---
title: "Focus — Brad Jasper"
description: "A Mac app for deep work: it clears away distractions so you can get into flow and stay there."
url: https://bradjasper.com/projects/focus/
---

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# Focus

Live · 2013 · Mac

A Mac app for deep work: it clears away distractions so you can get into flow and stay there.

- [heyfocus.com](https://heyfocus.com/)

![The Focus timer in the Mac menu bar, set to 15 minutes](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus.D-YkCjkR_1126AW.webp)

I started Focus in 2013. It’s a Mac app that blocks distracting websites and apps so you can do deep work: writing, design, programming, or any creative or knowledge work. It grew out of a [command-line blocker](https://github.com/bradjasper/focus-CLI) I wrote for myself in 2010.

Most software on your computer is built to keep you hooked. Focus does the opposite and gives you back control of your own machine. The interface stays minimal so it gets out of your way: start a session from the menu bar and get to work. Schedules, Pomodoro timers, a locked mode and scripting are there when you need them.

Focus sees every URL you visit, so privacy comes first. It runs locally, never sends sensitive data off your Mac, and has never sold user data. I’ve run it as a small business for more than ten years, doing the design, code, support and marketing myself, and rewrote it from scratch in 2023.

## Videos

[Unfinished Focus Promo](https://bradjasper.com/videos/unfinished-focus-promo/) · Demo · January 2014 · [Watch on YouTube ↗](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY65UC4hYgI)

[![The Focus block screen in light and dark mode: a quote ("If there is no wind, row.") in place of the blocked site](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-block-screens.3LjZWSS1_Z2iJo02.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-block-screens.3LjZWSS1_Z2iJo02.webp)

What you see when you open a blocked site.

[![Focus preferences, Websites tab: a block list with gmail.com, facebook.com, twitter.com and tiktok.com](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-websites.Bpwc2_tR_Z1zws0s.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-websites.Bpwc2_tR_Z1zws0s.webp)

The block list.

[![Focus statistics: hours focused today, this week, this month, this year and all time, with a list of named sessions](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-statistics.ByTqeEtz_Z2cOPuh.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-statistics.ByTqeEtz_Z2cOPuh.webp)

Statistics for your sessions.

[![The 2014 version of the Focus preferences window](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-2014-preferences.Cl0Hyd7a_SQUAP.webp)](https://bradjasper.com/_astro/focus-screenshot-2014-preferences.Cl0Hyd7a_SQUAP.webp)

Focus in 2014.