The focus app that charges you when you cheat.
Three steps. Then stop thinking about it.
Pick your poison
Toggle whole services or name individual sites. Shield the apps too. Set a schedule, or let your calendar decide.
Blocks every browser
Blocking happens at the OS level, not in an extension. Safari, Chrome, Arc, a private window, a browser you installed to cheat: all walled. On iPhone, the apps themselves go dark.
Arm the Pain Tax
Set a stake. Lift a block outside your schedule and you forfeit it. Suddenly five minutes of scrolling has a price.
The wall goes where your thumb goes.
Focus Wall for iPhone shields apps and sites through Screen Time. System-wide, surviving a restart and a reinstall. Sessions, schedules and calendar blocks run on the phone itself. Your Mac and iPhone share one account, one block list and one stake.
Every blocker has a way out. Ours has a price.
You will always be able to lift a block. A hard lock you cannot escape is a bad idea. So the escape hatch stays, and it costs you a stake you set yourself.
MOST PEOPLE FORFEIT ONCE. THAT IS RATHER THE POINT.
CONFIRM LIFTLift the block and you forfeit your $5 stake.
Charged to Visa ••••4242 straight away. The wall comes down for the rest of this session.
You don't have a willpower problem.
You have a decision problem: you keep letting the tired, tempted version of you make the call. Focus Wall isn't motivation. It's three findings from behavioural science, turned into software that decides for you.
Decide when you're calm. Get bound when you're not.
The you who sets a block at 9am and the you reaching for TikTok at 11pm are not the same person. A commitment device hands the decision to the rested one and takes it away from the tired one. It is the mechanism behind decades of behavioural-economics research and every cash-forfeit habit app.
Losing $5 hurts about twice as much as earning it feels good.
Prospect theory, Kahneman and Tversky's Nobel-winning work, found we weigh losses roughly twice as heavily as equal gains. “Be productive” is a gain you can shrug off. Forfeiting your own money is a loss you won't. Pain Tax puts that asymmetry on your side.
Delete the easy path and the habit starves.
Behaviour follows the path of least resistance far more reliably than it follows good intentions. Focus Wall blocks at the OS level: every browser, every app, no extension to switch off, no private window that slips through. The easy path is gone, so there's nothing left to resist.
NONE OF THIS ASKS YOU TO WANT IT MORE. IT MAKES CHEATING COST MORE THAN IT'S WORTH.
Blockers you have already tried.
| FEATURE | FOCUS WALL | Freedom | Cold Turkey | RescueTime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money on the line when you cheat | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Blocks at OS level, every browser | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Calendar-triggered blocking | ✓ | – | – | ✓ |
| Blocks apps as well as sites | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Mac, Windows and iPhone | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Price | $5/mo | $8.99/mo | $59 once | $12/mo |
Prices as published August 2026. Every one of them blocks websites. Only one of them costs you money when you give in.
Simple pricing.
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