# Bardo - Mind Mode — Work-Life Balance & Focus

> Work-Life Balance & Focus (iPhone/iPad app by Kevin Stauss.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bardo-mind-mode/id6744858366 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Kevin Stauss](https://appshunter.io/developer/1758807050)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: $3.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-14
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Bardo?

Leave work at work.

Bardo gives each role in your life its own list, like Work, Family, or Partner. Switching between them takes one slow breath, and whatever you left behind is still there when you come back.

When your office is down the hall, there's no commute to switch you off. You close the laptop and the email you still owe someone comes to dinner with you. Bardo gives it somewhere to wait.

UP TO TEN MODES
Work, Family, Partner, Studio; whatever roles you actually have. Each one gets a color, a one-line intention, and its own list of what's on your mind.

LOOK BEFORE YOU SWITCH
The switcher shows the next mode's list, read-only, so you know what you're walking into before you commit.

A BREATH IN BETWEEN
Switching starts one slow breath, about ten seconds. You can choose a full round of 4-7-8 breathing in Settings, skip it on the spot, or turn it off.

THE THOUGHT INBOX
For the thought that shows up before you know where it belongs. Brain dump it now and sort it into a mode later.

A FEW MORE THINGS
• When you leave a mode, what you checked off moves to its archive. Everything else stays where you left it.
• Say "Add a thought to Bardo," or tap the Lock Screen widget or the Control Center button, and the thought goes straight to the Inbox.
• Two optional reminders: an evening nudge to empty your head, and a morning one to sort it.
• Your modes sync between iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud account. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking.
• Light and dark mode.

I work from home, so for a long time the only thing between my work and my kids was a hallway. I'd sit down to dinner still thinking about an email I hadn't answered. Bardo started as a place to put work down where I trusted it would still be in the morning. The name is a Tibetan word for the space between one state and the next.

Thank you for being here.

## Is Bardo safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Bardo.

## Is Bardo legit?

Bardo - Mind Mode appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bardo is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-14

No release notes.

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