Drain: Smart Grayscale

Drain makes everything boring except the work that matters.

Most focus tools fight you. They block, lock, and shame — and you spend your energy resisting the wall instead of doing the work.

Drain takes the opposite approach. Instead of hiding your distractions, it simply drains the color out of them. The moment you switch to an app you’ve marked as a distraction, your screen fades to grayscale. Switch back to the work that matters, and the color returns.

Nothing is blocked. Nothing is locked. You can still open anything you want — it just won’t feel as good. That endless feed, that inbox, that everything-app: all of it goes flat and gray and a little bit dull. The friction is gentle, not punishing. You keep your freedom; you just lose the dopamine.

And here’s the part that surprises people: by draining the color from everything else, the apps you actually care about start to feel more vivid. More alive. More worth being in. The contrast does the work.

How it works
Pick your apps. Choose one of two modes:
• Keep your focus apps in color, and let everything else fade to gray.
• Or flip it — keep everything normal, and drain only the specific apps that pull you away.

watches which app you’re using and adjusts instantly. No timers to set, no sessions to start, no streaks to maintain. It just works in the background, quietly, every time you switch apps.

Built to disappear
Once it’s set up, gets out of the way. No notifications. No nagging. No dashboards full of statistics about how distracted you were. Set your apps once and forget it’s there — until you notice you’re getting more done.

Stop fighting your distractions. Just drain the color out of them.

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