NFC commitment device + app
Scan Tapout to finish your alarm. Tap it to start focus. One physical object between you and the easy way out.
In development — pricing and availability published here first
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concept render — not final hardware
06:10dawn
Your alarm rings on your phone. Dismissing it happens somewhere else — wherever you placed your Tapout the night before. Bathroom shelf, kitchen bench, front door. You get up because the off switch is not in your hand.
Walk. Scan. Awake.
10:00day
Pick the apps that pull you away. Tap your phone on Tapout to start a focus block. Opening the escape hatch now means physically going back to the object — and that pause is usually all it takes to not bother.
Tap. Lock in. Work.
21:30dusk
Set the alarm. Place Tapout where tomorrow should begin. The decision about how you wake up gets made now, by the rested version of you — not at 6am by the version negotiating for five more minutes.
Set. Place. Sleep.
06:10 · WAKE
Exact alarm behaviour — snooze rules, emergency dismissal, silent-mode handling — will be documented here from the shipping app. We publish what the app actually does, not what sounds good.
10:00 · FOCUS
Block strictness and end-early behaviour will be published exactly as they work in the shipping app.
Every screen-time tool ships with an escape hatch, and the escape hatch is always one tap away. The problem is not the limit. It is where the exit lives.
| What people try | The exit | With Tapout |
|---|---|---|
| Snoozing your alarm | One tap, eyes closed | Get up and walk to the scan point |
| Screen-time limit | “Ignore limit” button | Return to the object to unlock |
| Deleting an app | Reinstall in 20 seconds | The block does not live on your phone |
| Willpower alone | Negotiable at 6am | The decision was made last night |
Tapout does not make bad habits impossible. It makes the wrong action slower than the right one — and most habits cannot survive a walk across the room.
Place it where your morning should start.
Tap in before the first distraction, not after.
The library trick, at your own desk.
Your session, without the between-sets scroll.
End the feed before it decides your bedtime.
21:30 · TOMORROW
An NFC commitment device and companion app. Scan it to finish your alarm. Tap it to start focus.
Price at launch unverified
Final box contents will be listed here before orders open. unverified
A physical NFC device paired with an alarm and focus app. To finish your alarm you get up and scan the device wherever you placed it. To start a focus block, you tap your phone on it. One object, two jobs: getting up and locking in.
Because software limits keep the exit in your hand. When the off switch lives across the room, ignoring your alarm or your focus block requires physically going there — and that friction is the product.
No. NFC tags are passive — your phone powers the tag for the instant of the scan. Nothing to plug in or replace.
Exact device and OS support is being finalised alongside the app release. We will publish a full compatibility list here before orders open, and we won’t sell to a device we haven’t tested.
The enforcement details — strict modes, what happens if you ignore the alarm, and how blocks behave — will be documented here exactly as they work in the shipping app. We would rather publish the real behaviour than promise "unbreakable" and quietly disappoint you.
An honest commitment device still needs a safe exit for genuine emergencies. The exact emergency behaviour will be published here from the shipping app before orders open.
Pricing and app-access model haven’t been finalised. Whatever we decide will be stated plainly on this page before you can order — no surprise paywalls after purchase.
Setup is designed to be minutes, not an evening: install the app, pair the device, place it. The exact onboarding flow will be documented here from the shipping app.
Final contents will be listed here once packaging is locked. What you’re buying is the physical Tapout device plus access to the companion app.
Our return and guarantee policy will be published before orders open. It will be a real policy, in plain language, on this page.