Fokus · Privacy
Fokus has no account, no server of its own holding your data, and no sync. Your plans, your credits, your calendar reads and your history live in the app's own storage on the device and are not uploaded anywhere. If you delete the app, they are gone; there is no copy elsewhere to request or erase.
This page describes the whole of it. There are exactly two things that ever leave the device, and both are things you switch on yourself.
Two of these are worth stating because people reasonably assume otherwise.
Fokus reads your calendar to check that a plan has a real time and a real place. It writes events when you ask it to. Both happen through Apple's EventKit on the device, and nothing read from your calendar is transmitted anywhere.
1. Notion. If you link a Notion account, Fokus asks Notion for the pages you gave it access to, and reads what is written on them. That request goes from your phone to Notion directly.
Linking uses Notion's OAuth, which Notion requires be completed with a client secret — a secret that cannot safely live inside an app. So the sign-in passes through a Cloudflare Worker at comefokus.com once on its way back to you. That Worker stores nothing and logs nothing; it has no database attached to it, and it hands the token back inside a URL fragment, which browsers never send to servers. Your Notion token is then kept in the iPhone's Keychain.
You can avoid even that single hop by using an integration token instead, in which case your phone talks to Notion directly and nothing passes through comefokus.com at all.
2. A remote AI model. Fokus plans on your device by default, using Apple's on-device model, and nothing sent to it leaves the phone. If you add an OpenAI key and switch it on, the text of the thing being planned — a title, or the notes on a Notion page — is sent to OpenAI to be turned into steps. The app tells you which model will see it at the moment you ask.
Step suggestions may use OpenAI's web search so a step can reflect something real. Summarising your own notes never does, because it does not need to.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs collecting anything, no profile, no tracking across apps or sites, and nothing sold or shared with anyone.
Fokus is for adults regulating their own phone. It uses Screen Time in its individual mode, not the parent-and-child mode, and is not designed for or directed at children.
Fokus is a planning tool, not a medical device. It makes no diagnostic or treatment claims, does not ask whether you have a diagnosis, and does not store one.
If this ever changes in a way that means more leaving your phone, it will say so here and in the app before it happens. Questions to contact@essentialisms.com.