What's new in Focus 1.15
Jul 18, 2023
- ARC Support
- Refreshed app icon
- Fixed preferences window resizing bug
- Improved blocking performance
- Various other small improvements
New in Focus 1.14 (Apr 26, 2022)
- Fixed password unlocking bug
- Forcing Focus to use Focus.app to prevent multiple copies from being launched
- Added support for Chrome Beta browser
- Fixed drag and drop not unblocking sites properly
New in Focus 1.13.1 (Mar 13, 2022)
- Improved efficiency of blocking large lists
- Fixes add site regression from 1.13
- Fix crashes and bugs
New in Focus 1.13 (Feb 27, 2022)
- Improved efficiency of blocking large lists
- Fix crashes and bugs
New in Focus 1.12.2 (Jul 11, 2021)
New in Focus 1.12.1 (Jun 20, 2021)
- Added macOS 10.11 to 10.12 support
New in Focus 1.12 (Jun 15, 2021)
- Added macOS Big Sur support
- Added M1 support
- Added new preference panel to easily customize the menubar
- Changed application blocking to use the more secure bundleIdentifier rather than application path
- Added command-line interface to manage distracting websites and applications
- Fixed force quitting applications like Microsoft Outlook
- Added Microsoft Edge and Brave beta browser support
- Fixed login bug with spacing around license or email
- Fixed not using local time format bug
- Fixed regex blocking issue
- Fixed many other small bugs
New in Focus 1.11 (Oct 14, 2019)
- Added macOS Catalina support
- Added Brave browser support
- Fixed Firefox extension not blocking sites with service workers (like Twitter)
New in Focus 1.9.0b (Jan 4, 2019)
- Optimized performance of URL matching
- Optimized performance of large block lists and schedules
- Optimized performance of preference loading
- Better handle Mojave automation permissions
- Changed blocking rules so ending slash blocks more generally
- Changed blocking rules so all URLs are treated as lowercase
- Fixed bug with deducting too much break time from a sleeping Mac
- Fixed bug with dock icon showing when using Terminal commands
- Fixed bug where invalid rules would crash Focus
- Lots of other smaller bug fixes
- Fixed issue with Focus not starting properly because port taken
- Fixed issue with Focus not able to run on multiple user accounts
New in Focus 1.8.14 (Nov 5, 2018)
- Fixed bug with older versions not handling permission setting
New in Focus 1.8.13 (Nov 5, 2018)
- Fixed bug with Mojave not setting automation permissions properly
New in Focus 1.8.12 (Oct 30, 2018)
- Fixed bug with breaks running out of time
- Added Crashlytics for monitoring app crashes
- Fixed bug with Safari pinned tabs causing runaway tabs
- Added notice on Firefox that addon is required
New in Focus 1.8.11 (May 29, 2018)
- A minor update that fixes bugs and adds a long awaited feature, Do Not Disturb mode:
- Added Do Not Disturb mode to Focus
- Fixed bug with disabling schedule while password mode enabled
New in Focus 1.8.10 (May 23, 2018)
- Minor update that adds deeper method for application blocking:
- Added ability to block applications by bundle identifier
- Removed synchronization due to conflicts while saving
- Fix bug that crashed Focus in some cases
New in Focus 1.8.9 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Changed Focus pricing
- All Focus licenses get 5 activations by default
- Added Focus Team License
- Updated vendor libraries
New in Focus 1.8.8 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Fix bug with Opera support
- Fix crashing bug with favicon
New in Focus 1.8.7 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Native Opera support
- Fix bugs with logging causing crash
New in Focus 1.8.6 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Fixed licensing activation bug
New in Focus 1.8.5 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Split statistics out of preferences and into separate window
- Fixed issue with Safari Technical Preview not working properly
- Added import / export to preferences
- Fixed browser extension connection issue
- Redesigned blocked preferences, adding favicons, filtering, sorting and more
- Redesigned quote preferences, adding filtering
- Redesigned scripting preferences
- Added break and unbreak scripting modes
- Fixed bug where in some cases schedule would start twice
New in Focus 1.8.4 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Changed Setapp agent name to make it more clearly associated with Focus
- Fixed bug with command-line focus:// URL schemes not honoring existing timer
- Fixed performance issue with large block lists
- Upgraded backend licensing and analytics framework
New in Focus 1.8.3 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Fixed bug with unfocus scripts/notifications not running
- Fixed bug where quote page was showing dash even when author wasn't available
- Fixed repeating prompt when agent installation fails
- Fixed installation bug where missing system folder caused failure
- Fixed agent crashing because of alert from background thread
- Sending more debug information about agent environment
- Removed old migration code causing issues if previously installed Focus
New in Focus 1.8.2 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Fixed bug where on first run the timer wouldn't start
- Fixed pomodoro mode checkbox bug
- Switched welcome from preferences to dedicated window
New in Focus 1.8.1 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Fixed bug where on first run the timer wouldn't start
- Fixed pomodoro mode checkbox bug
- Switched welcome from preferences to dedicated window
New in Focus 1.8.0 (Apr 6, 2018)
- Added statistics to see your history
- Disabled confusing feature that kept sessions running after time was over
- Added Focus favicon to block page
- Fixed bug where sleeping Mac was using up break time
- Re-enabled crash reports sending by default
- Updated in-app scripting documentation
- Fixed bug with app not coming to foreground when selecting from expos
New in Focus 1.7.11 (Jul 19, 2017)
- Fixed long-standing issue with multiple versions of Focus running 🎉
- Changed preferences window to show up in dock and app switcher
- Added more advanced preferences in menu bar
- Fixed Focus icon size in menu bar
- Fixed bug with schedule not re-enabling in some cases
- Fixed bug starting timer from menu bar icon
- Fixed bug with custom focus time hours not calculating properly
- Added throttle to control block speed
- Lots of other bug fixes
New in Focus 1.7.8 (Jul 19, 2017)
- Added new themes for block page
- Added ability to control breaks in preferences
- Added new welcome screen for first-run
- Fixed application blocking for apps with launchers (like League of Legends)
- Fixed drag and drop bug
- Lots of other bug fixes
New in Focus 1.7.6 (Jul 19, 2017)
- Added breaks
- Simplified drop-down menu
- Fixed Firefox extension to work with latest Firefox changes
- Added official extension, which supports 3rd party browsers like Opera, Vivaldi and Brave
- Lots of bug fixes
New in Focus 1.7.5 (Jul 19, 2017)
- Fixed issues with hardcore mode not working in some cases
New in Focus 1.7.1 (Jun 23, 2017)
- A minor release that fixes a bug introduced to the 1.7.0 release:
- Fixed browsers opening when waking computer
New in Focus 1.7.0 (Jun 23, 2017)
- A major release that implements a new blocking procedure:
- Changed core blocking in Focus to be more straightforward
- Removed requirement for accessibility permissions
- Various bug fixes
New in Focus 1.7.1 Beta (Jun 12, 2017)
- Fixed browsers opening when waking computer.
New in Focus 1.7.0 Beta 3 (Jun 10, 2017)
- A major release that implements a new blocking procedure:
- Changed core blocking in Focus to be more straightforward
- Removed requirement for accessibility permissions
- Various bug fixes
New in Focus 1.4.20 (Feb 1, 2016)
- Added ability to dynamically change log level to help with debugging
- Bugfix: Fixed crashing bug in third party library
- Bugfix: Fixed inability to close Focus
- Bugfix: Fixed blocking not working in some cases
- Bugfix: Fixed 'Send Debug Info' bug when browser not present
New in Focus 1.4.19 (Jan 25, 2016)
- Fixed crash by reverting broken library
New in Focus 1.4.18 (Jan 19, 2016)
- Added auto relaunch when Focus quits to prevent blocking workarounds
- Rewrote blocking layer to improve blocking on 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11
- Fixed memory leaks
- Added Chromium browser support
- Bugfix: Fixed unblocking bug when browser not present
- Many smaller bug fixes
New in Focus 1.4.17 (Jan 18, 2016)
- Added auto relaunch when Focus quits to prevent blocking workarounds
- Rewrote blocking layer to improve blocking on 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11
- Fixed memory leaks
- Added Chromium browser support
- Many smaller bug fixes
New in Focus 1.4.15 (Dec 14, 2015)
- Rewrote data layer in preparation for sync and other upcoming features
- Updated debugging to make it easier to fix problems
- Bugfix: Fixed 'Add Schedule' not showing new schedule without changing panels
- Bugfix: Fixed whitelisting of Safari and Chrome new tab pages
- Bugfix: Fixed menu opening on down click rather than upclick
- Many smaller bug fixes
New in Focus 1.4.11 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Added confirmation button for changing the schedule
- Bugfix: Fixed issues with trial window not disappearing
- Bugfix: Fixed running only one custom command per session
- Bugfix: Fixed crashing bug with WebSocket connection
New in Focus 1.4.9 (Sep 30, 2015)
- Bugfix: Fixed environment variables in scripting to better handle intervals
New in Focus 1.4.8 (Sep 29, 2015)
- Bugfix: Fixed Safari pinned tabs in 10.11 (pinned tabs are now closed)
New in Focus 1.4.7 (Sep 29, 2015)
- Bugfix: Fixed drag and dropping applications to the menubar in hardcore mode
- Bugfix: Fixed schedules not starting properly if existing session
- Bugfix: Fixed menubar animations in 10.11
- Bugfix: Fixed preference panel resizing
New in Focus 1.4.3 (Sep 29, 2015)
- Bugfix: Fixed certain timezones not being calculated properly
- Added console logs to “Send Debug Information”
New in Focus 1.4.1 (Sep 29, 2015)
- Bugfix: Fixed preference panels not showing on 10.9
- Bugfix: Fixed negative time allowed on timer
- Bugfix: Fixed new schedules in flexible schedule ordering
- Bugfix: Fixed auto launch not being installed properly
New in Focus 1.4.0 Beta (Aug 21, 2015)
- A major release that introduces many new features like flexible scheduling and site whitelisting.
- Feature: Flexible scheduling allows an infinite number of schedules
- Feature: Whitelisting for websites
- Added BASH variables to scripting
- Improved drag and drop support
- Improved custom time window
- Improved timezone support
- Lots of bug fixes!
New in Focus 1.3.5 (Apr 27, 2015)
- A minor release that fixes various bugs.
- Bugfix: Fixed prompt that would sometimes appear if a browser wasn't installed
- Bugfix: Fixed some URLs not being blocked properly
- Bugfix: Fixed Chrome Canary blocking issues
- Bugfix: Fixed issue where custom time window was unavailable
- Allow trial to reset on major version updates
New in Focus 1.3.0 (Apr 20, 2015)
- A major release that adds advanced URL filtering.
- Feature: Advanced URL filtering (allows blocking of sub-pages. For example, allows blocking Facebook while allowing the Facebook login page for apps like Spotify)
- Added option for sending additional debug information.
New in Focus 1.2.9 (Apr 18, 2015)
- A minor release that fixes bugs and removes old blocking support (Firefox extension now required).
- Deprecated support for PAC files
- Better support for Firefox extension
- On-boarding dialog
- Multiple license support
- Bugfix: Fixed bug with minutes not being selectable in custom focus time
- Bugfix: Fixed bug with blocked apps disabling menu
- Various other bugfixes
New in Focus 1.2.4 (Apr 18, 2015)
- A minor release to add a few features and fix bugs.
- Feature: Automatically unblock webpages when unfocusing
- Feature: Drag & drop applications onto the Focus icon or blocked apps panel
- Feature: Icons now show on blocked application list
- Bugfix: Keyboard shortcut now respects menubar icon click behavior
- Bugfix: Preferences window now opens a dock window
- Bugfix: Cleaned up edge-cases with schedule unfocusing
- Added privacy policy
New in Focus 1.2.3 (Apr 18, 2015)
- A minor release to improve how apps are blocked.
- Feature: Blocked apps are closed automatically when possible
- Bugfix: Background apps are no longer blocked, only visible apps
New in Focus 1.2.0 (Apr 18, 2015)
- A major release that adds better pomodoro support
- Feature: Show timers and schedules in the menubar
- Feature: Start a timer with 1-click from the menubar
- Feature: Improved preferences UI (new menubar panel)
- Bugfix: Can add more time in hardcore mode
- Bugfix: Diagnostic crash report prompt
- Various other bugfixes
New in Focus 1.1 (Apr 18, 2015)
- A major release that adds native SSL support to Chrome and Safari.
- Feature: SSL support for Chrome and Safari
- Various other bugfixes
New in Focus 1.0.4 (Nov 27, 2014)
- Fixed bug with upgrading Focus
- Added focus://toggle CLI option
- Added 'Hardcore Mode' to disable settings while timer or schedule is on
- Added ability to add blocked site (via drag and drop) when focusing
New in Focus 1.0.1 (Nov 24, 2014)
- On the heels of the big Focus 1.0 release is Focus 1.0.1 which fixes bugs with 10.8 and 10.9. This update is only necessary if you're running OS X 10.8 or 10.9.
New in Focus 1.0.0 (Nov 18, 2014)
- Changes:
- OS X 10.10 support (including dark mode)
- Timer & schedule based focusing
- Customizable quotes to motivate yourself
- SSL pages now show quotes on Firefox & Chrome browsers (with the new browser extensions)
- Whitelists (beta)
- Other