FOCALPlan your day to your quarter. Run boards, write notes, and track reminders, all in one place. Fast, native, and private. Yours forever for one flat price. No subscription, no account required, and now with optional sync plus a web companion when you want your work on another screen.
Free to try. No account, no credit card. Buy once for $29 when you're ready.
You spent a weekend building the perfect Notion setup. Databases, relations, rollups, four kinds of views. You optimized the tool instead of shipping the work. The configuring never really ends, because there's always one more field to add before the real work can start.
An idea hits mid-build. You switch tabs, the workspace loads, a spinner turns, the cursor finally lands. By the time you can type, the thought is gone. Flow state is fragile, and every sync, spinner, and half-second of lag chips away at it.
Your roadmap, your client's NDA'd work, your half-formed ideas: all of it sits on a server you don't control. You're renting access to your own data, in a format you can't fully export, behind a subscription that hikes its price whenever it likes.
Plan across time horizons, run your projects, capture ideas, and track tasks. Nothing you don't need.
Today, Week, Month, and Quarter views, each with its own to-do list, notes, and a live roll-up of what's due. Zoom from today's tasks out to the full quarter without leaving the app.
Board, table, or calendar view per project, switched in a single click. Cards carry a status workflow (backlog to in progress to done), priority, due dates, recurring schedules, tags, and checklists.
Folders, full formatting, checklists, links, and resizable inline images, right beside your boards. Flag, pin, or lock the notes that matter. Built-in spell check, and search every note the instant an idea hits.
Reminders with due dates, priorities, flags, and tags. A global calendar pulls your due cards and reminders into one month view, with day notes you can drop anywhere.
Sign in from Settings and your workspace syncs to a companion web app you can open on any device, phone included. Off by default, sold as an optional subscription, and your Mac stays the source of truth. Skip it entirely and FOCAL runs 100% local.
Opens in under a second, lives in your menu bar, works fully offline. Light and dark themes, spell check, and a single data file on your machine you can export any time.
One click, 30 seconds. No account, no credit card, no sign-up form. It's fully yours to try the moment you open it.
Set up boards, write notes, create reminders. Full access from day one. The interface is intuitive; you'll feel at home immediately.
Love it? Pay once, own it forever. Your projects, ideas, and tasks stay on your machine, fast, private, and always available.
I got tired of jumping through multiple apps to sync my workflow that should have been one. So I built the tool I actually wanted: fast, private, offline-first, and priced like software used to be. FOCAL is the app I wanted open beside me every day. Since I started using it, I never lose my place in my work, and I haven't opened the other apps once.
No subscriptions. No tiers. No "Pro" upsell.
Pay once, use it as long as you want.
Free to try. No account, no credit card. Pay once when you're ready.
$10/month. Syncs your workspace to the companion web app and across Macs. Cancel anytime and the $29 app keeps working fully offline with all your data intact.
Most founders spend $60–$120/yr on a project tool they're still working around. FOCAL replaces it (and the two free apps you're duct-taping to it) for a one-time $29.
Up to $120/yr on scattered tools, or $29 once for everything in one place. The math is simple. Trying it is free.
Free to try. No account, no credit card. Buy once for $29 when you're ready.
macOS · $29 once · Free to try One-time purchase. Fully offline. 30-day money-back guarantee.