Give peopletheir life back.
Not a blocker. A companion. NowPresent detects why you reach for your phone and meets you there — with exactly the right intervention, learned for you.
The technology
How it actually works
Most apps detect usage and react. NowPresent detects vulnerability and prevents.
Senses before you scroll
Typing cadence, app switching patterns, scroll velocity, time of day. Your phone already knows — NowPresent listens.
— No cameras. No microphones. Behavioral signals only.
Classifies why, not just when
Boredom. Anxiety. Loneliness. Avoidance. FOMO. Exhaustion. Habit loops. Seven states. One right response for each.
— Generic nudges fail. Targeted interventions work.
Learns what works for you
A bandit algorithm tracks which interventions you complete, how long they help, when they land. It personalizes over weeks.
— After 50 interventions, it knows you.
Everything stays on your phone
No servers. No cloud. No analytics. Your data never leaves your device. The AI runs entirely on-device.
— Privacy is architectural, not a promise.
Good evening
Tuesday, March 24
Screen time today
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Wellness check · anxiety detected
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Your patterns
Primary trigger
Anxiety
Late nights, fast typing
Best intervention
Breathwork
84% completion rate
Vulnerable window
Mon 22:00
Weekly pattern detected
Weekly trend
↓ 18%
Less than last week
The science
Seven states.
One right response.
Addiction isn't one thing. The reason you reach for your phone at 2am is different from why you reach for it on a Monday morning. NowPresent knows the difference.
Boredom
Response: energize
Behavioral signals detected
Suggested interventions
The bandit learns. After enough interactions, NowPresent knows which of these works best for you at this time of day. Everyone responds differently.
Privacy
Your data is
structurally private.
Privacy isn't a policy we promise. It's an architecture we built. There is no server to breach. There is no database to subpoena. There is no company holding your behavioral data.
Zero network calls
No servers. No APIs. No data ever leaves your device. Not even anonymized.
Categories, not apps
We never store which apps you use — only categories. Social. Entertainment. Gaming. That's it.
Behavioral signals only
Typing timing. Scroll velocity. App switch frequency. Never content. Never keystrokes.
On-device AI
The entire ML pipeline runs locally. TFLite model, bandit algorithm, pattern analysis — all on your phone.
Manifesto
The average person spends 4 hours and 37 minutes on their phone every day.
That's 70 days a year. Staring at a screen.
The phone companies know this. They built it that way.
Variable reward. Infinite scroll. Notification floods.
Designed by the world's best engineers to capture attention and never let go.
Most wellness apps fight this with blocking. With shame. With restriction.
They fail. Because willpower isn't the problem.
The problem is that your phone understands you better than any intervention tool ever has.
Until now.
NowPresent uses the same signal — your behavior — and turns it against the loop.
It doesn't block. It meets you where you are.
With the right intervention. At the right moment. For you specifically.
I build the app that gives people their life back.
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