Why We Built Clarymind

In life, our time and attention are limited and irretrievable.

How we use our time and attention determines how we spend our lives. Our ability to develop talents and potential, achieve goals, maintain quality relationships with partners and family, and accumulate wealth are all fundamentally influenced by these two finite resources.

Clarymind is here to help users make better long-term decisions more naturally and painlessly. Through a series of choices, we can gradually gain control over our lives.

At Clarymind, we believe in two principles:

1. You're not lacking discipline; you might just be drained.

It's worth spending willpower on achieving goals and realizing life aspirations. But constantly using it to resist temptations seems wasteful.

Just as the best way to avoid junk food is not keeping snacks at home, Clarymind can provide better methods to protect your precious willpower.

2. You don't need more knowledge; you just need a good tool that integrates into your life, helping you take action starting today.

We all know focus is important, but changing years of habits isn't easy.

Clarymind provides modern people with tools to maintain focus and balance without relying on willpower. This means:

• A simple system to break muscle memory and stop unconsciously opening social media
• A simple system that reminds you of better choices every time you open social media
• A simple system that automatically locks apps when time's up, even if you slip back into scrolling, helping you return to your focused state
• A simple system to break the cycle of anxiety and scrolling
• A simple system that gives you more time for learning, pursuing hobbies, and spending quality time with important people

Change is a process. In the first month, you might not know what to do with the extra time. But gradually, you'll rediscover old hobbies and dreams - those things you once wanted to do or started but put aside, thinking you had no time or energy after work.

You'll slowly realize that these fragments of time can accumulate into meaningful changes in your life. Maybe it's reading 3 more books per month, exercising 3 more hours per week, starting to create and write, or watching Netflix with your partner without either of you reaching for your phone.

We won't remember the social media arguments we saw on some day in 2025, but we will remember the new stories we created for ourselves in 2025.

How We Think About Social Media

We've all experienced how social media can disrupt focus, trigger anxiety, and eat up hours of our time.

But it also brings information and connections, helping us stay in touch with friends, learn new things, and even create opportunities.

Social media isn't some evil villain - like most things in life, it's the excess that becomes harmful.

From an information consumption perspective, too much social media and news can gradually chip away at our ability to think deeply, making us more prone to external influences.

From a mental health perspective, constant exposure to arguments and conflicts can leave us anxious or angry, as if every crisis is our own. Modern social media design can also easily lead to excessive social comparison. As they say, the media’s job is to make other people’s problems your problems.

Clarymind helps put phones and social media back in its place — so it serves us as tools, not the other way around.

How We Approach Scrolling and Anxiety

Do you feel this way too? No matter how much you rest, you still feel exhausted and anxious?

When we're anxious, we often unconsciously reach for our phones, seeking dopamine hits for relief.

But excessive social media use triggers more anxiety, creating a cycle:

"Anxiety → Scrolling → Deepening anxiety"

Instead of getting real rest, we end up feeling even more drained.

We break the cycle at its root:

1. Blocking social media: Pause the urge to scroll and reflect - am I doing this out of anxiety?
2. Breathing exercises: Calm your nervous system and ease anxiety.

Procrastination is often not a time management issue, but an emotional one. Clarymind helps you establish a new cycle:

"Anxiety → Break tasks into smaller pieces → Celebrate small wins (!) → Get things done → Less anxiety."

We can gradually return to life as it was before excessive phone use. You might suddenly realize: so this is what it feels like to be calm and productive again.

The Clarymind Team

Clarymind is a small team from Taiwan. We work full-time to build our product, hoping to help you take better care of yourself.

We believe that many people already know what’s good for them — they just need the right tools to take action. Clarymind provides those tools and makes it easier to turn intention into action.

Health is interconnected. Sleep, nutrition, and digital habits all influence each other. Instead of using scattered tools, an integrated approach leads to better results. Our long-term vision is to create a comprehensive personal wellness app that helps users worldwide build healthier, calmer, and more focused lives.

Clarymind is used by thousands of people in over 50 countries, with an average 4.8-star rating on the App Store. We’d love for you to be part of this journey and help make this vision even stronger.