Pop Focus
Pop your focus before you miss the next thing.
Pop Focus is a desktop app that watches all your calendars at once: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Zoho, and local .ics files. Shortly before each meeting, event, task or reminder on your calendar, it floats soft bubbles across your screen, so you notice without being startled. Hover to freeze them in place. Click the video icon on a bubble to join the call when the entry has a meeting link, or click anywhere else on it to dismiss it. Leave them alone and they drift away on their own after a short while.
$16 one time, per device, plus tax where applicable. No subscription.
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New in 0.1.20: a quicker setup, bubbles that spread out, and an Update now button.
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US dollars, US billing addresses only. Each device is activated once online, then works offline. Pop Focus is currently in its 0.x.x releases, and one payment covers every update through 1.x.x. Money-back guarantee: see the refund policy and the terms.
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Demo: connect a calendar, then bubbles appear before a meeting. Hover to pause them and click to join.
Screen recordings: colors may look different from how Pop Focus appears on your own device.
What it does
- Reminds you gently. Bubbles appear over whatever you are working on, a set time before each meeting, event, task or reminder on your calendar. You choose how early.
- Anything on your calendar. A meeting, event, task or reminder counts as long as it is an entry on one of your calendars. Items kept in a separate to-do app, such as Google Tasks, are not read.
- Reads your calendars. Sign in with Google, Microsoft (Outlook and Microsoft 365) or Zoho, connect Apple Calendar (iCloud) with an app-specific password, or load a local
.icsfile with no sign-in at all. Google accounts include calendars shared with you. - You pick which calendars. Choose exactly which of your Google and Microsoft calendars trigger reminders, per account, from Settings.
- Read-only. Pop Focus never creates, edits, or deletes anything on your calendar.
- Private by design. Your calendar data stays on your computer. There is no Pop Focus account and no analytics. See the privacy policy.
Signing in with Google
Signing in with Google is optional. Pop Focus asks Google for read-only access to your calendar events and calendar list, plus your email address to label the account. It uses that access only to show you reminders. Details, and how to revoke access at any time, are in the privacy policy.
Pop Focus's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Signing in with Microsoft
Signing in with Microsoft (Outlook.com or Microsoft 365) is optional. Pop Focus asks Microsoft for read-only access to the events on your account's calendars (Calendars.Read), your account email address to label the account (User.Read), and permission to stay signed in (offline_access). It uses that access only to show you reminders. Events go directly from Microsoft to your computer, and your sign-in token stays in your operating system's credential store. Details, and how to revoke access at any time, are in the privacy policy.
Some organizations require an administrator to approve new apps before work or school accounts can sign in.
Connecting Apple Calendar
Connecting Apple Calendar (iCloud) is optional. Apple has no sign-in window for calendars, so you enter your Apple ID and an app-specific password that you create at appleid.apple.com, under Sign-In and Security. Pop Focus uses it only to read the events on your iCloud calendars. The password is sent only to Apple and stays in your operating system's credential store; your main Apple ID password is never used. You can revoke the app-specific password at any time on the same Apple page. Details are in the privacy policy.
Signing in with Zoho
Signing in with Zoho is optional and works for accounts in Zoho's US data center. Pop Focus asks Zoho for read-only access to your calendars and events (ZohoCalendar.calendar.READ and ZohoCalendar.event.READ) and your account email address to label the account (AaaServer.profile.READ). It uses that access only to show you reminders. Events go directly from Zoho to your computer, and your sign-in token stays in your operating system's credential store. Details, and how to revoke access at any time, are in the privacy policy.
Platforms
- Linux
- Windows
- macOS
Linux packages: a .deb for Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, and an .rpm for Fedora 43 or newer and Nobara. The macOS build runs on Intel and Apple silicon.
Questions
Email hello@lauden.dev.