Telos is the all-in-one solution for digital health and focused living — combining attention, task & time management into one holistic app. Its screen-blocking toolset, Digital Diet, is free for everyone.

Every Digital Diet feature, unlimited: Protocols, Pause, and Hardcore Mode. Nothing is metered, nothing expires.

At Telos, we believe mental wellbeing has come under fire through the recent rewiring of the habits of the mind by adversarial technology. The effect shows in everyday life and in academic life alike. So Telos has set a new standard: every Digital Diet feature, the ones others sell as premium at $99 a year, free for everyone.

No, and we would advise against it. A constraint enforced by someone else is an extrinsic rule. A constraint the student chooses to improve the habits of their own mind is an intrinsic step toward the person they want to be.

Telos is built for the second, and we encourage institutions to take the same approach. Do not try not to trade in efficiency for effectiveness: it is not worth it in this arena.

Students get Telos from the App Store, and either alone or together, you can make this a meaningful learning experience.

Add the link to your recommended student resources. Reach out and talk to students. Deep dive into the fascinating articles, documentaries (e.g., The Social Dilemma), and books. Make it an engaging conversation about self-empowerment, a philoshpy not a policy/

From the App Store in under a minute. They choose Aspirant Access on the first screen and set their first Protocol.

It stays free after graduation: Aspirant Access is for everyone, for good, with no affiliation required.

No ads, and neither. Telos has no advertising business model: it sells no attention, works with no ad networks, and does not aspire to. It does not sell to schools either: no paid partnerships, no admin software, no school systems to connect to, no white-labeling.

There is one Telos, set up by each student in a minute, with the least overhead imaginable. The only thing ever promoted inside Telos, for those who go looking, is more of Telos.

Nothing is sold to anyone, and that is written into the terms of service. What Telos collects is the minimum for stability and improvement: an email address for sign-in and pseudonymised usage analytics (crashes, performance, which features are used), with no IP address and no link to the student's account, processed through an industry-standard analytics provider.

Screen-time data, which apps a student blocks and when, is handled on the device and never syncs back.

Screen-time data, which apps a student blocks and when, is handled on the device and never syncs back. Telos is built for ages 13 and up, and is COPPA and GDPR compliant.

We hold ourselves to the highest standard of privacy and security. Screen-time data never leaves the device by design and is never backed up to the cloud, so there is no single point of failure. Thus, which apps a student blocks, when, and for how long, stays with the student.

No. There is no institutional account, no dashboard, no report. When a student signs up with a university address, Telos confirms by email that they control it and uses that only to decide which tier they receive. Telos holds no relationship with any university and reports nothing to any university.

Protocols can be edited at any time, unless the student has turned on Hardcore Mode. Then every change waits 24, 48, or 72 hours, depending on what the student chose.

In practice, most students already know they have a problem and want better self-regulation. The question is rarely how to enforce this top-down. It is how to enable it bottom-up.

Foresight is the other half of Telos: a time-management system built for Ivy League+ Members, combining task and time management into one holistic app.

Digital Diet clears the noise; Foresight is what students offers clear signal. It is available through the Foundation Series but should be viewed mostly as our primary exclusive offering.

No offer is ever put in front of a student. There are no annoying launch screens, no notifications, no in-app messages, nothing broadcast.

Telos does have a paid membership, the Foundation Series, for people outside the Ivy League+ who want Foresight. The Foresight tab sits where it always sits and is simply locked. A student who never goes looking will never see it mentioned.

Yes. Digital Diet gates the apps a student picks, nothing else. Calls, messages, maps, and every other essential app stay open, always.

A parent can always get through, and a student can always call out.

Telos is built by one person, Felix Meritis, a tech ethicist who took part in StartMIT. Telos is a purpose-built app for the students who walk the courtyards, work the labs, and pull the late-nighters in the libraries of the Ivy League and beyond. But nobody should be raised to wear their phone like a glove: everyone deserves digital health. So half of Telos, Digital Diet, is open to everyone through Aspirant Access, and it stays that way.