Blocking was never the point

A lot of apps like ours start with the enemy. They count your pickups, chart your screen time, and hand you a number that reads like a verdict. We understand why. We just don't think anyone has changed their life by staring at the size of the problem.

Manna starts somewhere else: with the thing you want to do. Open the app and the first thing you see is a wheel of your modes: Work, Read, Tennis, Cook, Fishing, each with its own painting. Pick one. Tap Start. You're in.

The blocking happens, and it's real. With your permission, the apps you chose stay blocked through Screen Time for as long as the mode runs. But it's the mechanism, not the pitch. It's the reason the hour holds, not the reason you started it.

Why start with what you want to do

Because "less phone" isn't a plan. An empty hour fills right back up. An hour with a name on it (Reading, Golf, Dinner) already has somewhere to go.

Because that's what you'll remember. Nobody looks back on a week and thinks fondly of the apps they didn't open. They remember the third set, the loaf that finally rose, the chapter that kept them up.

And because it changes what the numbers mean. Manna measures the time you spend inside your modes: four hours of reading this week, not four hours of not scrolling.

What that looks like

Type or say what you want to do, and Manna starts it. If it's something new, it becomes a mode. Give your week a shape, and your modes begin on their own when their time comes. At the end of the week, see where your hours went. Every part of the app points the same way: toward the thing, not just away from the phone.

Manna blocks apps. We'd rather you remember us for the hours.