12FocusUse case
An app blocker for studying that ends when the work does.
A study session shouldn't be a willpower contest with your own phone. 12Focus keeps social apps locked on iPhone until today's study actions are done — so the session ends because you finished, not because you gave up. Blocking is iPhone-only; on Android, 12Focus does the rest.
Why it matters
A timer measures the session. It doesn't protect it.
Most study tools count minutes while your phone keeps offering a way out. One notification, and a two-hour block becomes forty minutes of actual reading plus a scroll you didn't choose. Flipping the default changes everything: the distracting apps are closed until the material is covered, and the shortest path to your phone runs through the work.
- Define today's study actions before the session — chapters, problem sets, drafts.
- Keep the escape-hatch apps locked while any of them are still open.
- Finish the list and your phone is yours again, guilt-free.
How 12Focus approaches it
Built for a semester, not just tonight.
One goal, twelve weeks
An exam, a thesis, a certification — the horizon of a term, broken into weeks you can actually plan.
Daily actions as the unlock
Today's study actions are the threshold. Complete them and the blocked apps open on their own.
A weekly review that keeps you honest
See what got covered and what slipped, then set next week while it can still change the outcome.
Make this the term where the plan survives past week two.
Use 12Focus to give every study session a clear finish line — and a phone that waits for you behind it.