A rhythm on the wall clock
Where your attention goes.
Twenty-five minutes of focus, five of rest, restarting at every hour — whether or not anyone is watching. There is no Start button. You join the rhythm, or you step away.
You are 1 minute into a focus block.
Until 00:25. Nothing to press.
The rhythm
It is running right now.
This is the current hour, wherever you are reading from. The rhythm did not wait for you to arrive, and it will not stop when you close the page.
One sentence
One sentence, not a dashboard.
The screen tells you where you are in plain words, with a small pie melting toward the next boundary. At the boundary it asks one quiet question — never a modal, never a siren.
Glance. Answer. Back to work.
Five minutes of rest starts now. Were you focusing?
Ignoring it is a real answer. The time stays untracked, and nothing goes red.
An honest trace
Taps classify your time — focus or rest. They never drive the timer. A break that runs long is counted as it happened, and untracked time is simply untracked.
Done differently
Timers have settled into a few habits of their own. Focus doesn't share them.
The rhythm is already running — you join it
Usually: A Start button you have to remember to press
A long break is counted as it happened
Usually: A timer that punishes you for pausing it
One quiet question at the boundary
Usually: An alarm, a modal, and a full-screen takeover
Plain files you can read, copy and export
Usually: Your attention, in someone else's database
Your data, and we mean yours
Your days live as plain files in your own iCloud Drive — iPhone, iPad and Mac. Readable, copyable, yours to keep, with or without the app.
No account. No server of ours in the middle. It works offline, because there is nothing to reach.
And on the Mac
The same rhythm on your desk — one quiet sentence beside your work.
Download for macOS — with the betaRequires macOS 13 or later. · Version 0.16.0 · what's new
Not open yet.
Focus is still in beta. It opens when a day of it feels calm rather than clever.
Before you ask
- When does it open?
- When a day of it feels calm rather than clever. The list hears first, and only then.
- Can I change the rhythm?
- The 25 and 5 are the point — a shared shape you can trust. Other lengths are on the list, not in the way.
- Does it nag me?
- One quiet question at each boundary, which you are free to ignore. No alarms, no streaks.
- Do I need an account?
- No. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.
- What will you send me?
- One email, the day it opens. Nothing else, and one click to leave.