# Focus Hour: To Do List Planner — Pomodoro timer for your tasks > Pomodoro timer for your tasks (iPhone/iPad app by Meng-Yi Hsu.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focus-hour-to-do-list-planner/id6798447055 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Meng-Yi Hsu](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783592735) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 51 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-19 - Data updated: 2026-09-14 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focus-hour-to-do-list-planner/id6798447055/reviews.md ## What is Focus Hour? Focus Hour is a task manager, a day planner and a focus timer in one app. No account. No sign-up. No email. No ads. Open it, plan tomorrow, and start. PLAN THE DAY, THEN DO IT Lists, folders and headings for structure. Tags, saved filters and search for everything else. Subtasks, checklists, markdown notes and photo attachments on any task. Due dates, defer dates, durations, recurrence, and reminders with buttons you can act on straight from the notification. TYPE IT, DON'T TAP IT Quick add reads what you write. "Draft the report friday 2pm #work !2" lands dated, tagged and flagged without touching a single picker. A PLANNER THAT KNOWS YOUR CALENDAR Your tasks and your existing calendar events on one timeline, so the plan reflects the time you actually have. Auto-plan drops the backlog into the gaps. Calendar events are read-only and never leave your device. FOCUS, PROPERLY A real Pomodoro cycle — focus, a short break, and a longer reset after a few rounds — with every duration configurable. Or a plain stopwatch. Synthesised ambient beds to work under: rain, waves, fire, and three kinds of noise. Start a session on a task and the time is logged against it. BUILD THE HABITS Daily, weekday or times-per-week habits, with count goals, streaks and notes. SEE IT WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Home Screen widgets for today's list — with checkboxes that work right there — and for the running timer. Lock Screen widgets for what's next and how long is left. An Apple Watch app to tick things off, log habits and run a focus session from your wrist. And a share sheet that sends a link, a screenshot or selected text from any app straight to your Inbox. MADE TO LOOK LIKE SOMETHING Three skins — Ink, Carbon and Terminal — with hard rules, a grotesk display face and monospaced figures. Not another rounded grey list. ALSO IN THE BOX An Eisenhower matrix, a weekly review, project templates, XP levels and badges, and focus statistics by day, list, task and hour. BUILT BY ONE PERSON I built Focus Hour for myself, in a year when AI finally made something like this achievable alone — then kept building whatever people asked for. No team, no investors, and no roadmap written by anyone but the people using it. And no subscription: your own to-do list shouldn't be rented back to you month after month. Your tasks, notes and photos stay on your iPhone, and your calendar is read-only and never leaves the device. No tracking of you across other companies' apps or websites, and nothing shared with data brokers. TELL ME WHAT TO BUILD See something in another to-do app that you wish this one had? Email mark@vibecode.review. I read every message and I build what people actually ask for — that is how most of this app got here. Install it and plan tomorrow tonight. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Unlock Focus Hour | $9.99 | one-time | | Unlock Focus Hour | $12.99 | one-time | | Unlock All Apps I Built | $5.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 4.47 — 2026-09-11 Nothing new inside the app this time - this update just refreshes the App Store description. See something you wish this app had? Email mark@vibecode.review - I build what people actually ask for. ### 4.46 — 2026-09-08 Small fixes and polish throughout. ### 4.44 — 2026-09-07 Small wording improvements to the upgrade screens. ### 4.43 — 2026-09-06 A habit note written just before leaving the screen is no longer lost. Fixed the filters on the search screen, which were drawn as tall empty boxes that pushed your results off the bottom of the screen. ### 4.41 — 2026-09-03 Start focus now starts the timer and opens the Focus tab, instead of appearing to do nothing. Attachments survive app updates, and duplicating a task now copies its files so removing one copy's attachment cannot break the other. Reordering tasks no longer empties the weekly review. A task can no longer end up with no name. Tap an attachment to open it — image viewer for pictures, share sheet for files. VoiceOver now names the controls throughout the app, and announces selected and disabled state. ## Apps similar to Focus Hour | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Timerdoro](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/timerdoro/id6767616979) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Pomo: Your Focus Companion](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pomo-your-focus-companion/id6756675126) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Munin - Tally Counter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/munin-tally-counter/id6788552731) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Subara: Subscription Manager](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/subara-subscription-manager/id6777425387) | — | Free | Productivity | | [FocusFlow Timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focusflow-timer/id6745150820) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Productivity | | [Pomodoro Pro Timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pomodoro-pro-timer/id6761998509) | — | Free | Productivity | ## More apps by Meng-Yi Hsu - [Bavarian Translator for Oma](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bavarian-translator-for-oma/id6783592733) - [Gym Log: Lift & PR Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gym-log-lift-and-pr-tracker/id6783645092) - [Copy History: Clipboard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/copy-history-clipboard/id6783654287) - [Water Sort: Pour Puzzle](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/water-sort-pour-puzzle/id6783993369) - [Cubby Baby Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cubby-baby-tracker/id6784482213) - [SleepTracker: Watch or Phone](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sleeptracker-watch-or-phone/id6784482382) All apps by Meng-Yi Hsu: https://appshunter.io/developer/6783592735 --- *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 2026-09-14.*