Autopilot
1Open the app without thinking
2Scroll for longer than you meant to
3Notice only after the time is gone
Free mindful app blocker
Pause beforeyou scroll.
Polanthos is a free, gentle app blocker for iPhone that helps you reduce screen time and stop scrolling on autopilot. A calm pause before TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other distracting apps — so you can breathe, choose, and use your phone with intention.
Free to download
No social feed
No shame dashboards
Focus app for iPhone
Breathe
Choose
Free forever
The moment that matters
Most screen-time tools arrive too late.
You do not need another screen time report after the scroll. You need a distraction blocker that works before the app opens — at the moment of impulse.
With Polanthos
1Open a protected app
2Pause for one breath
3Continue, close, or redirect
How it works
One breath between impulse and action.
1
Pick the apps that pull you in.
Use it as a TikTok blocker, Instagram blocker, or YouTube blocker — or choose any social media or screen time app you want to stop opening without thinking.
2
Get a calm pause before opening.
Polanthos creates a full-screen breath and intention check — a gentle pause before scrolling begins, so the app never just opens on autopilot.
3
Choose what happens next.
Continue intentionally, close the app, or redirect your attention to a small todo or journal note.
Features
Built for gentle, intentional phone use.
Polanthos is not a productivity command center. It is a gentle iPhone app blocker and digital wellbeing app — a focused intervention layer that helps you notice the opening impulse and do something better with it.
Mindful interventions
A short pause before selected apps open.
Focus schedules
Protect focus windows, evenings, or bedtime.
Reclaimed moments
See pauses and time protected without noisy charts.
Better redirects
Keep simple todos ready when attention needs somewhere to land.
Win either way
Take a playful gamble at the pause. Win and the app opens — lose and you've already won by walking away. The choice stays light, and intentional.
Mirror mode
See your own face in the moment you reach for the app, and catch yourself in the act before the scroll begins.
Not another shame-based blocker.
Strict social media blockers can help, but focus should not feel like a fight. As a gentle app blocker, Polanthos is built around a simpler idea: create space before the choice.
Privacy
Quiet by design.
Polanthos is made for people who want less attention extraction, not another feed competing for it.
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Local-first feelYour focus tools should feel calm, personal, and under your control.
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No adsNo ad surfaces, viral loops, or engagement bait inside the product.
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No social feedNo rankings. No public pressure. Just one small pause before distraction.
Give yourself one pause.
Free to download. Start with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or whichever app pulls you in most. Block distracting apps gently — and reclaim your phone.