Features
Everything Foci can do
55 features across 10 areas — from tasks and Smart Plan to an optional focus timer and built-in brown noise. Search or filter to find exactly what you need.
No signup required to start. Optional free account syncs tasks and streaks across devices.
55 features
Tasks & projects
Capture, organize, and finish work.
Tasks & projects
Tasks, projects, and subtasks
Capture tasks, group them into projects, break larger work into subtasks, and log time per task.
Try it in the app →Tasks & projects
Task detail drawer
Save, Focus, due date, priority, waiting/someday status, recurrence, and subtasks in one slide-over panel.
Tasks & projects
Recurring tasks
Daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly — completing the task creates its next occurrence automatically.
Tasks & projects
Subtask due dates
Give each subtask its own deadline for granular tracking.
Tasks & projects
Move tasks between projects
Reassign a task to another project without dragging.
Tasks & projects
Due and overdue tray
An in-app tray for due and overdue work, with compact urgency chips on mobile.
Tasks & projects
Done tally
A running count of completions for today, this week, and this month — it pulses when you finish.
Tasks & projects
Search across every view
Find tasks by text across Cards, Buckets, List, Calendar, and Smart Plan.
Tasks & projects
Project colors and tabs
Click a project swatch to recolor it, right-click to rename, and drag tabs to reorder or pin favorites.
Tasks & projects
Projects manage
A 2–3 column project grid with full-width expand, archive (keeps tasks) or delete (removes tasks too).
Views & layouts
Cards, buckets, list, calendar, and plan.
Views & layouts
Card view (default)
Project cards with drag-and-drop task reordering and a slide-over detail drawer.
Try it in the app →Views & layouts
Bucket board (kanban)
Kanban columns per project — reorder columns, drag tasks within a section, or move them across projects.
Try it in the app →Views & layouts
List view
A dense, scannable list of your tasks with the same filters and search.
Try it in the app →Views & layouts
Calendar view
See tasks on a calendar — selecting a day sets the due date.
Try it in the app →Views & layouts
Smart Plan view
A day-by-day plan built from due dates and your daily capacity.
Try it in the app →Views & layouts
Print the active view
Print cards, list, or buckets for a paper copy of your day.
Views & layouts
Expand and Zen mode
Expand tasks for detail, or drop into Zen mode for a distraction-free session.
Views & layouts
Today, week, month, year filters
Smart time filters with project tabs to scope exactly what you see.
Planning & scheduling
Turn due dates into a realistic day.
Planning & scheduling
Smart Plan scheduling
Foci turns due dates and daily capacity into a realistic day-by-day schedule.
Try it in the app →Planning & scheduling
Today's One Thing
Pick one priority for the day; it sits beside the Focus actions so priority and start stay together.
Planning & scheduling
Daily goal presets
Light (4), Standard (8), or Intense (12) sessions per day.
Planning & scheduling
Project templates
Start from preset tasks — Dev Sprint, Trip Planning, and more — plus financial planning sets like Monthly Budget and Debt Payoff.
Planning & scheduling
First-win checklist and tour
A short getting-started checklist (set One Thing, finish a task) with a replayable product tour.
Focus timer
Optional sessions, presets, and time logs.
Focus timer
Optional focus timer
A Pomodoro-style session timer with customizable work and break durations — optional, not the whole product.
Focus timer
Timer presets
Classic Pomodoro (25/5), Short Sprint (15/3), Deep Work (50/10), 52/17, and Ultra Focus (90/20).
Focus timer
Automatic time logging
Focus sessions track time per task, so you can see where hours went.
Focus timer
Collapsible timer panel
Keep the timer compact in the status bar, or expand it full-width while you manage tasks.
Focus timer
Session alarm and tab countdown
An alarm when a session ends, with the countdown shown in the browser tab title.
Focus timer
Motivational quotes
A quote after sessions, or pin your own custom quote for the day.
Ambient sound & music
Noise, playlists, and live streams.
Ambient sound & music
Built-in ambient sounds
Rain, café, white noise, and brown noise — generated in the browser, so they keep working offline.
Ambient sound & music
Curated Spotify playlists
Meditation, ambient, deep focus, Indian indie, and lo-fi playlists you can play from the music strip.
Ambient sound & music
SoundCloud playlists
Indian classical music playlists for deep focus.
Ambient sound & music
Live lo-fi and synthwave
Live YouTube channel streams for background music.
Ambient sound & music
Compact music strip
A one-row music control in the App Focus Bar that fans out into a full player on demand.
Stats & streaks
See progress and build the habit.
Stats & streaks
Productivity stats dashboard
Heatmap, charts, streak, overdue count, and completion rate over time.
See your stats →Stats & streaks
Streaks
Hit your daily session goal and keep the streak alive; it shows in the nav when active.
Stats & streaks
Session history
Review completed focus sessions and the time logged against them.
See your stats →
Sharing & teams
Invite viewers and editors.
Sharing & teams
Project sharing
Share a single project with viewer or editor access — invited in-app, no public invite links.
Sharing & teams
Account collaboration
Invite collaborators to your whole workspace with viewer or editor roles, and copy the invite text.
Sharing & teams
In-app bells
Notifications for collaboration invites and due/overdue reminders.
Import & export
Bring work in, take it back out.
Import & export
Import from other tools
Bring tasks from Google Tasks, Todoist, Asana, and Notion — with a destination picker and a new-vs-existing project preview.
Import & export
Export JSON or CSV
Export your tasks for backup or to move elsewhere.
Import & export
Browser notifications
Optional desktop/mobile notifications for due and overdue tasks.
Account & sync
Guest-first, cloud optional.
Account & sync
No signup required
Start instantly as a guest; your tasks stay in your browser until you choose to sync.
Try it in the app →Account & sync
Optional free account sync
A free account syncs tasks, projects, Smart Plan, settings, and streaks across devices. No credit card.
Create free account →Account & sync
Offline-first writes
Changes save locally first and retry in the background, so work you do offline isn't lost.
Account & sync
Your content stays yours
No selling of personal task or focus content, and no display ads inside the focus workspace.
Read the policy →
Platform & accessibility
Installable, offline, and calm.
Platform & accessibility
Installable app
Add Foci to your home screen on iPhone or Android and it opens full-screen like a native app.
Install guide →Platform & accessibility
Works offline
After one online visit, the app shell and generated sounds work without a connection.
Platform & accessibility
Light and dark themes
A calm blue-mist light theme plus dark mode, with Light / Dark / System.
Platform & accessibility
Keyboard shortcuts
Quick keys for starting the timer, adding tasks, and toggling Zen mode — with an in-app reference.
Platform & accessibility
Accessible by default
Skip links, labelled controls, screen-reader timer announcements, and touch-friendly hit targets.
Platform & accessibility
Ad-free focus workspace
No display ads inside /app. Public marketing and blog pages may show Google ads.
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Foci (usefoci.com) is a free task manager and focus app: projects, Smart Plan, daily goals, streak stats, ambient music, and an optional Pomodoro-style focus timer in one calm browser window.
Missing something? Tell us what you need. Last updated 2026-09-20.