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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 ad trackers.
Inside the app
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
Six reasons people keep Focus Hour on their Home Screen.
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.
!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.Run into a bug or have a suggestion? Email us — including your iPhone model and iOS version helps us help you faster.
Email support →Last updated: August 25, 2026. This policy applies to the Focus Hour iOS and watchOS application published by Mark Utility Labs.
Short version: Everything Focus Hour knows about you — your tasks, habits, focus history and settings — is created and stored on your own devices, and none of it is ever sent to us. What does leave the app is anonymous and technical: a crash report when the app crashes, and a count of how the unlock screen is used. No ads, no advertising identifiers, no tracking you across other apps or websites, and no sale of your data, ever.
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. A small amount of anonymous technical data does leave the app, and sections 3 to 5 below say exactly what it is, who receives it, and why.
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.
Focus Hour uses Firebase Crashlytics, a service run by Google, to report crashes automatically so bugs get found and fixed. When the app crashes, a report goes to Google containing the device model, the iOS and app version, the technical details of the crash, and a random identifier Firebase generates for your installation of the app. That identifier is not your name, your email, or your Apple ID; delete and reinstall the app and it changes. A crash report never contains your tasks, notes, attachments, habits or focus history.
When Focus Hour shows its unlock screen, it counts a short list of events through Firebase Analytics, also from Google: that the screen was shown (and which of its two asks it was), that the free week offered there was taken, which layout was shown, and that an unlock completed. It also counts that the one-time offer sheet (the one that shows the other apps) was shown and what was tapped on it, and that the app asked whether you were enjoying it, with which of the two buttons you chose. These events carry no personal content — none of your tasks, notes, attachments, habits or focus history, no name, no contact details. Focus Hour never attaches your identity to them; Firebase records them against the same kind of per-install identifier described above. They exist so we can tell whether the unlock screen works, and for nothing else.
Apple handles the transaction itself. Mark Utility Labs never sees or stores your card details, billing address, or Apple ID password.
Your unlock is kept on your device, in the iOS Keychain. If you unlock the whole collection of Mark Utility Labs apps at once, that record is also kept in your own iCloud, using Apple's CloudKit, so it follows your Apple Account to a new device. It is stored in your private iCloud database, not somewhere we can browse. Focus Hour does not ask you to sign in to anything, and nothing about your purchase is sent to Google.
It's worth being explicit about the absences:
Google (Firebase) receives crash reports and the anonymous usage counts. Apple handles the transaction, and keeps the all-apps unlock record in your own private iCloud database. There are no other recipients.
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.
Focus Hour is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. It never asks anyone, of any age, for a name, an email address, or any other identifying detail.
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.
Questions about this policy or your privacy? Please contact us at:
Mark Utility Labs
Email: mark@vibecode.review
Last updated: August 5, 2026. These terms cover the Focus Hour iOS application published by Mark Utility Labs.
Short version: Focus Hour runs on your device, needs no account, and shows you no ads. Use it however you like.
Focus Hour is published by Mark Utility Labs for your personal use. It needs no account and no sign-up, it shows no advertisements, and your tasks, habits and focus history stay on your device.
Some features are unlocked by an in-app purchase. Any purchase is a one-time, non-consumable unlock — there is no subscription, nothing renews, and you are not charged again for what you have already unlocked. Purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store rather than by Mark Utility Labs, and refunds are handled by Apple under its standard App Store refund process at reportaproblem.apple.com.
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.
The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose.
Please don't reverse engineer, resell, or pass the app off as your own. That's the whole list.
If these terms change, we'll update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Questions about these terms? Please contact us at:
Mark Utility Labs
Email: mark@vibecode.review
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