Your feed was engineered to keep you scrolling. Sophrosyne is engineered to get you out. Set a timer, hide everything but the clock, and spend the next hour on the life you actually planned.
It's the ancient Greek word for self-command: a sound mind that knows what it wants and doesn't get dragged around by every impulse. This site gives you the tools to practice it. It's built for anyone who has lost an evening to their phone and wants it back.
Timed focus sessions, plus a full-screen mode that takes a three-second hold to escape. Leave the tab mid-session and it gets logged as drift.
Feel the urge to scroll? Press one button, follow a minute of box breathing, then decide. Every urge you resist gets counted.
Turn goals into steps you can tick off, track daily habits on a 14-day grid, and keep a revision log of every change to your plan.
Everyone deserves a chance to lock in.Not every kid has a quiet place to learn or the support to focus on their future. If Sophrosyne helps you, think about helping someone else get there too.
Leave this tab mid-session and it gets logged as drift. Full lock-in hides everything but the clock.
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A website can't block other apps, but your phone can. Set these up once, and the limits keep working even when Sophrosyne is closed. It takes about five minutes.
Caps how long you can use an app or a whole category each day. When time's up, the app locks until midnight.
A daily window when only the apps you allow can open. Calls and messages from people you choose still get through.
A Focus you switch on with your Sophrosyne sessions. It silences everything that isn't urgent and hides your distracting apps.
Without a passcode, "Ignore Limit" is one tap away. A passcode you don't know turns a suggestion into a rule.
Sets a daily time for each app. When it runs out, the app greys out until midnight.
Silences your phone and turns the screen grayscale on a schedule, which makes scrolling much less appealing.
Pauses the apps you pick until you switch it off, which makes it a perfect match for a Sophrosyne session.
The same App Limits and Downtime as iPhone, including websites in Safari.
Turn this on, on your Mac and your iPhone, and your limits apply to your total time on both, so switching devices doesn't reset the clock.
Run all day in the background and catch the slow drift.
Switched on when you sit down, so nothing pings you mid-session.
The clock, your intent, and the record of what you built.
Locking in sounds simple when you have a desk, a school and someone who believes in you. Millions of kids don't. UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories to get children into school, keep them healthy and protect them in emergencies, so they get a real shot at building the future they want.
Sophrosyne is free. If it has helped you take back your time, a donation is a way to pass that on. Any amount helps, even the cost of one month of a subscription you don't use.
https://give.unicefusa.org/-/NCBBKHFK