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Live more of your life.

One tap, and the rest can wait.

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One tap, and you're in it.

Choose what you want to do (read, run, cook, work, the dinner table) and tap Start. Allow Screen Time once, and the apps you pick stay blocked while the mode runs. Manna counts the hours: real ones, from the moment you tap.

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  • Fishing
  • Woodwork
  • Dinner Table
  • Surf
  • Read
  • Garden

The shop

Made well, for one thing each

Objects that make it easier to start, and better once you have. The Manna shop is on its way; this is what it will carry.

A small cream twin-bell alarm clock on a wooden bedside table

For Sleep

A bedside alarm clock

Your phone sleeps in another room. You wake up to a bell.

A seasoned cast-iron skillet on a board with rosemary and a lemon

For Cook

A cast-iron pan

Heats evenly, sears properly, and outlives the recipe apps.

An open sage notebook with a fountain pen resting across it

For Write

A clothbound notebook

No notifications between you and the next sentence.

A wooden pyramid metronome beside a stack of sheet music

For Music

A wooden metronome

Keeps time and nothing else.

A headlamp on a folded wool blanket beside a camping mug at dusk

For Camp

A good headlamp

Both hands free, and your phone stays in the pack.

A compact cream and tan film camera beside a roll of film

For Photograph

A film camera

Thirty-six frames make you look before you shoot.

A wooden chess set mid-game on a table by a window

For Game Night

A wooden chess set

One board, two chairs, and an evening that lasts.

A sage gooseneck kettle beside a ceramic coffee dripper

For Morning

A pour-over kettle

Four slow minutes that start the day before anything else can.

Our belief

Your life is meant to be lived, not scrolled.

Our mission

Featured

People doing things fully

At the edge of what a person can do, and at peace with one thing done well.

A small racing car rounding a hairpin beside a harbour town at golden hour

At the edge · Motor racing

The lap he couldn't explain

Ayrton Senna · Monaco, 1988

Inside a tiny coffee bar: a wooden counter, a copper kettle, a cloth filter, and a figure pouring slowly

At peace · Coffee

Coffee only

Ichiro Sekiguchi · Ginza, 1948–2018

A figure on a conductor's podium seen from behind, facing a softly lit theatre

At the edge · Music

The symphony he could barely hear

Ludwig van Beethoven · Vienna, 1824

A finished wooden rocking chair in a sunlit workshop, a door open to green hills

At peace · Woodwork

Learning by doing

Sam Maloof · Alta Loma, California

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From the blog

A figure on a picnic blanket under a broad tree, looking out over green hills

September 2026

Why we didn't build another phone

The iPhone is the best tool most of us will ever own. We didn't want to replace it. We wanted to aim it.

Read the essay