# Ergon: Focus & Day Planner — Plan the day you actually have > Plan the day you actually have (iPhone/iPad app by Jin Zhang Low.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ergon-focus-and-day-planner/id6805829865 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jin Zhang Low](https://appshunter.io/developer/1885895340) - Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.1 · 27 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-02 - Data updated: 2026-09-17 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ergon-focus-and-day-planner/id6805829865/reviews.md ## What is Ergon? Ergon is an execution system for people whose days are already full. Most planners hand you an empty grid and assume a free day. Ergon starts from the day you actually have: it reads your calendar so it never books over a meeting, subtracts the hours you have told it are yours — lunch, dinner, the school run, a sit — and lays your work into what is genuinely left. KNOW WHAT MATTERS • Choose three things that decide the day, not a list of forty • A planner that re-plans when the morning goes sideways • Break work into steps as deep as it needs to go • An Eisenhower matrix for when the list stops making sense PROTECT THE TIME • Focus sessions with a real shield over the apps that interrupt you, using Apple Screen Time • A Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen • The shield lifts the moment the session ends CLOSE THE DAY HONESTLY • An evening shutdown that asks what actually happened • Blocks that came and went are surfaced with a decision: reschedule, done, or drop • A weekly review that reads back what you finished, not what you meant to • Renewal tracking across body, mind, social and spirit — planned as real blocks, not whatever is left over YOUR WORK STAYS YOURS • No account to create. No login, no profile, no password • No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, no trackers • Sync goes through your own private iCloud, which we cannot read • Backups are plain files written to a folder you choose • Optional AI runs on an API key you supply and pay for directly, sent straight to your provider — there is no server of ours in between ERGON PRO Capture, plan, focus and review are free forever. Pro adds backup and restore, the full time report and analytics, the Eisenhower matrix, renewal tracking and unlimited projects. Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time purchase. Requires iOS 16.1 or later. App blocking uses Apple Screen Time and is available on iPhone and iPad. Terms of Use: https://www.cortexbizsolution.com/products/ergon/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cortexbizsolution.com/products/ergon/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Ergon Premium Monthly | $4.99 | per month | | Ergon Premium Yearly | $29.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Ergon Premium Lifetime | $69.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2.2 — 2026-09-14 A set of blocked apps per activity. • Deep work can shut everything; a run can leave music alone. Pick the set on the Focus screen right before you start — it applies to that sitting only and leaves your default alone. • Repeating jobs show their history: how many times a thing has been done, and when. Tap an entry to open that occurrence. • A project now shows one row per repeating job instead of one per time it was finished. • The blocked-app count is honest. It used to add apps and whole categories together and call the total "apps", so one category shielding thirty of them read as "1 app". Fixed • Ticking a step in the planner did nothing when that step had steps of its own. It now says why. • Archiving a project was one-way — no way back and nothing listed it. The archive now holds projects too, with a restore. • "Already up to date" appeared every time the app was reopened, from a sync nobody asked for. • A scheduled block announced itself twice, five minutes apart. Now once. Tasks with a due date do the same. • Reminders you have already seen clear themselves when you open the app. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-06 Moved a block? Ergon now keeps the receipt. • Rescheduling records how often a block has moved and which slot it lost — on the planner, and in the calendar event itself, so the next estimate is made with that in front of you rather than from memory. • Steps that add up to more than the task they belong to now offer to resize it, once, with the option not to be asked again. • Half the notifications. A scheduled block used to announce itself twice, five minutes apart; now it does it once. • Reminders you have already seen clear themselves when you open the app, instead of stacking up to be dismissed by hand. Fixed • Ticking a step in the planner did nothing when that step had steps of its own. It now says why. • "Already up to date" appeared every time the app was reopened, from a sync nobody asked for. • Rescheduling said it was "adding to Calendar" when it was moving a block already there. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-02 No release notes. ## More apps by Jin Zhang Low - [Daybook: Expenses & Receipts](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daybook-expenses-and-receipts/id6798344877) - [Pawmi: Adopt a Rescue Pet](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pawmi-adopt-a-rescue-pet/id6810648592) All apps by Jin Zhang Low: https://appshunter.io/developer/1885895340 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-17.*