TaskGate: Tasks First

Now with routines, focus timers, a Home Screen widget, a streak calendar, and 17 languages. Your distracting apps stay locked until today's list is done.

TaskGate locks your most distracting apps behind a gate. The gate opens when today's tasks are done — and not a moment earlier.

No timer you can dismiss. No screen you can swipe past. TaskGate uses Apple's own Screen Time controls, so when an app is blocked, it is blocked.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Write down what you want to get done today.
2. Choose the apps that steal your time.
3. They stay locked until every task is checked off.

At midnight the gate closes again, whether you open TaskGate or not. Tomorrow is a fresh contract.

REAL APP BLOCKING Powered by Apple Screen Time. A blocked app shows a TaskGate screen telling you how many tasks are still left today.

FOCUS TIMERS Give a task a duration — study for an hour, read for thirty minutes. Start the timer and the task checks itself off when the time is up. Closing the app doesn't stop the clock.

ROUTINES Tasks that repeat every day, on weekdays, or on the days you pick. They appear on your list each morning, automatically.

PLAN AHEAD Schedule tasks for future days. When that day arrives, the gate arms itself.

STREAKS Every day you finish your list adds to your streak. Tap the number for a calendar of the days you kept and the days you missed.

HOME SCREEN WIDGET See at a glance whether the gate is open, how many tasks remain, and how long your streak is.

REMINDERS An optional evening nudge, plus a reminder time on any individual task.

PRIVACY

TaskGate collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-up, no analytics, and no ads. Your tasks stay on your iPhone. The apps you choose to block are handled by iOS itself — Apple's Screen Time API hands apps opaque tokens rather than names, so TaskGate never learns which apps you picked or what you do in them.

LANGUAGES

English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Arabic and Indonesian.

TaskGate needs Screen Time permission to block apps. You can turn blocking off at any time.