themes and dark mode
The vault

Time you keep — for good.

Secure earned time in a long-term vault. You can release it again, with deliberate friction. Or crystallize it into life time won back: stored in the app and never spendable again. The vault even hardens through tiers as you save.

  • Secure & release, with growing friction.
  • Crystallize: pure gain you can never spend.
Attenya — the attention vault
The stakes

Your feeds are quietly spending your life.

Pick your rough daily average in distracting apps — and see what a year of it really costs.

Daily average in feeds
≈ 46 days every year

Even half of that is 23 days a year. Attenya helps you make every unlock a decision — how much you win back is up to you.

A simple calculation: hours per day × 365 ÷ 24, counted as full 24-hour days. An illustration, not a prediction.

Lost to feeds Your year
The ideas behind it

Designed around how habits form

Three well-known ideas from behavioural research — no shame, no streaks for their own sake.

Loss aversion

Once focus becomes credit you earned, a withdrawal feels like spending — not a free tap. That small moment of “is it worth it?” is the point.

Deliberate friction

A small, conscious pause instead of a reflex. An unlock is something you earn and choose, within the rules you set yourself.

Commitment device

You set your rules in a calm moment — schedules, the vault, crystallizing. Attenya holds them for you when temptation arrives.

The difference

Not another app that just says “no”.

Most blockers fight you. Attenya works with how attention actually moves.

A typical blocker
Attenya
The unlock
TypicalA hard “no” you fight — or just disable
AttenyaA decision you earn, then spend on purpose
What drives it
TypicalWillpower alone
AttenyaLoss aversion — you protect what you earned
Re-locking
TypicalManual, easy to undo
AttenyaAutomatic — protection returns by itself
The reward
TypicalLess screen time, and a guilty feeling
AttenyaTime you keep, crystallized into life won back
Your data
TypicalMany alternatives: accounts or cloud sync
AttenyaOn-device — no account, no tracking, no ads
Flexibility
TypicalAll-or-nothing blocking
AttenyaTunable: Deep Focus, lockdown times, vault, Free Time
Everything you need

Built to keep your attention

Powerful where it matters, calm everywhere else.

Earn & spend

Focus sessions become credit; deliberate withdrawals unlock apps, then re-lock.

Vault & crystals

Move time to a long-term reserve and crystallize it into personally collected life time.

Lockdown times & Focus filter Pro

Block or limit unlocks during chosen hours, with Sleep Guard, or whenever an iOS Focus is on.

Streaks & milestones

Calm progress derived only from your own data — seals, crystals, focus streaks.

Themes & dark mode

Gold, Ocean and Classic with light, dark and system mode are free; Pro adds the other accent themes, including Midnight.

Widgets, Live Activity & Siri

A home-screen widget for your balance, focus countdowns as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen, and Siri & Shortcuts to start a focus.

Deep Focus Pro

Block extra apps only while you focus — on top of your usual set — released the moment the session ends.

Free Time & Setups Pro

Schedule recurring times when apps are free, and save switchable app Setups for different contexts.

Seals & history

Earn calm milestones and keep a private record of the attention you protected; Pro adds the activity history & archive.

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Attention score

One calm number, only from your own data.

A soft local score from focus earned, deliberate withdrawals, your streak and kept promises. It lives on your device, updates as you go, and it’s never a judgment — just a gentle sense of balance.

Focus, your way

Three ways to start a session

However you like to work, every completed session earns the same honest credit.

Timer

Pick a length, commit, and finish it. The cleanest way to bank a known amount of credit.

Pomodoro

Work in focused intervals with short breaks — a calm rhythm for longer stretches.

Stopwatch

Open-ended focus: count up and stop when you’re done. Credit follows the time you actually put in.

23:00 – 07:00
Sleep Guard · Pro

Protected while you rest.

A one-tap preset that keeps withdrawals off between bedtime and morning — so late-night scrolling never even starts. Adjust the hours, or layer your own schedule windows on top.

Quartz
Vault & crystals

Secure time — or crystallize it for good.

Moving credit into the vault keeps it out of easy reach; you can release it again, with deliberate friction. Crystallizing is the final step: that time becomes life won back, stored in the app and never spendable again. Drag to see how your crystal grows through the seven milestones.

0hours crystallized
Free vs Pro

Start free. Go Pro when you’re ready.

The core loop stays in the Free tier — no subscription needed. Pro adds stricter rules, automation, deeper insight and themes.

Attenya Free — Classic theme
Free · Classic theme
Attenya Pro — Gold theme
Pro · Gold theme
Free
Free to download
The honest core. No subscription needed.
  • Focus, credit & withdrawals — earn, unlock & auto re-lock
  • Protected apps
  • Attention Vault & crystallize
  • One standard weekly goal
  • Gold, Ocean & Classic themes with light, dark & system mode
  • Subjects, session review & Insights for this and last week or month · one exam countdown
  • Credit stats & trends for the last 7 days · earn ratio 1:1
  • Private by design — no account, no ads, no tracking
Download free
Attenya Pro
Monthly, yearly or one-time
The current price, and a free trial if you’re eligible, is shown in the App Store before you buy.
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Deep Focus — extra apps blocked while you focus
  • Smart & custom earn ratio
  • Free Time windows
  • Lockdown times, Sleep Guard & Focus filter
  • Scheduled Lock — extra apps blocked by day
  • Focus Setups (switchable app groups)
  • Multiple & custom weekly goals, Weekly Promise history
  • All accent themes, incl. Midnight
  • Insights for the whole year and older periods, your best time of day, all exam countdowns & exam pace
  • Credit stats & trends for 90 days and more, with CSV export
  • Activity history & archive
Get Attenya — upgrade in the app

Free to download. Attenya Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time purchase. The current price — and a free trial, if you’re eligible — is shown in the App Store before you buy.

Attenya Pro is billed through Apple’s In-App Purchase: the monthly and yearly plans are auto-renewable subscriptions, the one-time purchase is a non-consumable in-app purchase. Apple processes the payment, acting — depending on your country — as commissionaire, reseller or merchant of record. Only the price shown in the App Store at the time of purchase applies. Free trials are available only to eligible new subscribers of the monthly or yearly plan, never for the one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period or trial; manage or cancel them in your Apple account. The one-time purchase has no trial, no renewal and no recurring charge, and it includes all Pro features, including new ones. Attenya is distributed exclusively via the Apple App Store — no direct sales, no alternative distribution channel.

Questions

Good to know

Is my data really private?

Yes. No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics SDKs. Your app selection and balances are stored on your device and are never sent to us. Screen Time gives Attenya only opaque tokens for the apps you protect, not a readable list. No Attenya server receives your app data. We only receive what you choose to send us by email. If you use iCloud Backup or an encrypted computer backup, your device backup can include this app data; that backup is managed by Apple and your device settings and gives us no access.

Why does it need Screen Time access?

Attenya uses Apple’s Family Controls / Screen Time to lock and unlock the apps you choose. That permission is what makes the protection possible, and nothing it gives Attenya is ever sent to us.

What’s free and what’s Pro?

Free includes the core loop: focus sessions that earn credit, deliberate unlocks (withdrawals) that open your chosen apps and re-lock automatically, your protected apps, the Attention Vault and crystallizing, one standard weekly goal, subjects and session review, Insights for this and last week or month, one exam countdown, the Gold, Ocean and Classic themes with light, dark and system mode, and credit stats and trends for the last 7 days. Pro adds Deep Focus (extra apps blocked while you focus), smart and custom earn ratios, Free Time windows, Lockdown times with Sleep Guard and the Focus filter, Scheduled Lock (extra apps blocked by day), switchable Focus Setups, multiple and custom weekly goals, Weekly Promise history, Insights for the whole year and older periods with your best time of day, all exam countdowns and exam pace, all other accent themes, longer credit stats and trends (90 days and more) with CSV export, and your activity history and archive. The split between Free and Pro may change with future updates. For your purchase, the Free/Pro comparison shown in the app at the time you buy applies.

Can’t I just disable it when I’m tempted?

Attenya is a commitment aid, not a prison. Inside the app, an unlock is something you earn: with enough credit you can unlock on purpose, unless a lockdown time or Focus filter you set up says no. And you are never locked in: deleting Attenya or turning off its Screen Time access in iOS Settings removes every restriction at once. This emergency exit is described in our Terms of Use (section 4). Schedules and the vault add as much or as little resistance as you choose.

How do subscriptions, the one-time purchase and the free trial work?

Attenya is free to download. Attenya Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription or as a one-time purchase. The current price, and a free trial if you are eligible, is shown in the App Store before you buy. Free trials apply only to the monthly or yearly subscription, never to the one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period or trial; you manage or cancel them in your Apple account. The one-time purchase is a single payment with no trial, no renewal and no recurring charge, and it includes all Pro features, including new ones. Refunds are handled by Apple.

Does it work on iPad?

Attenya is designed and tested for iPhone and needs iOS 17 or later. There is no dedicated iPad version.

Private by design

Your selections and balances stay on your device and are never sent to us. No account, no ads, no tracking, and no Attenya server that receives your app data. Screen Time hands Attenya only opaque tokens, not your app list.

On-device No tracking No ads No account
Available now

Make every unlock a decision.

Attenya is live on the App Store — free to download, Pro when you’re ready. Download it and make every unlock a decision.

Download on the App Store

Attenya is available exclusively on the Apple App Store — no direct sales, no alternative distribution.