The moment we all know
"Just one more video."
That was two hours ago.
It's 1 a.m. Your eyes ache. You can't remember what you saw.
The work you didn't do. The sleep you didn't get. And tomorrow night — you know — you'll probably do it again.
You're not addicted. You just can't put it down.
It was never your fault
It was never a fair fight.
Human attention has limits. That's biology — not weakness.
The algorithms in your phone don't. They're tuned by engineers whose job is to keep you scrolling — and they never get tired.
Your willpower gets tired. The algorithm doesn't.
You've tried harder than most.
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Focus apps
Live on the very phone you're escaping. Three taps and they're off.
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Deleting apps
Felt great for a day. Then one late night, your thumb moved on its own.
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Lock boxes
Strong enough to work. Big, clunky, and ugly enough to end up in a drawer.
Meet TimeOasis.
Four ways to stop.One for every kind of moment.
Way 1:
Lock Now — "I'm ready. Stop me."
Press the orange button. Your phone locks instantly. No countdown. No buffer. You've decided — it executes.
Way 2:
Lock Later — "I can play, but only this long."
Press the light button. Set a buffer — 15 minutes, 30 minutes, however long you want. When time runs out, TimeOasis locks your phone on its own.
"Just five more minutes" finally has an ending.
These two are the core.
90% of how you'll use TimeOasis is these two buttons.
No app to open. No phone to unlock. No setup.
Reach. Press. Done.
Way 3:
Scheduled Lock — "Same time, every day."
Set a moment — 11 p.m. for sleep, 9 a.m. for deep work — and your phone locks then, automatically.
Set on the device. Still no app.
Way 4:
Overuse Lock — "Okay, that's enough."
In the companion app, pick the apps that eat your time most — Instagram, TikTok, X, whichever — and set a daily limit for each. Cross that limit, and TimeOasis locks your phone automatically.
The one mode that needs the app.
Press a button for the core. Open the app only when you want to go deeper.An app will never be the gate.
Try to walk away. It won't let you.
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This is where TimeOasis stops being polite.
Pick up your phone and walk out of range — it gives you a few seconds to come back. Ignore that, and it sounds the alarm.
A 75-decibel tone, tuned to a frequency that's almost impossible to ignore. Stuff it in a bag. Bury it under a blanket. It cuts through.
It does not stop until you come back, or your committed time is up.
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No snooze. No off switch. No talking your way out.
Every other tool gave you a quiet way out. That's exactly why they failed.
This one doesn't.And once you know it doesn't, something shifts:
You stop testing it. You just keep your word.
It all counts.
TimeOasis keeps an honest record
Not just the sessions you finished, but the ones you walked away from too.
What you see isn't a wall of gold stars. It's a real number:
Out of every time you gave your word, how often you actually kept it.
An important question
Why isn't this just an app?
Every focus app — every screen-time setting — lives on the device you're trying to get away from. The off switch is right there, two taps away.
You're always holding the key to your own cell.
TimeOasis is different. It's a physical button on your desk.
When the urge hits, you don't dig through your phone for "the app that's supposed to stop you." You reach. You press. That's it.
Nothing to open. Nothing to unlock. No menus to navigate.
One button. One motion. One decision, already made.
That kind of simplicity, an app can never give you — because it lives in the wrong place
By design, not default.
Every spec here follows one rule: invisible when you don't need it, uncompromising when you do.
Three months of battery — so you stop thinking about it. A magnetic back — so it lives where you actually reach for it. No power switch — because the version of you that wants to cheat shouldn't have an exit.
We're putting the
final polish on it.
TimeOasis is going on sale soon. Until then, pick a way to let us know — and lock in your price.
Leave your email. We'll tell you the day we launch.
- Launch-day notification
- 10% off at launch
Saw something you liked? Hold a spot for the price of pocket change.
- Launch-day notification
- 15% off at launch
- $1 fully credited to your order
- 24h early access before free list
The $1 isn't extra — it comes off the price, and gets you a deeper discount.
You've been waiting for this day. So have we.
- Launch-day notification
- 25% off at launch
- $9.9 fully credited to your order
- First batch to ship
- Numbered unit — from #001
The $9.9 isn't extra — it comes off the price, and locks in our deepest discount.
All deposits are credited in full toward your purchase at launch. Early-bird pricing ends when we launch.
I'm not great with my phone. Three nights a week I'm still on it at 1 a.m., telling myself I'll do better tomorrow. I never do.
I tried everything. Focus apps you can close in two taps. Deleting Instagram, then re-downloading it before bed. A locked box that sat in the corner judging me until I gave up.
So I built something that sits on a desk, gets pressed once, and just locks the phone. No fight. No way around it.
TimeOasis is what I built. Because I needed it.
If you've read this far, you probably do too.
— [ Daniel Reed ]
Founder, TimeOasis