Best Focus Bear alternative for Mac

Where Focus Bear wins

Focus Bear was built by someone with ADHD for people with ADHD, and its whole idea is structure around the day. It walks you through a morning routine before the workday opens, runs focus blocks with site and app blocking, suggests guided breaks to stretch or breathe, and closes the day with an evening wind-down. Habits are tracked, streaks are visible, and the app nudges you when you drift, which is the accountability layer most planners do not have. It runs on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, so the routine follows you from the desk to the phone. If external structure is what you are missing, or you want the same coach on every device you own, Focus Bear does that job and Focuh does not try to. Focuh has no routines, no habit streaks, and no iPhone or Android app.

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. Focus Bear keeps a basic to-do list inside its focus blocks, but it has no calendar, no week, and no place for the recurring work that is not a habit. The Focuh focus timer starts from a task, so the session already knows what it is about, and on Mac the blocklist is part of that session: the block is enforced at the system level through Accessibility, so it covers Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Arc at once, and apps too. Slack, Discord and Messages stay closed for the length of the session, and you start it when you decide, not on a preset schedule. 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: Focus Bear is a subscription at $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year after a free trial. Focuh is free. Early beta. No subscription. The blocking, the calendar and the web app are not behind a tier. If the subscription is what sent you looking, Focuh does the Mac blocking without a paid tier; if it is the missing planner, read on.

Who should pick which

Pick Focus Bear if you want the app to scaffold your day: a guided morning routine, scheduled focus blocks, breaks that tell you what to do, habit streaks that hold you to it, and the same coach on your iPhone as on your Mac. Pick Focuh if you are on Mac and the leak is the day itself: you need Today next to GCal, a week view, loops that wait until you pull them, and a blocker that holds across every browser and app on the machine while you work, with the same list waiting in the web app. Both block at the operating-system level on Mac, and neither one is an unbreakable vault: a determined user can switch either off in System Settings. Choose on whether you want a routine coach or a planner that blocks.

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