You know you'll bypass it.Not this one.
Six layers of system-level blocking, for the version of you that always finds a loophole.
Free to start · Mac native · Privacy-first
Trusted by focus-driven students & professionals
Lock it on your phone. It locks on your Mac too.
FocusDragon syncs across every device you sign in on. Block YouTube on the iPhone in the morning — your Mac honours it before your first coffee.
Authored on either
Mac or iPhone — same blocks, same locks.
No waiting
Supabase Realtime pushes the change instantly.
Already signed in
Your iCloud account ties it together. No extra setup.
A focus companion that watches and nudges.
Tell FocusDragon what you're working on. The AI dragon watches your screen, nudges you the moment you drift — and in stricter modes force-quits anything that isn't the work. No blocklist needed. No bypass possible.
Two engines, your call:
- · Private dragon (Pro, $5 once). Runs fully on your Mac — nothing leaves your Mac. Apple Silicon (M-series) only.
- · Cloud dragon (AI Focus & Max). Sharper accuracy on any Mac with no battery hit — screenshots are sent to OpenAI and discarded, never stored on our servers.
- · Force-quit, not blocklist add. Pivot back on-task and you're unblocked instantly.
- · Fails open. Borderline calls do nothing — false positives kill trust faster than any other bug.
It puts itself back.
In a moment of weakness, you drag FocusDragon to the Trash. Five seconds later it's back, enforcement uninterrupted. Three independent persistence layers keep your block alive even through a full uninstall.
App-side block list
UserDefaults — survives a quit, lives in your user library.
Root-owned daemon config
/Library/Application Support, polled every 2s — enforces even if the app is gone.
LaunchDaemon registered
Registered with macOS via SMAppService — only an explicit unload removes it.
$5 once, or $39/year for the AI brain.
Free is fully functional. Pro is a $5 one-time payment that adds tamper-resistant locked mode, the full insights dashboard, and a private AI dragon that runs entirely on your Mac — nothing leaves the device (M-series only). AI Focus and AI Focus Max are subscription tiers running the cloud engine: sharper accuracy on any Mac, no battery hit, metered hours.
Free
- ✓Unlimited blocking (Mac + iOS)
- ✓Schedules & browser extension
- ✓Cross-device sync + iOS companion
- —Locked mode (tamper-resistant)
- —Insights / statistics dashboard
- —AI classifier
Pro
one-time, lifetime
- ✓Unlimited blocking (Mac + iOS)
- ✓Schedules & browser extension
- ✓Cross-device sync + iOS companion
- ✓Locked mode (tamper-resistant)
- ✓Insights / statistics dashboard
- ✓Private AI dragon — on-device (M-series)
- —Cloud AI classifier
AI Focus
/mo founder · $7.99/mo list
- ✓Everything in Pro
- ✓Cloud AI classifier — sharper, any Mac
- ✓Natural-language blocks
- ✓Auto-detect distractions
- ✓Weekly summary
- —Strict .hard enforcement
AI Focus Max
/mo founder · $17.99/mo list
- ✓Everything in AI Focus
- ✓Strict .hard enforcement
- ✓Longer classifier history
- ✓Priority feedback channel
- ✓Founder-pricing locked forever
- —Subscription-free $5 option
BYOK (bring-your-own AI provider keys) is included with Pro — no extra charge. See pricing for details.
What focused looks like for them.
Stop losing the morning to Twitter.
Notion stays in focus. Social tabs auto-quit. The cursor blinks in the document — nothing else.
Ship the feature before the side quest pulls you under.
VS Code stays. HN, Reddit, and Twitter are blocked under your declared task — no "just a quick check".
Get the grade you said you'd get.
Khan Academy and your PDF stay open. YouTube force-quits under "studying for finals".
What focused looks like for them.
“I have tried every single blocker. Most of them are just too expensive or just do not work at all. The daemon is genuinely unkillable, and with this app's features I am always able to focus and lock in.”
“I've tried every blocker on the Mac App Store. FocusDragon is the first one I couldn't outsmart. The daemon is genuinely unkillable.”
“The random-text lock is the thing that finally works for me. My brain can't rationalize typing 200 characters of garbage. It just... gives up.”
Get back the hours
you keep losing.
FocusDragon installs in under a minute and starts protecting you the moment you finish setup.
free · mac native · privacy-first
v1.8.11 · requires macOS 13+ · iOS 17+