Frequently asked questions about TaskBlue

Every focused minute on your iPhone funds the recovery of real plastic. A fixed share of your license fee goes directly to established marine protection partners like the WWF and GhostNetZero, who pull plastic and ghost nets out of the ocean. Your personal ocean impact, measured in kilograms of recovered marine plastic, grows live inside the app.

TaskBlue works with established marine conservation NGOs, above all WWF Germany and GhostNetZero. GhostNetZero finds lost ghost nets with sonar and AI so divers can lift them out of the water. Around 50,000 tonnes of these nets vanish into the sea every year. That is the direct impact mechanism behind every focus session.

Around 100 g of plastic returns to land per focus hour, up to 10 kg per month. This amount is never promised, it is earned: it grows with every focused minute. You see the exact value live in the app.

Yes. In the app you share your personal ocean impact progress as an image, on Instagram, WhatsApp or in private chats. It makes visible how much plastic your focus has already pulled back from the sea.

Because your time then counts twice. You win back your focus, and the sea grows freer with every hour. Focused time without meaning is just time. Focused time with impact is change.

TaskBlue is the first focus app where every focused minute on your iPhone pulls real plastic out of the sea. A fixed share of your license fee funds the recovery of marine plastic through partners like the WWF and GhostNetZero. Not another anti-phone app: you take back your time, and the sea along with it.

You start focus in four ways: manually with a 3-second press, by schedule, via calendar integration, or location-based. Distracting apps then disappear completely from your iPhone home screen. You bring them back only with your BlueTag (NFC) via scan.

TaskBlue is currently available for iPhone (iOS 16 and newer). An Android version is planned based on demand.

In the Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/id6754511784, search for TaskBlue. The download is free, to use it you need a TaskBlue license with BlueTag.

An iPhone, the app from the App Store and a TaskBlue license. Every license includes your BlueTag, the physical NFC tag you scan to end focus. It lives outside your iPhone, and without it the app cannot be used. TaskBlue Standard is €29.99 for twelve months (up to 5 kg of ocean plastic per month), TaskBlue Pro €39.99 (up to 10 kg). You pay once and nothing renews on its own.

Yes. Many parents use TaskBlue so their kids spend less time on the phone. Distracting apps disappear completely from the home screen and only return when the physical BlueTag is scanned. Because the key lives outside the device and stays with the parents, the barrier is real and not bypassed in seconds like a pure software lock. For families, screen time turns into focused time, and every focused minute also pulls plastic from the sea.

Four. Manual focus (3-second press), schedule focus (recurring), calendar focus (automatic before events) and location focus (based on place). All four hide distracting apps completely from the home screen.

Press the focus circle in the app for 3 seconds. Focus starts immediately, your selected apps disappear from the iPhone home screen. You can only end it via BlueTag (NFC scan) or verified exit.

Connect your Apple Calendar. TaskBlue detects every event and activates focus automatically before departure, so you're never late again. For each event you decide how long beforehand focus starts.

Save places like office, library, university or gym. The moment you arrive, TaskBlue switches focus on by itself. The moment you leave, your apps return. Zero effort, fully automatic.

Yes. Set recurring focus times, daily, weekly, or on specific days. Ideal for steady learning and deep work routines.

The BlueTag is your physical NFC tag for TaskBlue. It lives outside your iPhone and is the only way to end focus mode. Without it the app cannot be used. There is only one model, and it is included with every license: with TaskBlue Standard just as with TaskBlue Pro.

Yes. The BlueTag is your key to TaskBlue, without it the app cannot be used. That is by design: the key lives outside the iPhone, so focus actually holds. You do not buy it separately, it comes with your license and is shipped to you once.

No. The BlueTag is completely passive, lasts indefinitely, and never needs charging. On the tag side, NFC needs no power.

Every BlueTag is 3D-printed in Berlin from plant-based plastic (PLA), hand-assembled and packed ourselves. No outsourcing, short routes, sustainable production that matches the mission.

Three emergency exits are ready, you're never stuck in focus. But the bar is intentionally high, so distractions really stay out. If you have lost your BlueTag or used up your emergency exits, contact support at [email protected]. We will unlock you again and help you get a replacement.

You pay once: TaskBlue Standard €29.99, TaskBlue Pro €39.99. The app and the BlueTag are included and stay yours. Your payment funds twelve months of recovering up to 5 kg (Standard) or up to 10 kg (Pro) of ocean plastic per month.

Your app and your BlueTag keep working for good, with every feature, all your focus hours and statistics. Only the funded recovery ends: after twelve months your payment has gone into recovery, so your focus hours no longer pull new plastic out of the sea. If you want to keep funding recovery, you renew your license at taskblue.app/en/renew for another twelve months: €24.99 for Standard, €34.99 for Pro. That is less than the first time because you already have your BlueTag. Renew early and the twelve months are added to the end of the current term.

A fixed share of every license fee directly funds the recovery of ocean plastic through partners like the WWF and GhostNetZero. Details and current numbers are on our ocean impact page.

The app and the BlueTag are identical. The difference is the monthly ocean impact: TaskBlue Standard (€29.99 for twelve months) pulls up to 5 kg of plastic from the sea, TaskBlue Pro (€39.99) up to 10 kg, depending on how much you focus. Double the impact for €10 more per year.

No. You pay once, nothing renews automatically and there is nothing to cancel. The app and the BlueTag are yours and keep working for good. Your payment funds twelve months of ocean plastic recovery. After that you decide for yourself, voluntarily, whether to renew your license and fund more recovery.

Shipping within Germany is free. Outside Germany there is a one-time €4.99 shipping fee. The BlueTag itself is included in the price of your first license and ships once. A renewal ships nothing, which is why it costs less.

Yes. You have a 14-day right of withdrawal from the day you receive your BlueTag. Just write to [email protected], we refund the license fee once the BlueTag is returned. The details are in our withdrawal policy.

iOS Screen Time can be bypassed on the device itself, the key lives inside the iPhone. With TaskBlue the key sits outside, in your BlueTag, apps disappear completely, and every focus minute funds marine protection.

None of these apps connect focus with real environmental impact. TaskBlue is the only focus app where your productive time directly funds the removal of ocean plastic. On top of that, the physical BlueTag as an NFC key instead of just a software lock.

No. TaskBlue is for everyone who wants to be more productive and make a difference at the same time: students, professionals, parents, people with ADHD, sustainability-minded iPhone users. The question isn't “phone addiction”, it's “what should happen with my focused time?”.

TaskBlue is sustainable by design: a digital part with direct ocean impact (recovering marine plastic from the sea) and a physical BlueTag from plant-based PLA, 3D-printed in Berlin, hand-assembled, short shipping routes.

On-demand 3D printing means: no overproduction, no manufacturing in Asia, no container shipping. Each BlueTag is printed exactly when you buy your license.

As little as possible. TaskBlue works primarily on your iPhone. All details are in our privacy policy at taskblue.app/privacy-policy.

No. Calendar integration runs locally on your iPhone. TaskBlue only sees start times to activate focus in time, no content leaves your device.

In Berlin, Germany. GDPR-compliant data protection. Contact: [email protected].