Quietude

Quietude is a next-generation focus timer that uses real-time noise monitoring to help you maintain deep concentration. Unlike traditional timers that only track time, Quietude tracks your environment. It effectively creates a "digital acoustic fence" around your focus sessions, ensuring that you work in the conditions optimal for your brain.

Quietude uses your device's microphone to monitor ambient noise levels in real-time (without ever recording audio).

The app offers two distinct modes:

• Discipline Mode (Restart): The strict approach. If the noise level in your environment exceeds your set threshold, the timer resets. This enforces a discipline of silence and encourages you to actively manage your environment.
• Mindfulness Mode (Quiet Time): The gentle approach. It tracks "clean" quiet time versus noisy time, allowing you to see how much actual peace you achieved during your session without the penalty of a reset.

We live in a world designed to distract. Constant acoustic interruptions fragment our attention and elevate stress hormones. Quietude helps you:

• Recover Cognitive Capacity: Silence isn't just emptiness; it's active recovery for your brain.
• Reduce Stress: Lowering auditory input activates the parasympathetic nervous system ("rest and digest").
• Deepen Focus: By strictly managing noise, you enter a "flow state" faster and stay there longer.

Quietude is built on research linking acoustic environments to neurological health, including neurogenesis, stress reduction, and cardiovascular recovery. Read more about the science of silence.

No. Quietude needs access to your microphone strictly to measure sound levels (decibels) in real-time. We never record, save, or transmit audio. All processing happens locally on your device.

Quietude integrates with Apple Health to save your successful sessions as Mindful Minutes. We view silence as a form of mindfulness, allowing you to track your quiet time alongside your other wellbeing metrics.