A privacy-first Focus Coach that lives in your menu bar. Track deep work, detect interruptions, and turn your focus into algorithmic art. Everything stays on your Mac.
Fable runs silently in your menu bar. No configuration needed — just launch and focus.
Every 10 seconds, Fable checks which app is in front and whether you're active or idle. That's all it needs.
Five specialized detectors run in parallel — deep work, interruptions, meetings, context switching, and app durations.
See your focus score, timeline, weekly trends, and generate beautiful algorithmic art posters from your data.
Intelligent metrics, beautiful visualizations, and zero cloud dependency.
A daily 0–100 score computed from deep work, interruptions, meetings, and context switching. See your focus at a glance.
Automatically identifies blocks of 25+ minutes of focused work. Tolerates brief interruptions so real work counts.
Detects rapid A→B→A app switches — the pattern of getting pulled away and coming back. Counts every disruption.
Auto-detects time in Zoom, Teams, FaceTime, Webex, Google Meet, and Slack huddles. No manual logging.
Measured in rolling 10-minute windows. Highlights periods of heavy switching that fragment your attention.
Turn your focus data into algorithmic art. Three themes — Topography, Aurora, and Mosaic — each tell a different visual story.
Your live focus dashboard. A prominent score gauge updates throughout the day, alongside a visual timeline, deep work blocks with time ranges, your top 5 apps with category badges, and an AI-generated narrative that tells the story of your day.
A calendar grid where each day is color-coded by focus score. Tap any day to see the full breakdown — score, deep work, meetings, interruptions, and top apps. Scroll through up to 30 days of your focus journey.
Your focus data becomes art. Choose from three algorithmic themes — Topography (contour maps), Aurora (northern lights), and Mosaic (geometric tiles). Each poster encodes your real metrics into a unique visual. Share or save them.
Weekly summaries that surface patterns in your work. Average focus score, total deep work hours, your best day, focus streaks, most frequent interrupter app, and whether your focus trend is improving or needs attention.
Fine-tune Fable to fit your workflow. Adjust the idle timeout, toggle private mode, set launch-at-login, manage your license key, and see exactly what Fable tracks (and what it never sees).
No accounts. No cloud sync. No telemetry. Fable works 100% offline.
Completely stops the sampling engine. Zero data is collected — nothing at all. Use this for breaks, lunch, or any time you want Fable to go fully silent.
Sampling continues, but app names are not stored — only aggregate counts and durations. You still get focus insights (score, deep work, switches) but with complete anonymity.
Transparent formulas. No black boxes.
Your score starts at 100 and adjusts based on four factors throughout the day. Deep work earns bonus points, while interruptions, meetings, and heavy context switching apply penalties.
A continuous block of 25+ minutes focused on a task, using no more than 4 apps. Up to 3 brief interruptions (under 30 seconds each) are tolerated — because real focus has small breaks.
Detected as rapid A→B→A app switches: you leave an app, visit another, and return within 120 seconds. Clustered switches within a 3-minute window count as a single burst.
Automatically counted when the frontmost app is a known meeting tool: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, Cisco Webex, Google Meet, or Slack huddles. No manual timers needed.
Measured in rolling 10-minute windows with 50% overlap. A window with 6 or more app switches is flagged as “high switching” — a signal that your attention is fragmented.
Try Fable free for 7 days. If it helps your focus, keep it forever.
Full access to every feature for one week. No credit card required.
One-time purchase. Unlimited access. No subscriptions.