The focus match clock · 90:00＋
Added Time for iPhone — Bank the hours you promised yourself.
An exam, a degree, a craft. Tell Added Time what it asks of you, then sit down and start the clock.
The minutes land as ink on today's page. Pause and the clock doesn't punish you — it adds the time back on, so the goal still gets its full measure.
Named after stoppage time — the minutes added back after the game stops.
Your record · free forever No account No ads · no tracking
What it does
One day with it, plainly.
You tell Added Time the hours you owe yourself. It times them honestly, writes them down, and — if you want — keeps other apps out of the way while you work.
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Name the hours you owe yourself
A subject is anything you're working toward, and what it asks of you: hours a day, hours a week, or a habit on the days it applies. Each morning the daily goals draw as empty slots on today's page — a weekly goal keeps its slots on the Week, because it has no deadline today.
LSAT · 3h a day Paragliding · 5h a week Piano · Tue Thu Sat
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Sit down and start a block
Tap the subject, pick a length — 30, 60, 90, 120 minutes — and the clock takes the screen, counting up. Any apps you've named step aside while you play, and the whistle lifts them with you — pause your work, pause the wall.
Screen Time access is asked for only when you first set apps to step aside — never for the clock or the record. Everything above works without it.
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Interrupted? Hit the whistle
One tap holds the clock, and a second clock counts the pause in orange. Those minutes weren't going toward the goal — so they're added to the end, and the goal still gets its full measure. Tap again to play on.
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The time lands as ink
A slash is thirty minutes; a cross is sixty. Marks draw themselves onto today's page as you earn them, and ending early keeps every minute — nothing rounds away.
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The Week is the plan and the record
Page forward and next week is ghost marks — the plan. Page back and the same page reads inked — hours banked, habits kept, and, with Plus, the nights your quiet hours held. That's the weekly review, built in. And at the foot of this week's plan sits a door to the Record, which holds every week you've ever kept.
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Optionally: quiet the phone on a schedule
Standing windows hide the apps you name — quiet hours at 8:30, deep work at 11 — even while Added Time is closed. One window is yours free forever; the full week of them is Plus.
That's the whole loop. Everything it records is free, uncapped, forever — the part that hides apps on a schedule is the subscription.
The whistle
The pause is priced, never punished.
Get up, drift, get interrupted — hit the whistle. The main clock freezes and a second clock starts. Tap again and you're back in play. Every other timer treats a pause as free; Added Time treats it as what it is — time that gets added on.
The clock never judges. It just refuses to lie.
03:02 played ＋03:04 added
One tap, never categorised — no “why did you stop?” prompt, and you're never behind. The clock adds the pause back for one reason: the goal only counts the minutes it actually got. Full time is a milestone, not a terminus: play rolls on into extra time and it all counts, up to four more hours. The same four hours bounds a pause — the app trusts an unattended clock for four hours, paused or playing, then settles it for you with every banked mark kept.
Today
The page you keep
Today is the notebook page. A daily subject draws its tallies left to right against ghost slots standing in for the goal; a weekly subject draws marks with no ghosts, because nothing about it can fall behind on a Tuesday; a habit is a single ring, ticked or not. Tap a subject, pick a length, and you're in the match.
Nothing is discarded. Stop at 33 minutes of 60 and you bank one full stroke plus a partly drawn one — two part-marks join up into a whole one. Time you worked but never timed can be added by hand, and it draws with the same ceremony.
Thesis · 33 / 60 / = 30 min · ✗ = 60 min · • = by hand
Your focus ratio — focused time over focused plus stoppage, counting only the clock the app actually witnessed, so hours added by hand sit it out. It's the one number that climbs as you improve.
History keeps the streaks beside it: an active day for any banked mark, a clean sheet for a day where every daily goal was met — a weekly goal has no daily deadline, so it can never put a day behind. A streak here is only a count of what happened; nothing pushes you about it, and when one ends the app says nothing at all.
The week
Plan it and record it on one page.
Today's marks land somewhere permanent. The Week is the other place — a ledger on a seven-day spine where ghost marks are the plan and ink is the record. Page back and the same page becomes your weekly review.
Three kinds of claim
A subject asks for hours per day, hours per week, or just a habit — did I do it, on the days it applies.
A habit can't go stale
Habits appear only on the weekdays they apply to, and they're gone at midnight either way. One you didn't get to stays exactly the faint ghost it was that morning — nothing changes colour.
The review is free
Paging back is the weekly review — no report to generate, no summary email, nothing to subscribe to.
Time away costs nothing
At midnight today's page starts clean — no backlog, nothing owed. Come back after a week away and the app simply opens on today.
The record
Did I put the hours in?
The Record answers it. The same ledger, held at arm's length, over this week, this month, or everything since your first block. Nothing to generate and nothing to tap through — the page is already written, because you wrote it.
Four figures, every one of them about something you did — and where there is nothing to state, the page draws a dash rather than a zero.
Hours
Every minute you banked, in tenths — including the hours you added by hand.
Focus
The same ratio Today shows, taken across the whole range instead of one day — so hours you added by hand count in the total, but never in this.
Clean sheets
Days where every subject asking for hours that day got them. Weekly goals and habits don't enter it, and a subject you've archived stops asking.
Days active
Days with any ink on them — a total, never a run. History keeps a streak; the Record deliberately doesn't, so a Tuesday off costs you nothing here.
Where the hours actually land. A quiet band shows the hours of the day your ink tends to fall in — most ink lands 6 – 9 AM, or whenever yours does. It draws only what the clock watched, and it says so. No heat map of your gaps, no chart of when you weren't working.
Beneath it, one line per subject with ink in the range — on career, every subject that ever took ink — in ledger order: most recent ink on top, never ranked by size. Each line carries the dates it ran.
A subject you've finished keeps its line, its hours and its colour: the dot goes hollow and its dates simply close, from since Mar 3 to Mar 3 – Jun 12. It stays where its last ink puts it.
Week Month Career · since your first block
The payoff screen isn't the paid one — the Record is free on every tier. It opens from the foot of the week's plan and from a card in History, and its own last line is the whole promise: the record is yours · kept on this phone.
The doorman
Apps step aside on schedule.
Two ways in. During a focus block, the apps you named step aside until the whistle. On a standing window — quiet hours, a work block, a wind-down — they step aside on the clock, whether or not the app is open.
A window hides apps. It doesn't start a focus block for you — starting is always your call.
Open an app that a standing window has set aside, and the window says so in its own words: which arrangement it is, and when it lifts. No countdown, no lecture — the plan you wrote, quoting itself back to you.
Study Steps aside until 5:00 PM
And the doors stay on their hinges. A break lifts a passive shield for a fixed fifteen minutes and re-arms on its own. Holding a window's control for five seconds skips one night of it. If it all needs to come down at once, the emergency exit in Settings lifts the passive shields, and each piece re-arms at its next occurrence — what you've asked to hold stays as it is. A running match is never touched: the whistle stays the only way a match ends.
Quiet hours Held 6 of 7 nights 2 breaks
That's the doorman's ledger, on the Week paged back, with Plus: counts of nights kept and honest exits taken. Never a count of what it intercepted — you're not being scored. Breaks and the emergency exit are free on every tier: a paywalled exit would be the most off-brand thing this app could build.
Also in the box
The small machinery.
Live Activity & Dynamic Island
The match clock on your lock screen, with a working whistle. You never have to unlock the phone to stop the clock.
“Hey Siri, start a block in Added Time”
Siri asks which subject and how long, then puts you straight into the match without opening the app. A saved Shortcut or the Action Button can have both answers filled in already.
Running start
Forgot to hit go? At kick-off you can backdate the start by up to twenty minutes, so focus you'd already put in still counts. Past that, add it by hand — the clock counts real work and never inflates it.
Hours the clock never saw
An hour in the air, a rehearsal, an afternoon in the library with the phone in a bag — add it by hand and it draws in the same ink, marked with a small dot to say the clock wasn't there.
Screen-time dashboard
Your own usage, drawn in the app's own style. It renders inside a sealed view iOS keeps to itself — the app never reads the minutes, and neither do we.
Screen-time goals Plus
Set a daily budget for the apps eating your hours — days under it build a streak, and after a clean week the app offers to step the budget down a notch, stopping at the destination you picked. Up to three goals, and one can be a quiet morning: the first hour off the phone, kept as a fact on your record.
Per-app daily limits Plus
A cap, not a clock. When an app has had its day, it steps aside until the day turns over — and a break lifts it like anything else.
Follows a Focus Plus
A standing window can follow an iOS Focus — Work turns on, the window turns on; Work ends, it lifts. On and off by itself — and back the way you left it when the Focus ends.
Six kits, two always free
The whole app can wear a different kit — Analog and High Contrast are free forever, and Midnight, Almanac, Forest and Altitude come with Plus. The legibility kit — High Contrast — is deliberately never paid: readability isn't for sale.
Why this exists
Built to keep a promise.
Added Time started as a way to hold myself to the hours I'd promised myself — studying for the LSAT, problem sets for my physics degree, and a weekly count of hours in the air, practicing paragliding. I didn't need another app to tell me my screen time was bad. I needed the hours that mattered to actually happen.
That's why the clock pauses the way it does: a paused minute wasn't a minute toward the goal, so it gets added back on until the goal has its full measure. And it's why the record only counts what you kept — the motivation is watching the ink accumulate, never being scolded about the gaps.
If you have hours you owe yourself — an exam, a degree, an instrument, a language, a sport, hours in the air — this was built for you.
— Mathias B Jacobson, who made Added Time
From the beta
In their words.
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On-device by design
Privacy isn't a setting. It's the architecture.
Added Time has no servers to send anything to. Your schedules, subjects, and history never leave your phone.
Nothing leaves the phone
No sync, no cloud, no uploads. Everything lives locally on your device.
No account, ever
No sign-up, no email, no profile. Open the app and start.
No tracking, no ads
Zero analytics and zero third-party SDKs. Nobody is watching you work.
Screen Time, locally
Apps step aside through Apple's on-device Screen Time APIs. We never see which apps you use.
Pricing
The ledger is yours, free, forever.
The doorman is Plus.
Everything that is record — your subjects, your marks, your history — is free and uncapped, permanently. What costs money is the service that runs every day, including the days you never open the app.
Always free
The ledger
$0
- Every subject, goal, and habit — no caps
- The match, the whistle, extra time, running start, add by hand
- Today, the Week (its plan side and its record side), History, streaks, focus ratio
- Live Activity, Dynamic Island, Siri and Shortcuts
- The focus shield — apps step aside during a block
- One standing window, kept forever
- Breaks and temporary lifts, always
- The screen-time dashboard
- The Record — this week, this month, and every hour since your first block
- Export your whole record to a spreadsheet
Not a trial. Not a teaser. No feature you have today gets taken away — and if you say no to Plus, the paywall closes and doesn't come back asking.
Added Time Plus
The doorman
$24.99/year
- Unlimited standing windows — the whole week
- Per-app daily limits — a cap, not a clock
- Screen-time goals with step-down coaching — up to three, including quiet mornings
- The doorman's ledger — what it held, on the record
- Windows that follow an iOS Focus — on and off by themselves
- Four more kits — new looks for the whole app
Family Sharing is on for every product.
Monthly
$3.99/mo
Renews monthly. Cancel any time.
Yearly
$24.99/yr
7-day free trial. Works out at about $2.08 a month.
Lifetime
$79.99
One payment. Not a subscription — it never renews.
Free to download. You can decide about Plus later.
How it works. Monthly and yearly are auto-renewing subscriptions. They renew at the end of each period until you cancel, and you cancel in Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your iPhone — at least 24 hours before the period ends. Apple handles every payment and refund; we never see your card. There's no account to close, because there was never an account.
If Plus lapses, nothing is deleted. Extra windows, limits, and your screen-time goals stop enforcing and sit in the Week as resting rows. Stop for a month and nothing breaks; resubscribe and they pick up exactly where they were. Your subjects, tallies, streaks and history are untouched either way — the doorman's ledger lines are part of Plus, so they go quiet with it, and the nights stay recorded and come back when you do.
Full billing terms are in the Terms of Service. Prices are in US dollars and may differ by region — the App Store shows your local price before you buy.
Weighing this against other focus apps? We wrote an honest comparison — Opal's strengths included: Added Time vs Opal.
Common questions
Asked, answered.
Is the free tier really free forever?
Yes. Every subject, goal and habit, the match clock and whistle, the Week, History, streaks, one standing window — free, uncapped, permanently. Not a trial: no feature you have today gets taken away.
Do apps stay hidden when Added Time is closed?
Yes. Standing windows are enforced by iOS itself, on the schedule you set, whether or not you open the app that day. One window is yours free forever; the full week of windows is Plus.
What happens if I stop paying for Plus?
Nothing is deleted, ever. Extra windows, limits, and your screen-time goals simply rest — visible in the Week, not running — and pick up exactly where they were if you return. Your subjects, tallies, streaks and history are untouched either way; the doorman's ledger lines are part of Plus, so they go quiet with it, and the nights stay recorded and come back when you do.
Can Added Time see what I do on my phone?
No. Apple's Screen Time framework hands the app opaque tokens — it cannot read which apps you picked, and nothing you do ever leaves your device. There's no account and no analytics to send anything to.
Is Added Time only for studying?
No — it's for any hours you owe yourself. An exam, a degree, an instrument, a language, a sport, a craft: if it can ask for hours a day, hours a week, or a habit on certain days, Added Time can hold you to it. Time the clock never saw — a flight, a rehearsal — can be added by hand and drawn in the same ink.
More in Support — subscriptions, refunds, Screen Time access, moving to a new phone.
Turn focus into added time.
Quiet, on-device, and yours. Give the hours you owe yourself somewhere to land.
Free to download. Added Time Plus is optional.