Choose your mode.
Zen keeps it simple.
Pick the apps you want blocked, choose how long, and start the session. Free, with no limits.
Monk mode is for being more intentional.
The block works the same way as Zen. What changes is what happens when you reach for the stop button.
If you decide to stop early, Cascade holds up a mirror.
Stopping while you understand what pulled you back is a different thing from stopping without noticing.
Then it offers you something better than your phone.
What it offers depends on why you stopped. Boredom, tension, loneliness and plain habit do not call for the same answer, so the suggestion changes with the reason. It might be a breathing exercise, something small to do away from the screen, or a question worth sitting with for a moment. Whatever it is, it asks a minute or two of you and it does not send you back to your phone.
Vault holds you to the promise you made.
You make the decision before the session starts, and after that the apps do not open. Vault gives you three emergency passes a week for the times you genuinely need one, and once you have used them nothing opens until the session ends.
Every session starts with a written intention.
Before the timer starts you write, in one line, what you are blocking for.
Cascade is the bridge between you and who you are becoming.
On the other side is the version of you with a healthy relationship with technology. Every session you finish is a step toward that person.
Every session is a vote for who you are becoming.
When the timer ends you see the line you wrote for yourself, and one button: I vote for this person.
Routines start a session without you.
Set the mode, the days and the hours once. Cascade starts the session itself, even with the app closed.
Sharpen your attention with mindfulness practices.
Guided sessions inside the app. Open a blocked app during a session and you get one of these instead.
Learn how technology is built to take your attention.
Ten short lessons on how it actually works. What you can name is harder to fall for.
