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Your eyes get tired long before your focus does. Restla makes you look away every 20 minutes.
Restla is a focus timer for iPhone. Start a session of 20, 40, 60 or 90 minutes; a small tortoise sets off beside the clock and carries one stone for every 20 minutes you work. Every 20 minutes Restla pauses, you look far away for 20 seconds, tap “I looked away”, and the session goes on. No app blocking, no account, works offline, free. Pro is a one-time $1.99.
A focus timer that does not block or shame
Most focus apps keep you staring at a screen for hours and call it productivity. Restla does the opposite: it puts the eye break inside the session. When a 20-minute block ends the screen goes dark and the tortoise stretches its neck to look far away; you look at something about 20 feet off. After 20 seconds you tap “I looked away”, the stone is placed, and work continues.
Nothing happens when you leave. Restla does not lock your apps or your phone. Step out to answer a message and the tortoise tucks into its shell while the clock keeps running. When you return you see one line: “Away 14 min. One stone placed.” Nothing dies, nothing gets sad, no streak is lost. Stop early and any session past 10 minutes still counts.
Nothing to manage. There is no task list or goal to enter; pick a length and press Start. Pause for a meeting for 30, 60 or 90 minutes and it resumes where it left off.
How it works
- Pick a length and start. 20, 40, 60, 90 minutes or “No end”. The tortoise sets off; it takes one step a minute and carries a stone every 20 minutes.
- Look away when the block ends. On the dark break screen a single red hand sweeps 20 seconds while the tortoise looks into the distance. Confirming with “I looked away” adds 5 minutes of credit to the stone ladder.
- A cairn remains. When the session ends the stones stand as a small pile on the Shore. One cairn per session; weekly minutes, breaks and your day streak on the same screen.
The Shore: a collection tied to minutes, not luck
There are 36 stone types and they open in a fixed order with your lifetime focus minutes. Which stone comes when is written down, not decided by draws or daily quests. The Shore shows the row of your cairns, the stone ladder and the last seven days. A day streak only ends after two empty days; one empty day does not set you back, and nobody tells you that you lost.
Pro: one payment, no subscription
Pro is a one-time $1.99. It removes the ad banner, opens three shell colours and twelve quarry stones for the tortoise, and keeps a year of sessions instead of 90 days. The tortoise, the 36 stones, the Shore, the streak, every length and every mode are free for everyone; the banner appears only on the idle home screen, and there are no ads during a session or a break.
Questions
Does Restla block apps?
No. Restla does not lock your apps or your phone, and it never asks for Screen Time access. If you leave during a session the clock keeps running; when you come back you see in one line how long you were away and how many stones were placed meanwhile. The streak survives too: a day streak only ends after two empty days.
Is the 20-20-20 rule proven?
The American Optometric Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommend it. Research is still thin: the most thorough study so far (Talens-Estarelles et al., Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, 2023; 29 computer users) found that eye strain and dry-eye symptoms dropped while people received reminders and came back a week after the reminders stopped. So it appears to help as long as you do it; nobody has shown it prevents anything. Restla is a reminder, not a treatment.
What are the stones and the Shore?
For every 20-minute block you work, the tortoise carries one stone; when the session ends the stones stand as a small cairn on the Shore. There are 36 stone types and they open in a fixed order with your lifetime focus minutes; no luck involved, the thresholds are written down. Every confirmed eye break adds 5 minutes of credit to that ladder. Pro opens 12 more quarry stones.
How much is Pro and what does it do?
A one-time $1.99, no subscription; your store shows it in your local currency. If you never buy it, the banner stays and you miss the three shell colours and twelve quarry stones; everything else is the same: the tortoise, the 36 stones, the Shore, the streak, every length and every mode are free, and history is kept for 90 days.
What if I only want the eye breaks?
Choose “No end” as the session length: Restla then runs as the classic 20-20-20 timer until you stop it, 20 seconds every 20 minutes. Pomodoro mode (25-minute focus, short breaks) and pausing for a meeting for 30, 60 or 90 minutes are still there.
Does Restla work offline?
Yes. It needs no sign-up and sends nothing to a server; your sessions, stones and settings stay on your phone. The ad banner in the free version appears only on the idle home screen and needs a connection to load; nothing else does.
Is there an Android version?
The Android version of Restla is in testing on Google Play and will follow the iPhone release. Write to contact@erimworks.com if you want to hear when it is out.
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Restla is a timer and a reminder, not medical advice. If your eyes hurt, see an eye care professional.
Bu sayfayı Türkçe oku · Restla, iPhone için kaplumbağalı bir odak sayacıdır: sen çalışırken yürür, her 20 dakikada bir 20 saniyelik göz molası verdirir. Engelleme yok, hesap yok, çevrimdışı; Pro tek seferlik bir satın alma.