About Nepsis
Last Updated: July 16, 2026
Nepsis is a focus and digital wellbeing app for iPhone and iPad. It helps you build intentional screen time habits using Apple's Screen Time APIs — with limits, schedules, protection levels, and iCloud sync of rule and settings metadata across your devices when iCloud is available.
What Nepsis offers
- Daily Limits: Set a daily time budget for distracting apps.
- Schedules: Automatically block apps during recurring focus windows.
- Just Block: Block distracting apps immediately, without setting up a schedule.
- Protection levels: Choose Easy, Focused, Committed, or Strict — each adding more friction before you can disable or edit a rule.
- Physical & Mindful Challenges: Optional camera, microphone, or speech-based challenges (processed on-device) before unblocking.
- Insights & Weekly Reports: Local usage summaries and trends, generated and stored only on your device.
- Custom Block Screen: Personalize the appearance of the screen you see when an app is blocked.
- Mindful Open: Add Pre-Open Friction via Shortcuts before opening apps you want to use more mindfully.
Our approach
- Local-first: Your usage data and blocks stay on your device. No Nepsis account required.
- Privacy by design: We don't run servers to collect your Screen Time data.
- Intentional friction: Protection levels — up to Strict — add passcode and challenge-based friction when you need stronger commitment.
- Your devices, your rules: When signed into iCloud, rule and settings metadata stays aligned across iPhone and iPad (Screen Time app selections must be re-chosen per device — an Apple platform limitation).
- Premium: Optional Premium features are purchased through the App Store and managed anonymously via RevenueCat — no personal account needed.
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