Competence: Focus Builds Towns

Hirohito Kuromaru

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About this app

Competence is an app you leave running while you study or work.

Start a session and a model town begins to rise. A house, its roof, windows and a door, a garden tree, one floor of an office block — each piece rises from the ground as you focus.

FOCUSED TIME BECOMES A TOWN
- One piece every 15–36 seconds of focus
- Your first town is finished in an hour, crowned with a landmark in its central square
- Every 10 levels you get more land, from 3×3 blocks up to 9×9, starting with your next town
- Finished towns line up as your worlds. Revisit them, or share one as an image

GROWS FOR 10,000 HOURS
Your first level-up comes within an hour. Each level adds something small to your town square, and every five levels a new facility goes up in your next town. It starts with a clock tower and a fountain square; the rest is yours to discover. The higher you go, the more colour your towns take on.
For each level reward, you pick one from the nearby levels, choose its look yourself and confirm it.
Built to stay with you all the way through long exam preparation.

TRACK BY MATERIAL
Choose a material and category before you focus, and the Log shows your time and progress by category and by material.

TEN TOWN STYLES
Three to start with; the rest open up as you level, joining the rotation from your next town. In Worlds you can switch the town you are building to any unlocked style at any time.
- Countryside — farmhouses, barns, fields, a windmill
- Modern — apartments, offices, then towers
- Tropical — white flat-roofed houses, palms, a cove and beach, a lighthouse
- European castle town (Lv.5) — timber-framed houses, guild halls, walls and a castle
- Japanese castle town (Lv.10) — tiled machiya, a temple, gardens, a keep on stone walls, a moat and cherry trees
- Nordic harbour (Lv.15) — gabled wooden houses in rows, warehouses and jetties, a stave church
- Desert oasis (Lv.20) — mud-brick houses with courtyards, a domed market, wind towers, a spring and a caravanserai
- Stone capital (Lv.30) — cream stone blocks under grey mansard roofs, tree-lined boulevards, a river and bridges, an iron lattice tower and a triumphal arch
- Mediterranean town (Lv.40) — octagonal blocks with cut corners, ochre and pink walls with balconies, a palm-lined seafront, a church of many spires
- Brick capital (Lv.50) — brick terraces with chimneys, parks and squares, a river with a bascule bridge, a clock tower

SHOP (ONE-TIME PURCHASES, LOOKS ONLY)
The app is free and fully playable. The shop adds more looks as one-time purchases. They never change your focus time, how your towns grow, your level or your rewards. No subscriptions, no ads.
- World packs — new town styles, usable at any level as soon as you buy them: Night in Japan (a town lit by lanterns and signs), City of Gold (ivory streets and golden houses), Hot Spring Valley (inns and bathhouses along a river valley)
- Item sets — pieces that turn up around the town you are building: Corner Café, Gardener's Kit, Town of Cats, Gold Accents, Town Festival. Switch each set on or off in Settings
Purchases come back with "Restore purchases" on the same Google account.

KEEPS COUNTING WITH THE SCREEN OFF
Switch apps or lock your phone and your time still counts. When you come back, everything built while you were away rises at once.

LOG
See today's and this week's focus, a daily chart and your total so far.

SETTINGS
- Language (English, 日本語, Français, Deutsch, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文, हिन्दी, Español, Italiano, Русский, Türkçe, ไทย, العربية)
- Appearance (light, dark or match your device)
- Vibration on/off
- Keep the screen on while focusing (off by default)
- Silence notifications while focusing — if you allow it, the app turns on Do Not Disturb during a session and turns it back off afterwards

PRIVACY
No account. No ads, analytics or tracking. Everything stays on your device and is never sent anywhere.