The App Pro Why Download

Improve your focus without burning out

Come Back
to What Matters

Most focus apps push you harder. ToBaseline helps you find your pace. Balance your day with what you need to sustain your energy for work, study, and everyday life.

Everything you need to sustain focus. Focus sessions, eye breaks, movement, hydration, breathing, mindfulness, and more.

The point is not to push until you are empty. The point is to come back.
ToBaseline running on Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch

A Focus App That Treats You Like a Person

ToBaseline helps you focus, step away when needed, and come back when you're ready. With support for breaks, movement, breathing, hydration, and recovery, it helps you keep going without burning out.

When Motivation Doesn’t Show Up

Start Before You Feel Ready.

ToBaseline helps you begin with one small action, stay with it through a focused session, step away when your body or attention needs a break, and return without losing your place.

Use it for work, studying, chores, creative projects, job search tasks, and the days when games, scrolling, fatigue, or noise keep pulling you away from what matters.

  • Start: Pick one clear next action.
  • Focus: Work inside a focused session instead of an open-ended grind.
  • Recover: Get eye, movement, hydration, breathing, and mindfulness breaks before burnout takes over.
  • Return: Come back without losing your place or arguing with yourself.

The ToBaseline loop

Begin Focus Recover Return

The goal is not to push harder. The goal is to keep coming back.

Continuity

Your Focus Follows You

Start on Mac, check progress on iPhone, pause from Apple Watch, or glance from the Menu Bar, Dynamic Island, or Lock Screen. Custom sounds, haptics, themes, and display options keep everything clear, while coordinated actions avoid stacking interruptions.

Guidance

Supporting Messages That Sound Like a Person

Choose a style of messages in the app that fits you. From Straight Talk to Real Talk to On Your Side, ToBaseline provides short messages designed to help you stay focused, steady, and moving forward. Whether you need a reminder, a nudge, or a bit of motivation to tackle what's next, you'll receive guidance that feels supportive.

Customization

Make Time Feel Right for You

Customize Focus and break durations, choose which actions run during your day, and decide how time appears across the app. Use precise countdowns, progress dots, segmented Pomodoro rings, or minimal displays when numbers feel like pressure.

Settings stay easy to reach, so ToBaseline can adapt to you without becoming complicated.

ToBaseline settings window with live preview

Reset

A Pause Before the Next Thing

Use Reset before meetings, interviews, presentations, tests, difficult conversations, or any moment when you need help arriving more centered and prepared.

ToBaseline Pro

Free helps. Pro Makes It Yours

Pro offers more features and more control over how ToBaseline fits your life: custom durations, personalized reminders, Apple integrations, advanced stats, themes, and cross-device support.

  • Custom Focus, Break, Reset, Hydrate, Unwind, Mindfulness, and Breathing durations
  • Apple Music integration and focus mixes
  • More themes and display options
  • Advanced reminder and scheduling controls
  • Apple Watch support and sync across devices
Upgrade to Pro
ToBaseline Pro insights and controls

Grounded in Research

Protect the Conditions for Focus

ToBaseline is not therapy, a diagnosis tool, or magic. It is a practical app informed by research on attention, recovery, movement, and breathing.

Energy curve showing focus, fatigue, and return to baseline

Micro-Breaks Can Help Reduce Fatigue

Short breaks throughout the day may reduce fatigue and help people sustain performance over longer periods.

Read the meta-analysis

Regular Screen Breaks Help Protect Your Eyes

The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends regular breaks, including the 20-20-20 rule, to reduce digital eye strain.

Read AAO guidance

Slow Breathing May Help Regulate Stress

Research suggests slow breathing techniques can influence both physiological and psychological responses associated with stress.

Read the review

Movement Helps Prolonged Sitting

Even brief movement breaks can help reduce the effects of prolonged sitting and support alertness throughout the day.

Read the research

Free

All you need to start.

$0 Included free
  • Focus timer
  • Screen breaks
  • Standing reminders
  • Breathing exercises
  • Mindfulness
  • Reset
  • Hydration reminders
  • No Input (display & technology break)
  • Custom intervals and action rules
  • Stats
  • WHAT ELSE?
Download Free

Pro · Monthly or Annual

Have a calmer workspace

$3.99 per month $12.99 for a year
  • Unwind neck, shoulder, and body movements
  • Apple Music playlist integration
  • Apple Health integration
  • Calendar integration (Apple Calendar)
  • Advanced reminders
  • Additional themes
  • Watch standalone and iCloud sync (IS CLOUD SYNC FREE??)
  • Stats (??)
  • MORE IS PRO...
Upgrade to Pro Monthly