Ayuta: Practice & Focus Timer

rishi labs

About this app

Swap doomscrolling for deep work. Ayuta is a focus timer and practice tracker that keeps your social media apps locked each day until you have practised the skill you care about. Then they open until midnight, guilt free. Ayuta is Sanskrit for ten thousand: every focused minute counts toward 10,000 hours of mastery.

REPLACE THE SCROLL WITH A HABIT
The urge to doomscroll does not go away by willpower alone. Ayuta gives it somewhere better to go. Pick the social media apps that eat your time, set a daily minimum of 15 to 60 minutes, and those apps stay locked until you have done it. Open one early and you see how many minutes are left, with a button that starts your practice right there. Calls, messages and Settings can never be locked, and the daily lock is off until you turn it on.

DEEP WORK SESSIONS
Start a focus session for writing, coding, music, design, a language, anything. Turn on Deep work and opening an app on your own blocklist mid-session shows a calm reminder of what you were working on and the time left, so a distraction becomes a nudge back to work.

A PRACTICE TIMER THAT KEEPS HONEST TIME
Choose Learning or Working, set 25, 45, 60 or 90 minutes (or anything from 5 to 180), and start. The timer keeps exact time with the screen off, shows a live countdown in your notifications, and survives the app being closed or the phone restarting. Keep going in overtime when you are in flow; a forgotten timer ends itself.

A RANK FOR EVERY SKILL
Each skill climbs from Novice to Grandmaster: Apprentice at 100 hours, Journeyman at 500, Craftsman at 1,000, then Artisan, Expert and Master on the road to 10,000. Your next rank and the hours left are always on screen.

STREAKS AND BADGES
Your daily minimum keeps your streak alive, and every 7 streak days earns a freeze for the day life gets in the way. Badges mark your first session, first hour, first 10 hours and every 100 hours after that.

SEE HOW YOU FOCUS
Rate each session: Distracted, Okay, Focused or Flow. Stats show hours per day and per skill, a year heatmap, and the hours of the week when you most often reach flow.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
The daily lock and Deep work use an accessibility service that reads only the name of the app on screen, never its contents or what you type, and that never leaves your phone. No ads. No advertising trackers. Sessions are saved on your phone first and sync when you are online. Export every session as CSV, or delete your account and all its data from Settings, at any time.

Light and dark themes. Works offline. Sign in with Google or email.

Put the phone down for fifteen minutes today. Ten thousand hours, one at a time.

What’s new

- The daily lock is now offered when you set up the app: pick the social apps that stay locked until you practise.
- Your first discipline keeps the name you type, and the setup screen fits without scrolling.
- Turning on the accessibility service now opens the right settings page.
- Fixed a crash when closing the Home tour.