Changelog

A shorter welcome guide and clearer protection before your first block.

• Choose a distracting app or website, prepare the block, then start. Suggested apps still come from how you use your Mac; launch at login and advanced options stay in Settings.
• New installations suggest 25 minutes of focus and a 5-minute break. Edit both before starting. Updating keeps your existing durations.
• Choosing a website explains browser access and asks only for the browser you choose. The start summary and Focus page distinguish selected sites from available protection and show pending access.
• Skipping the guide leaves “Choose a distraction” and “Use timer only” on Focus. Notifications are offered during the first block, with an option to leave them for later. Replaying the guide still asks before starting a strict block.
• First-use measurements stay on your Mac. Closing the guide, starting, completing a full block with protection available, the first interception, and returning on day seven are recorded separately. Ending early does not count as activation; an interception is not required.
• Preview builds using a separate data directory keep their widget snapshot there too, so testing setup does not replace the normal widget’s data.

A new tab layout, clearer focus setup, and guided breaks.

• Pages are now tabs across the top, each with its own colour. Settings opens from the gear, and ⌘1–5 switches pages.
• Set the block length, goal, and guarded apps before starting. Pressing Return while editing a goal finishes editing it. Calling apps set to Quit App show a warning that quitting ends their calls.
• A Strict switch changes just the next block. Starting a strict block from menus, shortcuts, or the menu bar asks first, and the Focus page shows when it ends and how long the emergency exit waits.
• Breaks put one guided activity beside the timer. Start it, mark it done, or choose something else. The page says which apps and sites are available until the break ends; the check-in takes one tap, with an optional note.
• Returning after days away shows when you last focused. Focus charts cover the last seven days, and Analytics daily averages count every day in the selected range.
• Warnings and break text are easier to read. VoiceOver reads tabs, segmented choices, and breathing steps; arrow keys move through segmented choices. Increase Contrast and Reduce Motion cover more of the interface.

LockIn becomes Quietwhile, with app chimes, a compact floating timer, and interactive break guides.

• Updating keeps your settings, history, schedules, permissions, widgets, Shortcuts, and Focus filters. Data moves to the Quietwhile folder on first launch; the old LockIn folder stays untouched.
• A chime plays from the app when a focus block or break runs out, including with Do Not Disturb or a full-screen app. Choose the sound or turn it off in Settings. The break-end window appears over the frontmost app.
• The floating timer rests as a small pill and expands on hover. Change its size and fading, allow clicks through it, or drag it to a position it remembers for each display.
• Focus and Analytics charts use slimmer bars, clearer time labels, and daily-goal reference lines. Daily charts share the same two-hour goal.
• Break activities now guide breathing, eye rest, stretching, posture, water, walking, push-ups, and squats. Suggestions fit the break length, avoid repeating, and count completed activities.
• Slack status, Discord status, and Discord recap integrations have been removed. Only updates go online. The local recap can still be copied after a session.
• The floating timer can be dragged again. Gmail rules now include mail.google.com; Twitter and X rules cover both domains. Missing browser permissions show a warning on the Focus page with a link to allow access.

Quietwhile asks before a session ends early.

• Ending a session, skipping a focus block, or quitting while one is running asks first, and says how much time is left and what History will record.
• The safe answer is the default. Turn it off with “Don’t ask again,” or in Settings › General.
• Deleting a schedule, or removing a Slack token or Discord webhook, asks first too.
• Shortcuts and the Focus filter still end a session without a dialog.

The welcome guide suggests apps from how you actually use your Mac.

• Suggestions come from what you open most and most recently, what is in your Dock, and what is open right now. Each one says why it is there. That stays on your Mac.
• Work tools and browsers are never suggested, and apps you have never opened are left out.

A welcome guide on first launch, and a clearer About window.

• On first launch, pick the apps and sites to guard, choose a rhythm, and start a first block. Replay it any time from Help › Welcome Guide.
• Notifications and browser access are explained before macOS asks, each with a plain description and an Allow button. Nothing is requested at launch.
• About shows the version, the update status, and where your data lives.
• Report a Problem, in About and the Help menu, opens a feedback form.

The first public release.

• A focus timer in the menu bar, with focus blocks and breaks, and a floating timer that stays above every window. A block can run up to a full day.
• Guarded apps are covered, hidden, or quit while you focus, set per app. Guarded sites are swapped out of the current browser tab.
• Strict mode is a block that can’t be ended, skipped, or quit early, with a timed emergency exit.
• Schedules start focus blocks on their own. Breaks can suggest a stretch, remind you to rest your eyes, and decide what happens when a break ends.
• Each block can have a goal and a category, with History, an Analytics dashboard, and data export.
• Shortcuts actions, a Focus filter, global keyboard shortcuts, and a widget for the desktop and Notification Center.
• Dark mode, a native sidebar, and tabbed Settings. Signed, notarized downloads that update themselves.