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Catena

A gamified pomodoro and focus timer app for students

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A gamified pomodoro and focus timer app for students

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How Catena Works

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Start a Session

Set a timer and choose a recipe to cook while you focus.

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Focus To Progress

Studying cooks recipes and earns coins.

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Level Up Your Café

Use coins to unlock cafés, décor, and cats.

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Feed Customers

Increase likability with your cat customers by feeding them.

Studying Is Broken

Focus Fades Without Real Progress

Digital distractions interrupt study sessions. Motivation fades quickly, and effort feels abstract when progress is only tracked in minutes. Catena turns focus into visible progress with recipes, coins, and café upgrades that make studying feel rewarding.

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Features

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Focus Timers

Pomodoro and stopwatch focus sessions with app blocking.

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Gamified Rewards

Earn Recipes, coins, levels, cafés, décor, and cats as you study overtime.

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Study Journal

Session history, tags, and productivity insights.

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Cat Customers

As you earn food from studying, feed your cats to increase likability.

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Study With Friends

Add friends, visit each other's cafés, and share your progress together.

Our Mission

Balance Not Burnout

Catena helps people build healthy study habits by turning focus into a gentle and rewarding game. Instead of optimizing for constant productivity, Catena makes effort visible and progress feel meaningful. Every system, from hand drawn visuals to paced rewards, is designed to encourage consistency, balance, and long term habit building.

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