Show HN: Nagomi, Screen Time downtime with more than one period a day

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Nagomi — Screen Time limits that fit your actual day

Screen Time limits that fit your actual day.

Block apps for work in the morning, use them over lunch, block them again all<br>afternoon. iPhone's built-in Screen Time allows one blocking window a day. Nagomi lets<br>your schedule match your day — and shows you that it worked.

iPhone · iOS 18 or later

The difference

One period a day, or as many as your day has.

Screen Time's Downtime supports exactly one window per weekday. If your morning, your<br>lunch break and your evening are not the same thing, there is no way to say so.

Apple Downtime

midnightnoonmidnight

Nagomi

midnightnoonmidnight

Lunch is yours. The evening is yours. Late night is not — and a period that runs past<br>midnight is one period, not two. Each one can block a different set of apps, and each<br>day of the week can look different from the last.

The app

What it actually looks like.

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Four periods across a week that isn't seven identical days.<br>iOS caps how many schedules an app may monitor at once. Nagomi shows you the<br>budget you are using rather than quietly dropping a period —<br>more on that below.

Every period, and whether it actually registered.<br>Three periods are listed and four are verified: the fourth is a weekend<br>period, which is registered but not scheduled for today.

A different app list per period. Unblocking waits.

Dark mode, of course.

What you get

Set it once. Then stop thinking about it.

As many periods as you need

Work in the morning, work in the afternoon, wind down at night. Three periods, or<br>six, or one.

A different week, not seven identical days

Weekdays and weekends can have completely separate schedules. So can a single<br>Wednesday.

Different apps in each period

Work hours and late night are not the same problem, so they need not block the same<br>things.

Periods that cross midnight

A block from 11:30 PM to 12:45 AM is one period, not two awkward halves you have<br>to invent.

Strict Mode

A waiting period before you can weaken a block that is currently running. Friction<br>against an impulse — never a lock.

No streaks, no badges

Nagomi does not want your attention. It has no notifications to send you, and<br>nothing to celebrate.

Reliability

The part nobody else shows you.

An app blocker that quietly stops blocking is worse than no blocker at all, because you<br>do not find out until it has already cost you something. Nagomi records every scheduled<br>boundary as it happens, and shows you the record.

: a figure is a grouping<br>element and axe-core flags the combination (aria-allowed-role). Keeping the role<br>is still right — the rows are a picture of a screen, not a table the reader should<br>navigate cell by cell — so it moved down one level, and the figcaption stays real<br>text outside it rather than being repeated inside the label. -->

Protected

Today’s periods

Work AM9:00 AM–12:00 PM<br>ran as scheduled

Work PM1:00 PM–6:00 PM<br>in progress

Late night11:30 PM–12:45 AM<br>scheduled

3 of 3 schedules verified registered.

If a schedule fails to register with the system, if Screen Time access is switched off,<br>or if a period does not fire when it should have, Nagomi says so on the first screen you<br>see. Every reliability feature is in the free plan, and always will be.

Data Not Collected.

Not "anonymised". Not "aggregated". Nagomi has no analytics, no crash reporting, no<br>accounts, and no server of ours anywhere. The only thing that ever goes over the<br>network is Apple's own check of whether you bought Pro.

Which apps you block, and when, is some of the most personal data on your phone. It<br>stays on your phone. Read the privacy policy — it is short,<br>because there is very little to say.

Pricing

The free plan is a real plan.

The free plan is a complete blocker that never expires: one blocking schedule, applied<br>every day, with the entire reliability layer. Pro is for days that need more than one<br>period, or a week where every day is not the same.

Free

One schedule, every day, with proof that it worked.

One blocking schedule, applied every day

Periods that cross midnight

The full reliability log and its export

Every failure warning

Pro

For a week that is not seven identical days.

As many periods a day as you need

A separate schedule per weekday

A separate app selection per period

Strict Mode

$27.99<br>a year<br>Includes a 3-day free trial

$74.99<br>once<br>Lifetime, a one-time purchase

Or $3.99 a month.

Prices shown are US. Local prices vary by region, and the exact amount is always shown<br>in the app before anything is charged.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Why does Nagomi need Screen Time access?

Blocking an app on iOS is only possible through Apple's Family Controls framework,<br>and that framework requires your permission. Apple designed it so an app can act on<br>your choices without being able to read them: when...

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