Ubrutt
Unbroken.
Plan your day. Give work blocks a depth, then rate how they went. Ubrutt shows the plan against what happened.
Put work, rest and distraction into your day. Blocks count as time passes. Afterwards, rate the work from one to five — or mark it “Did not happen”. The pause before your chosen apps helps you keep your attention inside work blocks.
For iPhone. Ubrutt 1.3 is free and needs no account.
The plan meets the day
Your work needs no start button to count. Scheduled blocks count as time passes. Your rating afterwards determines how deep the work was.
Week shows focus time against your own goal, planned depth against actual depth, and breaks inside blocks you planned as deep work. No streak to lose and no ranking.
What the app does
Plan the day
A timeline from 06:00 to midnight, with the night folded into a row you can open. Add work, rest and distraction blocks. Recurring blocks help with days that repeat.
Depth before and after
Give a work block a planned depth from one to five. Rate it once it ends. Until you rate it, planned depth is used. Depth four and five count as Focus; one to three as Unfocused. “Did not happen” counts nothing.
The pause during work
Apps you set up in Shortcuts get a pause during work blocks that are not marked “Did not happen”, including outside your usual rule windows. You can always open anyway. An opening inside the block is a break; turning back at the pause is shown separately.
End of day
Rate the day’s ended work blocks on one screen. Fill gaps with Focus, Unfocused, Distraction or Rest, then plan tomorrow.
Week and the weekly letter
See focus time, blocks that became deep work, and breaks in work planned as deep. The weekly letter draws lessons from your own week, without points, badges or leaderboards.
The open log
Shortcuts can record openings and closings of the apps you chose. The log shows when you opened, whether you turned back, and how long the visit lasted when a closing was recorded. The data stays on your phone and can be exported as JSON.
What Ubrutt can know
The plan counts time. The rating is yours. App openings are recorded only when the automations you set up actually run.
You set up Shortcuts
Ubrutt cannot create personal automations for you. The app walks you through “Need a pause?” → “If” → “Open app: Ubrutt”. A separate closing automation measures the visit’s length.
Automations have limits
From the App Switcher, Spotlight and some deep links, iOS may not run the automation. Test the setup on your phone. Strict mode offers a separate Home Screen shortcut that goes through the pause.
You can always open anyway
Ubrutt does not lock apps. You can continue past the pause and turn automations off. Breaks show only openings Ubrutt recorded, not all phone use.
No total screen time
Ubrutt does not use Apple’s Screen Time API. It knows only the apps you set up, from when setup began, and does not request access to your Screen Time data.
You turn on Focus
Ubrutt cannot switch on a Focus mode for you. “Quiet during blocks” explains how to set up iOS Focus yourself.
Free in 1.3
The planner, pause, log, weekly statistics and export are free. Pro, accounts and Makker are paused in this version.
If you subscribed in an earlier version, manage that subscription separately with Apple. Updating the app does not cancel it. See the terms for cancellation and earlier purchases.
Your day stays on your phone
Blocks, planned and actual depth, the open log and ledger are stored locally. The app needs no account and contains no analytics, crash reporter or advertising SDK.
Health and calendar access are optional. Health data is read only on the phone. Calendar events become suggestions you can confirm, and “Show in calendar” can write planned blocks to an Ubrutt calendar.
If you submit feedback, its message and the technical fields shown before sending reach the server. The privacy policy, in Norwegian with an English summary, also describes account data from earlier versions.
Questions?
Write to support@ubrutt.app. A human answers. Setup and common questions are on the support page.