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Offhours is in development and isn’t on the App Store yet. When it is released, the Offhours page will link to it.

Offhours is designed for iPhone.

Offhours blocks apps through Apple’s Screen Time framework, and iOS asks you once to allow that. Without it Offhours can’t block anything: Start Zen asks you to check Screen Time access and try again.

Zen blocks your chosen apps right now, for 10 minutes to 7 days or until your tasks are done. Schedules block apps on the days and hours you pick. Limits give apps an amount of time a day and block them until midnight once it is used. Always blocked keeps apps blocked until you take them off the list.

Yes, unless Lock is on. Tap End early repeatedly. Each tap carries the light further along the button, and the last one ends Zen.

With Lock on, Zen can’t be ended early. End Zen early is available once every 7 days.

Its apps are blocked until midnight. If notifications are allowed, Offhours tells you when 5 minutes are left. With Lock on, a used-up limit can’t be raised, switched off or deleted until midnight.

Apps you mark as Important stay available during every block.

Each schedule has an Apps return setting: at a set time, as soon as tasks are done, or after a set time and tasks are done. The options with tasks are part of Offhours Pro. The Offhours page shows all three.

Choose up to three tasks. Zen or a schedule can then keep its apps blocked until the tasks are done. Each task is checked by a photo, by Apple Health, by an exercise in the app, or by your own word. Tasks are part of Offhours Pro.

Photos are taken with Offhours’ own camera; there is no way to pick one from your library. A photo is sent to our server and checked by an AI model from Anthropic. Our copy is deleted as soon as a result is recorded, and Anthropic normally keeps its copy for up to 30 days. You can turn off Photo verification in Account at any time. The privacy policy has the details.

If the check can’t run, for example without a connection or camera access, you can mark the task done without verification, in some cases after another try. Your iPhone notes it as unverified.

With Lock on, Zen can’t be ended early, a schedule can’t be stopped, rescheduled or deleted while it is running, and a used-up limit can’t be changed until midnight. Lock is part of Offhours Pro.

No. Apple’s app picker gives Offhours tokens rather than app names, and usage figures are drawn by an iOS extension that can’t pass them to the app. As the app is built today, your schedules, limits and history stay on your iPhone, apart from a record of each photo check, which our server keeps for 180 days.

Read the Offhours privacy policy. This website has its own privacy notice.

In Offhours, open your profile, then Account, and choose Delete account. This removes your online account and its verification records and clears your profile, activity, schedules, tasks and app choices from your iPhone. It also asks Apple to disconnect Offhours from your Apple ID. It can’t be undone. Deleting the app alone doesn’t delete your account. If you can’t open the app, email us from the address on your account. If you hid your email, include the relay address shown under Sign in with Apple in your Apple Account settings.

Offhours is licensed under Apple’s standard end user license agreement.

Pricing hasn’t been announced. Tasks and Lock are part of Offhours Pro; details will follow at launch.