Standard focus

Standard focus — committed, but not rigid

Standard is the everyday CommitX mode. You still commit to a block of time, but life is allowed to happen: you can leave the app without the session failing.

Start a Standard session

Prefer stricter rules? Verified focus ends the session if you leave the app.

What Standard focus gives you

Flexible by design

Check a message, answer the door, look something up. Standard sessions do not fail because you left the app.

Real clock time

The countdown is based on when you started, so screen-off or app switching never loses progress.

Optional Focus Shield

On Android you can pick apps to keep out of reach during the session. It is optional, Standard-only, and protection is restored when the session ends.

Break on long sessions

Sessions over two hours freeze once at the halfway mark for five minutes, then continue from exactly where they stopped.

Works on every screen

Phone, tablet, laptop — the same session with the same timer, and tapping the timer notification reopens it exactly where it is.

Same rewards

Completing a Standard session returns your commitment and earns 25 Cx Coins for each completed hour, just like Verified.

Starting a Standard session

  1. 1Pick your goal, duration and commitment.
  2. 2Choose Standard, and optionally set up Focus Shield.
  3. 3Swipe to start and get to work.
  4. 4Finish the session to get your commitment back and log the hours.

Good to know

Ending a session early through the exit dialog forfeits the commitment — there is no pause.
Focus Shield relies on Android features; on the web CommitX cannot block other apps.
Once started, the session keeps running without an internet connection.

Book your next focus block

Standard focus is the easiest way to start — commit thirty minutes and see.

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