Focus Launcher is a minimalist Android home screen that helps you spend your attention on purpose. Before you open a distracting app, it pauses and asks what you need. That tiny moment of friction — just long enough to think — is often enough to stop a mindless scroll before it starts.

Built for people who want their phone to serve them, not the other way around.

HOW IT WORKS

You pick which apps are distracting. Social media, video, messaging — whatever pulls you in. When you try to open one, Focus Launcher pauses first. It shows an alternative activity (like "go for a walk" or "call a friend") and asks how long you actually need. One minute, five, or ten. You open the app on purpose, with a timer.

When the timer's up, you're nudged to step away. A short cooldown keeps you from bouncing right back.

PROTECTION ACROSS YOUR PHONE

The pause doesn't just work from the launcher. With accessibility and overlay permissions enabled, it covers the back doors too — notifications, widgets, recent apps, full-screen videos. There's no slipping past it.

KEY FEATURES

• Intent pause — A gentle interstitial before distracting apps, with a duration picker and an alternative activity suggestion

• Daily time budget — Set a minute limit for distracting apps each day. Going over breaks your streak.

• Cooldown after use — Blocks reopening the same app for a few minutes after you leave, so you don't fall back in

• Focus sessions — Start a timed session (15, 25, 45, or 60 min) where all distracting apps are fully blocked

• Quiet Hours — Schedule a time range each day when distracting apps are off-limits (like bedtime or mornings)

• Streak history — A dot grid shows your daily status going back 13 weeks. Watch the pattern build.

• Session history — Every distracting-app session is logged with duration, grouped by day

• Weekly insights — Total time, top app, peak hours, focus sessions completed

• Clean launcher basics — Essentials page for one-tap access, all-apps page with search and alphabet fast-scroll, phone and camera shortcuts

• Forever free — The core friction loop (pause, limits, cooldown, focus sessions, streaks) is free, forever. No ads, no data selling.

PRIVACY FIRST

Your data never leaves your device. Focus Launcher makes no network requests of any kind — no analytics, no crash reporting services, no advertising SDKs. Everything is stored locally. You can delete all of it from Settings at any time.

PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED

• All apps access — Required to display and launch your installed apps (standard for launchers)
• Display over other apps — Lets the pause screen appear on top of any app, including full-screen videos
• Accessibility service — Detects when distracting apps open from notifications or widgets. Does not read your screen content, keystrokes, or personal data
• Uninstall packages — Powers the long-press uninstall option in the launcher

Focus Launcher does not request Usage Access — we build our own usage tracking from your own activity within the app.

WHO IT'S FOR

• People who want to break the habit of grabbing their phone without thinking
• People who want to use social media on purpose, not reflexively
• People who want a quiet, minimal home screen instead of a busy one
• People who are tired of launchers that push engagement metrics

SET IT AS YOUR DEFAULT LAUNCHER, GIVE IT A WEEK

You'll notice how often you reach for a distracting app without meaning to. The pause catches those moments. Your streak grows. Your attention comes back.