An attention guardian
Tell Meoz what you're working on. It judges each video and page against that goal — explicitly blocking short-form brain rot, adult content, and gambling automatically.
Meoz is a tiny productivity coach that watches for the distractions and eases you back on track — before the hours slip away. No blocks. No guilt. Just a small friend on your side.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Set up in under a minute
This looks like a time-sink ⏳ — back to the paper?
You didn't mean to watch two hours of shorts.
It just… happened. One tab led to another, and the deep work you sat down for quietly slipped away. And it's not just the lost time — the scroll drains your focus, energy, and motivation, so even when you stop, you can't get back into it. Meoz notices the drift the moment it starts, and pulls you back before the whole day — and your drive to work — is gone.
“Maybe short-form video. It's rotting people's brains.”
— Elon Musk, asked which invention has made us worse
“Brain rot” was Oxford's Word of the Year. Doomscrolling and nomophobia have names now because they're that common. These feeds are tuned by thousands of engineers to keep you swiping — out-willing that alone was never a fair fight. Meoz is the counterweight, sitting quietly in your corner.
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You were dropped into a matrix of addictive content — engineered, on purpose, by companies that want your entire day. Watch more. Buy more. Spend more. Stay trapped, forever.
That's the whole business model: hold your attention as long as humanly possible and squeeze every last minute of value out of you. Your breakfast, your lunch break, your commute, your workout, the hours meant for sleep — they'll take all of it, a few minutes at a time.
And it's everywhere now. Shopping apps, messaging apps, even your bank — all bolting on short videos and endless feeds to keep you doomscrolling with no bottom.
You were never the customer. You were the product.
Meoz is the one thing in the room that's actually on your side.
Everything a distraction-blocker does — minus the wall, the guilt, and the willpower it assumes you already have.
Tell Meoz what you're working on. It judges each video and page against that goal — explicitly blocking short-form brain rot, adult content, and gambling automatically.
Voice nudges & full-screen coaching banners suggest you get back on track — or the app simply closes the distraction for you, right when you ask.
Safari, Chrome, Arc, Firefox, Tor — and whatever ships next. Meoz reads the active tab wherever you browse, no per-browser fuss.
Set your hours — a morning block, a split shift, an evening push. Outside them, Meoz curls up and stays perfectly quiet.
Automatically alternates 45-minute focus phases with regular breaks. Just start working, and Meoz handles the timer.
Track unbroken 30+ min focus sessions. Non-working days (weekends) are automatically exempted so rest days never break your streak!
Lock your schedule until midnight. Once activated, you can't turn off nudges or tamper with presets until the workday finishes.
Built-in managed AI out of the box — no API keys, no developer console setup, no credit cards required.
Native macOS notifications delivered every Monday summarizing total focus hours, completed blocks, and active streaks.
Visualize time saved, category breakdowns, and site-level distraction metrics over daily, weekly, or custom ranges.
Personalize your Meoz with unlockable themes. Match the cat's style to your desktop setup.
Type what you're working on today. One honest line is enough — "writing the thesis," "shipping the release."
Meoz settles into your menu bar and watches quietly while you do your thing. No dashboards to check, nothing to babysit.
Drift toward a distraction and Meoz speaks up — a gentle tap on the shoulder, right when you need it, gone the moment you're back.
It curls up in the corner of your screen — curious, a little playful, always on your side. It tilts its head when it's thinking, gives a small wink when things are going well, and never, ever shames you.
Because the goal was never to punish you for being human. It's to make the good path the easy one — and to have someone in your corner while you walk it.
Meoz was built to fix all of them at once — so you stop duct-taping five apps that each solve a quarter of the problem.
Browser extensions
StayFocusd · AppBlock · LeechBlock · BlockSite
They live inside one browser. The Chrome-only ones never touch Safari, Firefox, or Tor at all — and every one of them dies the second you switch browsers, open a private window, or uninstall in two clicks. A blocklist you can toggle off isn't a guard.
Rigid desktop blockers
Cold Turkey · Freedom · SelfControl · Focus
System-wide, but blunt. They can't tell a lecture from a meme, so they wall off the docs you actually need — or you carve so many exceptions the wall turns to swiss cheese. Strict, but never smart.
Gentle timers & focus apps
Flow · OneSec · Forest · Opal · Session · Be Focused
Kind, but toothless. A pomodoro clock ticks down, a focus session sets the mood, a screen-time limit gives a polite tap on the wrist — but none of them actually stop you the moment you decide to scroll. It's willpower with a nicer interface.
Trackers & productivity scorers
RescueTime · Rize · Timing · Toggl
They watch everything and grade it — hours logged, focus scores, dashboards of where your day "leaked." But turning every minute into a metric just adds a second job: managing the tracker. That's self-surveillance that breeds guilt and stress, not focus. You don't need a report card — you need a hand on the shoulder in the moment.
Meoz is the first that does all of it, in a much better way — system-level, context-aware, smart classification, gentle and strict:
| Browser extensions |
Rigid blockers |
Gentle apps |
Trackers | Meoz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works in every browser Safari, Firefox, Tor, Arc… | ✕ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guards native apps too Steam, Discord, games | ✕ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Understands context a lecture ≠ a time-sink | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | – | ✓ |
| Gentle by default nudges, not walls | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Strict when you ask a lock you can't wriggle out of | – | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Can't be dodged in two clicks | ✕ | – | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Free, forever | – | ✕ | – | ✕ | ✓ |
Every distraction — any browser, any app, any time-sink — watched by a single smart, system-level guard that actually understands what you're doing. The core stays free for everyone, for good. Premium is only for the extras. No more stitching together five half-tools that each cover a third of the problem.
One-minute setup either way. Cancel anytime — Meoz won't guilt-trip you about that, either.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Attention guardian | ✓ | ✓ |
| All browsers & apps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Working hours & Pomodoro | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commitment lock Lock until midnight | ✓ | ✓ |
| Focus Streaks & Badges | ✓ | ✓ |
| Task & Planner integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Engine | BYOK (Gemini, Groq, OpenAI...) | Built-in (Zero setup) |
| Weekly Focus Summary Mac Notifications | ✕ | ✓ |
| Focus Analytics & Insights | ✕ | ✓ |
| Cat themes & skins | ✕ | ✓ |
$0
Bring your own AI key (Free Gemini & Groq keys supported).
$5/month or $40/year
Everything, zero setup.
Prices in USD. Start with a 7-day free trial, then $5/month or $40/year ($3.33/mo billed annually). No credit card required to try the Free tier.
Any Mac running macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Meoz lives in your menu bar and takes almost no space or power.
Yes. Meoz processes your current tab locally or securely via the AI provider to judge whether it fits your focus. Your analytics data (like time saved or distraction categories) is strictly stored locally on your own Mac. Your data is never sold or shared.
No. Meoz sips resources and only wakes up when a browser is in front of you. The rest of the time it's happily asleep.
Any time. Pause it from the menu bar, set working hours so it only watches when you want, or quit entirely. You're always in charge.
That's allowed — Meoz nudges, it never forces. Well… unless you asked it to lock you in for a deep-work sprint. Then it holds you to it.
Download Meoz, tell it what matters today, and get back to work. It'll take it from there.
Download for MacmacOS 14 or later · Free to try