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macOS · Try Free for 7 Days · $29 Once

One App You'll Keep Open.

Replaces Notion, Apple Notes, and Reminders — in one fast, native macOS app.
Private by design. Yours forever for one flat price.
No subscriptions. No cloud. No account.

What you get: Price locked at $29 · First in line for the beta · No charge until you decide to buy

One-time purchase · Fully offline · macOS 11 Big Sur or later

3 → 1 Notion + Notes + Reminders
$29 Once, Forever
<1s Render Time
100% Your Data, Your Machine

Your Tools Are Scattered. Your Work Suffers.

Notion or Trello for projects. Apple Notes for quick captures. Reminders for follow-ups. Three apps that don't talk to each other, and you're the one bridging the gaps all day. That context-switching adds up fast.

Notion or Trello costs $5–$10 per month just to watch spinners. That's up to $120 a year for a tool that syncs to someone else's server. Apple Notes and Reminders are free — but disconnected, siloed, and built for a different workflow. You're paying for the paid one and working around the free ones. Neither deal is good.

Your notes live in one app. Your tasks live in another. Your boards are somewhere else. Nothing connects, everything falls through the cracks, and you spend more time organizing work than doing it.

Three Tools. One App. Zero Lag.

Everything you need to manage projects, capture ideas, and track tasks. Nothing you don't.

Kanban Boards

Board, table, or calendar view — your choice. Switch views in a single click. Your projects render in milliseconds because they live on your machine. No spinners, no syncing, no server.

  • Board, table, and calendar views per project
  • Cards with priority, due date, tags & checklists
  • Recurring card frequency (daily, weekly, monthly)
  • Drag-and-drop reordering within and between columns
  • Global search across all projects and cards
  • Import & export your data anytime

Rich-Text Notes

Full formatting, right next to your project boards. Outline a plan, capture meeting notes, or draft content without ever leaving the app. One less context switch every time an idea hits.

  • Bold, italic, headings, bullet & numbered lists
  • Inline checklists with auto-sort completed items
  • Insert images and links
  • Organized in folders with icon & color labels
  • Pin, flag, and lock individual notes
  • Full-text search across all notes

Smart Reminders

Apple-style reminders with deadlines, priorities, and a built-in today view. Drag tasks to reorder your day on the fly. Nothing slips when your tasks live alongside your projects and notes.

  • Due date, due time, and native macOS alerts
  • Priority levels, flags, and tags per reminder
  • Drag-to-reorder within any list
  • Today, Week, Month, and Quarter dashboard views
  • Organized in named lists with icon & color
  • Lives in the same app as your boards and notes

Up And Running In 30 Seconds

1

Download & Open

One click, 30 seconds. No account, no credit card, no sign-up form. Your 7-day trial starts the moment you open the app.

2

Build Your Workspace

Set up boards, write notes, create reminders. Full access to everything from day one. The interface is intuitive; you'll feel at home immediately.

3

Keep It Forever

Love it? Pay once, own it forever. Your projects, ideas, and tasks stay on your machine, fast, private, and always available.

Stop Renting Your Productivity

What You're Paying Now

  • Notion or Trello — $5–$10/mo (up to $120/yr)
  • Apple Notes — free but disconnected
  • Reminders — free but separate
  • Your data lives on their servers
3 apps · up to $120/yr · Every year, forever

FOCAL

  • Kanban boards + calendar view built in
  • Rich-text notes built in
  • Smart reminders + drag-to-reorder tasks
  • All data stored on your machine
  • No account, no cloud, no tracking
1 app · $29 · Once. You own it.
FOCAL is a great fit if you…
  • Work primarily on a single Mac
  • Want your projects, notes, and tasks in one place
  • Prefer offline, private tools over cloud services
  • Are done paying annual SaaS fees for solo work
FOCAL is not the right fit if you…
  • Need real-time sync between Mac and iPhone/iPad
  • Collaborate with a team inside your project tool
  • Rely on third-party integrations (Zapier, Slack, etc.)
  • Use Windows or need a cross-platform solution
Built by a real person

I got tired of paying $120 a year to sync three apps that should have been one. So I built the tool I actually wanted: fast, private, offline-first, and priced like software used to be. I've been using FOCAL daily since [YEAR]. This is my bet that I'm not the only one.

[YOUR NAME]
[YOUR TITLE/BACKGROUND] — Vancouver, BC

One Price. Yours Forever.

No subscriptions. No tiers. No "Pro" upsell.
Pay once, use it as long as you want.

One-Time Purchase
$ 29
Launch price. Pay once, own it forever.
Less than 3 months of Notion. And you keep it.
  • Kanban boards with drag-and-drop
  • Calendar view per project + global calendar
  • Rich-text notes with full formatting
  • Smart reminders with drag-to-reorder
  • All future updates included
  • 100% offline, 100% private
  • No account or cloud required

What you get: Price locked at $29 · First in line for the beta · No charge until you decide to buy

Most founders spend $60–$120/yr on a project tool they're still working around. FOCAL replaces it — and the two free apps you're duct-taping to it — for a one-time $29.

Try It. Risk Nothing.

7-day free trial, full access
30-day money-back guarantee
No credit card to start
Your data never leaves your machine
One payment, no recurring charges
No tracking, no data mining, no ads
Works 100% offline, always

Common Questions

No. FOCAL is a native macOS desktop app. There is no iPhone or iPad companion. It’s built for people who do serious work at a desk, on a Mac. If cross-device sync between your Mac and phone is a must-have, FOCAL is not the right fit today.
Your data lives in a single JSON file on your machine. You can export it from FOCAL (Settings → Export Data), copy it to your other Mac, and import it there. It’s not automatic, but the process is simple. One-click migration, your data exactly as you left it.
Yes. FOCAL exports your entire workspace as a single JSON file — all your projects, cards, notes, and reminders. You can import the same file back at any time. Your data is never locked in a proprietary format you can’t read.
It means every update released for FOCAL’s current major version is included in your one-time purchase. No separate “v2 upgrade fee,” no surprise subscription to keep current. If a major version with a substantially different feature set ships years from now, existing users will get a clear explanation and a fair upgrade path — but that’s not on the horizon. You’re buying the app as it is and everything that improves it from here.
You keep the app. FOCAL is a native macOS binary — it doesn’t call home, it doesn’t need a server to run, and it doesn’t expire. If development stopped tomorrow, every copy already installed would keep working exactly as it does today. The only thing that changes if development stops is that new features stop arriving.
Possibly, as optional paid add-ons. The core app will always be offline-first and local-first. Cloud sync and a mobile companion are on the long-term roadmap but are not part of the $29 launch. If they ship, existing customers will hear about it first and get the best pricing.
Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge-management tool built around Markdown files and a plugin ecosystem. FOCAL is simpler and broader: it combines a Kanban board, notes, and reminders in one interface with no setup or plugins required. Things 3 is an excellent task manager — FOCAL adds project boards and notes alongside tasks. Craft is a beautiful document editor. FOCAL isn’t trying to replace any one of these tools specifically; it’s for the person running three of them simultaneously and wanting one.

Your Projects Deserve Better Than a Browser Tab

Up to $120/yr on scattered tools, or $29 once for everything in one place. The math is simple. The trial is free.

What you get: Price locked at $29 · First in line for the beta · No charge until you decide to buy

macOS · $29 once · 7-day free trial at launch One-time purchase. Fully offline. 30-day money-back guarantee.