Lock-in

Lock-in tracks your real work and spots the small signs of drift, like rapid tab hopping or idle stalls. When it catches one, it nudges you before a three-second glance turns into a thirty-minute detour. The point is to interrupt the slide early, while it's still cheap to recover. You get a prompt, not a lecture.

When your focus dips, Lock-in suggests a short reset based on what tends to help attention recover. The examples on its site are simple: a water break or a sixty-second stretch. These micro-breaks are meant to revive concentration rather than pull you fully out of the work. The app picks the moment, so you don't have to notice the dip yourself.

Each session ends with a short report. You get a focus score, a count of distractions, your recovery time, and a few practical tips for the next round. The report is the part that turns a vague sense of "that was a scattered morning" into something you can actually look at. Over several sessions, it becomes a record of how your concentration holds up.

Lock-in runs alongside your work rather than asking you to switch into a separate timer. It does distraction tracking instead of app blocking, so it fits into a normal Mac workflow without cutting off the tools you need. That approach suits people who don't want a hard blocker but do want a nudge when they drift.

One report tells you about one session. A stack of them starts to show patterns, such as which days you recover fast and which days you keep sliding. That's where the app earns its place for habit builders: the data comes from real sessions, not a guess. It's a running record you can act on.