Block distracting apps and get your focus back with Cascade.
You choose your mode, choose which apps it covers, then start the timer.
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For building & understanding your habits
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For being strict with yourself
Learn moreYou can add up to five friends, and the time everyone has focused shows up in the same list next to their streak.
Sharpen your attention with mindfulness practices.
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Learn how technology is built to take your attention.
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Enough to see the patterns in your week.
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Cascade asks first before these apps open.
Learn moreThe 7-day free trial comes with Yearly. Cancel any time before it ends and you won't be charged. Prices in USD and may vary by region.
Paying for an app that is meant to help you use your phone less is a fair thing to question, so we would rather explain it than talk around it. Cascade does not make money from your attention: there are no ads, nothing about you is sold to anyone, and we have no reason to want you on your phone for longer than you want to be there. The subscription is the only thing paying for the app.
It also pays for the work that does not stop at launch, like the updates and bug fixes we keep shipping and the new features we are still building. We wanted Cascade to be useful to you from the day you install it, whatever you decide about paying, so Zen mode stays free with no limits. If you would rather not pay for the Pro version, you can still block your apps and limit your screen time without spending anything.
In all three modes you block your apps and you can schedule a session, but you start to see the difference when an impulse hits and you want to stop a session early.
Zen: If you want to open your apps before the time you set, you can, with some friction in between.
Monk: When you reach for your phone it is not always intentional. Sometimes it is because you are procrastinating, or because you are anxious, or even just out of habit, so Monk aims to minimize those moments. If you want to stop a session earlier than you set, Monk asks how you are feeling and tries to point you toward a different activity depending on what is going on at that moment (breathwork if you are feeling anxious, an offline activity if you are bored). Once you are through those steps, you can still open your apps if you want to.
Vault: In Vault you cannot stop a session early. It is made for the times you want to be stricter with yourself. Keep in mind that you have a limited number of emergency opens, and once they are done you cannot stop the session.
Vault is built on pre-commitment, so there is no early stop. What you get instead is three emergency passes a week. Using one opens your apps temporarily, then the block returns on its own and stays until the session ends.
Yes. Blocking runs on-device with Apple's Screen Time framework, and your focus data stays yours. Cascade is built so your blocked-app choices never leave your phone.
Yearly comes with a 7-day free trial. You won't be charged if you cancel any time before it ends, and you can manage it straight from your Apple ID subscriptions.
Absolutely. Blocking and scheduled routines run in the background through Screen Time. Widgets, Live Activities and the Dynamic Island keep your streak and countdown visible without opening the app.
Cascade is available in 22 languages. The Meditation and Rewire sections are English-only for now, and we're working on bringing every language to every section.
Both. Pick individual apps, or block a whole category at once.
We are Idil and Bugra. Idil is a biotechnology major and Bugra is a computer science major, and although the two subjects do not have much to do with each other, we both carried the same idea around for years: that one day we would build something of our own, without ever really knowing what it would be.
We spent a summer saving up and then travelled through Southeast Asia. Wherever we went, the people who lived there and the travellers passing through had the same thing in common, and so did we: none of us found it easy to look up from our phones for long, even in places we had waited years to see.
We do think technology brings people together. We also think that using it too much takes your attention and your creativity away from you, and that is why we decided to build Cascade. As Paracelsus said, the dose makes the poison.
We would also like to introduce Kokorec, our cat. He is five years old and the most valuable member of the family.
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We read every idea before it appears here, so it can take a day or two to show up. Each device can vote once per idea.
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