Put your phone face down. We count how long you go without touching it.
Turn your phone face down
The timer starts when it’s face down.
Linked: your computer shows the clock.
Put it back face down to keep going.
Focus Timer for Work
This focus timer for work runs 50-minute blocks with 10-minute breaks, or you can pick 25/5, 90/15 or a custom length. Put your phone face down beside the keyboard: it counts every time you pick it up and shows how much of your work time was phone-free.
It’s free, with no app to install and no signup.
A regular work timer keeps counting while you check your phone
The timer says 50 minutes of focus. It has no way to know how many of them went to your phone.
The usual fixes are the phone in a drawer, or a blocker you install and give permissions to. Here, the phone lies face down beside the keyboard, and it counts every time you pick it up.
Free. No signup. Nothing to install.
On average, students studying at home got distracted in under 6 minutes
Researchers watched 263 middle school, high school and university students during a 15-minute study session at home.
On average, they spent only 65% of those 15 minutes actually studying. The rest of the time they were distracted, most often by social media and texting.
Source: Rosen, Carrier and Cheever, Facebook and texting made me do it: media-induced task-switching while studying, Computers in Human Behavior, 2013.
See how your own session compares.
Your record on this device
Finish a session and your totals show up here. They are stored in this browser only.
- Sessions
- 0
- Phone-free time
- 0 min
- Times caught
- 0
- Longest without touching it
- 0 min
Phone checks during a work block get a CAUGHT stamp
Lift the phone, lock it or open another app, and you get a CAUGHT stamp, a sound and a live timer showing how long you’ve been on your phone.
Working on a computer? Scan the QR code shown with the timer, and your phone opens it full screen with the same block length.
Free. No signup. Nothing to install.
Deep work blocks run 50 or 90 minutes, with breaks built in
Pick 50/10 or 90/15 from the list under the start button, 25/5 for shorter tasks, or set your own lengths with Custom. For a task with no set length, count up until it’s done.
A chime marks the end of each block. Breaks are free, so a pickup during a break doesn’t count.
Free. No signup. Nothing to install.
Your work session ends with its phone-free time on one card
The big number is your focus time minus the time the phone was in your hand.
Below it, you see how many times you picked up the phone and your longest phone-free stretch.
Save it as an image or share it.
Free. No signup. Nothing to install.
- Session length
- 50:00
- In your hand
- 08:48
- Picked up the phone
- 9
- Longest without touching it
- 11:20
Motion readings from your phone never leave your browser
- The motion sensor only tells the page whether the phone is face down. Each reading is checked in your browser and dropped. None are saved or sent.
- No sign-up and no email. Visits are counted with Google Analytics, which never sees your timer or your phone.
- Your totals sit in this browser’s storage. Clear your browsing data and they are gone.
- The end card is made on your device. Nobody sees it unless you save or share it.
Read exactly what the site stores and loads.
No account. Nothing to install.
This timer counts pickups and keeps your phone in reach, with nothing to install
| Caught Scrolling | Regular study timer | App blocker | Phone in another room | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counts your phone pickups | ||||
| Shows your phone-free time | Some show screen time | |||
| Nothing to install | ||||
| Phone stays in reach for emergencies | ||||
| Physically stops you using apps |
Free. No signup. Nothing to install.
How it works, in three steps
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Open the timer on your phone
Working on a computer? Scan the QR code shown with the timer to open it on your phone. Pick a 25, 50 or 90-minute block, or a custom one, then press start.
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Keep the phone face down
The clock starts when you put your phone face down. Every time you pick up the phone, it counts as a catch.
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Press Finish
You get your focus time, your phone-free time and your longest stretch without touching your phone, on one card.
Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.