Beta in Q3 · Launching Q4 · iOS first

Put it down.
Stay close.

An app for leaving your phone alone, by yourself or with one other person. Not a dashboard, not a score. A clearing that keeps the time you gave it.

Your clearing, right now
01 · How it works

Three things carry the whole product.

Alone

A session is a walk.

Drag the stone up the trail and the number moves with it. Near the bottom is ten minutes, the top of the visible path is four hours. Distance, not a dial.

Together

One lamp each.

Your person stands further up the same path. You get exactly one bit about them: their lamp is lit, or it is not. No streaks, no leaderboard, nothing to answer for.

Open time

Ten quiet minutes buy one.

The currency is time. Finish a session and you earn minutes you can spend opening something later. Nothing to collect, nothing to buy with money.

38 min open
02 · The product

The trail is the timer.

Every screen is the same clearing at a different moment. One number, one action, and no chrome while a session runs.

16:20▮▮▮
Blotti 38 min open
Twelve things
growing here.
Clear all week.
45 min
Put it down →
Clearing
Together
You
The clearing
21:58▮▮▮
minutes
left
18
With Mara · she is at the cairn
←End early
A session, together
17:05▮▮▮
That time
was yours.
45 minutes · no interruptions
+4min
open time, yours to spend
13
things growing here — the tall one is today's
Back to the clearing →
Afterwards
03 · The promise

Blotti never scolds you.

There is no shame state in this app. Leaving a session early makes it rain, and the rain waters the clearing — nothing you planted disappears. You can always end your own session, immediately, without anyone's permission.

No permission

Blotti never asks for Screen Time access, so there is no report it could give you about yourself.

One bit

All your person can see is whether your lamp is lit. Not when you opened the app, not whether you left early.

No points

Nothing to collect and nothing to keep up. One finished session plants one thing in the clearing.

04 · Weather

The clearing has weather instead of statistics.

Four states, all of them worked out from what the app already knows. None of them is a number about you.

Clear
You put it down today.
Fog
A few days have passed.
Rain
You left early. It waters.
Night
After eight, and all session.
05 · Questions

Before you ask.

When can I use it?

Beta in Q3, launch in Q4. iOS first. Everyone on this list gets the beta invite before the store listing goes up.

Does Blotti watch what I do on my phone?

No. There is no Screen Time permission, so there is no usage data to read. Blotti knows how long you asked for and whether you stayed. That is all it has.

What if I need my phone mid-session?

You end the session, immediately, without asking anyone. There is also open time: minutes you earned from quiet sessions, spent to open something for five, ten or fifteen minutes.

Do we both pay?

One subscription per pair. Whoever hangs the second lamp pays for both; the invited side never sees a price. Alone is free.