An attention guardian
Tell Meoz what you're working on. It judges active pages and videos against that goal, catching distractions while letting research and learning flow.
The first Mac focus companion that actually understands what you're working on. Built for knowledge workers, professionals, and students doing deep work. Meoz recognizes when your attention drifts and gently guides you back — 100% private, zero screen capture, no guilt.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Set up in under a minute
This looks like a time-sink ⏳ — back to the paper?
You didn't mean to watch two hours of shorts.
It just… happened. One tab led to another, and the deep work you sat down for quietly slipped away. And it's not just the lost time — the scroll drains your focus, energy, and motivation, so even when you stop, you can't get back into it. Meoz notices the drift the moment it starts, and pulls you back before the whole day — and your drive to work — is gone.
“Maybe short-form video. It's rotting people's brains.”
— Elon Musk, asked which invention has made us worse
“Brain rot” was Oxford's Word of the Year. Doomscrolling and nomophobia have names now because they're that common. These feeds are tuned by thousands of engineers to keep you swiping — out-willing that alone was never a fair fight. Meoz is the counterweight, sitting quietly in your corner.
Short clip · plays from YouTube
You were dropped into a matrix of addictive content — engineered, on purpose, by companies that want your entire day. Watch more. Buy more. Spend more. Stay trapped, forever.
That's the whole business model: hold your attention as long as humanly possible and squeeze every last minute of value out of you. Your breakfast, your lunch break, your commute, your workout, the hours meant for sleep — they'll take all of it, a few minutes at a time.
And it's everywhere now. Shopping apps, messaging apps, even your bank — all bolting on short videos and endless feeds to keep you doomscrolling with no bottom.
You were never the customer. You were the product.
Meoz is the one thing in the room that's actually on your side.
AI-powered distraction detection, gentle real-time nudges, focus sessions, Pomodoro flow, and private analytics — without the wall, the guilt, or assumed willpower.
Tell Meoz what you're working on. It judges active pages and videos against that goal, catching distractions while letting research and learning flow.
Gentle spoken nudges and floating intervention cards help you step back from rabbit holes — with quick options to close, snooze, or submit a structured appeal.
A native daily workspace (⌘J) with encrypted vaults & iCloud Markdown notes, live Accomplished Today metrics, standup export, and distraction-free Monolithic notes.
Organize your day with Overdue, Today, and Upcoming queues (⌘T). Break tasks into subtasks, recover completed items with ⌘Z, and set any task directly as your Focus Goal.
Kernel-level Packet Filter and hosts protection that blocks adult, gambling, and time-sink domains across every browser and terminal tool, preventing DNS-over-HTTPS bypasses.
Safari, Chrome, Arc, Firefox, Tor, plus frontmost entertainment apps and Picture-in-Picture. Zero browser extensions required.
Automatic start during configured Working Hours, or on-demand Flex Sessions anytime. Pomodoro phases alternate focus with healthy breaks.
Track verified completed Focus phases with schedule-aware streaks. Celebrate long-term consistency with an append-only 60-badge companion achievement system.
Native macOS notifications delivered every Monday morning summarizing engaged focus hours, verified completed phases, and active streaks.
Personalize your Meoz companion with 8 built-in color tones — Cream, Lavender, Rose, Mint, Sapphire, Ash, Ginger, and Midnight — to match your desktop aesthetic.
Built-in managed AI out of the box with Zero Data Retention — no API keys, no developer console setup, no usage headaches.
Lock your schedule until midnight. Once activated during a Scheduled Session, you cannot disable nudges, pause, or tamper with settings until your day ends.
Visualize verified focus hours, avoided distraction time, category breakdowns, and site-level rankings over daily, weekly, or custom date ranges.
Customize system-wide Network Blocker hosts and create custom Always-Block web rules tailored to your unique work environment.
Type what you're working on today. One honest line is enough — "drafting the contract," "writing the thesis," "shipping the release."
Meoz sits quietly on your screen and in your menu bar while you do your thing. No dashboards to check, nothing to babysit.
Drift toward a distraction and Meoz speaks up — a gentle tap on the shoulder, right when you need it, gone the moment you're back.
It curls up in the corner of your screen — curious, a little playful, always on your side. It tilts its head when it's thinking, gives a small wink when things are going well, and never, ever shames you.
The accountability of a study buddy — without the webcam. No dressing up, no tidying your room, and no social battery drained by strangers watching you. Just a quiet companion that actually understands what's on your screen, keeping you grounded in complete privacy.
Because the goal was never to punish you for being human. It's to make the good path the easy one — and to have someone in your corner while you walk it.
Meoz was built to fix all of them at once — so you stop duct-taping five apps that each solve a quarter of the problem.
Browser extensions
StayFocusd · AppBlock · LeechBlock · BlockSite
They live inside one browser. The Chrome-only ones never touch Safari, Firefox, or Tor at all — and every one of them dies the second you switch browsers, open a private window, or uninstall in two clicks. A blocklist you can toggle off isn't a guard.
Rigid desktop blockers
Cold Turkey · Freedom · SelfControl · Focus
System-wide, but blunt. They can't tell a lecture from a meme, so they wall off the docs you actually need — or you carve so many exceptions the wall turns to swiss cheese. Strict, but never smart.
Gentle timers & focus apps
Flow · OneSec · Forest · Opal · Session · Be Focused
Kind, but toothless. A pomodoro clock ticks down, a focus session sets the mood, a screen-time limit gives a polite tap on the wrist — but none of them actually stop you the moment you decide to scroll. It's willpower with a nicer interface.
Trackers & productivity scorers
RescueTime · Rize · Timing · Toggl
They watch everything and grade it — hours logged, focus scores, dashboards of where your day "leaked." But turning every minute into a metric just adds a second job: managing the tracker. That's self-surveillance that breeds guilt and stress, not focus. You don't need a report card — you need a hand on the shoulder in the moment.
Meoz brings it together in one focus system — system-level, context-aware, AI-powered classification, gentle and strict when you choose:
| Browser extensions |
Rigid blockers |
Gentle apps |
Trackers | Meoz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works in every browser Safari, Firefox, Tor, Arc… | ✕ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guards native apps too Steam, Discord, games | ✕ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Understands context a lecture ≠ a time-sink | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | – | ✓ |
| Gentle by default nudges, not walls | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Strict when you ask a lock you can't wriggle out of | – | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Can't be dodged in two clicks | ✕ | – | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Free, forever | – | ✕ | – | ✕ | ✓ |
Every distraction — any browser, any app, any time-sink — watched by a single smart, system-level guard that actually understands what you're doing. The core stays free for everyone, for good. Premium is only for the extras. No more stitching together five half-tools that each cover a third of the problem.
One-minute setup either way. Cancel anytime — Meoz won't guilt-trip you about that, either.
$0
Bring your own AI key (DeepSeek, Gemini & Groq free tiers supported).
$5/month or $40/year
Early Supporter PriceEverything in Free, plus:
Checkout is through Lemon Squeezy. After purchase, activate Pro with your license key in Meoz: Settings → General → Meoz Pro.
Free and Pro use the same Meoz app. Prices in USD. Start with a 7-day free trial, then $5/month or $40/year ($3.33/mo billed annually). $40/year is an early supporter launch price. No credit card is required for the Free tier.
Traditional website blockers are blunt and rigid — they block entire domains on fixed timers, often frustrating you into turning them off. A focus companion is context-aware: Meoz understands what you are trying to accomplish in real time across Safari, Chrome, and native apps. Instead of treating you like a child with a digital lock, Meoz offers gentle nudges, flexible Pomodoro rhythms, and private analytics to help you stay in flow with dignity.
Any Mac running macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Meoz floats quietly on your screen or settles into your menu bar, taking almost no space or power.
Yes. Meoz processes your current tab locally or securely via the AI provider to judge whether it fits your focus. Your analytics data (like time saved or distraction categories) is strictly stored locally on your own Mac. Your data is never sold or shared.
No. Meoz sips resources and only wakes up when a browser is in front of you. The rest of the time it's happily asleep.
Any time — pause from the menu bar, configure your schedule, or quit entirely. The only exception is when you voluntarily activate Commitment Lock to hold you to your goal until midnight.
You can take a scheduled Pomodoro break or snooze nudging from the menu bar anytime. But during an active focus sprint, Meoz stays on guard — gently nudging with spoken audio and intervention cards, and closing persistent distracting tabs unless you submit a quick appeal.
Yes. Meoz is designed specifically for deep study, exam cramming, and thesis writing. It acts as a private, camera-free study buddy — giving you the grounding accountability of a study room without webcam anxiety, dressing up, or performing for strangers. It knows the difference between an educational lecture on YouTube or research on arXiv versus aimless doomscrolling on Shorts or Reddit. When final exams approach, you can turn on Commitment Lock to keep your study sessions completely uninterrupted.
Yes. MeozAI is now Meoz: the same Mac focus app, now simply called Meoz and available at meoz.ai.
Meoz Focus is the focus experience inside Meoz: AI-powered distraction detection, gentle real-time nudges, focus sessions, streaks, and private analytics that help you stay on track.
Download Meoz, tell it what matters today, and get back to work. It'll take it from there.
Download for MacmacOS 14 or later · Free to try