Mado

Break Free from Doomscrolling with Intentional Phone Use

Mado is a screen time management app for iOS that helps you reclaim hours lost to mindless scrolling. Instead of blocking apps outright or relying on easily-ignored limits, Mado places a calm, deliberate pause between you and the apps that pull you in. Every time you open a guarded app like Instagram, TikTok, or X, Mado presents two honest choices: close it and move on, or use it for exactly 15 minutes from your daily session budget. The cap is real—no override button, no talking your way past it.

Choose Your Rhythm and Reclaim Your Time

Mado offers three rhythms to match your lifestyle:

• Shizuku (Quiet Stillness): Three 15-minute sessions per day—a gentle start while the habit takes hold
• Nagare (Natural Flow): Two sessions per day—enough to check in without disappearing
• Izumi (Open Spring): One session per day—for the deepest cut, a single window then the day is yours

Each rhythm gives you a fixed number of 15-minute sessions that reset at midnight. Use them all and the app stays paused until tomorrow. It's simple, honest, and impossible to negotiate with in the moment.

Deep Focus and Flexible Scheduling

Need uninterrupted concentration right now? Start a Deep Focus session directly from the home screen—choose anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours, and your apps stay shut for the entire window. Deep Focus sits apart from your daily sessions, so deep work never spends your rhythm. Enable the lock and you can't end it early, even if you try.

With Toki scheduling, decide when the pause is active: preset weekday work hours, nightly wind-down from 9pm to 6am, or your own custom days and times (including overnight windows). Keep it always on or only during the hours you choose.

Insights, Milestones, and a Growing Garden

Mado shows you which apps call loudest and how much time you've reclaimed—this week, this month, and extrapolated across the year. Track quiet milestones with seven calligraphic seals earned one breath at a time, from First Pause to The Path. Watch a small tree grow in your personal garden: every day you keep your rhythm, it advances another stage—seed to sprout to sapling to full flower. Slip back and it waits patiently, no shame, no reset.

Customize your experience with 18 hand-painted icons: the signature Fuji, kanji brushwork, quiet landscapes, and sumi-e art. All your data—app selections, sessions, streaks—stays on your device. Mado collects almost nothing and never sees your screen-time data.

Why Mado Works Where Screen Time Doesn't

Apple's Screen Time offers an "Ignore Limit for Today" button that's easy to tap without thinking. Mado replaces that with fixed 15-minute sessions and a daily cap you can't extend. The real cap is what makes it work. Most people know by day three whether the pause has earned its place.

Mado isn't a blocker that punishes you or a tracker that shames you. It's a single, deliberate pause—long enough to ask whether this is the moment you wanted. A quiet line you set once, while you're calm, that the feed can't talk you out of later.