Slowcation

Your apps, where you choose.

Slowcation is an iPhone app that blocks or allows apps based on where you are. Draw a zone around a place, choose the apps it controls, and get on with your day.

Coming soon to the App Store See how it works

For iPhone, iOS 18 or later. No account, no server, no tracking.

A map with two zones. At Home, a games app and a TV app are allowed. As your dot walks to the Office they lock, and once it arrives the Office's chat and social apps lock too. Walking home puts everything back. Home Office

How it works

Set it once. Then forget about it.

Willpower runs out. A place doesn't. Tie your apps to where you are and the decision is already made.

  1. Draw a zone

    Put a circle around work, home, the gym or the library. As small as a building or as big as a city.

  2. Choose its apps and a rule

    Pick the apps, websites or whole categories the zone controls, then decide whether they're blocked there or only allowed there.

  3. Walk in, walk out

    Your iPhone notices when you arrive and leave, and opens or closes those apps for you, even when Slowcation is closed.

Two rules

Block here. Or only here.

Every zone follows one of two rules. Apps you haven't put in a zone are never touched.

Your dot walks into a zone named Office. Its three apps turn grey and lock, and a label changes from Open to Blocked. Walking out opens them again. Office BlockedOpen

Block Here

Blocked while you're inside.

The zone's apps stay closed for as long as you're in it. Step outside and they open again.

Social media that stays shut at the office.

Your dot walks into a zone named Home. Its two apps, locked everywhere else, open with green ticks, and a label changes from Blocked to Open. Walking out locks them again. Home OpenBlocked

Only Here

Allowed inside, and nowhere else.

The zone's apps open while you're in it and stay blocked everywhere else, including when your location isn't known.

Games that only work at home. Email that only works at work.

Buddies

Need a break? That's allowed.

Pause blocking yourself after a short cooldown. Or make it stick: let a friend hold the key, so only their code opens your apps.

  • You ask, they decide. Send a request for the time you need. Your buddy sends back a code in one tap.
  • Codes can't be faked. Each one is signed on your buddy's phone, works once, only for you, and expires after 30 minutes.
  • No accounts. Buddies swap messages over any chat app, or scan each other's QR codes when they're together.
Two ways to open a lock. First a cooldown ring fills around it and it opens. Then a buddy appears, their key travels to the lock, and it opens. Pause it yourself Or ask a buddy

Built for real life

The details that make it stick.

Schedules

Give a zone working hours. Outside them, the rule simply doesn't apply.

Blanket ban

Some apps shouldn't open anywhere. Block them everywhere, all the time.

App groups

Bundle apps once, like Social or Games, and reuse the group in any zone.

Cooldowns

Pausing never starts straight away, so a weak moment has time to pass.

Websites too

Block a site or a whole category, so a blocked app isn't a Safari tab away.

A way forward

The block screen offers a pause or a buddy request, whichever that block needs.

Heads-up

Optional notifications when your apps open and when they lock.

Setup check

One screen that shows anything stopping your zones from working.

Private by design

Nothing to sign up for. Nothing to leak.

Slowcation has no accounts and no servers. There is nowhere for your data to go.

  • We never see your location. iOS watches your zones on your device. Slowcation has no server to send anything to.
  • We never see your apps. iOS draws their names and icons on screen for you. Slowcation keeps only anonymous tokens, can't see your usage, and sends nothing anywhere.
  • No analytics, no ads, no tracking. There is no third-party code in the app at all.

Read the privacy policy

A phone containing a zone, your location and a padlock. Beside it: no account, no server, no tracking. No accountNo serverNo tracking

Coming soon to iPhone.

Slowcation needs iOS 18 or later. It asks for Screen Time access to block apps, and Always location so zones keep working when the app is closed.

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