Focus Three

What matters most today?

A gentler way to get started, when starting is the hard part. Focus on your three most important tasks — and actually finish them.

Coming soon to iOS and Android

Most to-do apps keep adding — more lists, more labels, more pressure. Focus Three does the opposite. Three tasks. That's the point.

Why it's different

Built on a few strong ideas

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Backed by research

Gentle prompts grounded in behavioral science, not gimmicks.

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Truly private

No account, no sign-up. Your tasks never leave your device.

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Calm by design

No streaks, no scores, no guilt — just steady progress.

What you get

Everything you need, nothing you don't

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Just three tasks

A hard limit of three keeps you focused on finishing, not collecting.

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An optional when/where cue

Tie a task to a moment — "right after lunch" — so it actually starts.

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A nudge when you're stuck

Get a suggestion matched to your energy, time, and mood.

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Progress worth celebrating

Every finished task is marked — and kept in your timeline.

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Works offline

Everything lives on your device, so it's fast and always available.

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Make it yours

A range of hand-crafted color themes, light and dark.

A little science

Small ideas with real evidence

A cue makes you start

Attaching a concrete "when and where" to a task — an implementation intention — is one of the most replicated findings in behavioral psychology for getting hard things started. Focus Three lets you add one in a single tap, and never nags if you don't.

Suggestions meet you where you are

When you can't decide what to do, the app offers a small, doable next step tuned to how much energy and time you have right now — lowering the barrier to begin instead of piling on more.

Kindness beats pressure

No streaks to break, no scores to chase. Research on self-compassion shows a guilt-free approach is more sustainable than one built on pressure — so that's the one we built.

Designed around evidence, kept deliberately simple.