Do your best work.
Focus helps you concentrate with timed focus sessions built on the Pomodoro technique, track your tasks and projects, and see real progress — across all your Apple devices. A calm, proven rhythm: plan, work, break, review.
“[…] a tool that can genuinely make people more productive” – MacStories.net
“[…] a must-have for anyone who finds themselves easily getting distracted or forgetting to take occasional breaks.” – iDownloadBlog.com
I always use Focus when…
… I need to start a deep-work session
… I want to stop procrastinating and finally begin
… I want to break a big project into focused sprints
… I’m studying and need to concentrate
… I want to protect my time from distractions
… I want to build a daily focus habit
… I want to see what I actually got done today
… I want structure without a heavy, complicated system
Benefits
* Start focusing in seconds: pick a task, start a session, get to work
* The proven Pomodoro rhythm — plan → work → break → review — that gives your attention somewhere to go
* Sessions and tasks together: a focus timer plus real task, project, and time tracking (most apps split these into two)
* See your progress: daily and weekly activity and goals make focus feel earned, never nagged
* Restful breaks that are part of the rhythm, not slacking
* Calm and encouraging — momentum, never hustle, grind, or guilt
Features
* Timed focus sessions with flexible session and break lengths
* Tasks, projects, and time tracking
* Daily and weekly activity and goals
* In-app Learning: short, friendly guides you can apply as you read
* Widgets, Live Activities, and Dynamic Island
* Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight via App Intents
* Seamless iCloud sync
* Built-in accessibility
* Privacy first: your data stays on your devices and in your own iCloud
* Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro
* Handcrafted by real humans 🙂
Focus is free to start. Focus Pro unlocks everything with a 7-day free trial.
Thanks for doing your best work with us!
We’re always improving Focus. If you have feedback or an idea, we’d love to hear it.
About us
Focus is made by Jan & Kerstin, two independent app developers based in Germany. We built Focus for our own workdays — to concentrate, make real progress, and still keep things calm. Our goal: a productivity app that’s a joy to use every day.
We built this tool for ourselves — and now we’d love to share it with you!
Questions?
We offer friendly support. Just drop us a note at support@meaningful-things.com and we’ll get back to you as quickly as we can.
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I have been an off and on user of Focus for a long time. The latest update adds much needed UI love, and works so much better, especially on my iPad. Great work!One area I think could use some love is the Apple Shortcuts. I can only speak for myself here but being able to add new tasks using Apple shortcuts would vastly improve my workflow. For example, it would allow me to create a shortcut to import all my daily tasks from Reminders. If I had a wishlist the two shortcuts would be “Create task with title and date” and “Filter/find existing tasks” to complete the “search and sync” features using shortcuts. Additionally, a game changing feature would be the ability to automatically trigger the app to change the OS level Focus modes when starting/stopping sessions (or maybe just trigger shortcuts instead). For now I use Apple shortcuts to start DND at the same time as starting a Focus timer in the app, but I would love to be able to exit DND during breaks and automatically resume DND when my break is over. Overall this is a great update and I love seeing it! The simplicity of this app makes it one of the best, and with some of the features above I think it would stand above the rest for me and instant 5 star. I am going to resubscribe for now. I know you can’t promise anything but I wanted to be sure to share my thoughts. Keep up the great work!
Developer Response
Wow, thank you, that means a lot to us! It’s very motivating to see our work appreciated in such a friendly and constructive way.Regarding your feedback: we’re currently working on App Shortcuts and will open a TestFlight Beta soon. If you want to check it out early, let me know via support@meaningful-things.com and I can send you an invite!Best wishes,- Kerstin
Best App to stay balanced with work and family!!!
Healthknut
Can’t say enough good things about this app! I’m studying for a promotional exam currently and this app has helped me know when to take breaks but not for too long. There are plenty of options to customize and very helpful to have it on many platforms to use on the go or while at a desk. Keep up the great work with the app! If I could give one suggestion, which is actually more of a request, I would like to see a kid mode or kid options in the app that could help them see a timer for brushing their teeth or bed time reading of some sort. I also have some kids that are close to being teenagers and as they use the app it would be cool for them to be able to customize the background timer as a cool image of choice. Anyway, something to consider and explore for the future. It was just a thought during my study break. I need to get back to the books. Great app, studying is rough but much better when you have something that just tells you when to do it! Thanks again!!
Developer Response
Hi and thanks a lot for taking the time during your break to leave a review. Your kind words mean a lot to us!And great suggestions, thank you! We’ll discuss how we can make Focus even more appealing for young people with more personalization options.I wish you all the best for your promotional exam!- Kerstin
Great app!
Gabbiemk
I am a too lazy of a person to write any review, but I like this app and wanted to share some information and suggestion about the app. As a law student, I have been feeling anxious, uncertain if I am putting in enough hours for my school work, and this app does a great job letting me track how long I did the work each day. I like that I can adjust a number of minutes for each session In because most of apps only provide pomodoro style 25 minutes as an option. Also, I love that I could have the app fill the whole screen so I could start it again. Before using this function, I always missed hitting the start button again that I ended up deleting similar types of apps because of imprecise hours tracked. If I may make some suggestions- it would be nice if I could label how many hours I spent on each task. Just a chunk of hours logged only gives me an idea that I did something, but looking back, j don’t know on which task I spent my time. Also, a stick or pie graph that shows how many hours I focused on each different task would make this app the greatest. I have been looking for one but there’s none that has those functions. Thank you for this app and please keep up the great work!
Developer Response
Thanks so much! 🙏🏼
4.5 stars – minor improvements would make it perfect.
Mike Hallman
I gave this 5 stars but there are just a few minor improvements I would love to see that would make it a true 5/5 for me:-Ability to create custom lists. Not all tasks that I add to Focus are the same. The bulk of it is my daily productivity usage – the tasks I work on as part of my job, which I take straight from my OmniFocus planner. But I also like to use Focus for my morning routine. I’m ADHD and getting out of the house on time is more challenging than it is for most people. Focus is a great help for me in the morning, by setting timers for the basic things – shower, breakfast, planning my day, etc. – it forces me to keep on schedule. Most people take this for granted, but with ADHD, the mornings can be the hardest because the meds haven’t kicked in yet, so having a dedicated “morning routine” list, as an example, would be great.-The ability to set default session and break times unique to the above custom lists. My morning routine session timer may be 15-20 minutes. My workday timer might be 45. Would be great to be able to set different defaults for each. -Repeatable tasks. Quite a few of the tasks on my list are things I do every day. It would be nice to set them to repeat. These three features would be amazing, but their lack does not take away from the fact that this app is awesome. It does just what the name says, keeps me focused, and as importantly, makes it much more likely that I will take breaks, which I frequently neglect to do. It makes me more productive in the end, less stressed, and more balanced. Wonderful app.
NEW: Focus for iOS 27 and macOS 27 Golden Gate
Liquid Glass Refinements
Improved design for a smoother user experience and a clearer look.
Start to focus by speaking to Siri
With full Siri AI support, you can now start a session by voice, add a task, or search Focus by speaking to Siri.
Apple Intelligence
We use on-device Apple Intelligence to accelerate interactions and provide additional insights. Discover task suggestions, smart share cards and Focus activity summaries.
Extra Large Widgets
Two new extra-large Home Screen widgets – one minimalist and one detailed – let you run Focus entirely from your Home Screen, with no need to open the app.
Flexible on all devices
From the smallest to the largest displays, Focus adapts and resizes nicely on all your devices: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and Mac. On Mac and iPad, you can open several windows side by side when multitasking, or pop out a minimalist timer window to just focus on the timer.
We hope you’ll enjoy trying out the new features! As always, if you have any feedback, suggestions, or questions, please reach out to us at support@meaningful-things.com – we’d love to hear from you!
And if you like our work and want to support us, please consider leaving a review in the App Store. Thank you!
Version 2027.0.2
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