Bedside: Sleep & Focus
Night focus · block before bed
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Bedside is a personal focus tool for the hours before sleep. You choose which apps keep you up at night (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, dating apps — your call) and when your sleep window is. Bedside blocks them during that window, and makes unlocking a little inconvenient on purpose.
This is for you, not for watching anyone else. It's built on Apple's Screen Time framework for personal device usage management.
Why bother:
· Willpower and "I'll put it down in 5 minutes" don't work
· Built-in Screen Time limits are too easy to dismiss
· A tiny friction step — 60 seconds of staring, a couple of math problems, a line you have to copy — is often enough to put the phone down
What it does:
1. Block windows — set nightly schedules (e.g. 22:00 – 07:00); crosses midnight; multiple windows allowed.
2. 3 unlocks per night — each one requires a short random task (countdown, math, transcribe a sentence, shake, or a question you wrote for yourself). Grants 5 minutes.
3. Cooldown lane when you're out — for real emergencies, wait 10 minutes (no task, stays passive). The more you use it tonight, the longer the next wait.
4. Optional guardian password — lock the "edit windows / reset allowance" escape hatches behind a password you set once (or have a friend set it).
5. Fully local — no account, no servers, no uploads. Your app selections and usage stay on your device.
Bedside is not an ad blocker, not an enterprise management tool, not for managing someone else's device — only yours.
Ratings & Reviews
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• Pausing is no longer capped at 6 times a day — pause whenever you actually need to
• Small refinements throughout
The developer, zhenyu song, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- zhenyu song
- Size
- 14 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 19 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Bedside Pro $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Zach Song
