Elevate Your Productivity with Ascent

Ascent is designed to cultivate healthier phone usage habits over the long term. By pausing destructive apps, it empowers users to avoid falling into the procrastination trap right from the start. Ascent minimizes unwanted scrolling through social media feeds and short video clips, encouraging users to dedicate their time to meaningful work and creative endeavors.

Key Features of Ascent

Pause Exercise

Before diving into potentially distracting apps, Ascent prompts you to pause and reflect on whether you truly wish to open them. This reflective pause allows you to decide whether to close the app or proceed. This feature ensures that your phone usage is more mindful and intentional, reducing the likelihood of compulsive app openings.

Focus Session

The Focus Session feature enhances productivity by creating an environment with minimal distractions. It temporarily restricts access to selected apps, ensuring your attention remains fixed on the task at hand. This immersive environment promotes deep engagement and maximizes efficiency by fostering a state of flow.

Reminder

Reminders guide you away from time-consuming apps, encouraging you to step back and break free from unhealthy screen time patterns. By setting reminders to activate the Pause Screen, you can foster a more balanced relationship with your digital environment, regaining control over your digital habits.

Reels & Shorts Blocking

Ascent offers the capability to completely block specific sections within apps such as Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts, ensuring you remain undistracted while using these platforms. You can still access the Instagram and YouTube apps, but the Reels and Shorts sections are blocked, allowing for a more focused experience.

Intentions

This feature prompts you to pause and articulate your intentions before engaging with potentially harmful apps. By turning impulsive screen time into a deliberate choice, Intentions help you build a more mindful and intentional approach to your digital interactions.

Shortcuts

By streamlining workflows and minimizing interruptions, Shortcuts enhance your productivity. Essential apps and links can be arranged for quick access, enabling you to retrieve them effortlessly. Shortcuts keep your focus sharp and reduce distractions, making your digital interactions more efficient and purposeful.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks shift your focus from algorithmically curated content to what truly matters. Ascent assists in saving valuable bookmarks as resources, providing a mindful alternative to chaotic feeds and integrating high-quality knowledge into your daily routine. This results in a more meaningful and intentional digital experience.

Custom Blocking Schedules and Activity Tracking

Ascent simplifies the setup of custom blocking schedules and keeps you on track. You can block apps for specific periods or during certain times of the day, and receive notifications when your blocking schedule is nearing its end or when you're approaching or exceeding your daily limits. Detailed activity tracking allows you to monitor your progress over time, helping you make positive changes to your daily routine.

Motivation and Inspiration

Beyond blocking apps, Ascent is about empowering you to stay motivated and focused on your goals. Featuring motivational quotes and reminders, Ascent inspires and keeps you on track, regardless of the challenges you encounter. Customize the frequency and content of these reminders to suit your needs, and track your progress with detailed activity logs.

Privacy and Security

Ascent leverages the Accessibility Service API to detect and block user-selected applications without collecting any personal information. All data remains securely on your device, ensuring privacy and security.