One tap starts your session. Distracting apps vanish.
Every focused minute becomes a score you actually earned.
What Anchor does
Every feature is designed to make focus a deliberate, verifiable act — not a self-reported claim.
A real physical tap starts and ends every session — an auditable record, not a self-reported claim.
Distractions are blocked at the iOS level via Apple's Family Controls — not a reminder you dismiss.
Calculated server-side from authoritative session data. The number actually means something.
Standard timers and Pomodoro-style work/break cycles with fully configurable lengths.
Personalised recommendations from your session history, delivered as clear, actionable suggestions.
Daily and weekly goals, streak tracking, and best-hour insights showing when you focus best.
How Anchor works
Anchor closes the gap between intending to focus and actually doing it — with a physical start ritual, OS-level enforcement, and a score you can trust.
Touch your NFC tag on your desk or keychain. The physical act is the deliberate ritual that opens a session and starts the clock.
Via Apple's Family Controls, blocking isn't a suggestion — it's enforced at the system level for the duration of your session.
Your focus score is derived from authoritative session data, not what you report. It can't be inflated or faked.
For Families
Anchor gives parents a simple way to see how their child spends time on their phone and to manage access to distracting apps — set up on the child's device or controlled from the parent's own phone.
Built for parents who want guidance and healthier habits, not just another number on a screen.
Available on iPhone & iPad
About Anchor
Anchor began with a small frustration. Most focus apps ask you to be honest about the time you lose to distraction, then happily let you mark a session "complete" while you scroll somewhere else. When focus is self-reported, the numbers stop meaning anything.
We wanted focus you could actually prove. So we built Anchor around a real, physical moment. You tap an NFC tag to begin, your distracting apps switch off at the system level, and your score is worked out on our servers from what genuinely happened during the session. No tap, no session.
Anchor grew out of a graduation project and a real belief that good habits deserve real tools. It stays small, independent, and built by people who rely on it every day to get their own work done.
A session only counts when you physically show up for it, so your stats reflect what you really did, not what you meant to do.
No guilt trips and no noisy gamification. Just clear, quiet signals about when and how you focus best.
We never sell your information and never run ads. Your app-blocking choices stay private on your device.
Download Anchor for iPhone and iPad — make every focused minute count.
iOS 16 or later · iPhone & iPad
Contact
Anchor is live on the App Store right now, and we are looking for people who want to focus better and tell us what works.
You get a direct line to the people building Anchor. We would love to know what feels great, what gets in your way, and what you wish it could do. Every message you send genuinely shapes what we build next.