01
Dump it
Ramble with your mind. Focus5 writes the tasks down, dates them, and assigns them in the right book. Nothing has to be organised to get out of your head.
Brain dump
Five tasks.
One at a time.
Done.
Keep all 200+ of them. Focus5 hands you one at a time, in the right order, and sits with you until it is done.
Free to start. No card. No subscription, ever.
Today
Finish the Q3 draft reportWork
Review the designs with BobWork
Gym, leg dayHealth
Find a good hotel for the Maldives tripInbox
Pick the kid up from daycarePersonal
You open your “favorite” to-do app.
213 tasks look back at you.
You close it and do something else.
You are not lazy. You are buried.
Focus5 asks for five. The rest can wait.
The method
Dump it all. Open Focus. Do 1.
02
Open Focus
You never decide what to do. Focus queues your work for you: today’s tasks first, then anything still open from before, then what is coming up. It shows 5 at a time so the rest stays out of your way.
Focus 5
Finish the Q3 draft reportWork
Review the designs with BobWork
Gym, leg dayHealth
Find a good hotel for the Maldives tripInbox
Pick the kid up from daycarePersonal
Rewrite the onboarding emailWork
Renew the domainInbox
03
Do 1
One task on screen, the clock running, the rest out of sight. Finish it and the next one slides in. Not in the mood? Later moves it down and nothing nags you about it.
Review the designs with Bob
Sat · Aug 8
21:48
Task 2 of 5
“The hardest part of a list of 40 tasks isn’t doing them. It’s deciding which 1 to start.”
Pricing
One payment. No subscription. Ever.
Every other planner charges you every month, forever, and calls it a business model. Buy Focus5 once and it is yours. Every feature, every device, and every update from here on, including the ones that don’t exist yet.
Founder pack
$29Twenty-nine dollars, one time.
One payment. Yours forever.
- Focus mode, Ramble, Insights, unlimited books
- All future updates. No upgrade emails.
- Web and Android today. iOS the day it lands.
- $29 now. $99 from 1 September.
About what one year of a to-do app costs. You just never pay again.
Founder pricing ends 31 August.
Free
$0
Everything for 7 days. Then the basics, free.
- Every feature unlocked for your first 7 days
- After that, Today, Agenda and Calendar stay free
- 2 books, unlimited tasks, no time limit
- Syncs between the web and the Android app
Phone or laptop. Same five.
Focus5 is on Google Play for Android, and runs in any desktop browser. Same account, same five tasks, either way. iPhone is next, and the Founder Pack covers it.
Get it on Google PlayiOSSoon
Independent. Bootstrapped.
Focus5 is one developer building the planner he needed, and using it every day. The Founder Pack is how it stays that way. No investors, no growth team adding features nobody asked for, and no reason to charge you twice.
Wajahat Karim · Building in public
Questions
The things worth asking.
Is it really lifetime?
Yes. One payment, no renewal, no expiry date. Your account keeps every premium feature, including the ones we have not built yet.
What happens after 7 days on the free plan?
You keep your account and every task. Focus mode, Ramble and Insights lock. Today, Agenda, Calendar and 2 books stay free, with no time limit. Nothing is deleted.
Why lifetime and not a subscription?
You pay for enough subscriptions already. An app that bills you monthly has to keep proving it is worth it, usually by adding things you never asked for. $29 once, and it is done. There is no monthly plan, and there will not be one.
Can I add more than 5 tasks?
Yes, as many as you want. Focus5 never stops you adding anything. The 5 is how many Focus shows you at a time, so you are not staring at 40. Finish one and the next slides in automatically.
What if 5 isn’t my number?
Change it in Settings and it follows you to the phone. 5 is the default because it works for most people, not because we’ll stop you.
Should I use the Android app or the web?
Whichever is in front of you. Both are the full Focus5, they share one account, and your tasks sync between them. Get the Android app on Google Play for your phone, and use the web app on a laptop. iOS is next, and every app is included in the one payment.
Does it work on my phone’s browser?
No. Focus5 on the web is built for a keyboard and a mouse. Dragging a task onto another day doesn’t work on touch at all. On Android, get the app from Google Play instead. On iPhone, the app is next.
What happens to my data?
It’s yours, it syncs between web and phone, and you can delete your account and everything in it from Settings. No email to anyone, no waiting.