Apps that turn the group chat's "we should all..." into something you actually do together: screen time, exercise, big commitments and focus sessions.

No boss means nobody notices when you lose two hours to YouTube. Focus apps for freelancers across laptop and phone, plus how to bring other people in.

Screen time apps for a student budget: free built-in tools, Forest for revision, Opal's student discount, and Snitch for study groups and flatmates.

Make studying with friends the productive kind: agree the plan, pile up the phones, work in blocks, and the first to check their phone buys the coffees.

Forest is a classic for focus sessions: put your phone down and a tree grows. Snitch caps your whole day, with friends. Which you need, or use both.

Freedom is one of the original distraction blockers and strongest on laptops. Snitch is phone-first and social. They solve different halves of the problem.