focus timer · Mac & iPhoneFocus, or
get roasted.
Buw is a scruffy little bird that lives in your Mac menu bar and your iPhone. Finish a focus session and it glows up into a new form you collect. Bail early… and it gets roasted. 🍗
Free to focus · Mac & iPhone · 100% on-device
Hanging out in your menu bar.
The whole point
Stakes make you show up
Glow up
Complete a session and your scruffy little bird glows up — swan, raven, peacock, owl, phoenix. The ugly-duckling arc, earned one session at a time.
Get roasted
Quit early and Buw takes the hit — hung out to dry, plucked, or roasted. Nothing lost but pride. It's a gentle nudge to see it through.
Collect them all
Every form is earned
Transformations unlock through real focus — long sessions, streaks, late nights, comebacks. No shop, no currency. Just hours you actually put in. Pick how Buw looks while you focus and even which roast you get — pin a favourite or leave it on shuffle.
Swan
Your first transformation.
Raven
Finish a 45-minute session.
Peacock
Reach a 3-day streak.
Owl
Focus late at night.
Phoenix
Bounce back after a roast.
Crowned Swan
Focus 10 hours in total.
Mac & iPhone
Wherever you focus
Buw lives in your Mac menu bar and on your iPhone. Start a session on one, pick it up on the other — your sessions, stats and whole collection stay in sync over iCloud. On iPhone you get a Lock Screen Live Activity and home- and lock-screen widgets, so the timer's always a glance away.
Small bird, full toolkit
Everything you need to focus
Menu-bar Pomodoro
The whole focus loop lives in your menu bar — work, short and long breaks, with auto-start if you want it.
Flowtime
No timer pressure. Count up for as long as you're in the zone, then slide to finish.
A desktop buddy
Let Buw float on your desktop and react as you focus, pause, finish, or bail. Drag it anywhere.
Stats & timeline
A focus heatmap, distribution by tag, weekly trends, and a session-by-session timeline to reflect.
Tags
Label sessions — Study, Code, Read — and see where your hours actually go.
Ambient forest
Optional forest birdsong while you focus, with its own volume. Off by default.
iCloud sync
Your sessions, stats and collection follow you across your Mac and iPhone. Nothing on our servers.
Global shortcuts
Start, pause, end, summon the floating Buw or open your stats from anywhere.
Good questions
Is my data private?
Completely. Buw runs entirely on your Mac and syncs only through your own iCloud account. No analytics, no tracking, no servers of ours — ever.
What's free vs Pro?
Everything you need to focus is free: the timer, Flowtime, breaks, the floating buddy, ambient sound, tags, and a starter look for each state. Buw Pro unlocks the full collection — every transformation, focus look and roast — plus full stats and timeline.
Does it sync across my devices?
Yes — sessions, stats and your collection sync via iCloud, so Buw looks the same on every Mac and iPhone you sign into.
Is there an iPhone app?
Yes — Buw is on iPhone too, with the same timer, Flowtime, collection and iCloud sync. Your Pro unlock carries across Mac and iPhone.
Give a tiny bird a reason to root for you
A focus companion for your Mac menu bar and iPhone. Available now on the App Store.
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