🎉 Jomo Turns 4!

Note: The Mac version is still under review! It’ll be available very soon. 👀

Yep, believe it or not, our little baby is all grown up. 4 years ago, we decided to drop everything to help people cut down on screen time. We hit “Publish” on the App Store for the very first time, and just like that, Jomo was available worldwide. Stress levels were through the roof, we won’t lie. 😅

A lot has changed in 4 years. Across 117 releases, we’ve added tons of features, changed the interface (a lot), and welcomed the Mac app to the family!

So, to celebrate Jomo’s birthday, we’ve packed a few more surprises into this latest release. We hope you love them. 🎁

🪩 Say Hi to Jomo on iPad & iPhone Duo

If you use an iPad, you’ve probably noticed: Jomo on iPad was… honestly pretty ugly. So we’re very proud to introduce the official iPad version of Jomo. FINALLY.

We’ve redesigned the interface and navigation to make Jomo feel right at home on iPad. Full screen, split screen, windowed mode, portrait, landscape… we tested EVERYTHING. You can use your keyboard and Apple Pencil just like you would in any other app.

But that’s not all! We’ve also adapted the interface and navigation to the new iPhone Duo, so its users can enjoy a great experience too. 🙂‍↕️

P.S. If you spot anything that could be better, let us know!

📱 A New App Selection Screen

We’ve redesigned the screen where you choose what to block.

On iOS, you’ll still use Apple’s picker, but you’ll now see a new screen just before it. It’s easier to use and lets you quickly see what’s blocked, remove items, and find the apps you block regularly. The more you use Jomo, the better the suggestions get.

The Mac version gets a simpler system too. One search bar: type a keyword, an app name, a website, a category… and it’s blocked. Simpler, more modern, and just as powerful.

✨ The Mac App Gets a Makeover!

Yes, we agree… it was lagging behind a little. And it was really ugly. We know. That’s why we spent a good chunk of summer 2026 bringing everything up to speed, from the features to the interface.

You can now use 99% of the blocking features available on iPhone right on your Mac. Yep, you read that right. Distractions, consider this your warning: seriously powerful blocking has arrived, and it means business. 💥

Time Limits, Locks, Routines, 10+ unlock exercises,… Protect your attention and your time, just like you do on your iPhone.

🛡️ New Block Screens on Mac

To make the experience more consistent and close a few loopholes, we’ve changed how we block apps on Mac.

They’re now covered by a blocking screen, also known as a “shield.” Among other things, this lets us block apps even when they’re in full screen. It’s also a little less jarring than what used to happen when you opened a blocked app ("hiding" the app). 😬

While we were at it, we also redesigned the website blocking screen to match the iOS version!

🐛 Smaller Updates & Bug Fixes

• Improved duration pickers: A small pop-up now replaces the full-screen view. It’s simpler, more modern, and makes it much easier to keep your bearings.

• New duration picker for Quick Sessions: We’ve replaced that awful control you used to set a session’s duration. It’s simpler and, honestly, much nicer to use.

• Updated emoji picker: Smarter and more enjoyable to use! We’ve fine-tuned how it works and polished its appearance. Finding your favorite emoji should be easier now.

• Time zone fixes: Several issues could affect how your rules’ schedules were displayed. To all our travelers: Jomo should now do a better job of keeping up with your adventures.

• Emergency Mode PIN attempt limit: To put an end to endless guessing, we’ve added a limit of five failed attempts. Hit the limit? Great. Now all that’s left to do is wait. 🚩

• Fixed the Cmd-W, then Cmd-Q loophole on Mac: Yes, you could close Jomo’s window, then quit the app… and it would actually let you. Well, you guessed it: that’s fixed. 😬

• Article reading times: We went to all that trouble checking each article’s reading time to display it on the website and in the app… except someone had set every article in the app to “5 min” by default. Fixed.

• Japanese and Polish added to the Mac app: There was no reason our Polish and Japanese friends shouldn’t be able to use Jomo on Mac in their own language. Now they can! 🙂‍↕️

• New Discovery cards: We’ve added little blue intro cards to give you some context on certain screens. They cover the essentials in a few words.

• Light and Dark mode on Mac: You can finally choose between light and dark mode in Jomo for Mac. Switch up the look in one click.

• More supported browsers on Mac: Welcome to Safari Technology Preview, Opera Beta and Developer, Microsoft Edge Beta, Dev and Canary, Brave Beta, Brave Origin and its Beta and Nightly versions, Wavebox, and Yandex Browser.

• New ready-made Rule templates on Mac: Fresh out of the oven, looking good, and made just for your Mac.

• A clearer subscription view on Mac: Now with a cleaner, more modern design.

• Fixed Rule card layouts that could sometimes look a little wonky.

• Fixed custom button labels on the blocking screen that had stopped updating.

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Phew! 😮‍💨

Over the past few months, we’ve also been working on other features that will arrive in the coming weeks. We can’t wait to share them with you! We’re already looking ahead to 2027, which is just around the corner. We still have just as many ideas, and we already have a pretty good sense of what’s in store for you. 😏

Thank you for reading this far. Thank you for being here with us (some of you for 4 years now). As we like to remind you, Jomo wouldn’t exist without you. So once again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Long live the Joy of Missing Out 💙,

Laureline, Thomas & Eliott

Welcome to Jomo 2.0! ✨

Over the past 6 months, we didn’t fly off to Bali to enjoy life in the sun… nope🫸 We’ve been working behind the scenes on this brand new version of Jomo (and we’re really excited to finally share it with you).

There are a lot of new features… but even more improvements. Let’s start with what’s new!

🔒 Say Hi To Locks

Limiting app usage used to be… confusing. A limit? A session? Use with int… what?

We’ve simplified everything with Locks. To make things clearer, we’ve turned the “Use With Intention” session into a Lock. Simpler. Cleaner.

How it works: Block an app continuously, choose how many times per day you want to use it, and (optionally) what exercise you need to complete before unlocking it. That’s it. No need to overthink it.

To create your first Lock: tap Start Blocking ▸ Add a lock.

🌷 Introducing Routines

What if completing your to-do list could unlock… screen time? It would be awesome… wait … Is it possible? 

YESSSS! With Routines, you can complete habits to unlock apps (or even earn time progressively).

Yes, really. Make your bed or do the dishes → earn 15 minutes on TikTok. Go for a 4km run → unlock Netflix for the evening. Our system is flexible: it adapts to your motivation and how strict you want to be.

• Want something simple? Add habits you complete manually (from our list or your own).

• Need more discipline? Let our AI verify that you actually did the task before unlocking anything.

To create your first Routine: tap Start Blocking ▸ Complete habits. Once a habit is validated, you can instantly redeem your earned time.

🏠 A Brand New Home

An app about screen time… that gave a bunch of stuff and … no time 😅 Things had become a bit messy. So we did a proper spring clean.

The new Home is clearer, smoother, and way more enjoyable to use. Everything is finally in the right place (and works together seamlessly). We also redesigned the budget view with a simple progress bar. Stay in the green, stay on track.

You can now access your weekly report directly from the Home. Tap Today to switch views and explore your data over time.

☝️ Blocking in One Tap

Adding a rule used to feel complicated. Confusing titles, too many steps… Not anymore. 

We’ve simplified everything with a central Start Blocking button. From the Home or the Rules tab, blocking apps has never been easier.

💭 Smart Suggestions

Blocking apps is one thing… But when? For how long? Which habits? It can feel overwhelming.

That’s why Jomo now helps you get started with Suggestions. Pre-configured rules you can set up in seconds (just pick your apps, we handle the rest).

📛 Strict Mode, Simplified

Block. Everything. Now. Strict. …wait, what did I just do?

We’ve made Strict Mode much easier to understand and use. By default, you now lock your rules for a few days. Want more? Tap + Want less? Tap − This duration becomes your default (instead of “While blocking”, now replaced with clearer options like “During session” or “After limit is reached”).

📉 A Refreshed Profile

The Profile tab… we’ve been rethinking it for over a year. Yes. A full year trying to figure out what actually motivates you. We rebuilt it from the ground up to make it cleaner and more meaningful.

You can now track your progress more easily, with less clutter. Your Jomo days and best streak are front and center (with more metrics coming soon). New users… you’ll need a bit of time before seeing all of this 🤫

✏️ Journaling, With Clearer Wording

When we launched this feature in 2023, we experimented a lot: “Is this beneficial?” “Did this make me happy?”… We’ve simplified it.

Now it’s straightforward: Was it distracting (time lost) or productive (time well spent)? Same flow, just clearer.

Tap Time well spent? and choose what fits best.

🔎 A New Way To Understand Your Screen Time

2 hours on YouTube… good or bad? 20 minutes on TikTok? 1 hour in emails… hmm.

Instead of guessing, you can now tap on the small bubbles in your report to get more context. We’ve added Hints to reflect (short insights to help you step back, understand your habits, and improve over time).

Bye bye … 👋

To make some of these improvements possible, we had to say goodbye to a few features (or move them when we could). As a result, some of your rules might have… slightly changed after the update.

• Open Limits are gone. Yes … they weren’t very effective and were quite complex to set up. That said, the option is still available in Advanced mode if you really want to keep using it, go to Rules ▸ … ▸ Legacy Open Limits.

• Extra time on Limits has been removed. It wasn’t very clear, and after thinking it through, we decided to focus on Routines, which offer a better version of this concept. If you want to recreate a similar setup: create a Routine, set a base time after which apps are blocked, then add a habit like “Walk” and choose how much time it earns you. Same idea (just simpler and more flexible).

Phew… that’s a lot already. And honestly? That’s not even everything.

We also fixed a ton of bugs (from the really annoying ones to the… slightly less annoying ones). Huge thanks to our community 💙 Every bug report matters. Nothing gets ignored (everything is logged and fixed when we can). Thomas went through his massive Apple Notes list… and yeah, there were quite a few fixes in there.

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with Limits to improve overall stability.

• Improved how Limit cooldowns refresh to ensure they update correctly.

• Improved the reliability of blocking.

• Migrated existing Rules to the new system. Some rules may have changed category or been replaced.

• Fixed “Additional options & Websites” on iOS 17–18 devices.

• Various fixes around the blocking experience.

• Various fixes to Strict Mode, including incorrect “Until date” values.

• Improved screen time reports to reduce crashes.

• Improved report display.

• Improved and fixed transitions and animations in sheets.

• Fixed several issues with widgets and missing assets.

• Performance improvements for the new emojis.

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So here we are.

When we started back in 2022, we made you a promise: to build a truly great screen time app. (Yeah… we’re not going to call ourselves the #1 screen time app…we’ll let you decide that.)

Today, we’re really proud to share our most complete version yet.

For some, it won’t be exactly what they hoped for. Maybe not enough, maybe not that feature… But behind this release are hundreds, if not thousands of hours of work.

We’re building all of this with our small brains, our small hands… and our very big hearts. We know things aren’t easy right now for a lot of people. We also know that with the rise of AI, some are selling big dreams, making it sound like anything is possible overnight.

That’s not us.

What we build is meant to genuinely help you. And for that, we just want to say thank you … truly. None of this would exist without you and your support. Every piece of feedback, every review, every subscription, it all means the world to us and helps keep Jomo alive. We hope we can give that back to you tenfold 💙

As always, take care of yourself, both mentally and physically. Scroll less and more intentionally. Don’t be afraid to embrace JOMO. 

With love,

The Joy Of Missing Out Team ✨

👀 Out of Ideas? Check Out Our New Templates!

We know that creating blocking rules from scratch can feel a bit intimidating… so we made things much simpler.

You can now browse a full gallery of ready-to-use templates. There’s something for every taste and mood. Whether you want to try different types of friction, disconnect at specific moments of the day, or choose your loved ones over your Instagram stories, we’ve got you covered!

The best part? You can add any of them to your routine with a single tap.

✨ Improvements in This Version

• You’ll now see small tooltips on certain screens to make the app easier to navigate.

• We’ve made several UI improvements and fixed the small bugs you reported.

The feedback board is also evolving. From now on, instead of posting ideas directly in the public space, you’ll simply send them through a short form. This helps us keep things clear, avoid duplicates, and focus on what’s truly possible. And no stress — all the most popular ideas have already been moved to the new space!

🔗 New Feedback Board | 🔗 Submit an idea

🚀 What’s Next?

We’re continuously evolving Jomo to make it simpler, clearer, and even more enjoyable to use. Yes, Jomo can feel a bit complex at times, and we’re working hard to change that. Big improvements are planned for 2026, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming.

Thanks again for your trust and support — it truly means the world to us! 🫡

🚩 Breaks Just Got an Upgrade

Warning: Updating to this version will reset your current breaks count to 0.

And finally, for the joy of our eyes, the old dated design for starting a break is gone—replaced with a brand-new experience. We poured a lot of energy into this redesign. We asked ourselves countless questions about the new look, and after months of work: here it is! And we can’t wait to hear what you think.

👀 New Exercises

Yes, a new design is great, but what really matters are the new exercises. We know some of you have been around for a while, and just like us, you may have grown a little tired of the old ones… But no worries—the team’s got you covered.

Mirror : Force yourself to look straight into your own eyes before unlocking an app. I swear, after 30 seconds the awkwardness really sets in. Honestly, you might start wondering if Instagram is even worth it.

Recopy: You can now recopy personalized messages instead of a random code. We’ve written some default ones (and we put our heart into them). But if you don’t like them, no worries—you can write your own.

📱Breaks in the Dynamic Island

Nope, you’re not dreaming. We finally did it (two years after launch): your break timer now shows up in the Dynamic Island (that little black bar at the top) —stop, I might cry tears of joy. From now on, you can see how much time you’ve got left with just a quick glance. And 20 seconds before the end, you’ll get a gentle reminder!

🇵🇱 Jomo jest teraz dostępne po polsku

This version adds the Polish translation to Jomo. Huge thanks to Michał for reviewing it 🙏. As always, if your language isn’t available in Jomo yet, feel free to reach out directly from the app.

🚀 What’s Next?

We’re continuing to harmonize the app’s design and simplify the overall experience. We’re also working hard to fix Screen Time issues, reporting them to Apple (and crossing our fingers they’ll be addressed).

Thanks for your trust and support.