The threshold
A breath-long pause sits between reaching for a distracting app and opening it. Just enough room to choose on purpose.
Focus · Screen-time · On-device
A quiet place
A quiet place
you tend.
A focus app built on a different idea. Not blocking harder, not piling on friction — just widening the small gap between reaching for your phone and deciding to. A second or two, every time, until the choosing becomes the habit.
The threshold moment
The half-second that
The half-second that
changes everything.
The whole category fights your willpower or buries you in friction. Grove does something smaller and steadier — it widens the gap between the reflex and the choice.
Focus profiles
Deep Work, Evenings, Sleep — set up the rules while you are calm, so the calm version of you protects the rest.
Commitment modes
Gentle, Committed, Locked. Easy to plan when you're steady, deliberately hard to unwind when you're not.
Honest insights
How many times you stepped away this week. No red, no shaming, no comparison to anyone — and all of it stays on your device.
Calm over clever
No dark patterns, no manufactured urgency, no guilt. The tone is steady and adult — it never scolds, and never celebrates too hard.
Native to the bone
Widgets, Live Activities, App Intents, considered haptics. If Apple ships a way to do something well, Grove uses it.
How it works
Three steps.
Three steps.
Then mostly silence.
01
Build a focus profile
Choose the apps that pull you under and the moments that matter — Deep Work, Evenings, Sleep. Set it once, calmly.
02
Meet the threshold
When you reach for a guarded app, Grove opens a brief, quiet pause — then hands the choice back to you.
03
Watch the gap widen
Over days, the pause does its quiet work. The reaching slows, the choosing becomes the habit, and the app fades into the background.
What I believe
Discernment,
Discernment,
not suppression.
A product is judged by its single best interaction, not its feature list. For Grove that is the threshold moment — and everything else is in service of it. Commitments are simple to set when you're calm and deliberately resistant to unwind when you're not. That's the honest answer to "it's too easy to bypass."
Tech stack
Built calm, built native.
Next.js · TypeScript (web)
Swift · SwiftUI
App Intents
Widgets · Live Activities
Screen Time API
On-device only