Most Innovative Productivity App of the Year

See the world,
not the screen.

Clodo blocks your most distracting apps and locks your phone during focus and sleep. To get back in, you photograph something real: your fridge, the sky, your toilet. The friction that finally breaks the scroll.

Download free

Free on the App Store · iPhone & iPad · iOS 17+

2.5 hrs
Avg. daily focus gained
85%
Report better sleep
10k+
Lives transformed

Sleep

10:14

Ends at 9:20 AM

Take a photo to unlock

Find your fridge

Emergency Unlock · 2 remaining

Used by people building at

Google
Apple
Microsoft
Amazon
Meta
Netflix
NVIDIA
Spotify
Adobe
Dropbox
Tesla
Shopify
Airbnb
PayPal
Coca-Cola
Disney
Starbucks
Nike
Adidas
FedEx
Google
Apple
Microsoft
Amazon
Meta
Netflix
NVIDIA
Spotify
Adobe
Dropbox
Tesla
Shopify
Airbnb
PayPal
Coca-Cola
Disney
Starbucks
Nike
Adidas
FedEx

From people who looked up

A few thousand quieter minds

It’s not willpower.
It’s a phone built to beat it.

Just one more video…
It’s 1 a.m. again.
Tomorrow starts tired.
The scroll stole the night.

Clodo adds the one thing a tap-to-dismiss timer never had: a reason to actually stop.

How it works

Set it once. Clodo handles the rest.

1

Download & grant permissions

Install Clodo and grant Screen Time access so it can block apps at the system level.

2

Choose your apps

Pick the apps and categories that pull you in. They won't open during a session.

3

Set your schedule

Auto-lock at bedtime, work, or study blocks. Focus starts on its own.

Why a photo?

The unlock is
the whole point.

A timer just asks you to tap “dismiss.” Clodo makes you get up and walk to something real first, and the urge is usually gone by the time you do.

When you lock

Pick one real thing

Locking your phone means choosing one thing nearby, like the fridge or a tree. That's what you photograph to get back in.

To get back in

Walk over to it

It's across the room or down the street. You have to stand up and go to it. There's no quick tap to skip it.

By the time you're there

You don't want it anymore

By the time you reach it and take the photo, the urge to grab your phone is already gone.

Everything you need
to reclaim your time.

Quiet, deliberate tools. No dark patterns, no guilt-trips, no clutter.

Photo to Unlock

Get back in only by photographing something real: friction that makes you physically look up from the screen.

App & Category Blocking

Pick the apps and whole categories that hijack your attention. During a session, they simply won't open.

Custom Schedules

Auto-lock at bedtime, work hours, or study blocks. Focus starts on its own, no willpower required.

Deep Focus & Sleep

One tap drops you into distraction-free focus, or seals the phone for the night so you actually sleep.

History & Streaks

See every session, your streak, and the hours you've reclaimed, all in one calm dashboard.

Completely Free

Download and use every focus feature for free. No ads, no clutter, just you and a lot less screen.

The real world

Moments to
look up from.

Every session is wrapped in calm, cinematic nature, a small reminder of how good the world looks when you actually look at it.

Morning calm
Open water
Mountain air

Loved by the focused

Join thousands who finally looked up.

The photo unlock is genius. By the time I've walked to the kitchen to snap the fridge, I don't even want Instagram anymore.

Sarah K.

I set it to lock at 10pm and I'm asleep by 11 for the first time in years. Genuinely didn't think an app could change my nights.

Michael T.

My focus sessions finally stick. Three weeks streak and counting. Nothing else made me actually put the phone down.

Emma L.

Questions, answered.

Yes, free to download, with every core focus feature included and no ads.

That’s the point of photo unlock. To get back in early you must stand up and photograph a real object, usually enough to break the urge.

Yes. Clodo uses Apple’s Screen Time framework to block apps at the system level. It’s not a flimsy reminder.

Completely. Blocking and your photos stay on your device. No account, nothing sent off-device.

An iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or later.

Ready to reclaim
your time?

Download Clodo and put the doom-scroll down. Your next session of real focus is one tap away.

Free on the App Store · iPhone & iPad · Requires iOS 17+ · 100% private, on-device