iOS and Android · Digital wellbeing
Recentr
Recentr helps people take their attention back. Rules block distracting apps on a schedule, and opening one anyway means waiting, retyping a phrase or walking twenty steps first.
- Platforms
- iOS · Android
- Market
- Worldwide · 19 languages
- Our role
- Product and engineering: iOS, Android and backend
- Status
- In development
The challenge
Screen-time limits are dismissed with a single tap. The work was to make blocking firm enough to matter and gentle enough that people leave it on, within what each platform allows.
What we built
On iOS, Recentr is built on Apple’s Screen Time frameworks, with its own extensions to monitor usage, shield apps and draw reports, plus widgets and a Live Activity. The Android app is written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, and a Laravel backend serves both.
- SwiftUI
- Screen Time API
- WidgetKit
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Laravel
Inside the product
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Rules that hold
Sessions, routines, locks and daily limits, on a schedule or started on demand.
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Unlocks that make you think
Wait a few breaths, retype a phrase, scan a pass or walk 20 steps before a blocked app opens.
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A focus timer
Deep-work sessions with ambient sounds generated by the app itself.
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Progress you can see
Screen time by day, week and month, with streaks and badges along the way.
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Beyond the app
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and a Live Activity while a session runs.
