Sessions that cycle
Focus, break, focus, with a round counter, straight from the menu bar. Working Hours can start and end the day for you.
Mac & iPhone · Version 2.0
The breakactually happens.
Set a length and work. When the time is up a full-screen overlay takes every display, and it stays there until the break is done. Start on your Mac, carry on from your phone.
Free to use
No analytics
macOS 14+ and iOS
macOS 14 or later
iPhone
Syncs via your iCloud
Sign in with Apple, optional
Apple silicon & Intel
Most timers ring. This one takes the screen.
A notification you can swipe away is a suggestion. FocusLock covers every monitor you own, so there is nothing left to work through.
When the break starts
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Every display, at onceThe overlay opens on all connected monitors, not just the active one.
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Strict breakOptional. No early exit: the break runs its full length or not at all.
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Lock the MacOptional. Ends the argument entirely for the length of the break.
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A five-second warningYou are never pulled out of a thought mid-sentence.
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Sleep and lock pause itStepping away from the desk no longer burns your focus time.
Built around the session, not around notifications.
25 guided breaks
Grouped so you pick a kind then pick one: Move, Breathe & Reset, Nourish, Mind, Surroundings. Each with a suggested length.
Statistics worth reading
Focus time by day, week and month, which areas took the hours, and the window of the day you are reliably sharpest.
Two devices, one session
A running session appears on your iPhone and keeps counting. Settings follow, so both behave like one app.
20Timer faces
25Guided breaks
10Colour themes
0Analytics collected
Start on the Mac. Finish on the phone.
With iCloud on, a running session appears on your other device and keeps counting there. Your settings follow too, so the two behave like one app rather than two installs sharing a name.
On the Mac
A live countdown beside the clock, a floating window, or a compact Mini HUD, whichever gets out of your way.
On the iPhone
The running session picks up mid-count. A Shortcuts automation can switch on a system Focus mode while it runs.
Your iCloud, not ours
Sync runs through your own account. We operate no servers and receive nothing. Leave it off and nothing leaves the Mac.
A break you know what to do with
Twenty-five guided activities, from a two-minute glass of water to a fifteen-minute walk outside.
Staring at the same screen for five minutes is not a break, and an empty timer is why most people take one anyway.
Twenty faces. Pick the one you can read at a glance.
A timer you look at forty times a day should be one you like looking at. All twenty, each with a live preview, in ten colour themes.
What you actually did, not what you meant to.
No streaks to protect and no score to game, just where the hours went.
Free to use. Pro when you want the whole set.
Everything that enforces a break is free. Pro is for the full run of faces and themes.
Free
$0
The whole mechanism, not a trial of it.
- Focus sessions and enforced breaks
- Full-screen overlay on every display
- 25 guided break activities
- Statistics and Working Hours
- iCloud sync across your devices
Not yet available
Pro
For the full run of faces and themes.
Monthly$1.49 /mo
Yearly$11.99 /yr
Lifetime$29.00 once
- All 20 timer faces
- All 10 colour themes
- Yearly and Lifetime include Family Sharing
Pro is not purchasable yet. These are the planned prices; the buttons arrive when the store listing does.
Why it is free
The part that changes how you work, the enforced break, is the whole point of the app. Charging for it would make the product worse.
Pro pays for the parts that are pure preference: more ways to draw the same countdown, and more colours to draw it in.
Questions worth asking first
Can I skip the break?
By default yes, the overlay has an end-early button. Turn on Strict break and it does not: the break runs its full length. Lock Mac during break goes further and locks the machine.
Does it block apps or websites?
Not in the way that phrase usually means. FocusLock can push a distracting app back to the background with a reminder while a session runs, on macOS only. It cannot force-quit apps, and it does not filter the web — a sandboxed App Store app cannot do either.
What leaves my Mac?
Only what you sync, and it goes to your own iCloud account. There are no third-party servers, no analytics and no telemetry. With sync off, your sessions and settings never leave the machine.
Do I need an account?
No. Sign in with Apple exists so your devices can recognise each other, and it is entirely optional.
Is the iPhone app separate?
Yes, it is its own App Store listing. Both apps read the same session over iCloud, so a timer started on one keeps counting on the other.
What does it run on?
macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. The iPhone app requires a recent iOS release.
Take the break.
Free on both stores. macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon and Intel, plus iPhone.