Ascent: screen time & offtime

Screen Time & Focus apps developers — AscentTeam

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About this app

The main goal of Ascent is to build healthy phone usage habits in the long term. Ascent pauses distracting apps giving the ability to avoid procrastination loop from the start. App prevents undesired scrolling through news feeds and short videos. Instead Ascent allows to spend time on mindful working and creating.

Ascent is a powerful and intuitive app blocker that helps you stay focused and combat procrastination. With its advanced blocking and tracking features, Ascent makes it easy to take control of your time and achieve your goals.

Pause Exercise
Ascent makes you take pause before opening a destructing app. Take your time to reflect on whether you really want to open it. You can choose to either close the app or continue using it. This feature helps you to avoid compulsive app opening and makes your phone usage more mindful and reasonable.

Focus Session
Focus Session elevates your productivity by creating a dedicated space with minimized distractions. It temporarily restricts access to specific apps, ensuring your attention stays on the task at hand. This feature helps you stay deeply engaged, promoting a state of flow and maximizing your efficiency.

App Limits
Set daily usage limits on apps and websites to automatically block them and prevent overuse.

Reminder
Reminder helps you regain control over your digital habits by guiding you away from time-consuming apps. Set reminders to activate the Pause Screen, nudging you to step back and break free from unhealthy screen time patterns, fostering a more balanced relationship with your digital environment.

Reels & Shorts Blocking
Completely block specific locations inside configured apps like Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts to avoid distractions while using them. Using this feature, you will still be able to access the Instagram and YouTube app except the Reels and Shorts sections.

Websites Blocking
Limit websites usage by blocking specific links in your mobile browser.

Intentions
Intentions reshape your interaction with digital distractions by prompting you to pause and state your purpose before using potentially harmful apps. This feature turns impulsive screen time into a deliberate choice, helping you build a more mindful and intentional relationship with your digital habits.

Shortcuts
Shortcuts transform your digital habits by letting you get more done with less taps, streamlining your workflow and minimizing interruptions. Arrange essential apps and links for quick access, so you can retrieve them when needed. By keeping your focus sharp and avoiding distractions, Shortcuts help you stay productive and intentional.

Bookmarks
Bookmarks transform your screen habits by shifting your focus from algorithmic content to what truly matters. Ascent helps you save bookmarks as valuable resources, providing a mindful alternative to chaotic feeds and integrating quality knowledge into your daily routine for a more meaningful and intentional digital experience.

Ascent makes it easy to set up custom blocking schedules and stay on track. You can choose to block apps for a specific period of time or during certain times of the day, and receive notifications when your blocking schedule is about to end or when you're approaching or exceeding your daily limits. This helps you stay aware of your habits and make positive changes to your daily routine.

Keywords: screen time, screen time control, screen time tracker, offtime, appblock, app blocker, websites blocker, block apps & sites, social media blocker, app limiter, self control, focus, stay focused, focus timer, one sec, productivity, opal, procrastination, stop scrolling, forest, pomodoro timer

Accessibility Service API
This app uses the Accessibility Service API to detect and block user-selected applications. We do not collect personal information, all data stays on your phone.

Ratings and reviews

I found the perfect app for minimizing phone harm and distractions!!! There are other apps to block certain apps or limit app time - this is different. Instead of simply locking you out, this app teaches you to pause, breathe, be mindful, and think about your intentions for using your phone at that moment. That is infinitely more valuable, as it carries over into other areas of life and doesn't encourage you to feel frustrated and want to get around a blocking app like a child in timeout.

I like this app. It does what It says it will do BUT. There are some things that NEED to be added to make this app 10 times better. 1. A Timer So it is only on for certain times, like when I am not studying because it gets annoying turning the blocking off and on. 2. Efficienty The app can be really annoying because the block will show up like 60 seconds after I opened YouTube or Insta and now I have to stop what I was doing/typing and close the pop-up. Really good app, updates needed tho.

Effective app!! Does exactly what it says with some extra bells and whistles. Its worth the money imo. Work with the app, and the app will work for you. Add good apps to the pause menu, think about what you want to do before continuing through the pause menu, and you'll naturally get bored of trying to get to that app. I reccomend adding a notes app to the pause menu screen, journaling can be an effective substitute to doomscrolling.

What’s new

— Technical improvements.

Thank you for being part of the Ascent project. We are happy to help you block all your distractions, reduce your screen time and focus on what is really important to you!