Your AI focus companion

Focal watches your gaze and your screen — keeping you accountable, and quietly giving your focus back.

Download for Mac
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Trusted by students and professionalsCardless 14-day free trial

6 hours. That's how much time you will lose today on average. It's not you. Everything is built to steal your attention. It's time to take it back.

Willpower was never the problem. Feedback is.

Every other app blocks, locks, and punishes — then leaves you alone with your own discipline. Focal watches with you: a calm presence that notices the small drifts you don't, and brings you back the way a good study partner would. No blocking. No shame.

Blockers you can turn off.Focal you can't lie to.

Your Focal

Build your Focal

Name it, pick its voice, and choose what it keeps you honest about. Set a daily goal and it's yours — a companion, not a generic timer.

Focal
your companion
Focal Session

Focus, watched over

Start a session. Focal reads your gaze, your screen, and your posture — all on your Mac — and nudges the instant you drift.

92%focused
On track
Recovery

Watch your focus come back

Every focused day warms a cell on your record. A forgiving streak — rest days and all — keeps you coming back, without the dread.

Current streak
12 days
rest day banked
every focused day warms a cell

Quietly watching the things that pull you away.

Gaze & face tracking

Knows the moment your eyes leave the work.

Screen-aware nudging

Knows the tab in front of you is work — or a detour.

Gentle voice nudges

A quiet word in your companion's voice — never an alarm.

Phone-pickup detection

Catches the most expensive distraction the second it happens.

Sensitive data never
leaves your device.

All processing occurs ON DEVICE with Focal's image processing models. Camera or screen data never leaves your device and we never store it.

No video ever uploadedFrames are analyzed on-device and never written to disk or sent anywhere.
Your data stays yoursSessions and stats live on your device
Works offlineFocal's image processing models are downloaded with the app. Pull the network cable and nothing changes.

Focus is invisible.
So we made it real.

That's exactly why it's so easy to quit. Focal turns every session into something you can hold — a record that glows a little brighter each day you show up, and a streak that's hard to walk away from.

Read the thinking behind it
Your focus record
128h
Current streak
12 days
18 weeks · brighter is deeper focusLessMore

Quiet, until you need it.

My ADHD brain physically cannot sit still to study. This is the first thing that actually pulls me back.

Maya

I have really bad dopamine addiction. I'd open my notes and somehow be on my phone 5 minutes later. Focal actually feels like its helping me stay on track.

Devin

Every blocker I tried, I just unblocked in two taps. Focal doesn't lock me out, it keeps me honest and annoyed me in the best way

Priya

Your most focused day
starts this afternoon.

Focal doesn't block you out of your life. It helps you get it back — one watched-over session at a time.

Start with macOS
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14 Days Free · macOS · Windows on the way
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