Priozar
You didn’t decide to open that app.
Turn a distraction into a decision.
Priozar catches the second you reach for it anyway, and puts the one thing you actually cared about in front of you instead — sized to the time you have, with the reason it picked that one. Then it gets out of the way.
Android closed beta · free while we are testing · no account required
- 0bytes about your apps leave the phone
- 1sfrom opening the app to the choice
- 0.133%of one CPU core, measured
You get very good at climbing walls.
Most focus apps work by punishment or refusal — a locked screen, a countdown, a cartoon tree that dies if you look away. It works for about a week. Then the wall becomes part of the ritual, and you climb it without noticing you decided to.
A blocker says no
So you disable it, or wait it out, or reach for the other app. Nothing about the moment has changed except that you now feel slightly worse.
Priozar makes an offer
One specific thing you already said mattered, sized to the time you actually have. You can still open the app. You just have to mean it.
Three things to set up, once.
After that it runs quietly in the background and only appears at the moment it is useful.
Say what matters
Write down what you are actually trying to get done. A title is enough — how long it needs and when it is due are optional.
Choose what interrupts you
Pick the apps worth being stopped for. Only those trigger anything. Priozar checks which app opened, never what you do inside it.
Decide, in the moment
Open one of those apps and Priozar is there within a second, with the swap and with a timed way through if you genuinely need it.
It tells you why it picked that one.
Suggesting a task is easy. Suggesting the right one, and being able to defend it, is the difference between a nudge you trust and one you learn to dismiss.
Priozar scores every priority on how urgent it is, how much it matters, how far behind it has fallen, whether it fits the time you have, and whether you have momentum on it. Then it shows you the arithmetic. If you disagree with the pick, you can see exactly which number caused it.
There is always a way through.
Sometimes you really do need the app. Priozar asks what for, then gives you a timed allowance and gets out of the way.
- Naming the reason is the whole point — it is the difference between choosing and drifting.
- Two to thirty minutes. When it runs out, protection comes back on its own.
- No pleading, no penalty screen, nothing dies.
Numbers that refuse to flatter you.
Priozar keeps a seven-day view: how often it stepped in, how many minutes that redirected, how much of your screen time went to the apps you asked it to watch, and how that compares with the week before.
The interesting part is what it will not say. A progress screen is the easiest place in a productivity app to lie, because nobody checks, and every flattering default is available for free. These were all turned down:
- Only focus that began with an interruption counts as redirected. Work you would have done anyway is still work — it is just not something the app can take credit for.
- If nothing interrupted you, follow-through is blank, not zero. “You ignored every intervention” and “nothing has interrupted you yet” are different claims, and only one of them is true in your first week.
- No week-over-week improvement until there are two weeks to compare. A first week with nothing behind it could be reported as a 100% reduction. It says “not enough history yet” instead.
- Nothing is ever broken down by app. Not even anonymously, and not even a count of how many different apps interrupted you — because the interception deliberately never tells the rest of the app which one it was.
Screen time comes from Android. On iPhone it would be missing rather than zero, because Apple never tells an app how long anything was used — and a blank is the honest way to show that.
Your list of apps never leaves your phone.
Every focus app says something like this. Here is exactly what it means here, and where the line sits.
Priozar reads which app came to the front, on your device, and compares it against the list you built. That comparison happens locally and the result is thrown away. The list itself is never transmitted, never logged off your device, and never stored on a server — because there is no column in our database that could hold it.
It is not a setting that could be switched off by mistake.
The list is not stored on a server and then protected. It is not stored on a server at all — there is no field for it anywhere in the database, so there is nothing to leak, hand over, or misconfigure.
What does leave your phone, and only if you choose to create an account: your priority titles, your focus sessions and your event history, so that a second device can show them to you. Nothing else — and nothing whatsoever if you never sign in.
Most of what makes this work is what is missing.
These are not features we have not got round to. Each one was available and deliberately left out.
- No accessibility service The usual way these apps work, and the usual reason they can read your screen. Priozar never asks for it.
- No account required Detection, intervention, the timer and re-blocking all work signed out and offline. An account only syncs to a second device.
- No analytics or crash SDKs No third-party code watching how you use it. None, not anonymised ones.
- No ads, ever An attention app funded by selling attention would be an odd thing to build.
- No streaks to lose Nothing here is designed to make you feel bad enough to come back. Guilt is not a retention strategy.
- No reading your screen Not your messages, not your keystrokes, not your browsing history.
The ones worth asking.
Is it free?
It is free during the beta, and the core loop stays free afterwards. A paid tier will lift the limits on how many apps and priorities you can have. It does not exist yet, so there is nothing to buy and nothing to cancel.
Can I get it on iPhone?
Not yet. Android came first because it is the platform where this can be built properly: iOS deliberately never tells an app which app you opened or how long you used it, which changes what Priozar can honestly offer there. When there is an iPhone version, it will be described accurately rather than implied.
Does it need to be online?
No. Noticing the app, showing the intervention, running the timer and re-blocking afterwards all work in airplane mode. Only syncing to a second device needs a connection, and that is optional.
What does it do to my battery?
It runs a small foreground service while you have active blocking rules, measured at 0.133% of one CPU core, and it does no detection at all while your screen is off.
Is this a parental control app?
No. Priozar is for managing your own attention on your own phone. It authorises access as an individual user, not as a parent supervising someone else, and it is not designed or marketed for that.
What happens to my data if I delete my account?
It is deleted, in full, immediately, along with everything synced to it. Your on-device data stays where it is. There is a page explaining exactly what goes and what stays.
Spend the next hour on purpose.
Priozar is in closed testing on Android. If you would like to be one of the people who break it early, say so and we will send you an invite.