DOTS - Screen Time & Focus
Your life. Your time. Yours.
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Every dot is one week of your life. See where they go, block what steals them, keep the rest. Nothing ever leaves your phone.
You have one life. About 4,000 weeks, if you're lucky. DOTS shows you every single one - as a grid of dots - so the time you have stops being an abstraction and starts feeling real.
Then it helps you protect it.
THE LIFE GRID
Each dot is one week of your life. See the weeks you've already lived, the one you're in right now, and the ones still ahead. It's a quiet, powerful reminder that your time is finite - and worth defending.
FOCUS MODE
Start a focus session and DOTS shields the apps that pull you away. No willpower battles, no endless scrolling. Just the space to do what actually matters to you.
DAILY LIMITS
Set a daily time budget for the apps that eat your hours. When you hit your limit, DOTS steps in with a calm reminder of the commitment you made to yourself not a guilt trip, just a nudge back to your intentions.
MINDFUL BLOCKING
Choose the apps and categories you want to manage. DOTS uses Apple's Screen Time technology to block them on your terms, for the time you decide. Everything is opt-in and fully in your control.
WEEKLY REFLECTIONS
Look back on how you spent your time, notice your patterns, and set intentions for the week ahead. Small, honest check-ins that compound into real change.
BUILT FOR YOU, AND ONLY YOU
DOTS manages your own device, for your own goals. It is not a parental-control or tracking app. Your usage data stays private - stored on your device and synced only to your personal iCloud. We don't collect it, sell it, or share it.
WIND-DOWN
The "just ten minutes" that becomes two hours, fixed. Set a bedtime window and a short allowance. You get your few minutes, a gentle heads-up as the time runs low, then your apps wind down until morning. Keep it and your sleep streak grows.
SCHEDULED DOWNTIME
Block the apps that pull you away on a schedule that fits your life - work hours, school, dinner, deep work. Set it once and it runs every day, on its own.
PER-APP LIMITS
Give each app its own daily budget instead of one shared timer. Keep essentials like Maps, your bank, and Messages always allowed, and get a heads-up a few minutes before a limit is reached.
TIME WON BACK
See the hours you reclaim from focus sessions and protected nights add up as a growing field of green dots. The cost of a screen is easy to feel - now the winnings are too.
LIFE LIVED
A ten-second daily check-in: did you actually use the time you saved the way you meant to? It builds a quiet record of the days you showed up for your own life, not just the time you saved.
MILESTONES
Count down to the dates that matter - a birthday, a goal, a someday - in weeks. Seal a letter to your future self that opens on the very day it arrives.
ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND WITH SIRI
Follow your focus countdown live on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and start or end a session hands-free with a Shortcut.
WHY DOTS IS DIFFERENT
Most screen-time apps treat the symptom. DOTS starts with the why: a clear, visceral picture of how precious your time is. Once you feel that, blocking an app stops feeling like a restriction and starts feeling like a choice - your choice.
Privacy Policy: https://novarch.lol/dots-privacy
Terms of Use (EULA): https://novarch.lol/dots-terms
Your life. Your time. Your choice.
Download DOTS and start protecting the weeks you have left.
Ratings & Reviews
Fixes and polish.
• "2,1..." is not a number. Your weeks left show in full now.
• Closed a loophole that let a locked app sneak onto the Always Allowed list.
• A day can no longer contain 26 hours of screen time. Physics restored.
• New launch screen, with laurels.
• Smoother blur on the Focus tab, warmer buttons, better contrast.
• iPad layout finally behaves.
Still private. Still yours.
The developer, Novarch LLC, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Novarch LLC
- Size
- 55.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lifetime $49.99
- Yearly Premium $29.99
- Monthly Premium $4.99
- Weekly Premium $1.99
- Copyright
- © Novarch