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The Pagewood app is a calm focus timer that blocks distracting apps while you study and grows a tree on your journal page for every minute you stay. Finish, and it's pressed into your field journal as a numbered specimen.
Coming to Google Play as Focus & Study Timer: Pagewood
One session, start to finish
Pick 50 minutes on the growth ruler, write what you'll work on and press Plant. A seed goes into today's page.
Ten minutes in, your phone buzzes. You open Instagram out of habit.
In Strict mode Pagewood covers the app with a resting page: your time left, your next stage, one tap back. Nothing to fight.
The timer ends and your tree is grown. It's pressed into your field journal as a numbered specimen, with your minutes counted.
Strict mode · on by default
Most focus apps ask you to resist your phone. Pagewood takes the phone's tricks off the table. In Strict mode, any app you haven't allowed is covered by a resting page that shows your time left, your next growth stage and what you'd earn by staying.
Inside the app
Fig. 1 · Plant
Pick a length on the growth ruler, write an intention ("Chemistry, chapter 4 problems") and press Plant. Timer, count-up and Pomodoro (4 × 25 with breaks). Save favourite setups as rituals; undo a start in the first 10 seconds.
Fig. 2 · Woodland
Every session stands in your woodland in the order you grew it. Day, week, month and all-time views show where your time went by tag, plus a focus chart and your most focused time of day. See the focus journal.
Fig. 3 · Nursery
You earn 1 seed for every focused minute and trade them in the Nursery for new species and lands. Seeds can't be bought: no gems, boosts, ads or subscriptions, and every seed is listed in a ledger you can read.
A week in the woodland
Short sessions grow sprouts, long ones grow old-growth trees. Your woodland shows the week you actually had, one tree per session, in the order you grew them.
A focus app should help you, not scold you, and it has no business knowing more about you than your study time. Pagewood works fully in airplane mode with no account. If you choose to sign in, your journal syncs between your devices and is readable only by you.
Pagewood started as a study tool. Long, uninterrupted sessions matter more than any app feature, and the phone is the biggest thief of that time. Pagewood's job is to make the next 50 minutes easy to protect, and to show you, page by page, how much you've put in.
Not on Android, or want to try the idea first? The free online study timer grows the same trees in your browser, with Pomodoro and count-up modes.
Pagewood is new, and other focus apps are bigger. Here's an honest look at what each does well and where Pagewood is different.
Pagewood is a focus timer for Android. You pick how long you want to study, and a tree grows on your journal page while you do. In Strict mode it covers distracting apps with a calm "can wait" page until your session ends.
Yes, on Android. Once you grant Usage access and Display over other apps, any app that isn't on your allowed list is covered during a Strict session. Calls, texts, your home screen and the apps you allow keep working.
Yes. Pagewood is free during early access, with no ads and no in-app purchases. A one-time unlock is planned for later; there will never be a subscription or ads.
Yes. Pagewood works fully in airplane mode and needs no account. An optional account only syncs your journal between devices, and you can delete it in the app.
Not yet. Pagewood is Android-only for now. Meanwhile, the free online study timer works in any browser, including on iPhone.
No. During a Strict session the app checks which app is in front, on your phone and in memory only. Nothing about your other apps is stored or sent anywhere.
Focus & Study Timer: Pagewood · Android
Block distracting apps, grow a tree for every session and keep a field journal of your study. Works offline, no ads, no tracking.
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