About this app

Eliminate distractions and make time for focused work with the press of a button.
Overcome your phone addiction and gain self-control.
Stay focused and study better with soothing nature sounds. 🎼🏝🌴

Here's what you can achieve with the press of a button:
1. Overcome procrastination and improve time management by practicing the revolutionary productivity technique.
2. Block distracting push notifications on your smartphone while you're working and review them later all at once.
3. Block distracting social media websites on your laptop/desktop while you're working.
3. Put your phone in silent (vibration) mode to avoid distracting calls and automatically turn it back to normal mode when you're done working.
4. Prevent access to distracting social media and messaging apps while you're working so that a 2-minute break doesn't turn into a 30-minute session of endless scrolling on Facebook or Instagram.
5. Relax, concentrate and get in the zone for focused work with soothing white noise and nature sounds (choose from rainforest, ocean waves, night rain and crackling fireplace).

Why Focus?
In a world where dozens of apps are fighting to get your attention every 5 minutes, Focus is a must have. Research shows you lose 25 minutes of productivity every time you attend to a push notification or email in the middle of work because it breaks your concentration and interrupts the flow of your thoughts. With constant interruptions, you can never "get in the zone" and do your best work. Self-control is hard.

Try Focus for 1 week and you'll see the difference yourself. The app is completely free of cost and does not show any ads either. Call it a notification blocker, app blocker, productivity timer, auto silencer, white noise timer or whatever else you what. It'll get the job done for you.

How to use it?
Just pick a duration, select some options for blocking and hit the big 'ol start button. That's it! Now put your phone away and let Focus fight the little distractions while you work on what really matters.

New features

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.