Focus Alarm watches your face through your webcam. Look away from the screen and a motivation alarm goes off. Look back. Silence. The focus tool that actually works.
7-day free trial. No credit card required.
Three states. One purpose. Zero excuses.
Your face is detected. Eyes on screen. The alarm stays silent. You are in the zone.
You looked away. The alarm fires immediately with a motivation clip. No snooze button. No mercy.
You look back at the screen. Alarm stops instantly. Focus restored. Back to work.
Not another pomodoro timer. Not another website blocker. This is physical accountability.
Uses a deep neural network (SSD Caffe model) to detect your face in real time. Falls back to Haar cascades automatically. Works in most lighting conditions.
Detects not just your face, but your eyes. Looking at the camera but reading your phone? Focus Alarm still catches you.
Random motivation clips play when you look away. They crossfade seamlessly so there is no silence gap. Add your own MP3 files.
Runs on minimal CPU and GPU. The DNN model is lightweight (300x300 input). No cloud dependency. Everything runs locally on your machine.
Download, open, grant camera permission. That is it. No accounts. No subscriptions to start. No configuration needed. It just works.
Adjust debounce frames, detection sensitivity, crossfade duration, and alarm sounds. Edit config.json and tailor it to your setup.
"I stopped doom-scrolling during study sessions. The alarm is annoying enough that you actually look back at your work."
"It is like having an accountability partner that never sleeps. Simple, brutal, effective."
"My daily word count doubled. When the alarm goes off, you realize how often you drift. The data does not lie."
"Tried every focus app. This is the only one that actually works because you cannot cheat a camera watching your face."
to start. No credit card.
After your trial, upgrade inside the app. No separate subscription page.
Focus Alarm uses a deep neural network (SSD Caffe model) to detect your face through your webcam in real time. It also checks for your eyes, so looking at your phone while facing the screen still triggers the alarm. If the DNN model files are missing, it falls back to Haar cascades automatically.
No. Focus Alarm processes everything locally on your machine. No video is recorded. No data is sent to any server. Your camera feed never leaves your computer. The app has zero network dependencies after download.
After your 7-day trial, you can upgrade to Pro directly inside the app. No separate website. No credit card required up front. Details about the Pro plan will be available when the full version launches.
Yes. Drop any MP3 files into the sounds folder. Focus Alarm picks a random one each time the alarm triggers. You can use motivational clips, alarm tones, or anything that gets your attention.
Minimal. The face detection model is lightweight (300x300 input size) and processes each frame efficiently. It runs on CPU by default. No GPU required. On most machines, it uses less than 5% CPU during normal operation.
Windows is supported today with a standalone executable. No Python installation needed. macOS and Linux support is coming soon.
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