Studying alone is the hard part, not the timer. Kaizen puts other people in the room: join a Focus Room and work alongside others as avatars with live timers, no camera or microphone. Run Pomodoro or stopwatch sessions, block distracting apps on iPhone, iPad and Android while you focus or on a schedule, and keep habits, tasks and focus stats in the same app instead of three separate ones. Free with no ads, on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and the web.

Hey everyone! I'm Max, a developer from the Netherlands.

I run a Discord study community with tens of thousands of students. It started out as the Discord of a study YouTube channel. I began helping out there in 2022, built a bot for it in 2023 that tracked everyone's study time, and when the founders moved on in 2025 they handed the whole community over to me. What I kept noticing all that time is that people just focus a lot better when someone else is there.

So I built Kaizen around that, the app the community kept asking for. You join a Focus Room and everyone shows up as an avatar with a live timer, no camera or mic needed. It also has Pomodoro and stopwatch modes, an app blocker on mobile, habits and a to-do list, so you don't need three separate apps. I built it on my own from one codebase and it runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and in the browser, so you can try it right away without installing anything.

So far people have run over 100,000 timer sessions and logged over 40,000 hours of focus in it, which still feels a bit unreal to me.

It's free with no ads, and there's Premium if you want more.

I'm curious, would you sit in a room with strangers or only with friends? Any other feedback is welcome too.

strangers for sure, with friends id end up chatting the whole time and get nothing done

@igorblink haha same, with friends I'd just end up talking the whole time. that's kinda why a room is only avatars with a timer, no camera or mic. just saw TabAI btw, a focus mode that only blocks stuff when it breaks your current goal is smart. Kaizen just blocks the apps you pick for the whole session, do people actually prefer the smarter way?