Offhours

An app blocker for iPhone, built on Apple’s Screen Time.

In development. Not on the App Store yet.

See how it works
Offhours’ Today screen: Saturn in dust at the top, a card reading “Blocking now, 47m until Games resets”, and today’s 126 notifications by app.

Four ways to block

You pick the apps with Apple’s own picker. iOS does the blocking through Screen Time, so Offhours never learns which apps you picked.

Zen

Blocks your chosen apps the moment you start it, for anything from 10 minutes to 7 days. Turn the Earth to choose how long.

The Zen tab: the Earth in dust above a 25-minute reading between minus and plus buttons, a row reading “4 apps” and the Start Zen button.

Schedules

Block apps on the days and hours you choose, overnight too. They start and end on their own, or with Pro, wait until your tasks are done.

The Blocks tab: the schedules “Sunday reading”, Sundays 08:00 to 11:00, and “Work”, weekdays 09:00 to 17:00; the limits “Social”, 1 h a day, and “Games”, used up; and App access.

Limits

Give apps an amount of time a day, like an hour of social apps. Once it’s used up, they stay blocked until midnight.

Blocks scrolled down: the limits, then App access with Always blocked (2 apps) and Important apps (1 app), and the saved app lists Social, Games and Everything.

Always blocked

Apps on this list stay blocked around the clock. Important apps are the opposite: they stay open through every block.

Blocks scrolled down: the limits, then App access with Always blocked (2 apps) and Important apps (1 app), and the saved app lists Social, Games and Everything.

Tasks

With Pro, Zen or a schedule can wait for up to three tasks, like making your bed or walking 1,000 steps. Each is checked the way that suits it, from a photo to Apple Health.

Today while Zen waits on tasks: “2 tasks until apps return”, then the tasks “Fill a glass with water” and “Step outside for daylight”, each with photo proof.

Lock

With Pro you can lock Zen or a schedule so it can’t be ended early, and a limit so it can’t be changed once used up. Zen keeps one way out: End Zen early, once every 7 days.

Zen with Lock on: 25 minutes, “4 apps blocked” until 23:37, a button reading “Can’t be ended early”, and below it “End Zen early · Available once every 7 days”.

What a block changes

You set a block ahead of time, while you aren’t looking at the app. Apple’s iPhone guide for iOS 26 says Screen Time limits can be ignored by default, unless you set a Screen Time passcode and turn on blocking. The screen Offhours puts over a blocked app has one button, Close, with no extra minute and no way to ignore it. To get the app back you have to leave it and change the block in Offhours. With Lock on, a schedule stays until its time and a used-up limit stays until midnight.

In a 2022 study of about 2,000 adults on Android phones, people who could set their own app limits spent 22 minutes a day less on social media, browsers and YouTube over 12 weeks, about 16 percent. About half of that time moved to other apps. That study used a different app. No study has tested Offhours, which is still being built.

What research says about blocking an app instead of resisting it

What Offhours can’t see

Apple’s picker hands Offhours tokens, never app names, and your screen time stays inside an iOS extension that can’t pass it on. As the app is built today, schedules, limits and history stay on your iPhone.

Your account and your task photos are what reach our server. A photo is checked by an AI model from Anthropic. Our copy is deleted once a result is recorded, and Anthropic normally keeps its copy for up to 30 days. The result stays on our server for 180 days.

What an app blocker can see on your iPhone The Offhours privacy policy

Coming to iPhone

Offhours is in development and not on the App Store yet. The price isn’t announced; Tasks and Lock are part of Offhours Pro. Made by Enfinitive AB in Lindesberg, Sweden.

Support and answers contact@enfinitive.se