What is Tempo Focus?
Tempo Focus is an iPhone Pomodoro and focus app for people who want their work sessions protected from distracting apps. Start a timed or open ended session, choose a label, and Tempo blocks selected apps, categories, and websites until the session is paused or finished. Live Activities keep the timer, label, and cycle visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, while Insights review focused time by day, week, month, year, and label.
Why Tempo Focus works
A timer is easy to ignore when the same phone still puts every distracting app one tap away. Tempo applies app and website boundaries only while a focus session is active, then ties the finished time back to a label for later review. It blocks the escape routes and records where the time went instead of merely counting down beside the distractions.
Tempo Focus features
- Session based app blocking. Keep chosen apps, categories, and websites out of reach while a focus session runs, then restore access when it pauses or ends.
- Pomodoro and stopwatch modes. Use structured focus and break cycles or start an open ended stopwatch session when the work has no fixed finish time.
- Labels with blocker scenarios. Give each label its own duration and App Blocker setup, or apply one default blocked set across every session.
- Live Activities. Keep the current timer, label, and cycle visible from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island without reopening the app.
- Editable focus history. Review focus across days, weeks, months, years, and labels, then add missed sessions or correct the timing and label later.
Who Tempo Focus is for
- Pomodoro users who want chosen apps, categories, and websites unavailable while the current cycle runs.
- Independent makers who move between design, marketing, and reading and want each kind of focused work tracked under its own label.
- People who switch between fixed focus cycles and open ended sessions but still want one consistent history.
- iPhone users who want the current timer visible from the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island instead of reopening the app.
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