CHALLENGE
7-Day Focus Challenge
One focus session a day, 7 days in a row. Leave the app mid-session and your square burns.
Zero Excuse: Discipline Quotes
Focus timer & motivation
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Put your phone down, light the ember. Leave the app: your square burns. Lock it: it fills up. One grid, one leaderboard, zero excuses.
You know what you need to do. Put your phone down and do it.
Zero Excuse turns your phone into a coach: a focus timer that doesn’t forgive, a grid that tracks every day, and lines that get you back to work.
FOCUS: YOUR SQUARE BURNS IF YOU QUIT
• 15, 25, 45, 60, 90 minutes or an open timer.
• Locking your phone is allowed. Leave the app for over 10 seconds: today’s square burns.
• A call? The session pauses.
• The timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Ambient sounds: rain, café, brown noise (Premium).
YOUR GRID, ONE SQUARE A DAY
• It turns green with your minutes and burns when you give up.
• Your streak, your stats, your record.
• As a Home Screen widget, and ready to share to your story.
THE COMMUNITY (OPTIONAL)
• An account in one tap with Sign in with Apple, no email.
• Your public profile, your grid, your posts, polls.
• The weekly leaderboard: only sessions timed by the server count.
• Tips from the official account. Zero tolerance for insults: report, block, moderation within 24 h.
LINES THAT HIT
• Soft, Direct or Brutal: the same idea at three intensities.
• Your line on the Lock Screen, reminders at the right time.
• The excuse buster: say your excuse, we take it apart, then 2 minutes to get started.
ZERO EXCUSE PREMIUM
Unlock the joker (save one burned square a week), detailed stats, timer styles and sounds, Brutal mode, all 7 goals, every widget and theme, and up to 20 reminders a day.
• Yearly subscription with a free trial, or weekly.
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, or at the end of the free trial.
• Your subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings.
Terms of use: https://zeroexcuse.fr/en/terms/
Privacy: https://zeroexcuse.fr/en/privacy/
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Zero Excuse 2.0: focus.
• A timer that burns down like an ember. Leave the app: your square burns. Lock your phone: it fills up.
• Your grid over a year, one square a day, as a Home Screen widget and ready to share to your story.
• The timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• The community: profiles, posts, polls, weekly leaderboard. Optional account, with Apple.
• Premium: joker, detailed stats, timer styles and ambient sounds.
The developer, ELYSIO MANUEL MARTINS, 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:
- Purchases
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- ELYSIO MANUEL MARTINS
- Size
- 69.6 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and French
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Infrequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Contains
User-Generated Content
Health or Wellness Topics
Social Media
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Yearly, special offer $19.99
- Premium Weekly $4.99
- Premium Yearly $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Elysio Manuel Martins