Focusd

Privacy-first digital wellbeing and screen time tracker for Windows. No cloud, no telemetry.

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Privacy-First Digital Wellbeing for Windows

Track your screen time. Own your data. No cloud required.

GitHub: 0xarchit/Focusd Live Project: focusd.0xarchit.is-a.dev

Why Focusd?

Every productivity tracker on the market uploads your data to their servers. Focusd doesn't. Your usage data stays on your machine, stored in a local SQLite database that you fully control.

App	Installer / Disk Size	RAM Usage (Idle)	Tech Stack
StayFree (Windows)	~164 MB	150MB - 400MB	likely Electron / UWP
Toggl Track	~100 MB	200MB - 500MB	Electron (Chromium bundled)
RescueTime (Classic)	~25 MB	20 - 50 MB	Native C++ / Qt
Focusd	<11 MB	~4 - 10 MB	Go (Native Syscalls)

Quick Start

PowerShell (Recommended):

iwr "https://github.com/0xarchit/focusd/releases/latest/download/focusd.exe" -OutFile focusd.exe; ./focusd.exe init

Command Prompt:

curl -L -o focusd.exe "https://github.com/0xarchit/focusd/releases/latest/download/focusd.exe" && focusd.exe init

Note

After running init, the focusd command is available globally from any terminal.

Features

Usage Dashboard

View daily and historical screen time with a beautiful terminal UI.

focusd stats

Focus Sessions

Built-in Pomodoro timer with completion notifications.

focusd focus 25

Browser Tracking

Tracks time spent per browser tab (by page title, not URL for privacy).

View in focusd stats → Browser Usage
Add custom browsers: focusd browser add <exe_name>

Smart App Grouping (Experimental)

Automatically groups related browser tabs (e.g., all YouTube videos under "YouTube").

80+ supported sites (YouTube, GitHub, Reddit, Discord, LeetCode, etc.)
Shows parent category with sub-entries
Note: This feature is under active development. Some titles may not group correctly.

App Limits

Set daily time limits for distracting applications.

focusd limit

Background Daemon

Silent background process with minimal resource usage (_{5MB RAM,}0% CPU).

Commands

Command	Description
`focusd`	Interactive menu
`focusd stats`	Open usage dashboard
`focusd focus <mins>`	Start focus timer
`focusd limit`	Configure app limits
`focusd browser`	Add/remove custom browsers
`focusd start/stop`	Control background service
`focusd update`	Check for updates
`focusd uninstall`	Remove all data

Privacy

No telemetry. Zero network requests except for update checks.
No cloud. All data stored locally in %APPDATA%\focusd\focusd.db.
Open database. Standard SQLite—query it yourself with any SQL tool.
Open source. Audit the code anytime.

Building from Source

git clone https://github.com/0xarchit/Focusd.git
cd Focusd
go build -ldflags="-s -w" -trimpath -o focusd.exe ./cmd/focusd

Requirements: Go 1.21+