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App · Productivity · 2025

Quietly

A focus timer with a noise mixer that works offline.

View on Google Play→Live on Google Play
Reach
286K installs
Rating
4.8 on Play
Built with
KotlinJetpack ComposeMedia3Foreground service

The build

Quietly is a focus timer and an ambient mixer in one screen. Nine sound beds you can layer and balance, a timer that keeps running when Android decides to be aggressive about background work, and nothing else.

There is no sign-in and the app makes no network requests at all after install — all audio ships in the bundle. That was a deliberate constraint: the people who use a focus app are often the people who turned the internet off on purpose.

Written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose and a foreground media service, which is the unglamorous part that actually makes it reliable across OEM battery managers.

Notes from production

  • Network calls
    None after install
  • Accounts
    No sign-in, ever
  • Sound beds
    9 layerable, all bundled
  • Cold start
    410ms on a Pixel 6a
Key art for Quietly

Quietly — key art