Mr. Tapioca
Productivity
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your phone has a tiny boba shop in it now. The guy who runs it is a round tapioca pearl, and he would really love it if you put your phone down for a bit.
Mr. Tapioca is a cozy focus timer. Pick a drink size (a 5 minute taste, a 2 hour small, a 6 hour large, or a custom brew), start the session, and he brews your boba while you work. Finish and the drink goes in your collection. Big drinks are resumable, so you can chip away at a large across a few study sessions.
The part that keeps you honest: real app blocking. Mr. Tapioca uses Apple's Screen Time technology to shield your distracting apps while you focus. Pick them once, and during a session they are simply unavailable. Focus with blocking on and you earn full pearls. Skip it and you earn half. Your call, no judgment. (Some judgment.)
What's inside:
- A drink collection with bases, toppings, and multi-session drinks
- Real app blocking, not just a guilt trip
- Live Activity countdown on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Pearls, about 4 per focused hour, to spend on skins, toppings, and shop backgrounds
- A boba map with actual bubble tea shops near you
- Study Squad: share a code, see friends focusing live, keep streaks together (optional)
- Break games between sessions: Catch the Pearls, Boba Plinko, Cup Pong
- Daily quests, achievements, and streaks with streak freezes
- Lo-fi generative music and ambient soundscapes
I'm Melchior. I'm a college student, this is my first app, and I built it with my girlfriend Dasha because every focus app we tried was either a spreadsheet with a timer attached or a subscription in a trench coat. A few extra skins and backgrounds are small one-time purchases if you ever feel like supporting us. Everything else you earn by focusing.
Free to download. No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. Just you, a proud little pearl, and the thing you've been putting off.
Bug fixes and polish.
Fixed: skins and backgrounds you purchased couldn't be equipped. If you bought one, it's yours now, just open the Shop and tap Equip.
Fixed: app blocking now shows the proper Mr. Tapioca shield instead of a plain grey screen.
Fixed: Goal Cup progress no longer resets to 30 minutes when you reopen the app.
Fixed: friend codes actually work, and your own code is now shown in the Squad tab so you can share it however you want.
You can now swipe down on the little bar at the top of a menu to close it.
Mr. Tapioca's eyes got a touch-up.
The developer, Melchior Goldfarb, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
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
- Melchior Goldfarb
- Size
- 54.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Ninja Skin $1.99
- Mango Sunset $1.99
- Honeymilk Library $1.99
- Devil Skin $1.99
- Galaxy Dream Background $1.99
- Winter Cocoa Background $1.99
- Angel Skin $1.99
- Wizard Skin $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Melchior Goldfarb & Dasha Nguyen