Your phone is built to be opened without thinking.
Most of the time it gets opened out of habit, not because you decided to. Nagomi puts a boundary in the way: the apps you chose, at the hours you chose, both decided earlier with a clearer head. During those hours a quiet screen stands in front of them. Close is the big button. You can still open them on purpose, for three minutes, as many times as you allowed yourself in advance. Afterwards, Nagomi shows you that the boundary held.
iPhone · iOS 18 or later
The idea
Decide once, when you are calm. Not every time your hand reaches for the phone.
A block you can renegotiate in the moment is a block you will eventually talk yourself out of. So Nagomi asks nothing of you at the moment of temptation. You set the hours and the apps beforehand, each period gets exactly the apps it should, and Strict Mode makes any weakening of a running period wait. The decision was made earlier, by you.
One weekday, decided the night before
Lunch is yours. The evening is yours. Late night is not. You settled that on a quiet Sunday, and Nagomi keeps to it on a Wednesday at 11:40 PM. 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. When your hand reaches for the phone at 11:40 PM, the screen does not ask whether you are sure. It tells you what you decided at noon, and how many openings are left.
The app
What it actually looks like.
What you get
Set it once. Then stop thinking about it.
An allowance, decided in advance
Each period can be opened on purpose a set number of times, three by default, for three minutes each. The screen tells you how many are left. It never asks whether you are sure.
Strict Mode
A waiting period before you can weaken a block that is currently running. For 15, 30 or 60 minutes, the decision you made earlier gets the last word. 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.
Different apps in each period
Work hours and late night are not the same problem, so they need not block the same things.
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.
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.
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 more than one boundary, and for making a running one hard to weaken.
Free
One schedule, every day, with proof that it worked.
- One blocking schedule, applied every day
- The shield, with an allowance you set in advance
- Today: openings left, last night, this week
- Periods that cross midnight
- The full reliability log and its export
- Every failure warning
Pro
A boundary you cannot talk yourself out of at 11:40 PM.
- More than one boundary, each with its own apps and its own allowance
- A separate schedule per weekday
- Strict Mode: weakening a running period waits 15, 30 or 60 minutes
- History: every opening and every close, by day and by boundary
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, in two ways, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. The first is by design: each period comes with an allowance, three openings by default, each lasting three minutes. You set the number in advance, and the screen tells you how many are left. The second is by weakening the period itself, turning it off, shortening it, raising the allowance or removing apps. On the free plan that takes effect at once, and the next morning Today tells you what you changed and when. With Strict Mode, a Pro feature, any such change waits 15, 30 or 60 minutes first. 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.
What happens when I use an opening?
The apps in that period open for three minutes, in place, without a trip to the Home Screen. When the three minutes are up the screen comes back. Openings reset each time the period runs, not once a day. If you would rather have no openings at all, set the allowance to zero.
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, meaning the log, the warnings and 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?
Nagomi is built around a decision you make in advance, and around making that decision hard to undo on impulse. You choose the apps and the hours beforehand, each period can have its own list, and Strict Mode delays any change that weakens a period while it is running.
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.