Math Attack

Year: 2025
Role: Founder, Designer, Developer, Tester, and Marketer
Tools: Figma, Swift, SwiftUI, FamilyControls (Screen Time API), DeviceActivity, ManagedSettings, AVFoundation, Xcode

Overview

Math Attack is a heavy-metal-themed focus app that locks users out of distracting apps like Instagram or TikTok until they solve a math problem correctly. Part brain trainer, part productivity tool, it blends fast mental arithmetic with Apple’s Screen Time APIs to create a powerful intervention against doomscrolling.

What I Did

• Integrated Apple’s Screen Time API (FamilyControls) to let users select which apps they want Math Attack to shield.

• Implemented the Device Activity framework to monitor unlock windows and enforce re-shielding if users try to bypass the system.

• Built a custom Shield Screen that replaces social media apps with Math Attack’s challenge interface until the user answers correctly.

• Designed and developed a mental math training engine with difficulty scaling, multiple-choice options, and penalty logic for wrong answers.

• Created a unique heavy-metal aesthetic (textures, logo, onboarding flow, animations) to make productivity feel less clinical and more motivating.

• Handled the entire release pipeline — App Store provisioning with entitlements, privacy policy/support pages, screenshots, and launch marketing.

Why It Matters

Math Attack demonstrates how I can ship a deeply technical product that integrates with sensitive iOS frameworks while still delivering a distinctive user experience. It shows my ability to:

• Work with complex entitlements and Apple review constraints.

• Translate abstract behavioral ideas (blocking apps, discouraging button-mashing) into practical UX flows.

• Combine engineering rigor with branding and design flair, producing a tool that is both functional and memorable.

By blending productivity with play, Math Attack reimagines focus tools as something people actually want to use.