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.
Lock Apps Until You Finish a Task
A website can’t lock apps until you finish a task, so this timer keeps your phone face down instead and counts every time you pick it up. The clock counts up from zero, and when the task is done, you press Finish and see how much of it was phone-free.
It’s free, with no app to install and no signup.
A task timer that counts up runs until the task is done
App limits on iPhone and Android are set in minutes a day.
A task takes as long as it takes. Here the clock counts up from zero and stops when you press Finish. Until then, the phone lies face down on the desk, and every pickup gets caught.
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 pickups before the task is done 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.
Put it back face down to continue. Each pickup counts once, however long you hold the phone.
Free. No signup. Nothing to install.
No time limit: the clock counts up until you press Finish
The clock reads minutes and seconds, then hours once you pass sixty minutes.
Need a break between parts of the task? Pause, then resume from where you left off.
Free. No signup. Nothing to install.
Your finished task lands on a card with its phone-free time
The card shows how long the task took and how much of it was phone-free.
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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Press start before the task
The clock counts up from 00:00. Working on a computer? Scan the QR code to open the timer on your phone.
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Keep the phone face down
Every time you pick it up, it counts as a catch and leaves a mark on the ring.
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Press Finish when it’s done
You get the task’s time, your phone-free time and your longest stretch without touching your phone, on one card.
Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.