No Dock icon, no window to manage. Built for ADHD by a developer who has it. Hover the notch and this focus timer opens with your next task, a dial and today's habits. What's in it is your actual deck — the same tasks, streak and session as your iPhone and Apple Watch.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Intel and Apple silicon · eight languages · no account
Fits comfortably · done around 15:00
2/4 rituals
First one today. The hardest one's behind you.
Hover the notch for a third of a second, or click it. Esc or a click anywhere else closes it. With an external display attached it stays on the built-in screen, where your eyes already are.
FocusDrop for Mac, coming soon and not yet on the Mac App Store, is a focus timer and one-task-at-a-time deck for ADHD that lives in the Mac menu bar. On a MacBook with a notch it opens as an island under the camera with your next task, a focus dial and today's habits, and it shares one deck with FocusDrop for iPhone and Apple Watch.
As of 23 October 2026, the App Store has FocusDrop 1.6.1 for iPhone and Apple Watch. FocusDrop 1.8 and FocusDrop for Mac 1.0 are built and coming soon; neither is on the App Store yet.
Since {{RELEASE_DATE}}, the App Store has FocusDrop 1.8 for iPhone and Apple Watch, and FocusDrop for Mac 1.0.
Mid-sentence in another app and something lands in your head? Press it, type the thought, and carry on. During a session the same keys park the thought instead, so you don't lose it and don't chase it.
It's registered with macOS as that one key combination and nothing else — FocusDrop cannot see anything else you type, and it needs no Accessibility or Input Monitoring permission. You can turn it off in Settings.
Try it on this page — it opens the island up top, or the park field during a session.
The island is for the next ten seconds. The window is for the rest: today's lineup with soft times, the whole deck, your habits, and how the week is going — with Drop keeping you company.
Sign in to iCloud and that's the whole setup. Tasks, habits, focus sessions, XP, streaks and drops move between your Mac and your iPhone through your own private iCloud, which the developer can't read. Your tasks, habits, streak and the session in progress reach the Apple Watch through the iPhone.
FocusDrop on Apple WatchThe Mac has a sync switch the iPhone doesn't: Settings → Sync → "Sync with iPhone & Apple Watch (iCloud)". Off means your data stays on this Mac.
Today's plan, parked thoughts, your focus sound and your Mac settings stay on the device you made them on. The plan you made at your desk shouldn't rearrange itself because you picked up your phone.
Pro is a single purchase on your Apple Account. Buy it on the iPhone and the Mac unlocks by itself; buy it here and the iPhone does.
What the Mac doesn't do. Co-Focus, AI Task Breakdown and anything else using Apple Intelligence are iPhone features. So are widgets, Live Activities, Siri and Shortcuts actions, Pomodoro Mode, Start smaller, the productivity heatmap, weekly challenges, the Reward Shop, themes, and the landscape clock faces coming in iPhone 1.8. Habits and gentle days are set on the iPhone; on the Mac you tick habits off, and a gentle day taken on the iPhone still holds your streak. Mac 1.0 is a focused first release, not a copy of the phone.
When a session ends, take a break or start another round; after your fourth session the break is a longer 15 minutes, and after two hours of focus in a row it suggests a rest. Pink, brown and white noise, rain, waves and a fan, generated in code, playing only while you focus.
The session ending, the break ending, and a nudge to rest after two hours of focus in a row. Asked for at your first session, never at launch. If you keep notifications off, the end of a session plays macOS's own Glass sound instead.
No Swift packages, no analytics, no crash reporter, no networking code of its own. The same "Data Not Collected" badge as the iPhone app. Privacy policy
Not yet: FocusDrop for Mac 1.0 is built, but as of 23 October 2026 it isn't on the Mac App Store, and there's no release date yet.
It will arrive in the same App Store listing as FocusDrop for iPhone and Apple Watch, which you can download today, and the same Pro purchase will cover it. Until then, the free focus timer runs in any browser on your Mac, without tasks, an account or sync.
Yes: FocusDrop for Mac 1.0 is on the Mac App Store, in the same listing as FocusDrop for iPhone and Apple Watch, and the same Pro purchase covers it. It needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Yes, FocusDrop for Mac works the same on a Mac without a notch: the island lives in a small pill at the top centre of the screen, and everything else is identical. If you connect an external display to a notched MacBook, FocusDrop stays on the built-in screen.
FocusDrop for Mac lives in the menu bar as a small drop, and there's no Dock icon by design. The first time you open it, a window appears to show you where it lives.
If your menu bar is crowded, macOS can hide the drop behind the notch. The island and ⌃⌥F still work, and opening FocusDrop again from your Applications folder opens the island.
FocusDrop for Mac needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on an Intel or Apple silicon Mac. It's a universal binary, not a Rosetta translation. Sync needs an iCloud account.
The iPhone and Apple Watch apps are optional: tasks, focus sessions, Today and your stats all work on the Mac alone. It's in the same eight languages as the iPhone app and follows your Mac's language.
No: FocusDrop for Mac registers ⌃⌥F (Control-Option-F) with macOS as that one key combination, so it only ever hears that combination. It needs no Accessibility or Input Monitoring permission, which is the permission an app would need to read your keystrokes. While the island is open it also notices clicks outside it, only so it can close; nothing about them is kept. You can turn the shortcut off in Settings.
Yes, FocusDrop for Mac works Pomodoro-style, without the iPhone's automatic Pomodoro Mode: when a session ends you take a break or start the next round yourself, and after your fourth session the break is a longer 15 minutes. The dial gives you Sprint, Flow or Deep — 10, 15 or 25 minutes — free, or 5 to 60 minutes in 5-minute steps with Pro, and an open focus with no countdown when you'd rather not pick a number.
On the iPhone, Pomodoro Mode runs four rounds and starts each one by itself when the break ends.
No, macOS doesn't come with a Pomodoro timer, which is why FocusDrop for Mac has rounds and breaks of its own. Apple's Clock app, on the Mac since macOS Ventura, can run several named countdown timers with presets, but Apple's guide describes no Pomodoro, interval or break mode, so you'd restart each round and each break by hand.
Apple's own guide: set timers in Clock on Mac.
No: when it's released, FocusDrop for Mac will come in the same App Store listing, with the same Pro purchase, as the iPhone and Apple Watch apps. Free is the same on the Mac too: up to 7 tasks in your deck and 5 focus sessions a day, and with sync on your devices share one deck and one daily count.
Pro on the Mac removes both limits and adds focus lengths from 5 to 60 minutes on the dial, five more minutes during a timed session, and the weekly streak freeze.
No, FocusDrop for Mac comes in the same App Store listing, with the same Pro purchase, as the iPhone and Apple Watch apps. Free is the same here too: up to 7 tasks in your deck and 5 focus sessions a day, and with sync on your devices share one deck and one daily count.
Pro on the Mac removes both limits and adds focus lengths from 5 to 60 minutes on the dial, five more minutes during a timed session, and the weekly streak freeze.
Yes: open FocusDrop's Settings from the drop in the menu bar, go to Sync, and switch off "Sync with iPhone & Apple Watch (iCloud)". The change takes effect when FocusDrop restarts. Any copy already in your iCloud stays there until you remove it; the privacy policy explains how.
FocusDrop for Mac is coming to the same free App Store listing as FocusDrop for iPhone and Apple Watch, which you can download today. No account, nothing to cancel.
FocusDrop for Mac is part of the same free app as the iPhone and Apple Watch — no account, nothing to cancel.
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