We’re introducing our biggest update to App Blocker yet. It’s one of the most meaningful updates we’ve made because it brings Tempo closer to its mission: protecting your attention. Tempo can now help you protect your attention beyond focus sessions, including during your free time. With Routines, you can choose apps, categories, or websites and set daily usage limits or schedule when they’re blocked. We also wanted this protection to feel connected to the time you spend focusing. That’s why we’ve introduced ways to earn access through focus sessions or math exercises. If you’ve reached your social app limit, for example, you can spend time reading, learning, or doing something you care about to earn a little extra time. It’s a way to make room for the things that matter while still enjoying a small reward. We’ve also created a new Monitor page for Screen Time, where you can see which apps take up most of your time and how your usage changes over time. It’s a clearer way to understand where your attention goes and decide what you’d like to change. We’ve put a lot of care into this update, testing and refining how it works. We’d love to hear how Routines fit into your day and what would make them better for you. Added - Swedish and Portuguese (Portugal) translations. - A new Monitor page to help you understand your distractions and see your Screen Time over time. - Routines for blocking apps, websites, and app categories with daily usage limits or scheduled time intervals. - Unlock methods that let you extend access or disable a routine through focus sessions or math exercises. Requirements can increase with repeated use. - A progress indicator to show how close you are to completing a routine’s unlock goal. Improved - Smoother interaction with the split-view selector. - Better accessibility for the update banner. - Label search in the History page’s label selector. - A redesigned paywall. - Session App Blocker controls directly on the clock, so you can see which apps are linked to the current label and whether blocking is active. - The Archived section now appears once a completed task moves into the archive on the following day. - A refined screen for blocked apps. Fixed - Performance issues. - Bugs affecting Live Activities in certain situations.

I’ve made a few small improvements to the everyday Tempo experience.

Adds optional Today planning for Linear and Apple Reminders, brings Dutch localization to Tempo, and improves translated interface text. We’ve been listening to how you use task tracking in Tempo. Many of you plan work in Linear or Apple Reminders before opening Tempo to focus on it. With 1.3.1, those plans can meet you in Today with less morning setup. Turn on Add tasks due today in either integration’s settings. Whenever Tempo syncs, eligible tasks due that day are added to your Today list automatically. Nothing changes in Linear or Apple Reminders, and Tempo respects where you choose to place each task. When you open Tempo in the morning, the work you already planned can be waiting in Today. Tempo is also now available in Dutch. We’ve improved localization across the app and Live Activities, including Timer, Stopwatch, and upcoming-session text. Added - Optional Today planning for Linear and Apple Reminders. - Dutch language support across Tempo and Live Activities. Improved - Improved translation coverage across supported languages. - Integration refresh results now open the matching Tasks view even when everything is already up to date. Fixed - Fixed cases where localization keys could appear instead of interface text. - Fixed missing and inconsistent translations in several parts of Tempo and Live Activities.

his update adds Tasks to Tempo Focus. You can now plan what you want to work on, connect focus sessions to tasks, and see your time with more context afterward. Added - Tasks for organizing focused work. - Task-aware focus tracking, so sessions can be connected to what you worked on. Improved - The focus flow is clearer when choosing what to work on next. - Insights can better reflect where your attention went. - Small polish and reliability improvements across the app. Fixed - Several minor issues affecting daily use.

Tempo now has a home on the web. Most of this release is about making Tempo feel smoother in daily use. Behind that polish is a larger milestone: Tempo Focus now has its own website. tempofocus.app gives the project a dedicated home for explaining how Tempo works, sharing new releases, and showing where the product is heading. Added - Tempo Focus now has its own website. Visit tempofocus.app to explore the product and follow future releases. - Added a new update card after installing a new version, so important changes are easier to find inside the app. Improved - Adding and editing entries now feels faster and smoother, with clearer interactions throughout the Entries page. - The Flip Clock animation is smoother and more efficient. - The App Blocker page has a clearer layout. - You can now choose a default set of blocked apps for every focus session without setting up Label Scenarios. - The current label is now easier to identify in the Labels tab within Split View. Fixed - Resolved several small issues on the Entries page. - Fixed reliability issues affecting Live Activities and Dynamic Island.

This update brings a smoother way to organize your focus setup, a new Stopwatch mode, and several reliability improvements. New - Added a Labels tab in the split view, making it easier to see all your labels and switch context. - Added label archiving. Archived labels stay in your statistics, but no longer appear in the label selector. - Added Stopwatch mode for open-ended focus sessions. - Added support for creating and editing focus entries. Improved - Refined the duration slider experience. - You can now set session durations above 90 minutes. - Polished layouts across the app for a cleaner, calmer experience. Fixed - Fixed a Live Activity issue. - Fixed a background timer issue that could cause the timer to freeze. - Any other minor bugs.

Added - Insights preferences where you can personalise your insights page view. Fixed - Fixed the swipe bug in the Insights view. Improved - New navigation inside the Insights view.

Added - Custom icons and colors for session labels. Fixed - Live Activity widget: edge-case bugs resolved. Improved - Insights: swipe between days or weeks to move through your history. - Labels: smoother add and edit flow, a new bottom sheet for picking labels, and richer detail in Manage Labels. - Insights (labels): refreshed labels section for clearer scanning.

Added - Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. - Monthly and Yearly Insights are now only for Tempo Pro. - Early Bird discount for lifetime access. - Duplicate a label from the label “more” menu. - App Blocker when creating and editing labels. - Attach a duration to each label. Fixed - Fixed duration slider drag gesture issues. - Fixed visual glitches in Insights during transitions. - Fixed play button flickering on iOS 18. Improved - Now you can disable Flip Clock Animation from Settings → Timer Preferences. - Respects Reduce Motion for animations.

Fixed - Fixed background session recovery incorrectly skipping breaks. - Fixed a bug where you could receive the same notification twice.