FocusPad is an NFC desk pad for your iPhone. Set the phone on the pad and a focus session starts; the apps you've blocked stay blocked until time's up. No willpower required.
Set the phone on the pad. The session starts. There is no menu, no timer to fumble with, no decision to talk yourself out of. The hardware is the start button.
Pick the phone up. Walk to the kitchen. Try to open Instagram. The apps you blocked are gone — wherever the phone goes. Not "shamed with a sad face." Not "delayed by 10 seconds." Gone, until time runs out.
Built on Apple's Screen Time framework with locked settings. Your present self set the rules. Your future self 3 a.m. self can't undo them.
You don't have a willpower problem.
You have a phone that's been engineered to win.
Every other focus app asks you to be the bouncer at your own door. To resist a screen designed by thousands of engineers to be irresistible. That's a fight you'll lose, and lose, and lose.
FocusPad puts something physical between you and your apps. The choice you already made — to focus — is the choice that holds. The pad keeps it that way until time is up.
Privacy isn't a feature we tacked on. It's the architecture. Sessions live on your phone. None of it touches our servers. None of it ever will. Below: the manifest of what is not in the box.
The pad ships Q3 2026. The app ships with it. Drop your email and we'll let you know the day the App Store goes live. Early-access pricing on the pad if you're on the list.