So simple
I love how simple it is. No extra buttons, no fluff — you just open it and that's it.
mayainbrooklyn
Stop the rush.
Try Nothing.
Nothing gives you space to slow down.
Whether that’s a calmer mind, a real break, or just a moment to yourself.
Rushers, Overthinkers, ADHDers,
and the Always-Busy.
Finally not reaching for my phone first thing
To unlock my apps in the morning, all I need is 5 minutes of doing nothing. And it's so easy that I catch myself not even wanting to unlock them. I just sit there for those 5 minutes — and the phone just isn't all that necessary anymore.
dkemp84
Quiets the anthill in my head
Sometimes everything gets too loud and my thoughts run around like ants. So I set a timer for 3 minutes and just look around the whole time. It's some kind of magic, but it works — I feel lighter.
priya_nyc
My screen time dropped by half
Honestly, I don't know how it works, but because I take these little pauses during the day, I'm just not as pulled toward my phone anymore. Like I broke some kind of cycle.
tomverlaine
Hit pause in the middle of a fight
I had a big fight with my boyfriend recently, we were yelling at each other. Instead of stewing in all that anger, I took a 10-minute pause and just switched off. I came back like a different person.
lena_m
My productivity actually went up
My whole day used to be one nonstop sprint. Now I can stop, clear my head for a second, and get back to work thinking straight.
marcoslz
I started noticing life around me again
I was sitting on my balcony and noticed how beautiful the evening light was. Out of nowhere, I just wanted to go buy some flowers for it.
sofiawrites
Thank you for Nothing
Sometimes I get stuck in my own head and just can't crack a problem. I set a timer for 10 minutes, and when I come back, the thing I'd been banging my head against for three hours suddenly clicks.
doylechris
Nothing is like a shower
I open nothing when I want to freshen up and check out of everything for a bit. Afterward I feel like I just stepped out of the shower.
hannahp_
I use Nothing when anxiety hits
When things get hard and I feel the anxiety creeping in, I open nothing and just look around, try to put everything on pause. By the time I come back, it's not nearly as strong.
jord.makes
Like a day nap, without the sleep
I love a good day nap, but I don't always have time for one or manage to fall asleep. nothing gives me the same feeling: a few minutes and I'm reset, like after a short nap. Except I don't have to sleep.
kateb_studio
So simple
I love how simple it is. No extra buttons, no fluff — you just open it and that's it.
mayainbrooklyn
Finally not reaching for my phone first thing
To unlock my apps in the morning, all I need is 5 minutes of doing nothing. And it's so easy that I catch myself not even wanting to unlock them. I just sit there for those 5 minutes — and the phone just isn't all that necessary anymore.
dkemp84
Quiets the anthill in my head
Sometimes everything gets too loud and my thoughts run around like ants. So I set a timer for 3 minutes and just look around the whole time. It's some kind of magic, but it works — I feel lighter.
priya_nyc
My screen time dropped by half
Honestly, I don't know how it works, but because I take these little pauses during the day, I'm just not as pulled toward my phone anymore. Like I broke some kind of cycle.
tomverlaine
Hit pause in the middle of a fight
I had a big fight with my boyfriend recently, we were yelling at each other. Instead of stewing in all that anger, I took a 10-minute pause and just switched off. I came back like a different person.
lena_m
My productivity actually went up
My whole day used to be one nonstop sprint. Now I can stop, clear my head for a second, and get back to work thinking straight.
marcoslz
I started noticing life around me again
I was sitting on my balcony and noticed how beautiful the evening light was. Out of nowhere, I just wanted to go buy some flowers for it.
sofiawrites
Thank you for Nothing
Sometimes I get stuck in my own head and just can't crack a problem. I set a timer for 10 minutes, and when I come back, the thing I'd been banging my head against for three hours suddenly clicks.
doylechris
Nothing is like a shower
I open nothing when I want to freshen up and check out of everything for a bit. Afterward I feel like I just stepped out of the shower.
hannahp_
I use Nothing when anxiety hits
When things get hard and I feel the anxiety creeping in, I open nothing and just look around, try to put everything on pause. By the time I come back, it's not nearly as strong.
jord.makes
Like a day nap, without the sleep
I love a good day nap, but I don't always have time for one or manage to fall asleep. nothing gives me the same feeling: a few minutes and I'm reset, like after a short nap. Except I don't have to sleep.
kateb_studio
Results you feel Right Away.
10min
phone down, cortisol drops.
34%
sharper after a short rest.
90sec
for a stress wave to pass.
40%
more creative after a pause.
Cornell University·NASA·UC Santa Barbara
Feel the life you’re living.
resting your mind.
When Nothing
changed The World.
J.K. Rowling
In the summer of 1990, Joanne Rowling boarded a train from Manchester to London — and then it stopped. Four hours, stuck on the tracks, with no pen in her bag and absolutely nothing to do. So she did the only thing left to her: she looked out the window and let her mind drift.
Somewhere in that empty stretch of time, a skinny, black-haired boy who didn’t yet know he was a wizard simply walked into her head — fully formed, along with the trains, the school, and the whole hidden world around him. She had no way to write any of it down, so for four hours she just sat with it, turning it over, terrified she’d forget. She didn’t. Harry Potter was born in those four hours she had nothing else to do.
Start with
one minute.
Lock the apps until you do nothing.
Plan your blocks.
Place your phone face down to start.
A space where you can finally be here. For real.
Light or dark.
End with a feeling.
A journey,
not a streak.
Start with
One Minute.
Even one minute a day can change your life.
Free to download
Questions
The short answers.
Nothing is an iPhone app for doing nothing. You set a quiet timer — a minute is enough — put the phone face-down, and rest. No feed, no narrator, no streak. That's the whole thing.
Yes, to start. The do-nothing timer and the mood check-in after each session are free. App blocking and the journey calendar are optional paid extras — there's no subscription required to use the core.
Open the app, set the time, and put your phone face-down. The session runs while the phone is down; flip it back and it pauses. When the minute's up, you come back to your day.
No technique, no guru, no guided audio. Doing nothing is simpler than meditation — one rule: don't pick the phone up until the time's up. Many people keep it daily when meditation never stuck.
Optionally. The paid layer locks the apps you keep falling into and unlocks them after you do a minute of nothing — so the block comes with a built-in rest, not just a wall.
Now. Nothing is live on the App Store for iPhone — you can download it today.