Focus Hour app icon Tasks · Day planner · Focus timer

Plan the day, then actually do it

Focus Hour is a task manager, a day planner that knows your calendar, and a real Pomodoro timer — in one app, with widgets, an Apple Watch app and a share sheet. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.

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Focus Hour showing today’s tasks with due times, priorities, tags and checklist progress

Inside the app

See it in action

Today’s list, the day planner, the focus timer, habits — and the widgets that put them on your Home Screen.

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Key features

A whole day's work, in one app

Six reasons people keep Focus Hour on their Home Screen.

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A proper task manager
Lists, folders, headings, tags, saved filters and search. Subtasks, checklists, markdown notes and photo attachments. Due dates, defer dates, durations, recurrence, and reminders with buttons you can act on from the notification.
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Type it, don't tap it
Quick add reads what you write. “Draft the report friday 2pm #work !2” lands dated, tagged and flagged without touching a picker.
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A planner that knows your calendar
Your tasks and your existing calendar events on one timeline, so the plan reflects the time you actually have. Auto-pack drops the backlog into the gaps.
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The real Pomodoro cycle
Focus, a short break, and a longer reset every few rounds — every duration configurable — or a plain stopwatch. Synthesised rain, waves, fire and noise to work under.
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On your wrist and Home Screen
Home Screen widgets for today's list — with checkboxes that work right there — and for the running timer. Lock Screen widgets for what's next. An Apple Watch app to tick things off and start a session.
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Fully private
No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no in-app purchases. Everything you do stays on your phone.
Support

How can we help?

Focus Hour keeps everything on your device, so most questions are about how a feature works rather than about your account — there isn't one. If the answer isn't below, email us.

What can quick add understand?
Dates and times (“tomorrow”, “friday 2pm”, “next week”, “25 dec”), priority with !1–!3, tags with #tag, a list with /list, and repeats (“every monday”, “daily”). Whatever it recognises is highlighted as you type, and anything it gets wrong you can override with the pickers before saving.
How does the day planner use my calendar?
If you allow calendar access, Focus Hour reads your existing events and lays them on the same timeline as your tasks, so the plan reflects the time you actually have. Events are read-only — Focus Hour never creates, edits or deletes anything in your calendar, and never uploads it. You choose which calendars are included in Settings, and you can turn it off entirely.
How do the widgets work?
Add them from the Home Screen: long-press the wallpaper, tap the +, and search for Focus Hour. There are Today widgets in three sizes (the medium and large ones have working checkboxes) and a Focus widget showing the running phase. Lock Screen widgets live in the Lock Screen editor — long-press the Lock Screen, tap Customise, then add a widget.
I ticked something on a widget or my Watch — when does the app catch up?
Straight away on the widget or the Watch, and in the app the next time you open it. Widgets and the Watch can't write to the app's storage directly, so the change is queued and replayed when the app next comes to the foreground. Nothing is lost if your phone is asleep or out of range.
How do I send a link or a screenshot to Focus Hour?
Use the share sheet in any app and pick Focus Hour. The page title becomes the task, the link goes in the notes, and a shared image is attached. The title runs through the same quick-add parser, so you can add “ friday !2” before saving. Captures land in your Inbox.
How does the Pomodoro cycle work?
A focus session, then a short break. After a set number of focus sessions (4 by default) you get a longer break, then the cycle continues. Focus length, break lengths, and how many rounds before a long break are all configurable — or switch to the stopwatch if you'd rather not count down. Starting a session on a specific task logs the time against it.
Does Skip count toward my stats or streak?
No. Skip moves you to the next phase without recording it — only sessions that finish naturally count toward your stats, streak and heatmap.
Will I still be notified if I leave the app?
Yes. Focus Hour schedules a local notification when a phase starts, so you're alerted when a focus session or break ends even if you've backgrounded the app. Task reminders work the same way, and can be completed or snoozed straight from the notification.
Do I need an account? Does it sync?
No account, no sign-in, and no cloud sync — everything lives on your device. You can export a full backup file from Settings and import it on another phone.
Can I change how it looks?
Yes — three skins in Settings: Ink (warm paper), Carbon (near-black) and Terminal (phosphor green, all monospaced). Auto follows your system light/dark setting, and you can set your own accent colour and text size.
How do I clear my data?
Deleting the app removes everything, including tasks, habits, focus history and any attachments. Export a backup first from Settings if you want to keep it.
Is Focus Hour really free?
Yes — free, with every feature included. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions.
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Privacy Policy

Your privacy, simply explained

Last updated: August 24, 2026. This policy applies to the Focus Hour iOS and watchOS application published by Mark Utility Labs.

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Short version: everything Focus Hour knows about you — your tasks, habits, focus history and settings — is created and stored on your own devices. There is no account, no analytics, and nothing is ever sent to us.

1. Overview

Focus Hour is a local-first task manager, day planner and focus timer. The data it holds — tasks, lists, tags, notes, attachments, habits, focus sessions and your settings — is generated by you and stored entirely on your device. We operate no server that receives it and have no way to see it.

2. How it's stored

Data is stored locally on your iPhone using standard on-device storage. A compact summary of today — your due tasks, counts and the state of the focus timer — is also written to a shared app group container on the same device, so the widgets, the share extension and the Apple Watch app can display it. That container never leaves your device either; it is simply how iOS lets parts of one app talk to each other.

If you use the Apple Watch app, that summary is sent to your own paired Watch over Apple's Watch Connectivity, directly between your two devices. Deleting the app removes all of this; nothing is backed up to any server we control.

3. What is NOT collected

Focus Hour includes Apple's standard crash reporting so we can fix crashes. Crash reports contain diagnostic information about the crash itself — never your tasks, notes or attachments.

4. Permissions

Focus Hour asks only for what a feature you have chosen to use actually needs, and each one is optional:

Focus Hour requests no access to your location, microphone, contacts, health data or anything else.

5. Children's privacy

Focus Hour is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone.

6. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.

7. Contact us

Questions about this policy or your privacy? Please contact us at:

Mark Utility Labs
Email: mark@vibecode.review

Terms of Use

The short, plain-English terms

Last updated: August 5, 2026. These terms cover the Focus Hour iOS application published by Mark Utility Labs.

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Short version: Focus Hour is free, with every feature included — no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. Use it however you like.

1. The app is free

Focus Hour is provided free of charge with all features included. There are no purchases, subscriptions, paid tiers, or advertisements.

2. Use your own judgment

Focus Hour is provided as a convenience tool. Software can contain mistakes, so for anything critical please confirm against an authoritative source. Mark Utility Labs is not liable for losses arising from use of the app.

3. No warranty

The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose.

4. Acceptable use

Please don't reverse engineer, resell, or pass the app off as your own. That's the whole list.

5. Changes to these terms

If these terms change, we'll update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

6. Contact us

Questions about these terms? Please contact us at:

Mark Utility Labs
Email: mark@vibecode.review