A local-first focus app
Make space for what matters.
What would you do with more time back? Motiv blocks the apps that take it and builds the routines and reminders you keep meaning to start. Deep work, a calmer evening, rest that feels like rest.
Free on iPhone · no account
- Local-first
- Private by design
- No account needed
- Never punishes
A day with Motiv in it.
Six things, in the order a day tends to bring them. The times are yours to set.
What the Focus Score is
One number for the focus you put in each day. Blocks, routines and focus sessions all feed it.
- Only what you did counts. Never taken away for a day you didn't.
- There is no red. A quiet day never sets you back.
- Consistency raises the ceiling. Showing up is what lifts it.
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Routines
Your morning runs itself. Subtasks, a timer, a nudge if you stall.
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09:00
Blocks
Blocks start by schedule, place, limit or one tap. They hold with Motiv closed.
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11:30
Focus timer
A Pomodoro sprint, with your chosen apps blocked for the whole of it.
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16:00
Reminders
The one-off you'd have forgotten, nudged until it is actually done.
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21:00
Focus Score
The day adds up into one number. It counts what you did, not what you didn't.
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Any time
Insights
Streaks, trends and a Screen Time report, worked out on your phone.
An example day. Your score is worked out on your phone.
Blocks that hold with the app closed.
Blocking is Apple's Screen Time, not a timer inside Motiv. That is why it holds when the app is not open.
Built to encourage
A quiet day never sets you back, and nothing you skip is ever deducted.
Your data stays yours
No account and no server. What you write stays on your phone.
It repairs itself
If iOS ever drops a block, Motiv notices and puts it back.
Setup takes about a minute.
It asks what you want back
Deep work, calmer evenings, real rest, people. Then a rough guess at your screen time, turned into days of your year.
You hand the blocking to iOS
One tap for Screen Time permission, and iOS only asks once. Skip it and everything but blocking still works.
Then you commit
A pledge in your own words: the days you are taking back, and what for. Then your first block.
That is the whole of setup. How Motiv works, in full
Motiv arrives on iPhone soon.
More of the day spent where you meant to spend it.
No waitlist, and nothing to sign up for