AI companion that learns you

Type your chaos.
Get locked in.The adaptive AI productivity tool that turns stress into a plan.

Dump the chaos on your mind and let the AI untangle it — an instant plan you can actually follow, and a streak that keeps you coming back.

How it works

See it in action

Looks like the future, feels like you

A clean, focused companion for your productivity — shots straight from the app.

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Locked In chat turns a stress dump into a timed study plan
AI Planning

From chaos to plan

Dump it out, get a plan you can actually follow — instantly, timing included. It only asks when your input is too vague.

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A shareable Locked In plan card with a 12-day streak
Streaks

Wins you can share

Every completed plan becomes a polished, story-ready card — streak and stats included.

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The Locked In mode picker: Study, Chill, Crunch
Focus Modes

Four ways to work

Study, Chill, Crunch — and a hidden Roast mode for when you need tough love.

Sound familiar?

Built for the moments nothing else handles

Real situations, real plans — this is what Locked In produces in under a minute.

The 11pm exam panic

“chem test tomorrow and I haven't studied”

7:00 PMCh 6 — key formulas, active recall
8:10 PMCh 7–8 — problem sets, no phone
10:30 PMQuick recap, then wind down

From panic to a schedule in 40 seconds.

The essay you can't start

“I keep putting off the intro. It's been 3 days.”

4:00 PMWrite the worst intro possible — 10 min
4:15 PMFix that intro into a real one
5:00 PMBody paragraph 1, timer on

Activation first, perfection later.

The doomscroll spiral

“I've been scrolling for 2 hours and my deadline is Friday”

NowPhone in another room — 25 min sprint
+25 minWalk, water, zero screens
Repeat3 sprints = Friday's draft done

And Roast mode if you need tougher love.

How it works

Three steps to clarity

Diagnose, plan, execute, repeat. The AI learns what works for you.

1

Dump the chaos

Tell the AI what's on your mind — no structure needed. Overwhelmed? Behind? Just say it.

2

Get a plan

The AI reads your situation and instantly builds a schedule with focus blocks, breaks, and a wind-down.

3

Lock in

Start the timer. Check your mood. Build a streak. The AI remembers and adapts to you.

Why Locked In

Not your average productivity app

Built to understand, adapt, and grow with you.

Conversational AI

Chat naturally. The AI asks questions to understand, not to interrogate.

Adaptive scheduling

Plans adjust to your energy, mood, and completion rate — not a rigid template.

Streak psychology

Daily streaks with milestone celebrations. The app learns when you need a nudge.

Private by default

Local-first. Your data stays on your device until you choose to sync.

What is Locked In AI?

Locked In AI is a free adaptive AI productivity tool designed to help students — and anyone whose to-do list has outgrown their energy. You type what's going on, in your own words. The AI reads it, asks the right questions, and hands back a realistic plan with a built-in focus timer, sized to the time and energy you actually have today.

Most productivity apps give you a blank page and wish you luck. Locked In starts from your situation: the exam tomorrow, the essay you keep avoiding, the week that got away from you. It is designed to help students get from overwhelmed to done — one doable block at a time.

How the adaptive planning loop works

The app learns from what actually happens, not just what you write down. Every plan feeds a loop that gets sharper each day:

  1. Type your chaos — describe your day, deadline, or mood in plain language. No forms, no blank templates.
  2. Get a personalized plan — the AI builds a schedule with focus blocks, breaks, and movement, paced to your deadline and energy.
  3. Work with the focus timer — run the plan block by block. Finished blocks count; skipped ones are tracked honestly, never punished.
  4. Check in tomorrow — tell it how yesterday went. Missed plans come back smaller and doable on purpose. Crushed ones level up.

What makes it different

Notion and Todoist organize your tasks. Motion schedules them. Locked In is built to understand you — it remembers your patterns and plans around them:

  • Adaptive pacing — when you miss plans, the next ones shrink to match reality. That's strategy, not failure.
  • Goals that pace themselves — set a goal once and every daily plan quietly works toward it, with blocks counted as you go.
  • Streaks that survive real life — bank streak freezes on strong days, so one bad day doesn't erase your progress.
  • You Card insights — your focus graph, best days, peak hours, and completion rate, computed on your device from your real sessions.
  • Four modes — Study for steady work, Crunch for deadlines, Chill for recovery days, Roast when you want honest tough love.

Private by default, free forever

Your plans, streaks, and insights stay on your device, encrypted — they never leave it without your say-so. No account needed to start, no credit card, no dark patterns in the terms. The AI companion, focus timer, goal pacing, and every mode are free. Locked In exists to genuinely help teenagers and adults who feel stuck get moving — and keep moving.

The part chatbots can't copy

Plans that learn from yesterday

Every plan feeds the next one. ChatGPT forgets you at midnight — this is the loop.

Day 1

Get your plan

Dump the chaos, lock in a plan instantly — timed focus blocks, breaks, and a wind-down. It only asks when your input is too vague.

Day 2

The honest check-in

Locked In asks how yesterday actually went. Crushed it, got partway, or didn't happen — three buttons, zero judgment.

Day 3

Today's plan adapts

Struggled? Today is smaller and doable — on purpose. Delivered? Today levels up. Your plans compound instead of restarting.

Missed twice in a row? Today's plan comes radically smaller — that's strategy, not weakness.

Locking in daily

What to expect

Three real situations — this is the shape of your first week, not a promise from strangers.

The 11pm exam panic

You type: “chem test tomorrow and I haven't studied”

7:00 PMCh 6 — key formulas, active recall
8:10 PMCh 7–8 — problem sets, no phone
10:30 PMQuick recap, then wind down

From panic to a schedule in 40 seconds.

The essay you can't start

You type: “I keep putting off the intro. It's been 3 days.”

4:00 PMWrite the worst intro possible — 10 min
4:15 PMFix that intro into a real one
5:00 PMBody paragraph 1, timer on

Activation first, perfection later.

The doomscroll spiral

You type: “I've been scrolling for 2 hours and my deadline is Friday”

NowPhone in another room — 25 min sprint
+25 minWalk, water, zero screens
Repeat3 sprints = Friday's draft done

And Roast mode if you need tougher love.

Why I built this

It started with me — 40 tabs open, phone in hand, exam in two days. Every tool I tried gave me either a blank to-do list or a chatbot that forgot me the next morning. Locked In is what I needed instead: something that plans with me, remembers how it went, and adapts before I have to explain myself again. Local-first, free, and built for the version of you that's tired of starting over.

— Yuzy, founder of Locked In

Still deciding? Read the FAQ or our guides on focusing with ADHD and studying with streaks.

The honest stats

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✓Free forever — no credit card
✓Private by default — data stays on your device, encrypted
✓Built by a solo student developer

What is Locked In?

Locked In is a free, stress-aware AI productivity app built for Gen Z — students and anyone who feels overwhelmed. Instead of a blank to-do list, you describe your situation in your own words — a test tomorrow, an essay you can't start, an endless scroll spiral — and the AI works as a personalized focus assistant: it reads your situation and instantly builds a concrete plan with prioritized tasks, timed focus blocks, breaks, movement, and a wind-down — asking only when your input is too vague.

Four modes change how the AI works: Study for deep, structured focus; Chill for gentle recovery days; Crunch for last-minute emergencies; and a hidden Roast mode that answers procrastination with tough love. Every plan comes with a built-in focus timer, a calendar export, and a shareable result card.

What makes it different from asking ChatGPT: Locked In remembers. A next-day check-in asks how yesterday's plan actually went, and today's plan adapts — smaller when you struggled, tougher when you delivered. Streaks, mood check-ins, and a stress gauge round out the picture, and everything stays private on your device until you choose to sync.

Ready to get locked in?

Your first plan takes less than a minute. The streak builds itself after that.

See how it works

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