Official listing

Zenmo

Choose a thoughtful speed bump before the apps and sites that pull you in.

Chosen friction for focus

Zenmo is a self-control app for adults who want more space between impulse and action. Choose the apps and websites that pull you in. When you open one, Zenmo presents a short on-device learning exercise before access. The gate is intentionally bypassable: it is a speed bump you choose, not a lock imposed on you.

  • Learn uses budgets and gates and can turn verified WaniKani progress into capped unlock minutes.
  • Deep Work creates focus schedules, Pomodoro rhythms, and optional allowlist friction.
  • Detox sets a fixed, time-boxed commitment for selected apps or sites.
  • Budgets keep hourly, daily, or weekly use visible.
  • Relief valves include budgeted emergency passes and a separate 15-minute failsafe.
  • Circle adds optional supervisors, personal consequences, commitments, and Karma without payments.
  • Languages include English, Uzbek, Russian, and Korean in the app and on this website.

Your complete app inventory, raw event history, gate answers, and website matches stay on your device. If you connect a supervisor, separate controls let you approve specific aggregate categories or a selected app summary for that relationship. Zenmo is not parental control, employee monitoring, surveillance, or device administration.

Release previews

Core experience

Store submission uses real, locale-matched final-release captures. These public illustrations show the same flows without private user data.

Home

See today clearly

Today100 Karma
72%budget left
Protection Active
Deep Work Start
Gate

A brief pause

One small pause1 of 3
Which one is a prime number?
21232527
Continue intentionally
Detox

Keep a promise

DetoxFixed block
02:00hours
Starts Now
Consequence Personal
Make this commitment