1. Choose a place
Find a location on the map and adjust the radius to fit your office, campus, gym, or home.
Location-based app blocking for iPhone
Block apps by location.
Block distracting apps and websites at work, school, or home. Choose your places once. Focus Fence turns on your rules when you arrive.
Human support from Dean — read the story
Your office can be for work. Your gym can be for training. Set a boundary around a place, and keep the distractions outside it.
Your places
Your rules
Automatic blocking
Location-based blocking
Focus starts when you arrive.
Create a boundary around work, school, the gym, or home. Your blocking rules turn on when you enter and stop applying when you leave. Add a schedule if you only need them during certain hours.
How it works
Set it and forget it.
2. Choose what to block
Select distracting apps and websites, or allow only the essentials while that fence is active.
3. Let it turn on for you
Your location activates the rule. Add a schedule for work hours, study time, or your evening routine.
Grant Screen Time and location access during setup. Need a quick exception? Emergency Unblock gives you temporary access.
Also included: a minimalist launcher
Keep your essentials close.
Blocking distractions is only part of it. A simple launcher and Home Screen widgets keep the apps you do want to use one tap away.
Clean shortcut lists
Put Messages, Phone, Maps, Calendar, music, and the apps you choose in one calm place.
Widget friendly
Launch the shortcuts you use most from your widget without opening a messy home screen.
Built for repeat use
The interface stays sparse, legible, and fast so it remains useful after the first week.
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From the founder
hey, it’s Dean.
the guy who made focus fence.
i built this app because my phone had quietly become the boss of my day. one tap on a notification and twenty minutes were gone — and that happened dozens of times a day.
i tried going full dumb-phone, and i tried blockers that lock everything down. both felt like punishment. what i wanted was something calmer: block distractions where i want to focus, while keeping the apps i actually need available.
so i built focus fence for myself. location rules block the distracting stuff automatically when i walk into the places where i want to be present — class, the gym, home. the launcher widget also keeps my essentials one tap away.
it worked well enough that friends wanted it too, so i polished it up and put it on the app store.
i still read every email myself. if something is confusing, broken, or you have an idea, write to hello@getfocusphone.com — you’ll get a reply from an actual human (me).
— Dean
Get the app
Put a fence around distractions.
Download Focus Fence and choose your first location. Make room for what you came there to do.