A library.
Every ghost you catch joins your collection as a life told in order. Over 800 to find, from Ancient to Contemporary, and the Rare and Legendary ones are the catches you'll want to show people.
Screen time
Reduce screen time without blocking every app.
The feed takes an hour and leaves you with nothing. Catch the Ghost flips the trade: put your phone down for a 25-minute Deep Focus session, and when you pick it back up a chapter from history is yours.
Why blockers wear off
Blockers add friction, and friction helps for a while. If the feed pays more per minute than whatever you meant to do, you find a way back: switch the blocker off, pick up another device, add one more exception. A blocker slows the feed down. It gives you nothing to do instead.
Shock stats fade the same way. "Four hours on Instagram this week" stings for a day or two. What sticks is the next reel.
The trade: time in, a life out
Whatever you do instead of scrolling has to pay you something you want, the moment you finish.
Catch the Ghost is built on that trade. While your phone sits on the desk, a Deep Focus session paints a chapter from history in, dot by dot: a quote, a story or an image. Finish and it's yours, with coins and XP on top. Keep a streak going and every session pays more. An hour on the feed is gone when you close it. An hour here is two chapters you keep.
What 25 minutes buys you
Every finished Deep Focus session adds to things you can see. Your collection grows, your coins add up toward the next pack, and History records the hours you focused.
Coins and packs.
Spend what you earn on themed ghost packs in the in-app Store: Great Strategists, Actors, Famous Japanese, Great Authors. Every pack can be bought with coins you earn by focusing.
Time, visibly earned.
The year view adds up hours focused, sessions finished and ghosts completed, month by month. Full History comes with Pro.
Beat the bedtime scroll
The Sleep Timer turns a night with your phone down into a catch. Set a wake-up time, put the phone down and leave it alone all night. You wake up to a chapter and a reward that grows with the length of the night: an eight-hour Sleep session pays 96 coins.
A Sleep session needs at least four hours. Redshift turns the screen deep red, you can set an alarm to wake you, and you can stake coins on making it to morning. The Sleep Timer is part of Pro.
Common questions
Screen-time questions, answered.
Can a focus app help with phone addiction?
It gives you a reason to put the phone down and keep it down for a set time. Every finished Deep Focus session catches a chapter from history, plus coins and a longer streak. Quit early and the chapter gets away. It's a focus tool, not an addiction treatment.
How do I reduce screen time without blocking every app?
Replace the scroll. Pick a stretch of the day you usually lose to the feed, start a 25-minute Deep Focus session and set the phone down where you can watch the chapter paint itself in, or lock it. Phones are tools; the feed is the problem. When putting the phone down earns you something you want, picking it back up starts to feel like a worse trade.
Isn't a focus app more screen time?
The phone sits on your desk while the chapter paints itself in, dot by dot. Glance at it whenever you like, or lock it: locking your phone doesn't count as leaving the session.
What happens if I pick up my phone mid-session?
Leave the app and the clock knows. Deep Focus gives you three one-minute passes per session; stay out longer and the chapter gets away. Coins you have earned stay yours, and only coins you chose to stake ride on the session.
Is Catch the Ghost a screen-time tracker?
It's a focus timer. During Deep Focus it notices when you leave the app. It doesn't read your Screen Time data or see which other apps you open, and it shows no ads. The app's privacy details on the App Store and Google Play list the usage analytics it collects.
Replace the scroll.
