macOS menu-bar focus timerFocus, or
get roasted.
Buw is a scruffy little bird that lives in your menu bar. Finish a focus session and it glows up into a new form you collect. Bail early… and it gets roasted. 🍗
Free to focus · Made for your menu bar · 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.
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.
Everything in the menu bar
Small bird. Full toolkit.
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 Macs. 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 the starter Swan. Buw Pro unlocks the full transformation collection plus full stats and timeline.
Does it sync across my Macs?
Yes — sessions, stats and your collection sync via iCloud, so Buw looks the same on every Mac you sign into.
Will there be an iPhone app?
Yes, it's in the works. Your Pro purchase and your data will carry over.
Give a tiny bird a reason to root for you
A focus timer with feelings, on your Mac. Coming soon to the Mac App Store.
Coming soon