Focus deeper.
Without fighting yourself.
Set one intention, sink into an ambient world, and let the noise fall away. Focal makes the next ninety minutes something you look forward to.
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- Private by design
- No ads
- App blocking
- Works offline
- Free to start
Why Focal
Most focus apps punish you.
Focal does the opposite.
Timers that shame you, feeds that pull you back, streaks that break and never recover. Focal strips all of it away and leaves you alone with the work, and a world worth staying in.
One thing at a time
Every session starts by naming the single thing that matters. No endless list staring back at you.
A place to go
Eight ambient worlds turn 'start working' into somewhere you actually want to be for the next hour.
Proof you can feel
Streaks, hours, and quiet milestones that reward showing up, not chasing an impossible perfect day.
The loop
Name one thing. Disappear into it.
A session is six small moves, and Focal remembers every one of them for next time. You arrive, you pick a rhythm, you start — and the app handles the rest until the timer lets you go.
Nothing here needs setting up twice. Your last rhythm, environment and blocklist are already waiting.
It starts calm
Your orb waits, dim and quiet. No streak nag, no red badges. Just the one thing you came here to do.
Work your way
Pomodoro, Deep Work, or Flexible. Choose the rhythm that fits, and Focal remembers it for next time.
Press start
Name the session and the orb wakes up. The countdown becomes the only thing on the screen.
Watch it add up
Every finished block feeds your weekly hours, monthly goal, and streak. Progress you can actually see.
Lock the world out
The apps that pull you away stay shielded until the timer ends. The moment it does, they come back.
Bring friends
Drop into a study room, share one timer, and keep each other honest while the clock runs.
Everything in one calm place
Plan it, then focus.
Schedule a goal on the calendar and start a focus session straight from it. The planning and the doing live in the same place, so there is never a gap between deciding and starting.
Small app, surprisingly deep toolkit — and none of it in your way.
A summary worth reading
Every session closes with what you did, how long it ran, and where it landed against your goal.
Wake gently
Six calm alarm tones close each block. No blaring buzzer, no jolt back into the room.
Private by design
No public feed, no follower count, no leaderboard shouting at you. What you track stays yours.
Reminders that nudge once
A goal can tap you on the shoulder at the time you chose, then leave you alone about it.
Goals that repeat themselves
Set a goal to recur and every occurrence is generated for you, already on the right day.
Works with no signal
Timers, sessions and app blocking all run offline. Your data syncs the next time you're online.
Personalisation
Eight worlds to focus in.
Set the scene before you start. Each environment shifts the whole app around it — the timer, the home screen, the session summary — so the mood matches the work.
Scroll to see all eight — swipe on a phone.
Insights
Progress you can actually feel.
Focal turns raw minutes into a picture of your week — the kind that makes you want to keep the run going, instead of the kind that makes you close the app.
- Every session, totaledWeekly and monthly hours build on their own. No manual logging, no spreadsheets.
- Streaks that forgiveConsistency is rewarded without punishing the one day life gets in the way.
- Your best hours, surfacedFocal learns when you actually focus and quietly points you back to it.
Free accounts keep the core analytics. Pro removes the history limit.
Reflections
Learn why some sessions work.
Two good hours and two wasted ones look identical in a total. Focal asks one small question after each session, then turns the answers into the pattern behind your best work.
- One tap after a sessionPick how it felt and what got in the way. That's the whole ritual — no journalling homework.
- Length, sorted by moodSee how long you actually last when you're fired up versus running on four hours of sleep.
- What helped, what didn'tStress, hunger, a good room — the things shaping your focus stop being a guess.
Reflections stay on your account. Nothing is shared, ever.
Achievements
A galaxy that fills as you focus.
Every hour you put in lights something up. The Hall of Achievements turns months of quiet work into one thing you can actually look at — and want to keep going for.
- Five paths, twenty-five starsGetting started, deep work, streaks, endurance and study rooms — each one lights its own arc.
- Earned quietlyNo push notification bragging at you. You find them filled in the next time you look.
- Yours aloneThere is no leaderboard behind this. The only run you're chasing is your own.
All twenty-five are free. Nothing here sits behind Pro.
App blocking
Your phone, finally boring.
App blocking during a session is ruthless in the best way. The exits close, and there is nothing left to do but the work.
- Pick your poisonChoose the exact apps and categories that pull you away. Social, games, whatever it is.
- Sealed while you workFor the length of the session they simply do not open. The temptation stops being a decision.
- Free the second you finishNo lingering restrictions. The moment the timer ends, everything comes back on its own.
Powered by Apple’s Screen Time permission, handled entirely on your device. Focal never sees what you do inside another app.
Study rooms
Focus is better with company.
Some sessions need a witness. Study rooms put you in a shared timer with the people keeping you honest, wherever they are.
- Share a codeSpin up a room and send the invite. No accounts to chase, no friction to start.
- One shared timerEveryone runs the same clock and the same breaks, so nobody drifts off alone.
- Up to five, liveSee who is heads-down in real time. Quiet accountability, not a group chat.
No leaderboards and no ranking. Presence, not pressure.
Voices
Loved by people with real deadlines.
“I stopped negotiating with myself every morning. I open Focal, name the task, and the next ninety minutes just happen.”
“The study rooms are the only reason my thesis is moving. Knowing someone else is in the timer with me changes everything.”
“App blocking during a session is ruthless in the best way. My phone is finally boring while I work.”
“I never cared about a streak until this one. Watching the hours stack up is quietly addictive.”
“The environments do something to my brain. Ten seconds of Aurora and I am already in the work.”
Questions
Answered plainly.
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