Beave: Build the Dam & Focus

Beave is a focus app that helps you beat procrastination and get meaningful work done. Flip your phone face-down to start a focus session, block the apps that distract you, and focus alongside friends in real time. Every session earns sticks that dam real rivers on a topographic world map, from the Lake District to the Amazon, turning your consistency into something you can see. Build the dam, and focus.

Built for students, professionals, and anyone who struggles with focus, procrastination, and self-discipline.

⭐️ KEY FEATURES:

📵 Flip to Focus: Place your phone face-down to begin a session. A simple ritual that gets you started and keeps you off the screen.

🦫 Focus Together with Friends: Start a Flip Together session and focus with a friend at the same time, wherever you both are. Gentle accountability that makes it easier to begin and finish. Think body doubling, for focus.

🔒 App Blocker: Block distracting apps during focus sessions. Great for studying, deep work, and beating procrastination.

🌍 World Map Dam: Every focus session earns you sticks. Use them to dam real rivers across 10 hand-picked regions of the world: Lake District, Sognefjord, Amazon Confluence, Mekong Delta, Patagonia, and more. Terrain and rivers pulled from OpenStreetMap. The longer you focus, the more rivers you block.

👥 Colony: Add friends with a friend code or username, chat, and climb the global and friends leaderboards.

🏆 Achievements: Track milestones across sticks, flips, and focus hours.

⏱️ Focus Timer: Distraction-free sessions for deep work, study, and Pomodoro-style sprints. Apps, calls, and notifications stay blocked so nothing breaks your flow.

🗓 Daily Planner & To-Do List: Organize your tasks with a clean, clutter-free interface.

📅 Calendar: Plan tasks across days, weeks, and months.

🏞️ Image Attachments: Add photos to tasks for receipts, references, or visual notes. Images stay on your device and appear in reminders for quick context.

📊 Weekly Focus Chart: See your focused hours for each day of the week and track your consistency over time.

🔔 Smart Reminders: Task reminders and Before Bed reminders so you never miss a deadline.

📱 Home Screen Widgets: View your to-do list and start focus sessions right from your home screen.

🌓 Light & Dark modes.

🚫 No ads. Free to use.

🎨 Minimal, clutter-free design.

WHO BEAVE IS FOR:

Students: use Beave as an app blocker for studying, a study timer, and a study planner. It works well as an ADHD planner and focus aid, helping you actually start and stay focused.

Deep work and Pomodoro: run distraction-free focus sessions, block distracting apps, and time-block your day. Use the Pomodoro timer to manage your time and protect your attention.

Beating procrastination: turn focus into a daily routine and build self-discipline one session at a time. Beave doubles as your daily planner, to-do list, task manager, and reminders, so your day and your focus live in one place.

Cutting screen time: block the apps that pull you in, reduce mindless scrolling, and take back your attention as a digital wellbeing tool.

Focusing with people: start a session with friends and keep each other accountable, whether you are studying together or just staying off your phones.

PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS:
You can use Beave without an account. Your tasks, photos, and detailed focus history stay on your device. Signing in is optional and unlocks friends, chat, and the leaderboard, where we store only what those features need. We don't show ads, run analytics, or sell your data.

The App Blocker uses Android's Usage Access and Display-over-other-apps permissions only while a focus session is active, to detect blocked apps and show the focus reminder. No app-usage data leaves your device.

Read our full privacy policy at https://beave.app/privacy
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For feedback or suggestions, email us at support@beave.app

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Topographic tiles by OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA).