The app blocker that lets you earn your screen time.

Apple's built-in Screen Time (Settings → Screen Time → App Limits) can limit apps, but the "Ignore Limit" button makes it easy to slip. FocusFirst uses the same Apple Screen Time framework to place a real shield over your distracting apps — one that only opens when you spend screen time you've earned by focusing.

Time you spend in your focus apps — studying, reading, language learning — converts into scroll time at a rate you choose (say, 10 minutes of focus earns 3 minutes of scrolling). Your blocked apps stay shielded until you choose to spend that earned balance. Scrolling becomes a reward you gave yourself, not a lapse.

Yes. Add TikTok to your blocked apps and it stays installed but shielded. When you tap it, FocusFirst shows your earned balance and asks if you want to spend it — turning a reflex into a decision. Most of the time, "Not now" wins.

Apple's App Limits ask you nicely — and the "Ignore Limit" button trains you to tap past them. FocusFirst has no free bypass. The only way through the shield is spending time you actually earned, so the system stays honest even when your willpower doesn't.

The mechanic is simple math: when scroll time has to be earned at a 10-to-3 rate, mindless checking stops being free. You'll still scroll — that's the point, it's not a punishment app — but the hours shift toward the things you chose. Your Progress tab shows the trend week by week.

FocusFirst is built on habit replacement, not restriction alone: it blocks the compulsive loop and rewards the behavior you want more of. That's the approach behavior research consistently favors over pure willpower. It's a behavior-change tool, not a medical treatment — but it changes the default.

That's one of the most common uses. Set your study apps (or a focus timer) as earners, block your social apps, and your phone flips from working against your study session to keeping score for it. Streaks and multipliers reward showing up daily.

Yes. FocusFirst requires a subscription — or a one-time Lifetime purchase if you'd rather pay once and be done. No account is needed, and your data syncs privately through iCloud. Pricing is shown up front in the app before you commit.

FocusFirst runs on Apple's Screen Time framework, which is designed so apps never see the content of what you do on your phone. There's no account, and sync happens through your private iCloud. The full policy is short enough to actually read.

FocusFirst requires iOS 26.1 or later. It's a native iPhone app built on Apple's own Screen Time technology — no VPN tricks, no profiles to install, nothing that slows your phone down.