Strava for deep focus
Track deep focus like Strava tracks a run.
Start a timed session. Your camera proves you were there, on your device, and the work logs like an activity — with a streak, a personal best, and a skyline. Tracked, never graded.
Runs in your browser. The camera never leaves your device.
How it works
Three steps. Then it just runs.
No setup ritual. Pick what you're doing, hit start, and the session records itself.
Start a session
Pick a length and what you're doing — deep work, study, reading, or coding. Each type tunes what counts.
The camera tracks presence, on your device
Computer vision checks whether you're at your desk. It reads presence only — no face recognition, no gaze, no eye-tracking. The video never leaves your machine.
It becomes an activity
When you stop, the session logs like a run: time in deep work, a presence skyline, a streak, and a personal best.
Tracked, not judged
Three honest signals. Never blended into a grade.
Every number answers one question: what did we actually observe? A missing signal is simply absent, never a penalty.
Were you here?
Presence only — a face in frame. No recognition, no gaze, no identity. Just whether someone was at the desk.
On-device. No frame is uploaded.What were you working in?
The name of the app or tab, never the pixels. Pair the browser extension and screen tracking gets app-level precise.
Names, not screenshots.How many pickups?
Pair your phone to count the times you reached for it. An honest tally of the most common way focus breaks.
Independent — never cross-referenced.The honest record
No score. No grade. No attention %.
Most focus tools either let you fake it — start a timer and walk away — or judge you with a number you can't trust. Attention Deficit just tracks.
- Time in deep work is the hero number — any unbroken focus stretch of 15 minutes or more.
- Distraction is only what you explicitly do — hit pause, pick up your phone. Nothing is inferred.
- A missing signal is just absent, never a penalty. No camera? Log the session by hand; it still counts.
Privacy is the moat
Raw video and screen pixels never leave your device. Only the numbers are kept.
This is the deliberate inverse of a proctoring tool. Proctoring software uploads your face and screen to watch you for someone else. Attention Deficit runs the camera on your machine, for you, and forgets the footage the moment the session ends.
- Camera frames are analysed live, on-device, then discarded. Nothing is recorded.
- Screen pixels are read on your machine to log activity, never uploaded or stored.
- No accounts, no analytics, no error-tracking in this version. Your sessions live in your browser.
The artifact
Your focus, piling up.
A live session, a finished activity, your week, and a place to compete. Every screen built faithful to the thing it's named after.
Where it runs
Start on the web. The rest is coming.
Web app
Works in any modern browser. Nothing to install — open it and start a session.
Browser extension
Adds app- and tab-level screen tracking to a session, so the record knows what you were working in.
iOS
A native track that mirrors the same metrics, with phone pairing and on-device blocking on the roadmap.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Does it record me?
No. The camera runs an on-device presence check. No video frame is ever uploaded, recorded, or stored — only numbers (was a person present, and for how long) are kept.
Do I have to use the camera?
No. You can log a session by time and type with no camera at all. It still counts toward your totals, flagged as unverified.
What counts as "deep work"?
Any unbroken focus stretch of 15 minutes or more. The average 2026 focus session is about 13 minutes, so most of a distracted day never clears the bar. That gap is the point.
Is it free?
Yes, right now. A paid tier with deeper history, analytics, and verified weekly leagues is planned for later.
Why call a focus app "Attention Deficit"?
Because that's the honest starting line. The app doesn't assume you have endless willpower. It gives you a true record of the focus you actually got, and a reason to get more tomorrow.
Is this like Proctorio or exam monitoring?
It's the opposite. Those tools watch you for a school and upload your face and screen. You turn Attention Deficit on yourself, it reads presence only, and the footage never leaves your device.
Start your first session.
It runs in your browser. The camera stays on your machine. Your deep work starts piling up today.