Phone Nap

Rest your phone. Perchi gets to work.

A Phone Nap is Perchi's focus block. Rest your phone on Perchi's back; after a 3-second confirmation ring a block starts, 25 minutes by default. A ring fills around the face while Perchi's project grows in 5 stages. Lift the phone and it pauses with a look; put it back and it carries on. No app, no timer to set.

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Perchi, resting. Calm enough to sit next to for 8 hours.

PHONE UP

PERCHI

The loop, state by state

What happens when the phone goes down?

A Phone Nap moves through 9 states you can read off the face without reading a number. Each tile below is the frame Perchi's 128x64 OLED shows in that state, with the rule that moves it to the next one.

A Phone Nap is Perchi's focus block: it starts three seconds after your phone rests on Perchi's back, runs 25 minutes by default (5 to 120), pauses when the phone is lifted, and ends as complete or partial, never as a punishment. The term, defined.

STATE 1Phone up
Resting
Perchi sits in companion mode: it blinks, glances and breathes on a 4-second cycle. After 10 quiet minutes it becomes a dimmed clock with your streak in the corner.
STATE 2Phone down
Phone down: the confirmation ring
Rest the phone on the back plate. A ring fills for 3 seconds before anything starts, designed so a passing hand or a nudge does not open a block. The plate is capacitive and designed to sense a phone through the shell; final tuning happens at the hardware bench pass.
STATE 3Phone down
Block running
A 25-minute block starts (5 to 120 in the settings). The ring fills clockwise around the face and Perchi knits a scarf beside it. Moments from your apps queue silently until the block ends; do-not-disturb during a block is on by default.
STATE 4Phone down
A stage finishes
Every 20 % of the block one stage of the project completes, 5 per block. A finished stage is never undone, whatever happens next.
STATE 5Phone up
Phone lifted
Work pauses. Perchi gives you the look and the ring blinks while a grace timer runs: 60 seconds by default, any value from 10 to 300.
STATE 6Phone down
Back in time: resume
Put the phone back inside the grace period and Perchi sighs and carries on from the same second. Nothing is lost.
STATE 7Phone up
Too long: partial
Leave the phone up past the grace period and the block ends as partial. The 3 finished stages stay finished; the stage in progress is dropped. A block stopped before its first stage is simply cancelled: the project resets and there is no sad face.
STATE 8Phone down
Complete
The ring closes. Silent confetti, a proud face for 5 seconds, streak +1. With a break timer set (5 minutes by default, 0 to 30) the finished scarf stays on show through the break.
STATE 9Phone down
Wardrobe
The scarf is kept in the wardrobe in your dashboard with the date and block length, ready as a 1080x1350 share card. Perchi rotates to the next project for the next block, or stays on the one you pinned.

The short version of this page lives at What is a Phone Nap?; the product itself, with price and specs, is on the Perchi page.

What happens when you lift it?

Lifting the phone pauses the block; it never fails it. Perchi shows the disappointed face, the ring blinks, and a grace timer runs: 60 seconds by default, any value from 10 to 300 in the dashboard. Put the phone back inside that window and the block resumes with a sigh from the second it stopped. Past the window, the block ends as partial.

10 SECONDS
A glance at a notification
Pause, look, resume. The ring picks up where it was and the scarf keeps its rows.
2 MINUTES
A call you had to take
Past the 60-second grace the block ends as partial. Every stage finished before the call stays in the record.
ON PURPOSE
You stop it yourself
Hold the head for 3 seconds or press stop in the dashboard. With at least one stage done it counts as partial; before that it is cancelled and nothing is recorded.

Paused. The look, and a blinking ring, for as long as the grace period lasts.

Resumed. A sigh, then the same block continues; the sprout keeps its leaves.

What counts as complete, partial or cancelled?

Every Phone Nap ends in one of 3 ways, and only the first one is a celebration. None of them is a failure screen: Perchi has no red face, no dead tree and no lost coins.

Complete: The ring closed. Silent confetti, a proud face for 5 seconds, the project finished, streak +1, and the item goes to the wardrobe with the date and block length.
Partial: The phone stayed up past the grace period, or you stopped the block by hand after at least one stage. The finished stages are kept, the stage in progress is dropped, and the block appears in your report as partial. Only a complete block adds a day to the streak.
Cancelled: Stopped before the first stage, the first 20 %, was done. The project resets to where it started, nothing is written down, and Perchi goes back to its resting face rather than a sad one.

How long can a block be?

Any length from 5 to 120 minutes, in 5-minute steps. The default is 25; the presets are 25, 45 and 90 minutes and you can keep up to 4 of your own. Before a manual start, a press on the head cycles through the presets. After a block, an optional break runs 5 minutes by default, or anything from 0 to 30.

Timing

Confirmation ring: 3 seconds after the phone rests
Default block: 25 minutes
Block range: 5 to 120 minutes, in 5-minute steps
Presets: 25, 45 and 90 minutes to start; keep up to 4
Break after a block: 5 minutes by default; 0 to 30 (0 turns it off)

Pausing and progress

Grace period: 60 seconds by default; 10 to 300
Stages per block: 5, one every 20 %
Partial block: Finished stages kept, current stage dropped
Cancelled block: Stopped before the first stage; project resets
Moments during a block: Queued until the block ends (do-not-disturb on by default)

Streaks and reports

Streak: Consecutive local days with at least 1 completed block
Freeze: 1 earned per 7-day run; 1 held at a time; used automatically
Report cards: Daily and weekly, in the dashboard
Leaderboard: Every Perchi in your workspace

Offline

Runs on the device: Face, touch, Phone Nap, projects, streak, clock, sleep
Unsent blocks: Kept in a 64-entry ring; synced when Wi-Fi returns
Double counting: Never: each block carries its own id
Needs the server: Moments from apps, rooms and links, wardrobe, report cards

Every number here comes from the firmware limits Perchi OS enforces, not from a settings screen we hope to ship. Change any of them in the dashboard; the device applies the change on its next report and keeps it offline.

Can you use it without a phone?

Yes. Hold the head for 3 seconds to start a block with no phone at all, and hold 3 seconds again to stop it. You can also start or stop a block from the dashboard on your laptop with a length picker. And if you want a phone stand that stays a phone stand, switch phone-start off and Perchi is just a stand with a face.

STEP 1
Hold the head for 3 seconds
A block starts at the current preset; a press before that cycles 25, 45 and 90 minutes. Hold 3 seconds again to stop. Everything else about the block is the same: ring, stages, break.
STEP 2
Start it from the dashboard
The device page has a Start a Phone Nap button with a length picker and a Stop the block button, useful when Perchi sits across the room or on a colleague's desk in a focus room.
STEP 3
Or just a stand
Turn "phone starts a block" off. The back plate then does nothing when a phone lands; the face still reacts to touch and to moments from your apps.

PERCHI

Three projects

What does Perchi make while you focus?

A scarf, a sprout or a tower, drawn beside the face and advanced in 5 stages, one every 20 % of the block. Projects rotate after every block, or pin one in settings; outside a block, a double tap on the head skips to the next type. Every finished project is kept in the wardrobe in your dashboard with its date and block length, and opens as a 1080x1350 share card you can download.

Scarf
Rows knit downwards, stage by stage. The pattern is seeded by the date, so no two scarves in your wardrobe match.
Sprout
Seed, sprout, leaves, bud, flower: one step per stage. The flower opens on the last 20 % of the block.
Tower
Floors stack from the ground up, one per stage. Blocks finished at night light the windows.

ONE BLOCK, FIVE STAGES

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Streaks without guilt

A streak is the number of consecutive days, in your local time, with at least 1 completed block. Every 7-day run earns 1 freeze, held 1 at a time, and a missed day is frozen automatically, so a bad Tuesday does not erase a good month. The current and best streak live on the device and are reconciled with your dashboard.

Daily and weekly report cards

Focus minutes, blocks, longest block, items made, moments celebrated and the streak, as a card you can download from the Focus page of the dashboard. Reports are read in the dashboard; they are not emailed.

A leaderboard for the household

Every Perchi in your workspace appears on one streak leaderboard: two flatmates, a couple in two cities, or a small team. Timestamps in reports are never finer than a minute.

Why it works

Why not a lock or a dead tree?

Every focus product we studied asks you to do something to start: open an app, tap a tag, lock a box, flip a cube. Perchi turns the thing you already do when you sit down, putting the phone down, into the start of the block, and gives the phone a place to live that is not your hand. Three ideas from the research shaped it.

The Focus Friend inversion, made physical

Focus Friend, Hank Green's app, proved the loop: a bean knits socks while you focus, and people loved it enough to make it the most-downloaded app in the US in August 2025 and Google Play's App of the Year. Its named weakness is that it lives inside the phone you are trying to leave; users call it the app paradox, out of sight once the app closes. Perchi keeps the same emotional loop and moves it to the desk: the phone's resting place is the timer, and the knitting is visible without unlocking anything.

Perchi vs Focus Friend

Never punitive

Forest kills the tree when you leave the app, Flora users complain of trees killed while the phone lay untouched, and the DIY phone stand on Instructables resets your streak after a 5-second grace and buzzes at you. Gentle friction works better: one sec's peer-reviewed study with Max Planck and Heidelberg researchers reports 57 % less social media use from a pause, not a ban. So Perchi pauses, sighs and waits. Whatever it finished stays finished, and a missed day is frozen.

Is a physical pomodoro timer worth it?

Body doubling, without the video call

Focusmate (USD 8 to 12 a month) and Flow Club (USD 40 a month) sell the same thing: someone quietly working next to you. Flow Club says 62 % of its surveyed members identify as having ADHD. Perchi is silent presence at no monthly cost, and a focus room adds the human layer when you want it: up to 4 Perchis showing each other's state as dots, no camera, no schedule, no stranger.

Perchi for two

Sources for this section (prices and figures as read on 2026-09-18)

Does it work offline?

Yes. The face, touch reactions, Phone Nap, projects, streak and freeze, clock mode and sleep all run on the device with no Wi-Fi at all. Blocks finished offline sit in a 64-entry ring on the device and sync to your dashboard when it reconnects; each carries its own id, so nothing is counted twice.

What needs the server: moments from your apps, focus rooms and links, the wardrobe, report cards, share clips and settings changes. Settings you change while Perchi is offline are applied when it reports back. Raw touch and phone-presence readings never leave the device; only block events (start, pause, resume, complete or partial, planned and focused seconds, project kind) sync to your workspace. More on that on the security page.

Is it good for ADHD or body doubling?

We make no medical claims: Perchi treats nothing. What it offers is the list people with ADHD keep asking focus tools for, and rarely get in one object: a start that needs no willpower, no punishment for an interruption, progress you can see without opening anything, and quiet company. Two features carry the company part.

Focus rooms

A room holds up to 4 Perchis. Each shows the others' state as dots along the bottom of its screen: idle, in a block, done for today. The room keeps a shared daily tally of blocks and focus minutes. Rooms are created in the dashboard and joined by invite, and only that state is shared, never what an app shows.

Perchi link

Two Perchis, in one workspace or across cities by invite, can be linked. A tap on one makes the other blush and wave, and a completed block sends a small "well done". During a block the tap waits, like every other moment, until the block ends. This is what Perchi for two is built around.

If your problem is a specific one, phone in hand during study hours, start with how to stop using your phone while studying. It names methods that cost nothing before it names Perchi.

Questions about Phone Nap

How does a Phone Nap start without setting a timer?

Resting the phone on Perchi's back is the start. After a three-second confirmation ring a block begins, 25 minutes by default, and a thin ring fills around the face while Perchi works on a scarf, a sprout or a tower in five visible stages.

Does Perchi punish me if I pick up the phone?

No. Perchi pauses and waits with a disappointed look, keeps every finished stage, and if you stay away longer than the grace period the block ends as partial rather than failed. A block with zero finished stages is simply cancelled, with no sad face.

Is there a phone stand with a built-in focus timer?

Perchi is one: a phone stand with an OLED face that starts a focus block when the phone rests on it and pauses when the phone leaves. The timer is the resting place, so there is no app to open and nothing to set.

What happens if I pick up my phone during a session?

Perchi pauses for 60 seconds by default (you can set 10 to 300). Put the phone back in that window and the block resumes with a sigh; leave it longer and the block ends as partial, with every finished stage kept and the project going to your wardrobe.

Can I set custom lengths like 50/10 or 90 minutes?

Yes. A block can be any length from 5 to 120 minutes in 5-minute steps, with up to four presets (25, 45 and 90 out of the box) that a press on Perchi's head cycles through, and an optional break of 0 to 30 minutes after each block.

Does the timer keep running if I get a call?

Lifting the phone pauses the block; put it back within the grace period and it resumes where it was. A long call ends the block as partial, and whatever Perchi finished stays finished.

Does Perchi work as a normal phone stand?

Yes. Turn off "phone starts a block" in the settings and Perchi is a stand with a face: you can still start and stop blocks by holding its head for 3 seconds or from the dashboard.

Can a friend focus with me?

Yes. A focus room links up to four Perchis; each shows the others' state (working, idle, done for the day) as small dots along the bottom of its screen, with a shared daily tally. Only that state is shared, never what an app shows.

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Rest your phone. Perchi gets to work.

What happens when the phone goes down?

Resting

Phone down: the confirmation ring

Block running

A stage finishes

Phone lifted

Back in time: resume

Too long: partial

Complete

Wardrobe