It's built on Apple's Screen Time
Hima doesn't invent its own blocking. It uses the frameworks Apple built for exactly this—which is why it can place a pause without seeing inside your apps.
How it works
A pause, not a lock.
Hima sits between your thumb and the app. Not to stop you—to give you the half-second you'd otherwise skip. Below: the mechanism, everything Premium adds, and the full list of what reaches our servers.
Step 01
You choose the apps.
Hima asks iOS to show you Apple's own app picker. You tick the apps that pull you in. Hima never sees a list of what's on your phone—more on that below.
Step 02
The app opens into a pause instead.
Your thumb does what it always does. But the feed isn't there yet. A breathing screen is—long enough to notice that you never actually decided to open anything.
Most people leave at this point. Not because they were blocked, but because the reflex ran out of road.
Step 03
Or you go in—on purpose, for a set time.
Five minutes. Twenty. An hour. You pick before you enter, while you still have an opinion about it. When the time is up, the pause comes back. Five minutes means five minutes.
Being straight with you
What this is, and what it isn't.
It's not “delete the app”
Deleting works until the evening you reinstall. Hima leaves your apps where they are and changes the moment before you open them.
It's not willpower
Willpower shows up late and inconsistently. A pause shows up every single time, at exactly the right second.
Features
One app was never really the problem.
Premium covers every app that pulls at you, the hours you want protected, and a boundary that holds on its own. It doesn't unlock “more blocking”, and it never takes anything away from the free version later—the free pause stays free.
Unlimited paused apps
Instagram was never the only one. Add every app that opens itself, and the pause covers all of them.
Focus sessions
Your selected apps go unavailable for a set period. Work starts, distractions stop—one tap, no negotiation with yourself halfway through.
Quiet hours
Recurring schedules that protect sleep, work, family time, or anything else that keeps losing to a feed. Set once, then forget it.
Daily limits
A realistic boundary for each app.
Pause customization
Make the pause longer, shorter, or quieter—tuned to how much distance you actually need from the impulse.
In the app
Two taps, and the evening is yours.
A Focus session you start when work begins, and a rule that repeats every night without you having to remember it.
Free, for as long as you like
Everything you need to find out whether this works for you.
The pause, on one app
Pick the one that costs you the most. Hima puts a decision in front of it, every time.
Breathing practices
Several named practices—coherent breathing, box breathing, the physiological sigh and others—each with its own sound.
A thought each day
One short text about attention, once a day. Not a feed—there's nothing to scroll here either.
Reminders
Set your own times and days. Ordinary notifications, nothing more.
Your data
What Hima can and can't see.
Hima asks for Screen Time access—one of the most sensitive permissions on iOS. You're right to think about it before you tap Allow. So here's the whole picture, including the part most apps leave out.
The apps you select
iOS hands Hima opaque tokens, not app names. Hima literally cannot read which apps you picked—that's Apple's architecture, not our promise.
Your Screen Time data
Processed on device by Apple's framework. It is never sent to our servers, never used for advertising, never sold.
Your settings and activity
Limits, schedules, sessions. Stored locally, and we can't see any of them. Our server learns only that something happened—the list below is all of it—never what it was.
Anything inside other apps
Not your messages, not your feed, not what you type. Hima has no way to see it.
What does reach our servers
The short list, in full. Nothing here is omitted to make the list look better.
- →A random identifier that isn't linked to your name, email or phone, and that you can delete. Generated on first launch, stored in your device's Keychain. It's what keeps your subscription attached to your device. We can't turn it into a name or an address, because we never had one.
- →Product interaction events. Which screens and features get used—never the names or contents of the apps you limit.
- →Purchase and subscription status. Plan, expiry, app version. Payment itself is handled by Apple; we never see your card.
- →A push identifier—only if you turn notifications on. Shared with our notification provider so reminders you asked for can arrive.
- →A counter against your IP address, to stop abuse. So nobody can script thousands of registrations or flood the support form. It sits in a table of its own, isn't joined to your identifier, and tells us nothing about what you do in the app.
- →Whatever you send us through the support form. Your message, an email address so we can reply, and a screenshot if you attach one. It goes to our mailbox as an email and is never written to our database.
No name. No sign-in. No profile. An email address appears in exactly one place—when you write to support yourself, and only because we'd otherwise have no way to answer.
Open on purpose.