Now available for macOS. Free to try, $29 once when it sticks. No subscription. Ever.
macOS · Free To Try · $29 Once

One App You'll
Keep Open.

Plan 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 subscriptions, no cloud, no account.

Free to try. No account, no credit card. Buy once for $29 when you're ready.

One-time purchase · Fully offline · macOS 11 Big Sur or later

3 → 1 Projects + Notes + Reminders
$29 Once, Forever
<1s Render Time
100% Your Data, Your Machine

Your Productivity Stack Is Working Against You.

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, Organize, Execute. One App.

Plan across time horizons, run your projects, capture ideas, and track tasks. Nothing you don't need.

Plan by Time Horizon

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.

Project Boards

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.

Rich-Text Notes

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 & Calendar

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.

Up And Running In 30 Seconds

1

Download & Open

One click, 30 seconds. No account, no credit card, no sign-up form. It's fully yours to try the moment you open it.

2

Build Your Workspace

Set up boards, write notes, create reminders. Full access to everything from day one. The interface is intuitive; you'll feel at home immediately.

3

Keep It Forever

Love it? Pay once, own it forever. Your projects, ideas, and tasks stay on your machine, fast, private, and always available.

Stop Renting Your Productivity

What You're Paying Now

  • Notion or Trello: $5–$10/mo (up to $120/yr)
  • Apple Notes: free but disconnected
  • Reminders: free but separate
  • Your data lives on their servers
3 apps · up to $120/yr · Every year, forever

FOCAL

  • Day, week, month & quarter planning built in
  • Kanban boards with board, table & calendar views
  • Rich-text notes built in
  • Reminders plus a global calendar
  • Light and dark themes built in
  • Lives in your menu bar, one click away
  • All data stored on your machine
  • No account, no cloud, no tracking
1 app · $29 · Once. You own it.
FOCAL is a great fit if you…
  • Work primarily on a single Mac
  • Want your projects, notes, and tasks in one place
  • Prefer offline, private tools over cloud services
  • Are done paying annual SaaS fees for solo work
FOCAL is not the right fit if you…
  • Need real-time sync between Mac and iPhone/iPad
  • Collaborate with a team inside your project tool
  • Rely on third-party integrations (Zapier, Slack, etc.)
  • Use Windows or need a cross-platform solution
Daniel Purgal
Built by a real person

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.

Daniel Purgal
Founder and builder of FOCAL, Vancouver, BC

One Price. Yours Forever.

No subscriptions. No tiers. No "Pro" upsell.
Pay once, use it as long as you want.

One-Time Purchase
$ 29
Launch price. Pay once, own it forever.
Less than 3 months of Notion. And you keep it.
  • Plan by day, week, month & quarter
  • Kanban boards with board, table & calendar views
  • Rich-text notes with folders & formatting
  • Reminders with priorities, flags & tags
  • Global calendar across everything
  • Light & dark mode
  • Menu-bar quick open
  • All future updates included
  • 100% offline, 100% private
  • No account or cloud required

Free to try. No account, no credit card. Pay once when you're ready.

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.

Try It. Risk Nothing.

Free to try, full access
30-day money-back guarantee
No credit card to start
Your data never leaves your machine
One payment, no recurring charges
No tracking, no data mining, no ads
Works 100% offline, always

Common Questions

No. FOCAL is a native macOS desktop app. There is no iPhone or iPad companion. It’s built for people who do serious work at a desk, on a Mac. If cross-device sync between your Mac and phone is a must-have, FOCAL is not the right fit today.
Your data lives in a single JSON file on your machine. You can export it from FOCAL (Settings → Export Data), copy it to your other Mac, and import it there. It’s not automatic, but the process is simple. One-click migration, your data exactly as you left it.
Yes. FOCAL exports your entire workspace as a single JSON file: all your projects, cards, notes, and reminders. You can import the same file back at any time. Your data is never locked in a proprietary format you can’t read.
It means every update released for FOCAL’s current major version is included in your one-time purchase. No separate “v2 upgrade fee,” no surprise subscription to keep current. If a major version with a substantially different feature set ships years from now, existing users will get a clear explanation and a fair upgrade path, but that’s not on the horizon. You’re buying the app as it is and everything that improves it from here.
You keep the app. FOCAL is a native macOS binary: it doesn’t call home, it doesn’t need a server to run, and it doesn’t expire. If development stopped tomorrow, every copy already installed would keep working exactly as it does today. The only thing that changes if development stops is that new features stop arriving.
Possibly, as optional paid add-ons. The core app will always be offline-first and local-first. Cloud sync and a mobile companion are on the long-term roadmap but are not part of the $29 launch. If they ship, existing customers will hear about it first and get the best pricing.
Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge-management tool built around Markdown files and a plugin ecosystem. FOCAL is simpler and broader: it combines time-horizon planning (day, week, month, quarter), Kanban boards, notes, and reminders in one interface with no setup or plugins required. Things 3 is an excellent task manager; FOCAL adds project boards, planning views, and notes alongside tasks. Craft is a beautiful document editor. FOCAL isn’t trying to replace any one of these tools specifically; it’s for the person running several of them at once and wanting one.

Your Projects Deserve Better Than a Browser Tab

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.