Find your north.

Norte is a screen time and habit app for iPhone. It blocks the apps that steal your attention, interrupts doomscrolling with a calm pause screen, and tracks the habits you are building on a year-long map. The name is Portuguese and Spanish for “north” — the direction that orients you.

Norte uses Apple’s Screen Time technology — the same system-level framework behind parental controls. You choose apps or whole categories, and iOS itself enforces the block. When you try to open a blocked app, you see Norte’s pause screen instead of the feed.

Both, on purpose. Blocking gives you your hours back; habits give those hours somewhere to go. The Focus tab blocks distractions, while Today and Year track what you build with the time you reclaim.

That is what it is built for. Block social apps on a schedule — no tiktok after 9, no feeds before noon — and let the pause screen interrupt the reflex. Most of the time, one breath is enough to close the app and go back to your life.

Yes. You can override a block from inside Norte. The goal is not to lock you out of your own phone — it is to put one honest pause between impulse and feed, so opening becomes a decision instead of a reflex.

No. Apple’s Screen Time framework enforces blocks on the device itself, and the system never tells Norte what you browse, type, or watch. Norte cannot read your messages, your feeds, or your history.

As little as possible. Your habits and blocking rules live on your device. There are no ads and no selling of data — Norte’s only customer is you. The privacy policy spells out the exact local-versus-cloud split.

Built-in limits are one tap away from being ignored — “Ignore Limit” and the feed is back. Norte makes the pause real, adds rules and schedules that fit your life, and connects the time you reclaim to the habits you are building with it.

Quiet. One flame for your current run, a record for your best, and nothing else. No guilt screens when it breaks and no streak freezes to buy. Norte is the opposite of a streak app: the goal is the year, not the number.

Every day is a cell; the darker the cell, the more habits you kept. Over months it becomes a picture of your year — when you are strongest, where you slipped, what is changing. Progress you can see at a glance, without a single chart to configure.

Norte is free to download on the App Store, and the core ritual — blocking and habit tracking — works from day one. Current pricing, if any features require it, is always shown on the App Store listing.

iPhone today, in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Android is climbing — it is on the roadmap. If you want to hear when it arrives, the App Store listing and this site will say so first.

Open the Focus tab, create a rule, and pick the apps — or whole categories — you want behind the wall. Block on a schedule (weeknights), for a session (deep work), or until you decide otherwise.

Yes. Blocks are enforced by iOS on the device and habits are checked locally, so airplane mode does not break the ritual. Living more of your life offline is rather the point.

From inside the app — settings, delete data, done. No email to support, no waiting period, no dark patterns on the way out. The privacy policy documents exactly what disappears.

A small independent team that got tired of losing its own evenings to the feed. No growth team, no engagement dashboards — an app built to be closed, made by people who wanted it to exist.