Flip Focus: Deep Work Timer

Flip your phone face down. The timer starts. Lift it, and the timer stops.

Flip Focus is a deep work timer for people who are tired of promising themselves they'll concentrate. There is no honour system here and no button to press when you get distracted. The session is physically bound to your phone: face down on the desk, you are working. In your hand, you are not.

WHY THIS ONE HOLDS UP

Every other focus timer runs happily in your pocket while you scroll something else. This one cannot. Flip Focus reads your phone's motion sensors and only accumulates time while the phone is actually face down. You cannot quietly cheat a session, which is precisely why the hours in your history mean something.

START IN ONE MOVE

Choose a session and flip. That is the entire ritual. No setup to work through every time you sit down, no timer to remember to start, no excuse to open the phone "just to begin".

BLOCK EVERY DISTRACTING APP

While a session runs, Flip Focus watches what opens. The moment a distracting app comes to the front it is closed and replaced with your countdown. It works as an allowlist rather than a blocklist: everything is blocked except what you deliberately permit, so a newly installed app cannot slip through a gap you forgot to close.

AUTO-PAUSE KEEPS YOU HONEST

Pick the phone up mid-session and the timer pauses itself and tells you to put it back down. Your streak is not broken by the pause; it is broken by pretending the pause never happened. Flip Focus simply refuses to pretend.

QUITTING TAKES A MOMENT

Ending a session early is still possible, it just isn't two taps any more. You copy out a short passage that makes the case for staying, then hold a button for a few seconds. Neither step is hard, and the way out is always there when you genuinely need it. It simply stops being something you can do without thinking. Most urges to quit don't survive the minute it takes.

SESSIONS THAT MATCH REAL WORK

Start from ready-made blocks for deep work, quick focus, study and creative work, or build your own with the length, name and colour that suit how you actually work. Long, uninterrupted blocks for hard problems. Short ones for clearing the deck.

SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT

After every session, mark how it went. Your dashboard tracks total sessions, total focused time and your success rate, with your recent sessions and outcomes laid out plainly. Because the timer cannot be gamed, the trend line is the real one.

WHO IT IS FOR

Engineers, writers, designers, founders, analysts, researchers, students — anyone whose output depends on long stretches of uninterrupted attention, and whose phone is the single largest threat to getting them.

Flip the phone. Do the work.

Other important permissions required by the app:

Accessibility Service (BIND_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICE): Flip Focus uses Android Accessibility Service to detect when a user opens an app that they have chosen to block during an active focus session. The service is used exclusively to enforce app blocking and help users stay focused. No accessibility data is collected, stored, transmitted, or shared. This permission is only active when the user explicitly enables FlipFocus in the device's Accessibility settings. The app does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data accessed through this service.

Usage Access (PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS): Flip Focus uses Usage Access permission to identify which apps are currently running and to enforce focus sessions configured by the user.

Display Over Other Apps (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW): Flip Focus uses this permission to display blocking screens and focus reminders when a blocked app is opened during an active focus session.

Privacy Policy: https://flipfocus.cosmosmindlabs.com/privacy-policy

Terms of Service: https://flipfocus.cosmosmindlabs.com/terms-of-service