Best One Sec alternative for Mac

Where One Sec wins

One Sec does not block anything. It intercepts the launch of the apps you picked and makes you sit through a breathing exercise or a short delay before the app opens. After the pause you can still go in, and that is the point: the pause breaks the reflex, and over weeks the reflex fades. It was built for iPhone first, where it hooks into Shortcuts and catches every launch, and it runs all day rather than only while you are working. It also shows you how often you reached for each app and how often you turned back. If the problem is mindless phone scrolling, One Sec is the sharper tool. Focuh has no phone app and no friction mode. It runs on Mac and on the web, and during a session the blocklist is a wall, not a pause.

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. One Sec has no todo list, no calendar, no timer and no website blocking, and its Mac app is a thinner version of the phone one because catching app launches on macOS is harder. 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: One Sec has a free tier that covers one app, and the full set of apps, analytics and modes sits in One Sec Premium at around $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year. Focuh is free. Early beta. No subscription.

Who should pick which

Pick One Sec if the leak is your phone, you want a gentle pause rather than a hard block, you want it working all day and not only during work, 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. One Sec for the phone habit across the whole day, 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 One Sec.