Add the right amount of friction at the right time.
Aheno helps you notice direct pickups into chosen distracting apps without presenting an estimate as a diagnosis.
A calmer relationship with your phone
Make room for what matters.
Aheno brings protection, focus, planning, and motivation into one privacy-first iPhone experience.
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A calmer relationship with your phone
Friction that grows with intention
Choose the apps that tend to pull you away. Aheno can move from awareness to a gentle warning, a cooldown, and protected time as your chosen daily budget is used.
Gradual protection
Add the right amount of friction at the right time.
Set a daily budget for apps you choose, then let protection become firmer as that budget is used.
Four stages, one understandable budget
Awareness shows what remains, friction adds a timely reminder, cooldown shields selected apps, and protected time holds the boundary until your next permitted window.
You choose what is protected
Aheno never hard-codes social apps. Apple's picker lets you select the applications and websites that matter for each profile, while useful tools can remain available.
Focus sessions
A timer that feels like entering a quieter space.
Choose a rhythm, protect selected apps, and follow your session from the app, Lock Screen, or Dynamic Island.
Flexible when you need it, committed when you choose it
Flexible sessions allow pauses, committed sessions add a short reflection before leaving, and deep sessions remove casual stop controls while preserving a calm safety exit.
Motion with a purpose
Portal transitions, haptics, and completion glows mark meaningful state changes. Reduce Motion replaces spatial effects with fast crossfades while keeping every action clear.
Plan into practice
Give important work a real place in your week.
Build focus blocks around subjects, projects, and routines, then start the right session directly from the plan.
A timeline that stays editable
Use day and week views, custom rhythms, categories, and accessible list controls. Missed blocks can move forward without turning yesterday into a red warning.
Deterministic, understandable rebalancing
Smart Rebalance works from your remaining time, priorities, and chosen limits. It does not require a cloud model to rewrite your schedule.
Private insights
Understand the reflex, not only the total.
Aheno helps you notice direct pickups into chosen distracting apps without presenting an estimate as a diagnosis.
A transparent estimate
The reflex tile is based on pickup information Apple makes available for selected applications. A methodology sheet explains what the number can and cannot mean.
Rendered where the data lives
Device activity reports are rendered inside Apple's report extension. Aheno does not copy those values into its database, analytics, widgets, community, or notification payloads.
Consistent, not perfect
Let a streak remind you who you are becoming.
Aheno celebrates returning to focus while avoiding shame, fake urgency, and punishment for an imperfect day.
A streak grounded in completed focus
Eligible sessions add to your daily rhythm and shared challenge progress. Milestones use warm motion and haptics instead of loud reward mechanics.
Recovery is part of consistency
If a day breaks the sequence, Aheno shows the wider pattern and a simple next action. The product does not threaten loss or hide progress behind anxiety.
Free + Pro
2. What the service is
Aheno helps you spend less time in apps you have chosen to limit, run focus sessions, plan your time, and see your own patterns. Protection works through Apple's Screen Time frameworks and requires permissions you grant and can withdraw at any time.
Give important work a real place in your week.
Aheno uses preset challenges, curated handles, reactions, and verified session minutes to keep community purposeful.
Privacy
Your device activity should not become an advertising profile.
Most of what Aheno shows you never reaches our servers, because Apple's frameworks do not let it. This page explains where that line falls, the two places you can deliberately cross it, and how to take it all back.
The one rule everything else follows
Aheno is built so that the information capable of embarrassing you is the information we cannot read. That is not a promise about our intentions; it is a property of how the app is assembled, and most of it is enforced by Apple rather than by us.
Screen time and app usage: technically impossible for us to collect
When Aheno shows you that you spent fifty-nine minutes in one app today, that number is drawn by an Apple report extension running in a separate process. The extension has no network access and no channel back to the Aheno app. It renders the figure onto your screen and then it is gone.
Health data: read on your device, shared only if you say so
If you allow it, Aheno reads sleep from Apple Health to show your nights more accurately than a guess based on when your phone went quiet. Aheno requests read access to sleep only. It never requests write access and never writes anything into Health.
Focus library
Clear guidance for building attention one pattern at a time.
The Aheno guide library explains useful techniques without miracle claims, fear, or an all-or-nothing view of technology.
Digital balance guide
Reduce the screen time that takes more than it gives.
The goal is not the smallest possible number. It is a phone routine that leaves room for work, people, rest, and intentional enjoyment.
Focus rhythm guideUse the clock to support attention, not police it.
Short cycles can lower the barrier to starting, while longer cycles may suit complex work that needs time to become immersive.
Deep work guideMake deep work a repeatable doorway, not a rare mood.
Consistency grows when the start of deep work uses the same small sequence and the environment removes predictable exits.
FAQ
Can I keep using Aheno without Pro?
Can I keep using Aheno without Pro?
Yes. You can dismiss the in-app offer and continue with Free protection, focus sessions, local insights, a seven-day plan, and public challenges.
Coming soon to the App Store
Make room for what matters.
Aheno brings protection, focus, planning, and motivation into one privacy-first iPhone experience.