Best Cold Turkey alternative for Mac

Where Cold Turkey wins

Cold Turkey is a dedicated website and app blocker for Windows and Mac, and blocking strength is the whole product. Once a block starts you cannot end it early, and uninstalling the app does not lift it. Frozen Turkey goes further and locks the entire computer to the apps you allowed. Recurring schedules run on their own, so social media can be dead every weekday from nine to five without you starting anything. It was built for Windows first, so if you split your week between a PC and a Mac it is the one that follows you. Focuh does not block this way. Focuh blocks through the macOS Accessibility permission, which you can revoke in System Settings in the middle of a session. The friction stops most people. It does not stop someone who is determined.

Where Focuh wins

Focuh is an ADHD todo list for Mac and web. Today sits next to Google Calendar. Week is the week. Loops are standing to-dos with no date: you pull a copy onto today and the loop stays. Goals are the one win for the horizon. Blocking is part of the focus session, not a separate app: pick the task, start the timer, and the blocklist holds until you stop. On Mac that blocklist covers apps as well as websites, so Slack, Discord and Messages go quiet too. Cold Turkey has no todo list, no calendar, and no timer beyond the block countdown. It is a blocker, and you bring your own plan for the day. Focuh also syncs the same list between the Mac app and the web app, so the plan is there on any machine even where the Mac blocker is not.

Price: Cold Turkey has a limited free tier and a $39 one-time Pro license for app blocking, schedules and Frozen Turkey. Focuh is free. Early beta. No subscription.

Who should pick which

Pick Cold Turkey if you are on Windows or move between Windows and Mac, you want blocking you cannot end early, you want schedules that run without you, and you already have a list and a calendar you like. Pick Focuh if you are on Mac and the leak is the day itself: you need Today next to GCal, loops that wait until you pull them, and a Mac blocker that also covers apps. Plenty of people run both. Cold Turkey for the always-on wall around the worst distractions, Focuh for the everyday session where knowing what to work on matters as much as the block.

Want the full side-by-side, with the feature table and FAQ? Read Focuh vs Cold Turkey.