Attentive - Digital Wellbeing

Attentive - Nicely Illustrated App Blocker to Help You Build Healthy Phone Habits

Attentive is a new, beautiful digital wellbeing app that makes app blocking easy, intuitive and fun. It let's you set up and schedule different app blockers for different occasions to take back control of your screen time.

In addition, Attentive offers a set of helpful, science-based Practices. Each Practice packages bite-sized background knowledge with fun illustrations to build better phone habits in the long run.

As people are getting increasingly more aware of the side effects that come with the ubiquity of smartphones, particularly caused by social media, limiting screen time is a goal shared by many modern day tech users. However, relying on will power and self-control fails more often than not. It is a real problem, and it is hard to solve.

Our Solution

Attentive, a beautiful and friendly guide to better phone habits for anyone who feels that they should spend less time mindless scrolling on their phones and direct their time and attention on what really matters.

As a first step, Attentive lets users easily shut out addictive apps & websites with it’s app blocker feature. With just a few taps, users can customize a blocker and shield themselves from digital distractions, freeing up their day to focus, or to spend quality time with family and friends.

Schedule Blockers

Users can create different blockers for different occasions and schedule them to run automatically at specific times, for example:

Undisturbed Mornings
Deep Work
Family & Friends
Reading
Wind-down & Sleep

Strict Blocking

For anyone who needs a little extra support to keep their good resolutions, Attentive offers a Strict Blocking option. With Strict Blocking, blockers can't be stopped or paused which might be just the extra barrier one needs to stay off their phone to build better habits.

Science-based Practices

App & website blocking is truly a helpful first step to take back control of one’s screen time. For users that want to take things further and tackle the problem at its roots, Attentive offers a set of easy and effective Practices based on the latest insights in psychology.

It starts with understanding and reflecting on behaviors, then motivates users to grow their own healthy smartphone habits and make them stick.

Each Practice combines helpful and important knowledge with fun, hand-drawn illustrations and animations by our artist Lea. The suggested habits are small and doable, and users can explore new habits step-by-step at their own pace.

Who Is This App For?

Attentive is for everyone who wishes to build better phone habits, ranging from young adults to parents to professionals. Limiting mindless screen time has been shown to help improve productivity, mental health, relationships, and sleep, ultimately leading to a more productive and fulfilling life.

Screen Time API & Privacy

App & website blocking with Attentive is private and secure because we rely on Apple’s Screen Time API, and not a VPN. This means we don’t see any of our users apps & websites and all personal data stays on their devices.

Feature Summary:

Easy and intuitive app & website blocking
Science-based Practices for building healthy phone habits
Bite-sized, science-based information with hand-drawn illustrations and animations by our designer
Unique and recognizable aesthetics
Respect for user's privacy and attention
Offers Interactive Widgets, App Shortcuts, Focus Filter integration and a widget for StandBy mode
A modern app built completely with Swift and SwiftUI, optimized for iOS 17

Subscription

Attentive comes with a subscription priced at $35.99 a year that unlocks all features. A 7-days free trial is available to test if the app fits your needs.

System Requirements

iOS 16 and later

Who makes Attentive?

Attentive is the new app of Meaningful Things. We're a small indie team from Tübingen, Germany.

Jan & Kerstin have been making apps for the Apple ecosystem for 10 years and you might have come across our first app, Focus, an elegant and feature-rich pomodoro time management app.

In 2020, Lea and Heiko joined our team and to build Attentive. Tech enthusiasts ourselves, we started out to build a tool that would help ourselves and others to shut out distractions, restore the ability to focus, and limit mindless screen time for good.

Because using tech should be both fun and useful - not stealing our time nor disrupting our attention. That's were Attentive steps in and we hope you'll like our solution as much as we do!