RescueFocusFor Mac

Finish what you started.

You open YouTube for a tutorial. Three videos later, you’re watching someone’s desk tour. RescueFocus is a Mac app that nudges you back to your work.

Coming to Mac

Hold that thought.

Remember an invoice halfway through something else. Save the thought in RescueFocus and get back to it.

Thoughts pencilled onto an index card.
A tower of messages rises from a laptop.

Down the rabbit hole.

You check one email and end up clearing the inbox. It’s all work, but the thing you meant to finish hasn’t moved. RescueFocus nudges you back, even when email has to stay open.

See it in action.

Choose a Task. RescueFocus checks what’s on your screen against it. Scroll to see the eyes above nudge you back when you get sidetracked. Nothing gets blocked.

You sit down to ship the launch video.

You choose this as your Focus.

  1. You look up a colour-grading tutorial.

    Colour grading in ten minutes
    BeforeAfter
    Colour grading in ten minutesFrame School · 212K views
    Up next
    A website blocker

    Blocking YouTube blocks the tutorial too.

    RescueFocus

    The tutorial helps with your edit, so you carry on.

  2. Autoplay moves on to a desk-setup tour.

    My desk setup tour
    My desk setup tourStudio Diaries · 1.4M views
    Up next
    RescueFocus

    RescueFocus nudges you back to the edit, then reminds you if you stay.

  3. You’re back on the edit.

    Launch video, edit
    Launch video00:42 / 01:30

  4. One Slack reply turns into a thread about another project.

    Slack: #website-redesign
    Northside Studio
    Channels# general# launch-video# website-redesign# random
    # website-redesign12
    AAna2:41 PMCan you look at the new hero before 3?23 repliesLast reply just now
    YYou2:43 PMLooks good to me.
    LLeo2:44 PMWhile we’re here, should the nav change too?
    AAna2:46 PMAnd the pricing page. It feels old.
    SSam2:51 PMWhat if we redo the logo?
    LLeo2:52 PMI made three versions, one sec
    Message #website-redesign
    A website blocker

    Slack stays open. The thread gets through.

    RescueFocus

    Another project has pulled you away. RescueFocus nudges you back to the edit.

  5. You export the launch video and ship it.

    Launch video, export
    Export complete
    Launch video01:30 / 01:30
    RescueFocus

    You finished what you started.

Stay with the hard part.

The edit isn’t working. The bug still makes no sense. An easier problem is one click away. RescueFocus nudges you back to the work you chose, so you can give it another try.

Working through a draft, with revisions marked in orange.

Keep your whole workspace open.

Good work needs room to explore. Watch the tutorial, look up a reference, ask someone for help. RescueFocus knows what you’re working on and nudges you back when you get sidetracked.

Nothing gets locked. You decide what to do next.

Let your work add up.

A project you care about takes more than one sitting. Coming back to it gives it a chance to become real: a film you can share, an app someone can use, an idea you can finally show instead of explain.

A filmmaker sharing her finished film with a small audience.

Your work stays private.

The AI runs on your Mac with Apple Intelligence, so you need no AI subscription and nothing leaves your Mac. Choose Pro to use a hosted model with your own key. The provider stores nothing.

Flow follows focus.

Working under a desk lamp, headphones on.