Twist to set your time
Turn the outer ring like a dial. The screen fills to the minutes you choose: five, twenty-five, ninety. No menus, no typing.
Focus Button
A button that mutes your phone and blocks the sites that eat your day.
Twist to set the time, press to start. The Focus Bear app keeps the distractions out until your session ends.
A 2 minute look at the Focus Button.
For parents
When the phone wins, the study just doesn't happen.
You've seen it: they sit down to study, the phone lights up, and an hour later the books are still closed. Nagging turns into a fight, and screen-time rules get argued over or worked around. The Focus Button gives your teenager a way to shut the distractions out themselves, so starting stops being a battle.
The phone actually goes quiet
Press start and notifications are silenced and the apps that derail them stay blocked until the timer ends. Not a reminder they can swipe away.
It's their choice, not surveillance
They press it themselves. No passwords to crack, no parent app watching over their shoulder, so it doesn't become one more thing to rebel against.
Getting started gets easier
One twist, one press. It turns "I'll study later" into a session that's already running, which is usually the hardest part.
Builds the habit, not the dependence
Because they run it themselves, it becomes their focus tool rather than a rule you enforce. The skill sticks once the button's put away.
How it works
One twist, one push, and the distractions are gone.
Press the button to start
One press starts the session and tells the Focus Bear app to lock the distractions out.
The distractions stay gone
Until the timer ends, your notifications stay silent and your distracting sites stay blocked. When time is up, everything comes back. You just work.
Why it's different
Other timers count down. This one silences your phone and blocks the sites.
A phone timer or a pretty hourglass just measures the minutes slipping past. The Focus Button is the physical trigger for the Focus Bear app: press start and the app silences notifications, blocks your distracting sites, and turns on Focus mode across your computer and phone, then puts it all back when the time is up.
A phone timer / hourglass
Measures the time
- ○ Counts down and beeps
- ○ Lives on the same screen full of distractions
- ○ Leaves the actual blocking up to your willpower
- ○ Easy to ignore, easy to forget
Focus Button + Focus Bear
Defends the time
- ● A real object on your desk, away from the screen
- ● Silences notifications the moment you press it
- ● Blocks distracting sites for the whole session
- ● Turns on Focus mode on your Mac, iPhone & Windows
All of it runs through the Focus Bear companion app on your computer. The button is the trigger; the app does the work.
Silence notifications
Every ping, banner and badge goes quiet for the length of the session.
Block distracting sites
The sites that pull you away are shut off until the ring runs out.
Switch on Focus mode
Your Mac, iPhone and Windows quiet down together, so even your phone stops pulling at you.
Speak your intention
Optional. Say what this session is for, out loud, and the button remembers.
Jeremy · AuDHD founder of Focus Bear
Who's behind it
Built by Focus Bear, for brains like ours.
Focus Button comes from the team behind Focus Bear, a productivity app made for AuDHD adults, with a real team and people paying for it every day. We build for executive-function struggles because we live them, and we'd rather make a tactile thing that helps than ship another tab to ignore. From high-school and uni students to knowledge workers, with a simple screen-free timer for younger kids, it's for anyone who works better with a physical switch for their focus.
25,000+people use Focus Bear to protect their focus
The app is free for people with disabilities until Dec 2026.
The button works with the Focus Bear app, normally a subscription. Thanks to a grant from the NDIA, it's free for people with disabilities, including autism and ADHD, until December 2026. The Focus Button hardware is a separate one-off purchase.
Questions
The details.
What exactly do I get?
One Focus Button and its USB cable, shipped to you in Australia. It's hardware only: the Focus Bear app is separate.
Who is it for?
Anyone who needs their focus protected, not just measured. High-school and uni students use it to get into study without their phone derailing them, and knowledge workers use it to defend deep-work blocks. For primary-school kids it works as a simple, screen-free timer, handy if they don't have a phone or laptop yet.
Where do you ship, and how much?
Australia only for now, and shipping is free. We're keeping it local for now so we can support every order properly.
How fast does it arrive?
It ships immediately. Order today and your unit goes out now, not after a crowdfunding wait. These are real units on the shelf.
Mac or Windows?
Both. It works on Mac and Windows over USB at launch. You just need the Focus Bear app running on your computer.
Is the Focus Bear app included?
No, the price is for the hardware. The Focus Bear app is what does the blocking. Good news: thanks to a grant from the NDIA, the app is free for people with disabilities, including autism and ADHD, until December 2026. Check your free access. Otherwise you can see the plans on the Focus Bear pricing page.
What if it's not for me?
If it is not right for you, get in touch and we'll make it right. We're a small team that would rather you be genuinely glad you bought it than hold onto a sale that didn't fit.
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