Grains
Screen-Free Moment Tracker

Cultivate intentional moments.

Grains is a beautiful, privacy-respecting companion designed to keep track of moments intentionally spent with no digital screens and devices. Cultivate a virtual jar of screen-free achievements, build healthy habits, and securely backup your progress.

Experience the Jar

Drop a virtual grain into the jar to see how tracking your screen-free focus sessions transforms into visual accomplishments.

Cultivate a Grain

7 Grains in Jar
235 Minutes Tracked
Dropped!

The Four Spheres

Grains organizes your screen-free time into four primary areas of human experience, helping you cultivate balance.

Mental Flow

Focus

Engage in deep, single-task mental exercises. Train your attention span away from hyper-stimulating notifications and build cognitive stamina.

Popular Activities:

  • Reading a physical book
  • Writing or Journaling
  • Listening deeply to a record
  • Studying maps or diagrams
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Tactile Creation

Hands

Build, shape, and create with your hands. Reconnect with the physical world through tactile crafts and active physical coordination.

Popular Activities:

  • Guitar practice or piano
  • Cooking or baking from scratch
  • Gardening and potting plants
  • Sketching or painting
  • Woodworking & Lego assembly
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Human Presence

Connection

Share screen-free moments with loved ones. Cultivate rich, uninterrupted presence that deepens relationships and fosters true companionship.

Popular Activities:

  • Shared family meals
  • Deep, screen-free conversations
  • Playing tabletop board games
  • Reading bedtime stories
  • Quality playtime with pets
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Inner Calm

Solitude

Rest your mind and spend time with yourself. Reframe boredom as self-reflection, settle your thoughts, and escape constant digital noise.

Popular Activities:

  • Meditating or deep breathing
  • Mindful walks in nature
  • Quiet morning coffee or tea
  • Household tidying as reflection
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Designed to Resonate

Grains isn't just another tracker. It's built from the ground up to respect your time, attention, and privacy.

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Private by Default

Your data stays on your device. Powered by high-speed local databases, Grains works entirely on-device with zero mandatory server setup or online accounts.

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Secure Cloud Sync

Optionally bind your app with standard Google Sign-In. Back up your screen-free moments securely into your own private Firebase Firestore cloud with complete peace of mind.

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Streak Persistence

Keep the flame alive. Earn consecutive day badges for recording at least one screen-free session, and review your streak history sheets inside a gorgeous UI.

Plateau & Jar Reminders

Get notified when your focus flatlines or when it's time for a scheduled jar audit. Mindfully nudge yourself back to screen-free balance.

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Beautiful Analytics

Observe your screen-free growth. Beautiful charts summarize cumulative minutes over the past 30 days, helping you track screen-free consistency.

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Break Recommendations

Stuck in screen fatigue? Choose from dynamically generated recommendations to jumpstart your hands, focus, solitude, or connection.

App Showcase

Experience Grains across platforms. Elegant native applications styled for seamless user flow.

Grains iOS App Screenshot
Grains on iOS
Grains Android App Screenshot
Grains on Android

Start Cultivating Today

Return to reality, drop digital habits, and track the meaningful hours spent away from screens. Grains is open-source and free.