CLEPSYDRA vs Focal

CLEPSYDRA is a quiet sequential timer for routines, focused work, study, practice, and any day that refuses to go exactly as planned. Instead of setting separate alarms, restarting timers, or forcing your life into rigid calendar blocks, you create a simple chain of tasks with durations. CLEPSYDRA runs them one after another, shows your progress visually, and helps you keep moving through your plan. Think of it as an upgrade to the Pomodoro technique. Classic Pomodoro timers work well when nothing interrupts you. CLEPSYDRA is built for real days: interruptions, delays, unfinished tasks, changing priorities, and the small chaos of ordinary life. If something cannot be finished now, you can send it back to the queue and continue. Your session can bend without breaking. The goal is simple: get everything done, one task after another, even when the day interrupts you. At the end, CLEPSYDRA gives you a clear session report: what you planned, what actually happened, how long things took, and what remained unfinished. Over time, this helps you understand your real working rhythm and plan future sessions more honestly. CLEPSYDRA is also AI-ready. Your AI assistant can easily create a list of tasks and durations, and you can paste the whole plan into CLEPSYDRA at once. Features: • Create a sequence of timed tasks • Paste multiple tasks at once • Move through your plan one task after another • Handle interruptions without losing the session • Finish a task later and return it to the queue • easily extend or reduce the active timer by one minute • Receive iOS notifications when a locked-screen timer finishes • Review and share a session report • Works locally, without accounts or sign-in CLEPSYDRA is intentionally minimal. No feeds, no tracking, no gamification, no complicated setup, and nothing to learn. Open it, add your tasks, start the first one, and the idea becomes clear immediately.

See the time you have left. Focal is a visual timer: it turns a countdown into something you can look at: a colored disk that shrinks as your time runs out — the same idea as the timer on a classroom wall, in your pocket, on your lock screen, and on your desk while the phone charges. ONE THING AT A TIME A routine in Focal is a chain of short steps, each with its own length. Focal shows you the step you are on and nothing else, then moves to the next one by itself. Morning launch, shutdown, cleaning sprint, a study block — start with ten ready-made routines or build your own. TIME YOU CAN SEE, EVERYWHERE • Full-screen timer in three shapes: disk, bar, or pie • Live Activity and Dynamic Island — the countdown keeps running on your lock screen • Home and Lock Screen widgets for your next routine • Put the phone on its side while charging and StandBy becomes a desk timer • Start from Siri, the Action Button, or Control Center BUILT FOR THE WAY ATTENTION ACTUALLY WORKS • Designed around ADHD time blindness — for when "five more minutes" quietly becomes an hour • Gentle haptics at the halfway mark and in the final minute • When time is up the clock keeps counting, and Focal taps you on the shoulder at five and fifteen minutes — the alarm for when you fall into something too deep • Add a minute without losing your place • Eight themes, including high-contrast and a quiet monochrome one NO INTERNET NEEDED. No account. No cloud. Nothing you make ever leaves your phone — the timer works in airplane mode, because it never needed the internet. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/