A cat sits while you work.
Focus with Hei is body-doubling with a cat instead of a productivity dashboard. Pick a room, set twenty-five minutes, and Hei sits at the window with you until it's done — a serif countdown, a breathing cat, a screen that stays awake and asks nothing of you. Pause if life happens; he'll wait. When the block ends he stretches, the day is counted, and that's the whole app. Hei really does sit like this while we work. Now he can sit with you.
he's not going anywhere
Focus with Hei is on the App Store. The button at the top of this page goes straight to its listing, where Apple shows what it costs where you are and everything that comes with it.
No iPhone to hand? The waitlist below still works — one email when there's news, and nothing else.
What it looks like
Honestly: the icon, and the session panel at the top of this page. The real screenshots are on the App Store listing, so rather than copy them here and let them drift out of date, here is the mark the app actually carries.
The whole timer is free, forever. Both of Hei's rooms — the midnight window and the rooftop — plus pause, the streak, the stats and the end cue. That is a complete app, not a demo with a countdown on it.
Focus Plus adds Tong supervising from her desk, Meow supporting you by napping, and every scene that comes later: $9.99/year, or $1.99/month if you'd rather try it a month at a time. Both renew until you cancel. Nothing you can already use will ever be moved behind that line.
US prices. Apple converts them for your country, and the price on the listing is the one you pay.
A quiet room and one block of work
Pick a room, not a workflow
Hei's midnight window or the rooftop, free forever. No projects, no tags, no weekly review — the setup is choosing where to sit and for how long.
A streak that's kind
One finished session counts the day. Giving up early is recorded honestly and held against no one, and your best run is remembered forever.
One notification, ever
The moment your session ends, even if you wandered off. No streak nags, no "we miss you" — an app that notifies uninvited has already lost the argument about your attention.
Quiet on purpose
Silent unless you ask. Each scene has one quiet music loop — soft Rhodes and rain at Hei's window, slow bells on the rooftop, a lo-fi groove at Tong's desk, a music box on Meow's cushion. It stays off until you tap it on, plays only while a session is on screen, and mixes with whatever else you're playing — so if you'd rather have purrs and rain, our sleep app Purr can run alongside it, and one of its rooms is already free in your browser.
A few things I'm promising up front
- No ads, ever. An ad inside a focus app is self-defeating in exactly the way an ad in a sleep app is. The only money here is Focus Plus.
- Nothing gets taken back. New scenes may ship as Plus, but anything you can already use stays usable — no feature moves behind a paywall after the fact.
- No guilt copy. No dying trees, no leaderboards, no scolding for a bad week. A lapse gets a warm welcome back, and that's it.
Tell me where to reach you
One email when there's Focus with Hei news — a new scene, a new cat. Nothing else.
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