Note: this is a placeholder until we release the actual site!

Lento: A Modern Distraction Blocker

Lento is a modern distraction blocker for Windows and macOS, built with Python. There are a lot of similar products out there, but we built Lento because we couldn’t find an alternative with all of the features we wanted.

Features

• Set different goals for different things, each with their own blocklists and notification presets
• Ability to block both apps and websites
• Can easily set preset time lengths for different goals
• Automatically disables your ability to turn a session off before the block time runs out
• “Soft blocks” where you are given a prompt when opening an app/site instead of an outright block
• Persistent block that survives across uninstalls, logouts, and reboots
• Browser agnostic (works with your favourite browser, whether it’s Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, or another!)
• Advanced notification functionality: remind yourself of your goals at set intervals/on idle/when switching apps
• Clean, easy to use UI
• Works across Windows and macOS (Linux support coming soon)
• Free and open source!

Installing

You can download the latest release here or from the Releases page on the GitHub Repo.

If you want to build from source:

[TODO: Build from source instructions]

Contributing

We’re currently not accepting any PRs or outside commits to this repo, but feel free to open issues with any feedback you might have!