Together: Study & Focus

Focus on study, work, reading, coding or writing with others in a shared cafe. Distracting apps are blocked.

Shared cafe
Other people using the app show up as characters in the same cafe. You see who sits where as it happens. Focusing characters show the time since they sat down. Pinch to zoom.

Seats and floors
Tap a free seat and your character walks there on a dotted path. There is always a lobby, a street, a beach and a rooftop. Indoor floors (2 to 8) grow and shrink with the crowd, repeating study hall, library, quiet room and greenhouse.

Focus timer
Pick 25, 45 or 60 minutes, or Open (counts up, up to 3 hours). With notifications on, you get a notice when a timed session ends; on Android it can come late without Alarms & reminders. Stop early and the time is still saved (1 minute or more). Time in other apps or on the home screen does not count: the timer stops until you come back. Locking the screen while Together is open counts. On iPhone this needs a passcode; without one, locked time does not count either.

Activities and notes
Pick what you are doing: study, work, reading, coding, language, exam, writing or other. Add an optional note of up to 12 characters. The note rules come up each time you start a note; tap Agree to type. While you sit, your activity icon and note show in a speech bubble over your character.

Focus history
My room has Calendar and History tabs. Calendar colors each day by focus time and shows the month's total and your streak; tap a day for its sessions. History charts minutes per day for a week or a month, with total time, streak and coins, then lists each session. A streak is days in a row with a completed session (Open sessions count from 25 minutes).

Time of day
The street, beach and rooftop follow your phone's clock: dawn, sunrise, day, sunset and night. By day, sunlight through the windows changes color, length and angle with the time.

Claps
Double-tap someone on your floor to clap, or tap once to see their activity and clap. Claps rise over their head, and other people on that floor see them. Each person's all-time claps show over their head next to their flag and name, and in their card. Session results show the claps you got. You can hide or report a note or a name. There is no chat.

Coins and rewards
Focus time earns coins. Some clothes, accessories and furniture unlock as your total focus hours grow; others cost coins. There are no real-money purchases.

My room
A furnished room where your character walks around. It shows your total and today's focus time, the days this week with a completed session, and your next reward.

Style
Change your clothes, hair and accessories, and put furniture you have in your room.

Two art styles
Pick Pixel (pixel art) or Soft (illustration) when you first open the app, or later in Settings.

App blocking
Focus starts only when app blocking is on. If it turns off during a session, the session ends with the time so far.
Android: while you focus, opening an app you have not allowed brings Together back. Together, the default Phone and Messages apps and Settings always work. This needs Usage access and Display over other apps.
iPhone: the apps you pick are blocked with Screen Time while you focus. This needs Screen Time access and apps, categories or websites picked.
Settings shows each permission and what does not work while it is off.

Anonymous ID
You get an anonymous ID when you first open the app. No email or password needed. A name of up to 10 characters is optional; set it in My room. Settings > Delete my data (confirm it while online) deletes the ID and its focus history, coins, purchases, look, name and country from the server and the phone.

12 languages
English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Thai. Pick one in Settings > Language, or follow the phone's language.

Privacy policy: https://m8m.kr/together/privacy/
Support: M8M.labs@gmail.com

Recent changes:
• Invite and room links now open the app right away.
• To make the app better, we can now see which screens are hard to use.
• Small fixes.