Screen Time limits that fit your actual day.
Block apps for work in the morning, use them over lunch, block them again all afternoon. iPhone's built-in Screen Time allows one blocking window a day. Nagomi lets your schedule match your day — and shows you that it worked.
iPhone · iOS 18 or later
The difference
One period a day, or as many as your day has.
Screen Time's Downtime supports exactly one window per weekday. If your morning, your lunch break and your evening are not the same thing, there is no way to say so.
Apple Downtime
Nagomi
Lunch is yours. The evening is yours. Late night is not — and a period that runs past midnight is one period, not two. Each one can block a different set of apps, and each day of the week can look different from the last.
The app
What it actually looks like.
What you get
Set it once. Then stop thinking about it.
As many periods as you need
Work in the morning, work in the afternoon, wind down at night. Three periods, or six, or one.
A different week, not seven identical days
Weekdays and weekends can have completely separate schedules. So can a single Wednesday.
Different apps in each period
Work hours and late night are not the same problem, so they need not block the same things.
Periods that cross midnight
A block from 11:30 PM to 12:45 AM is one period, not two awkward halves you have to invent.
Strict Mode
A waiting period before you can weaken a block that is currently running. Friction against an impulse — never a lock.
No streaks, no badges
Nagomi does not want your attention. It has no notifications to send you, and nothing to celebrate.
Reliability
The part nobody else shows you.
An app blocker that quietly stops blocking is worse than no blocker at all, because you do not find out until it has already cost you something. Nagomi records every scheduled boundary as it happens, and shows you the record.
If a schedule fails to register with the system, if Screen Time access is switched off, or if a period does not fire when it should have, Nagomi says so on the first screen you see. Every reliability feature is in the free plan, and always will be.
Data Not Collected.
Not "anonymised". Not "aggregated". Nagomi has no analytics, no crash reporting, no accounts, and no server of ours anywhere. The only thing that ever goes over the network is Apple's own check of whether you bought Pro.
Which apps you block, and when, is some of the most personal data on your phone. It stays on your phone. Read the privacy policy — it is short, because there is very little to say.
Pricing
The free plan is a real plan.
The free plan is a complete blocker that never expires: one blocking schedule, applied every day, with the entire reliability layer. Pro is for days that need more than one period, or a week where every day is not the same.
Free
One schedule, every day, with proof that it worked.
- One blocking schedule, applied every day
- Periods that cross midnight
- The full reliability log and its export
- Every failure warning
Pro
For a week that is not seven identical days.
- As many periods a day as you need
- A separate schedule per weekday
- A separate app selection per period
- Strict Mode
Or $3.99 a month.
Prices shown are US. Local prices vary by region, and the exact amount is always shown in the app before anything is charged.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Why does Nagomi need Screen Time access?
Blocking an app on iOS is only possible through Apple's Family Controls framework, and that framework requires your permission. Apple designed it so an app can act on your choices without being able to read them: when you pick apps, Nagomi receives opaque tokens, never names, bundle identifiers or usage statistics. It can shield exactly what you selected, and it can learn nothing else about you.
Can I get around a block?
Yes, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Strict Mode delays any change that weakens a currently running period — turning it off, deleting it, removing apps from it — by 15, 30 or 60 minutes. That is friction against an impulse, not a lock: you can always switch Screen Time access off in iOS Settings, and deleting Nagomi removes every block it applied.
Does it work on iPad or Mac?
Not yet. Nagomi is an iPhone app today — there is no iPad version, and it is not offered on the Mac App Store. Neither is ruled out, but neither has had the testing it would need, and shipping a blocker that has not been properly tested is worse than not shipping it at all.
What happens to my blocks if I stop paying for Pro?
Nothing is deleted. Your periods, their app selections and your whole log stay exactly where they are; the app simply enforces as much of your list as the free plan's single schedule allows, taking it from the top. The rest are paused rather than removed, and you decide which one survives by reordering the list.
Subscribe again and everything you had is enforced again. The reliability layer — the log, the warnings, the verification — is free in both tiers and always will be.
Does Nagomi work with no internet connection?
Yes. Scheduling and blocking are entirely on-device: there is no server of ours to reach, and no network call anywhere in the blocking path. The only thing that ever touches the network is Apple's check of whether you bought Pro, and even that reads the signed record already stored on your iPhone. You need a connection to buy or restore a purchase, and for nothing else.
How is this different from the Screen Time settings already on my iPhone?
Downtime gives you one blocking window per weekday, with one list of apps for all of it. Nagomi lets a day hold as many periods as it needs, each blocking a different set of apps, and lets every weekday differ from the last.
The other difference is that Nagomi tells you whether each scheduled boundary actually fired. The built-in settings give you no way to find out, which is how a blocker that has quietly stopped working goes unnoticed.
Why does it say “17 of 20 schedule slots used”?
iOS limits how many schedules one app may monitor at the same time. A period that runs every day costs one slot; a period restricted to certain weekdays costs one per day it runs, so a few periods add up faster than you would expect.
Past the limit, iOS stops registering schedules — so Nagomi shows the budget and lets you order the list to decide what matters, rather than letting a period fail quietly.