What’s new

Easier to open

• Starting Pop Focus again, from the Start menu or by double-clicking it, now opens Settings instead of doing nothing.

Clearer wording and look

• Pop Focus now talks about the things on your calendar: meetings, events, tasks and reminders.
• The arrow on a card that has a link is now an open-link arrow, so it no longer looks like a play button.

Clearer when something goes wrong

• If Settings cannot start, it now shows a message with the reason.
• Pop Focus writes a crash report you can email to hello@lauden.dev if it ever stops unexpectedly. Reports hide email addresses and web addresses.

Make the bubbles yours

• Pick the size, shape (card, pill, ellipse or hexagon) and color.
• Show from 1 to 30 bubbles per reminder, and choose how long they stay: 5, 10, 20, 25, 30 or 60 seconds.
• Adjust the opacity. New installs start at 70%.
• A live preview in Settings shows exactly what you are choosing.

Choose how they move

• Eight travel paths: classic bounce, rise, fall, left to right, right to left, wave, zigzag and around the edge.
• Set the speed from a quarter to three times normal. Every path moves at the same real speed, so changing the path does not change the pace.

Sounds, if you want them

• Play a chime, bell or drop when a reminder appears, or use your own file (WAV, OGG or MP3, up to 5 MB).
• Choose the exact part of your file that plays. A waveform editor shows the selection and a moving highlight while it plays.
• Add an optional pop sound when you dismiss a bubble: pop, click, bloop or your own file.
• One volume control for both. Sounds play as soon as you pick them, and both are off until you turn them on.

Every monitor

• Bubbles now spread across all of your displays on Windows, macOS, and Linux desktops with layer-shell support such as KDE Plasma. GNOME shows them on your main display for now.

Reminders and small touches

• Alert times from 1 minute up to 24 hours before a meeting, with quick presets for 60, 30, 15, 10, 5 and 1 minutes.
• Show a test reminder at the bottom of Settings previews your reminder with your current choices.
• The tray and menu bar now show whether this copy is licensed: a check mark when it is, a cross when it is not.