Calm tools for phone and desktop

Small tools for a quieter mind.

Pocket-sized apps for the minute between things. Breathe, let a worry go, remember you're alive. No accounts, no feeds, nothing to keep up with.

See the apps Source on GitHub

Android & Windows · Free · English & Русский · Works offline

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On the shelf · 5 apps, more coming

Each one does a few things well, then gets out of your way.

Anyway

Memento mori, minus the skulls

We're all gonna die anyway. So go do the thing.

You don't have years. You have Saturdays, about 4,000 of them if you're lucky. Anyway shows you that number, then helps you stop spending them on things the Sun won't remember.

Download APK Explore Anyway No internet permission at all
  • NowHow many Saturdays you have left, a question of the day, and the big orange ANYWAY button for the thing you're scared to do.
  • Worry FilterWill it matter in 5 years? In 100? When the Sun becomes a red giant? If not, it shrinks, spins and floats away.
  • Before it's too lateThings you'd regret not doing. Each one counts how long it has waited and turns orange after a week.
  • You're still aliveOne notification a day, at a random moment between 10:00 and 21:00.
Anyway: 2,423 Saturdays left Anyway: the Worry Filter Anyway: Before it's too late list

SwissZen

The mindfulness multi-tool

Open the knife. A minute is enough.

Most mindfulness apps want a commitment. SwissZen is a pocket knife: unfold the one tool that fits the moment, use it, fold it back.

Download APK Explore SwissZen MIT licensed
  • BreatheA sphere that grows on the inhale. Box 4‑4‑4‑4, Calm 4‑7‑8, Coherent 5‑5, for 2, 5 or 10 minutes.
  • Wim HofGuided power-breathing rounds in four levels, with breath-hold targets from 0:30 up to 3:00+.
  • BellA mindfulness bell that rings with the app closed: random, by interval or at set times, with quiet hours.
  • PracticesFive micro-practices of 1–5 minutes and five meditations of 5–20.
  • JournalOne line a day, and an Echo: something you wrote weeks ago, brought back.
SwissZen screens: Home, Breathe, Wim Hof session, Practices, Bell

FocusShield

Deep work for Windows

Block the noise. Keep yourself honest.

A focus timer built on friction. While a session runs, distracting sites stop loading, chosen apps close, and quitting early means waiting 10 seconds and typing a phrase. When it ends, everything unlocks and you get a real break.

Download for Windows Explore FocusShield Windows 10 / 11 · 100% local
  • Intention firstEvery session starts with what exactly you'll get done, and ends with a check-in: did you make it?
  • Real blockingSites, YouTube tabs (even through a VPN), apps and folders stay locked until the timer ends.
  • Breaks that restore4‑7‑8 breathing with an animated circle, the 20‑20‑20 eye rule, a stretch and a glass of water.
  • A sprout that growsAn optional mascot grows a leaf with each pomodoro and blooms on the long break.
The FocusShield sprout, from napping seedling to blooming flower
Napping · focused · focused · last minute · almost there · long break
New focus session dialog with duration and intention Break window with a 4-7-8 breathing circle

Ties

A gentle nudge to keep in touch

Friendships rarely end in a fight. They fade quietly.

University, a new job, a move, and suddenly a year passes without a call. Tell Ties who matters and how often you'd like to talk. It keeps them in sight and nudges you when someone has waited too long.

Download APK Explore Ties No internet permission · MIT licensed
  • Your peopleFamily, friends, childhood friends, work and study. Add them by hand or from contacts, with a rhythm from every week to every six months.
  • A ring that cools downEach avatar's ring empties as a contact comes due: green, then amber, then coral.
  • One tap to reach outCall, or write via SMS, Telegram or WhatsApp. After a call it asks “Did you reach them?”, so logging takes one tap.
  • What to talk aboutA gentle opener on every card, and notes worth remembering for next time.
  • One calm reminderAt most once a day, and only when someone is due or has a birthday.
Ties screens: Home, a person's card, logging a conversation, adding someone, Settings

Unhook

Quit a habit, one day at a time

Quitting isn't one big decision. It's a small one, made again every day.

Unhook counts every clean minute and turns it into money saved and time won back, celebrates each milestone and helps you ride out a craving. A slip doesn't erase your progress. Everything paid quit trackers lock behind premium is free here, with no ads and no account.

Download APK Explore Unhook No internet permission · MIT licensed
  • A live counterDays, hours, minutes and seconds for any number of habits, with a ring that fills toward the next goal.
  • Goals that climb on their own1 day, 3 days, a week, a month, and on up to 5 years. The next rung is always the goal.
  • SOS for cravings“I have a craving” opens paced breathing next to your own reasons. When the wave passes, one tap logs the win.
  • Savings and rewardsMoney not spent and time won back, a projection for a year and five, and a wishlist you buy from the savings.
  • Ten trophiesShields from bronze to emerald, a calendar of clean days and a short note at every milestone.
Unhook screens: Home, a habit's overview, the craving SOS, Savings, Trophies
Pick a moment

What do you need right now?

Start from how you feel, not from which app to open.

A worry keeps looping

The Worry Filter

Three questions, ending with the red-giant Sun. Most worries don't make it past the second.

Anyway~1 min

Too much in your head

5‑4‑3‑2‑1 grounding

Five things you see, four you hear, three you can touch. Back in the room.

SwissZen3 min

“Just one minute” of YouTube

A focus session with an intention

Name the one thing and start 50 minutes. The tab guard closes YouTube before your hand gets there.

FocusShield25–90 min

You keep putting it off

The ANYWAY button

Send the message. Book the trip. Dance badly. Press, then go.

Anyway10 sec

Can't fall asleep

Calm 4‑7‑8 + sleep wind-down

Inhale for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. Then a slow meditation for the last minutes of the day.

SwissZen10 min

The day is on autopilot

A bell and a reminder

The bell asks you to pause. “You're still alive” asks what you'll do about it.

SwissZenAnyway

You haven't called home in a while

A ring that's turned coral

Ties keeps the people who matter in sight. Open their card, tap call, say you were thinking of them.

Ties5 min

When the craving hits

I have a craving

Open Unhook, tap I have a craving and breathe with the circle for two minutes. The wave passes.

Unhook2 min
How they're made

Peace of mind shouldn't be a subscription.

Nothing leaves your phone

No accounts, no analytics, no ads. Your worries, journal, people, habits and birthday stay on the device. Anyway, Ties and Unhook don't even ask for internet access.

Free, with the source open

Every app is on GitHub. Download the APK or EXE directly, read the code, build it yourself. No trial that turns into a bill.

Made to be closed

No feed and no infinite scroll. Open for a minute, get what you came for, put the phone down. That's the whole point.

Take one minute.

Free for Android 8.0+ and Windows 10 / 11. Pick the one that fits today.

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