App blocker for iPhone
Block distracting apps on iPhone while you focus
Quiet Orbit closes the apps you choose for as long as a focus session runs, through Apple's own Screen Time, and opens them again after the session. It's free, and it comes with a reason to finish.
How the block works
Pick the apps that pull you away, single apps or whole categories, and start a session of 15 to 90 minutes. Open one of them mid-session and you get a quiet screen that tells you when the session ends. When the timer runs out, the block lifts as soon as you open Quiet Orbit. If you don't, it lifts on its own about 20 minutes after the timer ends.
What stays open
Everything you didn't pick. Music, maps, messages, your notes: whatever the work needs keeps working. Change the list any time between sessions.
Your list stays on your iPhone
Blocking runs through Apple's Screen Time. Which apps you picked never leaves your iPhone, and there's no account to create. Read the Privacy Policy for the whole picture.
Breaks keep the block
A session of 30 minutes or more can carry breaks: focus in blocks of 20, 25 or 30 minutes, with 3, 5 or 10 minutes off between them. Your apps stay closed through the break, and the next block waits until you're ready.
If you stop early
End a session whenever you need to. The block lifts, and every minute you'd already focused counts.
Why a timer with somewhere to go
A blocker takes things away. Quiet Orbit also gives the time somewhere to go: every minute you focus flies your ship closer to the next world, Earth out to Pluto, and each session you finish turns up a finding, an object, a record or a sound from the place you reached.
What it costs
Blocking is free, at every session length, with breaks. Premium adds nine more worlds, more background sounds and trends, and blocking works the same without it. Free and Premium, side by side.
Start in a minute
- Install Quiet Orbit from the App Store. It's free, for iPhone on iOS 18 or later.
- Allow Screen Time access when it asks, and pick the apps that stay closed.
- Choose a length, press and hold to start, and put the phone down.
Studying? The study timer page covers breaks and longer sessions.