Blur
Other windows stay where they are, softened behind a frosted layer. You can still see what's waiting.
Focus Up keeps the app you're using sharp and blurs the rest of your Mac. Switch apps and the focus follows you.
Other windows stay where they are, softened behind a frosted layer. You can still see what's waiting.
Everything else disappears behind your wallpaper, as if only one app were open.
The cleanest canvas: other windows hidden, your wallpaper blurred and dimmed.
Nothing is done to your other apps. Focus Up draws a single layer behind the app in focus, so window positions, minimised windows and Spaces stay exactly as you left them.
Start a session from the menu with a preset or any length. The countdown sits in the menu bar, and when time's up Focus Mode fades out and lets you know.
App scope keeps every window of the app sharp. Window scope narrows it to the one you're typing in, and its sheets come along.
A video call or music player can stay visible while everything else blurs. Launchers and password managers can be told never to steal the focus.
Toggle with ⌃⌥⌘F, or record your own. Actions for Shortcuts start sessions and switch styles, and a Focus filter turns Focus Up on with your Work focus and back off when it ends.
brew install --cask bevanjkay/tap/focus-up
Updates arrive automatically through Sparkle.
Blurring a whole app needs none. Window scope asks for Accessibility so it can follow the focused window. The hide styles ask for Screen Recording only when your wallpaper comes from an app macOS won't let Focus Up read.