Best FocusMe alternative for Mac

Where FocusMe wins

FocusMe is a paid blocker built around lockdown strength. Its nuclear mode is engineered so a running block survives a reboot, shrugs off an uninstall attempt, and cannot be switched off early. If you know from experience that you will dismantle a softer block the moment it bites, that is the feature to pay for, and Focuh does not replicate it. FocusMe also runs on Windows and Android as well as Mac, so one blocklist can follow you between a PC, a MacBook and a phone. Add recurring schedules, so social media is gone every weekday from nine to five without you starting anything, plus screen-time tracking, and you have one of the strictest, most configurable blockers on the market. If unbreakable blocking on more than one operating system is the whole job, FocusMe is the sharper tool.

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 plan you configure: pick the task, start the timer, and the blocklist holds until you stop. On Mac that blocklist is enforced at the system level, so it covers Safari, Firefox, Arc and Chrome at once, and it covers apps as well, so Slack, Discord and Messages go quiet too. It is firm rather than nuclear: a determined you can revoke the Accessibility permission in System Settings, which for most people is exactly enough friction. FocusMe has no todo list and no calendar, so the plan for the day lives somewhere else. Focuh 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: FocusMe is a subscription, around ten dollars a month or about 120 dollars a year, with a lifetime licence as the other option. Focuh is free. Early beta. No subscription.

Who should pick which

Pick FocusMe if you need a block you truly cannot undo, you move between Windows, Mac and Android, you want recurring 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 blocker that holds across every browser and app on the machine during a session. Some people run both. FocusMe for the standing lockdown on every device, 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 FocusMe.