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Work · September 5, 2026

Little Sisyphus

Not a focus timer. A deep work sidekick.

What it does

We all know what we should be doing. We just keep picking up the phone. Little Sisyphus is a focus app as unforgiving as the original story. When you start a session, your screen transforms into a live climb — and if you walk away early, you don't just lose today, you lose your entire lifetime elevation rank. Built for people who consider themselves disciplined, but are ready to stop losing to free dopamine.

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Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS. Productivity Developer Angelo Zeus Language EN English Size 45 MB iPhone A focus timer built like a myth. Your phone is a void calling to be touched. Little Sisyphus fills it instead — push the boulder, hold your rank. All of it is at stake. Every focus session is a myth in motion. Little Sisyphus turns deep work into a living story. Your phone isn't a quiet object sitting next to you. Locked or not, it's a doorway into everything — every notification, every text, every one of a thousand other rooms it can pull you into. So a blank screen is never really blank. It's a void, calling out to be touched, promising you're one…from apps.apple.com

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