The full tour

Everything Loki does,
one fish at a time.

Loki is small on purpose. Every feature below earned its place by making it easier to start, easier to stay, or easier to be kind to yourself afterward. Nothing else got in.

Timer

A timer that bends to your day.

Rigid 25-minute blocks are great until they aren't. Loki gives you the classic presets and then gets out of the way: your own number, open-ended count-up, or "until I mark it done."

  • Two minutes is a real option. It's the ask you can always say yes to, and it usually turns into forty.
  • Open-ended mode counts up, so a good flow is never cut short by a bell you set an hour ago.
  • Pause when life happens. End early when you need to. Both are buttons, not confessions.
How long?
2 min10 min25 minCustomOpen-endedUntil done
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Intention

"Right now I'm working on…"

One line before you start. Not a to-do list, not a project plan. Just the thing. Writing it down is what turns "I should work" into "I'm doing slides four to nine."

  • Your intention rides along on the session screen, the lock screen, and the hold screen, so the why is never more than a glance away.
  • Link it to one of your goals and every session becomes a small vote for something bigger.
  • Skip it when you're in a hurry. Loki would rather you start than fill in a form.
Loki with a thought bubble containing a fish
Holding apps

A blocker with manners.

Pick the apps that pull at you. During a session they go on hold, and if you tap one anyway, you don't get a wall. You get your own goal in your own words, a friendly line from the cat, and a way through that asks you to mean it.

  • "Back to it" takes you straight to your work. "I really need it" asks why, gives you a breath, and lets you decide.
  • Thirteen rotating lines, all shame-free, all written by people who also open Instagram instead of the doc.
  • Built on Apple's Screen Time, so the hold is real and your app picks stay between you and Apple.
Loki watching a fish being pulled away on a string
Friction levels

Nudge, promise, or vault. Your pick.

Some days you need a gentle hand on your shoulder. Some days you need a locked door and a cat sitting in front of it. Loki lets you choose per session and per schedule.

  • Gentle. A reminder of your goal, then through in a tap. For low-stakes work and honest people.
  • Committed. Tell Loki why, wait a short beat, then decide. Enough friction to break autopilot.
  • Locked. The apps stay on hold until the session ends. You asked for a vault; you get a vault.
Gentle a reminder, then through Committed say why, breathe, decide Locked until the bell, no exceptions
Schedules

Decide once, on a calm evening.

Weekdays nine to five, social apps on hold. Sunday mornings, no news. Schedules run on their own, so the decision is made when you're rested, not at 2pm on a bad day.

  • Recurring windows with their own app set and friction level.
  • Need an app during a window? The same friendly hold screen, the same honest way through, with a timed unlock that puts things back when it's over.
  • Turn a schedule off for the day without deleting it. Vacations exist.
Deep workOn
9:00 – 17:00 · Social, News
MTWTFSS
Slow SundayOff today
7:00 – 12:00 · News, Shopping
MTWTFSS
Goals

One to three things you actually care about.

Not a backlog. Not a life plan. A short list of what you're building this season, in your own words, with an emoji if you like. Loki brings them back to you at the moments they matter.

  • Sessions link to a goal, so time and small wins pile up where they belong.
  • Mark a goal done and Loki throws a small, sincere celebration. Every session was a vote; the votes came in.
  • Let a goal go on purpose and that counts too. Dropping something consciously is a decision, not a failure.
🎓 Finish the thesis draft12 sessions
🚀 Ship the side project5 sessions
📖 Read 20 pages a daytoday ✓
Small wins

Evidence that you can do hard things.

When a session ends, Loki asks two tiny questions: how did that feel, and what deserves a little credit? Tap a feeling, write a line, done. Weeks later, those lines read back as proof.

  • Feelings include the honest ones. "Tired" is a valid answer and it still counts.
  • Prompts like "What helped you start?" point at things you can reuse tomorrow.
  • Wins show up per goal and all together, so you can see the shape of what you've done.
Loki happily surrounded by caught fish
Honest stats

Numbers you can trust, because we refused to inflate them.

Sessions done. Intentions kept. Focus time today and this week. That's it. Loki only counts minutes you actually spent in a session, never the hours your phone sat face-down in a drawer.

  • No streaks. Missing a day changes nothing except the calendar.
  • No "time saved" fantasy math. If a number feels too good, it's because someone made it up. Not here.
  • Sessions that ended early show up as what they are: time that happened. Never as a red mark.
Today1 h 40 m
This week6 h 15 m
Sessions14
Intention kept11 of 14
Sounds & bell

A little noise to hide the world. A real bell when you're done.

Soft focus loops, made right on your phone, with one tap to mute. And when a timed session runs out, a proper bell rings, whether the app is open or not, whether sounds are muted or not. You'll know.

  • Nine bells to choose from. The first one is a real recording we're a bit too proud of.
  • No downloads, no streaming, no account. The loops are generated on your phone, so they're always there.
  • Prefer your own music? Play it. Loki's sounds stay out of the way.
Focus soundPlaying
Rain on glassBrown noiseCafé humOff
Ending bell🔔 Studio bell
Rings when time runs out, even if Loki is closed.
Lock screen

Your session, without unlocking your phone.

Checking the timer shouldn't mean opening the phone that's holding your distractions. Loki lives on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island: goal, live countdown, pause and end. Glance, and get back to it.

  • Lock-screen and home-screen widgets show your goals, today's and this week's focus time, and a rotating prompt to get you going.
  • The live timer keeps counting on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island for the whole session.
  • Pause or end from right there. Two taps, no rabbit hole.
Finish the pitch deck18:14
Today1 h 40 m
🎓 Thesis draft · 🚀 Side project
What's the smallest next step?
Themes

Seven vibes. One cat.

Lemon Focus is the default: warm grey, one bright accent, nothing shouting. Night owl? Midnight Lemon. Want it softer? Apricot, Mint, Lavender, Butter Sky, or Lemon Daylight. Your widget follows along.

Recovery

Phone died? Session's still there.

Loki keeps time by the clock, not by staying awake. Force-quit the app, run out of battery, restart your phone: come back and the session is exactly where it should be, minutes intact.

  • Every session end, including a recovered one, lifts any hold you set. A hold that outlives its session is the bug we hunt hardest.
  • Came back to a session that already ran out? Loki logs what happened and asks nothing of you.
  • Neutral words, always. Abandoning a session is information, never a failure.
Loki resting in a cat loaf
Privacy

Stays on your phone. Protected by Apple.

No account, no servers, no trackers. Your goals and notes never leave your iPhone. Which apps you hold is between you and Apple: Loki never even sees the list. We wrote it all down in plain English.

Loki sitting and smiling

That's the whole cat.

No feature sprawl, no dashboard to babysit. Just the things that help you start, stay, and be kind to yourself after.

Loki leaping after a fish