Task Focus: Todo Planner
Kanban, Reminder, Calendar
Free · In‑App Purchases
"One step at a time will get you there."
Task Focus isn’t just another task manager—it’s your productivity partner.
Designed for power users who demand clarity, control, and speed, Task Focus helps you stay on top of goals, projects, and priorities—so you can accomplish more with less effort.
Set Goals & Stay on Track:
Define what success looks like. Enter your daily task targets, and Task Focus organizes your workload intelligently to help you hit them consistently.
Plan with Precision:
- Today & Planning: Start each day with a distraction-free view of today's and overdue tasks. Plan ahead with versatile calendar views—monthly, weekly, or daily—to keep your goals in sight.
- Kanban Boards: Visualize projects, areas, tags, or locations in Kanban boards for instant clarity on progress.
Organise with Ease:
- Areas & Projects: Use color-coded projects to visually differentiate areas of your life, making time management straightforward and effective.
- Locations: Activate location-based notifications, ensuring you receive task alerts precisely when you arrive or leave relevant places.
Enhanced Task Management:
- Tags: Easily filter tasks with a contextual tag filter bar for quick access to what's important.
- Repeating Tasks: Automate task repetition on the next available day or at regular intervals, keeping you on track effortlessly.
- Sub Tasks: Break complex tasks into manageable steps by assigning subtasks.
Integrate Seamlessly:
- Share Extension: Add tasks directly from any app using the share sheet feature.
- Widgets: Stay on top of your tasks with desktop widgets, offering quick access and easy task management right from your home screen.
- App Intents: Incorporate Task Focus into your workflows using the Shortcuts app for task addition and scheduling.
Stay Connected:
- Calendar Events: Integrate your calendar, displaying events alongside tasks for a comprehensive daily view.
- Reminders: Import your Reminders directly into Task Focus to have everything in one place.
- iCloud Sync: Enjoy seamless syncing across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud, ensuring your tasks are always current.
Exclusive Features with Task Focus Pro:
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more Focus has most of what you can ask for in a task / project manager and then some.A single developer managed to pull off what took Things — with a team of Developers years, and has more to offer in my opinion.### Many niceties …- Dedicated Inbox- Thoughtful customization (hide what you don’t want to see, show colors, increase/decrease font size, etc.)- Tags — multi-level - Projects/Lists (with notes)- Areas (with notes)- Archive projects and tasks- Sub-tasks- Dedicated Inbox- Quick add task from App contextual menu- Today, Next, Later and Planned views- Calendar with day, week and monthly views- Custom list sections - Built-in Evening section — a place for your nightly tasks- Drag and drop to change dates and sections- Task Goals (unique)- Exceptional search and filtering capabilities- Extremely reasonable pricing model- Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac (under one subscription)- Consistent updates over the last year - Responsive developer ### Few feature requests:- Notes for Today/Star and Calendar view (like projects and areas display at the top)- Image and file attachments- System Calendar integration - Watch app (says it’s coming on Developer’s blog)- Weather displayed at top of Today/Star view and Calender (10 day forecast, like BusyCal). - Additional app icons to choose from with multiple pleasing colors to match different home screensAll and all, Focus is a power user’s dream, yet it can be as simple as you want to be if you just want to manage your daily tasks or lists. Highly recommend you give it a try.
Focus has most of what you can ask for in a task / project manager and then some.A single developer managed to pull off what took Things — with a team of Developers years, and has more to offer in my opinion.### Many niceties …- Dedicated Inbox- Thoughtful customization (hide what you don’t want to see, show colors, increase/decrease font size, etc.)- Tags — multi-level - Projects/Lists (with notes)- Areas (with notes)- Archive projects and tasks- Sub-tasks- Dedicated Inbox- Quick add task from App contextual menu- Today, Next, Later and Planned views- Calendar with day, week and monthly views- Custom list sections - Built-in Evening section — a place for your nightly tasks- Drag and drop to change dates and sections- Task Goals (unique)- Exceptional search and filtering capabilities- Extremely reasonable pricing model- Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac (under one subscription)- Consistent updates over the last year - Responsive developer ### Few feature requests:- Notes for Today/Star and Calendar view (like projects and areas display at the top)- Image and file attachments- System Calendar integration - Watch app (says it’s coming on Developer’s blog)- Weather displayed at top of Today/Star view and Calender (10 day forecast, like BusyCal). - Additional app icons to choose from with multiple pleasing colors to match different home screensAll and all, Focus is a power user’s dream, yet it can be as simple as you want to be if you just want to manage your daily tasks or lists. Highly recommend you give it a try.
Focused has a bunch over very interesting feature and is well done. Doesn’t crash and has a consistent logic. I’d say it just needs a little more refinement in the how to enter data area and some more features.
Developer Response Thank you!There is still a fairly long list of features planned this year, including easier ways to enter new tasks.
Focused has a bunch over very interesting feature and is well done. Doesn’t crash and has a consistent logic. I’d say it just needs a little more refinement in the how to enter data area and some more features.
Thank you!There is still a fairly long list of features planned this year, including easier ways to enter new tasks.
Changes
- Shows the navigation menu in the title bar if the sidebar is set to tags or locations
- Added an option wether to ignore or include inherited tags in the "No Tags" filter
- The ellipsis on expanded tasks now opens the edit view directly
- Done tasks now stay in the Inbox until they are archived (like in other projects)
Fixed
- Pasting multiple lines into a subtask now correctly splits it into multiple subtasks
- Archiving tasks can now also be undone
- Sometimes not correctly updating
- Fixed global search for tasks
- Fixed CMD+D for date picker
2.1.2 Mar 31
Changes
- Improved search and filter list logic
- Option to remember the tag filter per view
- Added CMD+I shortcut plus menubar entry to open tasks in edit view
- Easier switch between list/kanban/calendar mode
Fixed
- Widgets should unlock faster after subscribing to Pro
- Fixed an issue with possible missing tags in the sidebar
- Selection works a bit faster now
2.1.1 Mar 17
Calendar View
- Replaced "Calendar" with "Planned" in the sidebar
- You can now view any area, project, tag or location as Calendar
- When viewing tasks as calendar, you now keep the tag filter list
- The "Day" view has a new agenda style design
Trash Bin
- Instead of deleting immediately task are now moved to the trash bin
- The Trash can be emptied manually, or optionally tasks can be automatically removed after a configurable number of months
- The app now supports undo/redo for all modifications to tasks
Start Times and Durations
- You can now optionally add a start time to tasks
- You can now optionally add a duration to tasks
- You sort any list now by task duration too
Fixed
- Fixed the app name in a couple of places
- Improved performance with multiple tabs/windows
- Fixed selecting all items with cmd+a
2.1.0 Mar 2
Changes
- Changed the default to archiving done tasks immediately
- Week View now shows primarily the date instead of week number
Fixed
- Fixed updating calendar events while the app is running
- "Two Weeks" button when multiple tasks are selected
- Header color in widgets in dark mode
- Fixed priority and date keyboard shortcuts in lists
- Fixed priority and date keyboard shortcuts when editing multiple tasks
- Fixed calendar events in day view in calendar
2.0.5 Feb 13
Changes
- Section Menu for "Inbox" now also has a "New Task" button
- Added support for markdown, and links to subtasks
Fixed
- Tags assigned to sections are now respected when filtering for specific tags
- Deleting a tag now also correctly deletes its subtags
2.0.4 12/11/2025
Changes
- Shows empty checklist in expanded states
- Tasks assigned to an area, but not a project no longer show in the "No Project" filter
- Added a button to dismiss the keyboard while editing the project/area notes
- Added "Clean Up" to area context menus
Fixed
- Fixed bottom toolbar being to large
- Fixed background in edit area/group/project views
- Fixed Editing Project/Area notes if there are no tasks yet
- Fixed cancel button in Add Tag, Add Location
- Now also hides projects with no area, if focusing on a specific area
- Fixed not removing tasks from the calendar, when changing the schedule to next or later in the edit view
- Context Menu > Planned > 2 Weeks
- Fixed a possible crash
2.0.3 12/02/2025
Changes
- Now supports drag and drop from Apple Mail
- Checklists are now always visible when editing a task
- Added a "Clean Up" action to section context menus in Today
- Improved Markdown support in note previews in list
- Added "New Task" to "This Evening" section context menu
- Project Picker in edit view now shows "Inbox" instead of "No Project" if approriate
- Improved section menus in kanban view
- "This Evening" now also works in kanban view (can be disabled in settings)
- Kanban View can now be individually enabled/disabled per list
- New option to defer all tasks by a specific amount
- Now supports right side inspectors on iPadOS too
Fixes
- Fixed issue where changes to the checklist would not be saved
- When using "Clean Up" while focusing on one area, only tasks in that area are cleaned up
- Fixed "This Evening" option in "No Project" section context menu
- Calendars no longer disappear from the "Enabled Calendars" list in settings
- Fixed dragging tasks to the "Planned" column in kanban mode
- Improved link detection in notes
- Fixed crash on opening settings [watchOS]
- Fixed applying filtering tags to new task when using a section menu
- Fixed list layout on iPhone 13 Mini
- Fixed onboarding flow on iOS 18
2.0.2 11/19/2025
Changes
- Added a separate "After completion" option to task repetitions
- Added a "Today" option in the ... menu in the "This Evening" section
- Added sidebar mode (projects/tags/locations) to menubar and keyboard shortcuts
Fixes
- Repetitions properly copy subtasks, alerts and locations as well
- No longer shows the next/later/today icons on tasks in Kanban view
- Calendars in settings are now sorted alphabetically
- Fixed potential hang when filtering by tags
- Fixed tag list layout in sidebar
- Properly clears the search field when selecting something in the sidebar
- Fixed calendar update after marking task as minor
- Updated button selection colors to be more visible in edit view
- Fixed checked/unchecked state not updating after syncing, until reopening the view
2.0.1 11/03/2025
Apple Watch App
- Shows your today's tasks and calendar entries
- Simplified new tasks functionality
- View your tags, areas, and projects
- Edit existing tasks
Kanban View
- Optionally view projects, areas, and other lists as kanban boards instead
- Move tasks with drag and drop between columns
Locations
- You can create locations and name them
- Assign each task an optional location
- Get notified on arrival/departure
- Hide unavailable (i.e. not at that location) tasks in the today view
Reminders Import
- Shows reminders from selected lists in Inbox
- Import individual or all reminders
- Delete reminders directly in TaskFocus
- Automatically import from specific lists
Calendar Events
- You can display today's events next to your tasks in the today view
- See your events in the calendar view
Updated Design
- Updated for the new operating systems
- Updated single page edit task view
- Use an optional sidebar to edit one or multiple tasks directly [macOS, iPad]
- You can now search for individual settings
- Updated compact sidebar look
Improved Lists
- Added toggle for selection mode
- Swipe on an item to start selection
- Swipe through selection indicators to select multiple
- Improved context menu when multiple tasks are selected
- Tags can now be set to be displayed inline/extra line/hidden for today and other lists separately
- Title and note preview line number can now be set for today and other lists separately
- Checklists can now be enabled for today and other lists separately
Improved Notifications
- Dropped global "Daily Notification" setting
- You can now set specific times you want to be reminded for each task
- Option to set a default alert time for notifications
Other Changes
- The tag filter in list view now groups tasks, based on their hierarchy
- When creating a new task from a section menu, while filtering the list by tag, the selected tags are now auto-applied
- When creating new tasks while focus on an area is active, the new task will have the area pre-selected
- Added "Go to Area" and "Go to Project" context menu options for those section menus
- Added date suggestions in a menu when changing the date using the bottom bar
- Added this evening/today options to the context menu if multiple items are selected
- Added "edit task" option to context menu
- Shows areas without projects in project picker
- Shows areas in the compact sidebar view too
- "Clean Up" no longer moves minor tasks - since they don't count towards the limit anyway
- Today's progress now counts overdue tasks correctly
- All-around performance improvements
- Month view now shows the next month by default, if today still falls into the first week of the next months view
- Ability to swipe left/right after opening a day from the calendar view
- Option to automatically open the full editor instead of inline expanding tasks
- Option to show or hide the dates in today or other lists
- Workday limit no longer apply to newly created repetitions of minor tasks
- Multi selection now also works in calendar views
- Added "Subtask Size" option, to enable bigger touch targets for subtasks
- Note Preview line number can now be correctly be set to zero
2.0 10/29/2025
Changes
- Schedule type is now a segmented control
- Date icon on tasks now opens a date picker instead of a menu
- You can enable/disable displaying all checklists per list
Fixed
- Fix defer > two weeks button
- Deleting a project also deletes the contained tasks and sections
- Fixed the new app name in titles and app icons
- Minor improvements to the task context menu
1.11.6 05/03/2025
Changes
- Changed the app name from "Focused" to just "Focus"
- Section headers in list now show the projects progress, if its also showing project progress in the sidebar
Fixed
- Multiline titles while editing a task
- Adjusted main section background color in sidebar, while in dark mode on iPad
- Fixed reordering projects in the sidebar
1.11.5 04/03/2025
New
- Configurable list and calendar text sizes
- Added an All Tasks view, that shows all unfinished tasks
- Added options to show/hide Inbox/Next/Later/All in sidebar
- Added option to open the app to a specific view
- Option for more visible counts in the sidebar
Changes
- Added Show Full Note to context menu in today tasks
- Tagged tasks stay in the inbox, until they're scheduled or assigned a project or area
- Added Two Weeks button to task context menu date picker
- Added Select Tasks to list section menus
Fixed
- Fixed date picker selection while Next Free Day is selected in main edit view
- The ... menu for overdue sections in projects now actually shows a menu
- Defer in context menu is now disabled, if no deferrable task is selected
- Completing a tasks no longer adds an empty checklist, if the task had none
- Improved keyboard handling when editing subtasks
- Fixed reordering subtasks
1.11.4 03/25/2025
Changes
- Remove selection on escape key press
- Now shows a partially done check icon for tasks with partially completed checklists
- The small quick access widget now also shows the days progress
- Improved task context menu
- Improved tag picker view
Fixed
- Showing new projects after creation, while focusing on an area
- Missing view mode button in calendar [iPhone]
- Fixed possible crashes
1.11.3 03/13/2025
Changes
- Subtags in sidebar are now sorted by number of tasks
- Option to sort completed tasks to the bottom of sections
Fixed
- Fixed ctrl+1/2/3 priority shortcuts in edit view
- Fixed ctrl shortcuts in edit view, while there are also tasks selected in a list
- Improved performance when dragging tasks to other sections
- Improved assigning projects/areas/groups logic
1.11.2 03/06/2025
Changes
- Custom sections are now shown above Next Tasks when sorting by date
- Shows entry for parent items in tags and project menus again everywhere
- Option to disable delete selected tasks confirmation
- Added tooltips to buttons in the bottom toolbar
- Adjusted keyboard shortcuts for selected tasks
- Removes empty subtasks on save
1.11.1 03/04/2025
Multi Selection
- Select one or more tasks to modify
- Drag multiple tasks to other sections
- Context Menu applies to multiple tasks
- Bottom action bar during selection
Inline Editing
- Tapping an item now expands it instead of opening the edit view directly
- See notes, checklists and more directly in lists (other than today)
- Quickly edit title, note, checklists and basic attributes without opening the edit view
Minor Tasks
- Replaced Anytime tasks with Minor tasks
- Minor tasks is now a toggle on tasks, not a separate schedule
Checklists
- You can drag & drop reorder items
- Automatically removes item if text is deleted
- Automatically adds new items on enter
Changes
- Date picker now shows past and today differently
- Share Extension now defaults to Next schedule (i.e Inbox)
- Shows date label in custom sections, even when sorted by date
- Improved area selections in menus
1.11 02/25/2025
Changes
- Deferring tasks now respects the Can Defer property
- Button to clear older tasks from the archive
- Option to automatically clear the archive
- Changed sort order of custom sections in task lists
Fixes
- Respect the focused area when calculating the overdue count in the sidebar
- Only the expand/collapse button in list sections expands/collapses the section
- Fixed editing project/area notes while the project/area was open in the list view
- Fixed showing project/area notes in list view while the project/area had no tasks
- Now counts unfinished overdue tasks also towards today’s progress in the sidebar
1.10.3 02/19/2025
Changes
- Changed CMD+Shift+N to new window
- Swapped the filter list and search tasks shortcuts
- Weekday header in month view [iPhone]
- You can see a list of the unlocked features in the subscription status view
- Shows project and priority icons on tasks, if in a custom section
Fixes
- Immediately show update task note in today view
- Task goals on tags are now correctly applied to task in projects or areas that have this tag assigned
- When creating a new task in a custom section in today, the sections project or area is correctly assigned
- No longer removes a task from its custom section, if dropping on another section while custom sections are hidden
- Fixed dropping tasks on lists in other windows (including empty lists)
- Fixed filtering for focus area after switching lists
- Fixed day name translations
1.10.2 02/09/2025
Changes
- Added This Evening to section menu in today
- You can now set the focus to different areas in different windows
Fixed
- Recurring tasks were sometimes scheduled one day too far in the future
- Fixed reordering areas in sidebar and corresponding task order in today
- No longer asks for confirmation when completing a section without unfinished tasks
- When viewing a tag, task from projects, areas, groups with this tag are now also shown
- Fixed moving sections to other areas/projects
- Fixed moving sections to No Project
- Improved tag filtering in lists
1.10.1 01/31/2025
Custom Sections
- You can now group tasks within projects and areas
- Sorting by custom sections can be enabled or disabled in the the sort menu
Edit View Shortcuts
- Esc/CMD+. to close the edit view
- CTRL+1/2/3/4 to set priority from high to low
- CTRL+T to set the date to Today
- CTRL+N to set to Next
- CTRL+A to set to Anytime
- CTRL+L to set to Later
- CTRL+P to set to Planned
- CTRL++/- to move the task one day forward or back
- CMD+Option+1/2/3/4 to change the list order
- CMD+Option+5 to toggle custom sections
Changes
- You can now add notes to projects, areas and tags
- You can now assign tags to projects and areas
- Projects can now be completed and archived
- Added haptic feedback when moving tasks in a list
- Enter in the title field now saves the task on iOS too
- Adjusted section headers in lists
- Updated sidebar layout
Fixed
- Fixed tag deletion confirmation dialog
- Counts anytime tasks in today widget
- Anytime tasks can now be toggled on/off in the day view too
- Archived tasks toggle works in the day view too
- Improved drop highlights in lists
- New Task in inbox no longer has a default date
1.10 01/28/2025
Changes
- Compact sidebar hides collapsed areas
- Anytime Tasks toggle for calendar directly in the view menu
- Added Open Area and Open Tag intents
Fixed
- Increased font size for the smaller fonts
- Fixed overdue count in sidebar and widget
1.9.4 01/22/2025
Changes
- Added CMD+F shortcut to search tasks
- Added CMD+Shift+F shortcut the filter the current list
- Improved drop indicator in lists
- Support for reordering in compact sidebar
Fixed
- Properly applies tag, when dropping text in list
- Correctly highlights tasks when dropping a tag or project on it
- Nicer empty state in tag picker, when there are no tags added yet
- Show projects in area in correct order in compact sidebar
- Fixed updating the number of tasks and progress in the quick access widget
1.9.3 01/11/2025
Changes
- Add setting for the maximum number of title lines in today view
- When filtering for a tag, it now also shows task with subtags of this tag assigned
- Improved week layout on large devices
- Section headers now also use relative dates
- Month view highlights workdays now
- Minor list view layout refinements
- Added options to hide the task icons in lists
- Added option to control the number of tags shown in lists
- Now using a custom date picker when editing tasks
- The calendar is now highlighting the selected workdays
Fixed
- Improved drop targets for moving tasks in lists
- When selecting a tag to filter, and there's no overlap with already filtering tags, keep the newly selected tag filter selected
- Focusing on an area now filters the calendar view as well
- Fixed Defer Evening Tasks not appearing in defer menu
- Improved layout when using coloured task backgrounds
- Fixed an issue where the set workdays were not respected when cleaning up
1.9.2 12/29/2024
Changes
- Improved "Next Available Date" handling in edit task view
- Moved global search to sidebar and filter fields for lists [macOS]
Fixed
- Deferring an overdue task now moves it to the next workday after today
- Defer task now defers to the next workday after today, not the next workday after the task date
- You can now drop text on calendar days to create a new task [macOS]
- Next available date now respects workday limits
- Fixed changing months in calendar
- Fixed calendar layout on iPad
1.9.1 12/16/2024
Search & Filter
- Added a search field to filter lists and calendar
- Added a search filed to filter the calendar view
- Global search bar to search tasks
Improved calendar
- Much improved Month view on phones
- You can now swipe left/right between months
- Week Mode for Planning View
- Day Mode for Planning View
Changes
- Much improved list performance
- Improved defer tasks dialogs
1.9.0 12/09/2024
Changes
- Shows the navigation menu in the title bar if the sidebar is set to tags or locations
- Added an option wether to ignore or include inherited tags in the "No Tags" filter
- The ellipsis on expanded tasks now opens the edit view directly
- Done tasks now stay in the Inbox until they are archived (like in other projects)
Fixed
- Pasting multiple lines into a subtask now correctly splits it into multiple subtasks
- Archiving tasks can now also be undone
- Sometimes not correctly updating
- Fixed global search for tasks
- Fixed CMD+D for date picker
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