Study first. The rest can wait.
Fennly is a study-focus app for Windows. One button starts your task timer, a Pomodoro rhythm and a gentle lock on distracting apps and sites. Finish the day's work and everything opens up again.
Windows, with a Chrome and Edge extension · version 0.5.0 · invite-only beta.
One button, and you're studying.
Add today's tasks with how long each needs. Press Start focus and Fennly starts the task timer, the lock and a Pomodoro rhythm together. When a task's time is up, you choose what happens next.
- A rhythm that rests you
- 25 minutes of focus, then 5 minutes off, with a longer 15-minute break after 4 blocks. You can change all of it.
- Breaks really are breaks
- Everything unlocks while you rest, and break time never counts towards your tasks.
- Time that's honest
- The timer only runs while you're in allowed apps and sites, and pauses if you're idle for 2 minutes.
- Proof, if you want it
- A task can ask for a note or a file before it's marked done. Studying on paper? Paper mode keeps the timer going away from the screen.
Blocking that's firm, but kind.
Fennly doesn't slam apps shut mid-sentence. A heads-up card counts down first (15 seconds unless you change it) so you can save your work. Then a calm full-screen page reminds you what you're meant to be doing.
Blocked websites go to a matching page in your theme, so the moment feels like a nudge, not a telling-off.
Your study tools stay open. About 40 study apps and 80 sites are allowed from the start, including:
Windows essentials and terminals are never closed. You can add or remove anything.
Focus starts on time, even when you forget.
Set focus windows for each day of the week, including ones that run past midnight. Fennly switches focus on by itself, and only locks while you still have tasks left.
A way out, but not an easy one
Something important comes up? Use an override. There are only a few, each one makes you wait first, and every one is logged.
- 2overrides a week
- 10 minwait before it starts
- 60 minunlocked once it does
Those are the defaults; you can set your own.
What Fennly is, and what it isn't.
Plain words, so nobody's surprised later.
Fennly is a discipline aid
- It puts distractions a few deliberate steps away, which is usually all it takes.
- It's hard to switch off on a whim: a Windows service watches over it, its process is protected, its settings can have a password, and the browser extension checks in to show it's still running.
- The settings password can be one you set yourself, with a waiting period, or one a trusted person sets.
It isn't a security product
- Someone with administrator rights on the PC can get round it. No app can fully stop that.
- It works best when the student's Windows account is a Standard account and someone else, like a parent, holds the administrator account.
Set it up once. Bring in a parent if you like.
Sign in with a 6-digit code sent to your email; there's no password to forget. The same account works in Inkloom.
- Every PC follows the same lock. Your allowed apps, schedule and rhythm live with your account, so a second PC can't be a way round them.
- Stricter changes apply at once. Looser ones wait out your waiting period, or need a linked parent's OK.
- Tamper-proof settings. The server signs your lock settings, so an edited copy of the app can't loosen them.
- Tasks and progress sync. Time spent on two PCs adds up, and a task done on one is done on all of them.
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The student makes a code
In Fennly's settings. It lasts 24 hours and works once.
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A parent enters it
With their own account, so nobody shares a login.
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They stay in the loop
The parent sees today's tasks and the week's focus time, and approves or declines any loosening. Either side can unlink.
A parent can see progress, not what's on the screen: Fennly never sends page titles, web addresses or keystrokes anywhere.
See your focus grow.
Insights show your focus time each day, your streak, the tasks you finished, the overrides you used, and which apps and sites you spent your time in.
Need to show someone? Export a CSV or a PDF report.
Quillet helps you plan, and checks you learned it.
Press Ctrl+6 to open Quillet, the study assistant built into Fennly and Inkloom. It knows what's on today and how recent days went.
- Adds study tasks and starts a focus session for you.
- Searches and reads your Inkloom notes to quiz you on today's topics.
- No AI account or key needed: 30 questions a day, shared with Inkloom.
Use the Claude desktop app? Fennly's connector lets Claude see today and your insights and add tasks, when you ask it to.
Little joys along the way
Soft chimes, a burst of leaves, hearts or stars when you finish, and a breathing circle in breaks. Each theme has its own little companion to keep you company.
Better with Inkloom.
Inkloom is Fennly's sister app for handwritten notes. Link a Fennly task to an Inkloom section and those notes open as soon as you start focusing.
Questions
How do I get Fennly?
Fennly is in an invite-only beta while friends test it. Ask for an invite and you'll get a download link when there's a place for you.
What does it run on?
Windows, with an extension for Chrome and Edge that handles blocked websites. There's no Mac or phone version.
Can't a student just turn it off?
Not on a whim. A Windows service restarts Fennly if it's closed, its settings can be password-protected, and loosening the lock takes a waiting period or a parent's OK. But it's a discipline aid, not a security product: someone with administrator rights can get round it. It's strongest when the student uses a Standard Windows account.
Does Fennly watch what I do?
It notes which apps and websites you use so it can block distractions and show your insights, but only app names and website domains, never page titles, full web addresses or keystrokes. That stays on your PC. The browser extension makes no network calls at all.
Do I need an account?
Yes, to open Fennly's window. You sign in with a 6-digit code sent to your email, with no password. The account carries your tasks, progress and lock settings between PCs, links you with a parent, and gives you Quillet. The lock itself doesn't depend on being signed in: it keeps working either way.
Where is my information kept?
Your focus data is kept on your PC. Your tasks, daily progress, lock settings, device names and parent links are kept on Fennly's account server on Cloudflare, with the database in Western Europe. There's no advertising, tracking or analytics. The privacy page has the details.
Ready to grow some focus?
Fennly is being tested by friends right now. Invites by email are opening soon, so check back here.