Hi, I'm Yappie!
Will you be my focus buddy? I'm calm and playful.
I’m not perfect but I have a dream. The path may be hard, but I enjoy growing along the way.
A calm focus companion for your desktop and laptop.
Small steps today. A year you can look back on.
Look at the sky above me? Look how amazing the shapes are in sky…
My dream is to create a mountain of pebbles, so high it can reach skies.
Then I can climb into the skies, touch the stars and create a shape even visible from earth.
I…think…it is…hard…I don’t have glue and pebbles are tricky to work with.
But hey… I have a plan.
You know, I once travelled to Pebble Peak village, where mountains of pebbles reached high into skies.
There, I found a secret scroll: the Star-Toucher’s secret scroll.
I haven’t opened it till today…till I found a potential buddy for the journey.
It’s time…Let me see…
WoW…this is…simple…I just need to put myself in a good environment and a healthy mindset.
But I still need a companion? Will you…please? I promise to not let my pebbles distract you.
Take small steps
“A mountain is built from small stones. We take small steps, big things come as a consequence themselves.”
Pick a length, press start, and Yappie focuses beside you until the break.
Ready. What are we working on?
0 sessions today
Hand Yappie one big task and it comes back as a few short steps with time estimates.
Pick a task
The suggestions you see are illustrative. In the app, every breakdown is fresh and personalised.
Everyday, every small step you take will light a star, slowly revealing a hidden secret constellation in your sky.
Rest is part of the work
“We should take regular time offs every week. Sometimes even longer breaks are needed. A real productive routine encourages intermittent breaks, therefore they continue productivity streaks instead of breaking them.”
Book a day off each week, or a whole week, and it counts as rest instead of breaking your streak.
Your focus time fills a streak freeze, and a freeze carries the streak you built straight through a quiet day.
Need to take a longer break while preserving your personal and social streaks? Yappie encourages you to take well-deserved time off.
The path waits for you
“And if you disappear for a while…that’s okay. Really. The pebbles wait, I wait, and when you come back I get so excited I forget what I was doing.”
Every day you have worked stays in History, and one click brings a task back into today, right where you left it.
A year of focus in one chart, where every hour you have put in still counts and the days you rested count as rest.
- Admin11%
- Onboarding17%
- Personal8%
- Website28%
- Launch19%
- Release17%
- Focus47%
- Physical7%
- Social7%
- Time off39%
Charts update as you focus, and sync across your devices.
Growth has ups and downs
“Growth is not an only-up line. It has ups and downs, but what matters is a steady progress. It happens in different aspects, and it is exciting to keep track of it.”
Focus, rest, physical and social activities, and even time off help you grow in different aspects. A balanced you is a happy you.
Climb through the skies and discover extraterrestrial elements as you level up from Spark to Eternal.
- SparkLv 1–10
- GlimmerLv 11–2011
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15
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- StarLv 21–30
- NovaLv 31–40
- AsterismLv 41–50
- ClusterLv 51–60
- NebulaLv 61–70
- GalaxyLv 71–80
- SupernovaLv 81–90
- CosmosLv 91–100
- EternalLv 101+
Some milestones are important enough to be remembered and celebrated separately. You do what you normally do, and let them happen naturally.
Company makes it lighter
“We can keep each other company, put me in the corner and I watch you do your thing. You can also bring me more company and we all focus together.”
Pop Yappie out and it sits in the corner while you work, controls one hover away.
2.1 What the camera hands you
The camera is never the hard part. A photograph arrives as a grid of brightness values, and nothing in that grid says object, or edge, or distance.
Focus with a friend and both your Yappies sit side by side for the whole session.
A friend can send their Yappie across to hand-deliver a kind word, and you answer with a tap.
Ready. What are we working on?
2 sessions today
Step into a room and see who is inside, each as their own Yappie on their own task.
Working on: Write the computer vision chapter
This website also provides two free tools worth trying: sit with someone you know in Focus with a friend or let us match you with someone in Focus with a stranger.
Your own word is enough
“We can do stuff together if it helps your productivity, put me away and self-report when that suits you better.”
One tap logs a break, some movement, time with people, or a whole day off. Nothing is checked.
Ready. What are we working on?
A break is anything that refreshes you: a quick clip, some fresh air, a coffee or tea. If you feel a little lighter after, it counts.
What matters is that you did it, not how much. Yappie perks up either way.
Tick a task or a step, and today's focused time and done count move up with it.
Even in a private group you report your own focus time, so everyone studies the way that suits them.
Give this group the focus time and finished tasks you've earned today. It expires at the end of your day.
That’s more than your available focus bank.
This runs on trust: only report what you actually did.
The summit is just the beginning
“That’s me. My journey continues, so I would love to have you as my company.”
“Would you join me?”
Everything else Yappie offers in a nutshell
The rest of what Yappie does, for the different things a day asks of you.
A kind look back at yesterday, once a day, so the morning starts where you left off.
What do you want to do today?
Yesterday you gave Onboarding 50 minutes on Review the onboarding copy, then cleared Inbox to zero in Admin in another 35. Today, Book the dentist is the one still waiting. Nine days in a row now, and today can be a gentle one.
Your charts read back to you in plain words, highlighting your strengths and rooms for potential improvements.
- Website32%
- Onboarding28%
- Admin23%
- Personal17%
Friday and Wednesday are your strongest days, and 9 in the morning your strongest hour. Try putting your hardest task in that window.
Yappie’s daily read, refreshes tomorrow.
Yappie cheers you on, and now and then leans over with something about a thing you love, remembers and adapts.
Tolkien invented the Elvish languages first. Middle-earth was built to house them.
Or just a minimalist timer
Some days you want the company, and some days you just want a clock. Minimalist mode sets the pet and everything around it aside, leaving the timer and the two buttons that matter. Turn it on when you need fewer things on screen and off when you want Yappie back. Nothing you earned is lost either way.
Cocoa(Eternal 12)
16m focused·0 doneFocusing…
What you can count on
Private and local-first
- Local-first by design. Your tasks, growth and pet live on your own device, and the app runs fully offline.
- You can start without an account. Syncing is optional, and when it is on we store a copy so your other devices can catch up.
- We don't sell your data and we never will. The optional subscription is how we keep the lights on.
Cloud sync, free on every plan
The syncing is free. Plans differ on how many devices can be signed in at once.
25:00Desktop25:00Laptop25:00Tablet25:00MobileSynced in real time across all your devices
Built on habits that hold
Nothing here was invented for a landing page. Each of these is a method with a paper behind it, applied gently and never as pressure.
Nudges, never nags
Yappie is built on nudge theory: gentle, opt-in cues that make the good choice the easy one — never pressure or guilt. Every nudge and bit of encouragement is kind by design, and you’re always in control.
Thaler & Sunstein, Nudge (2008)
Put a time on it
Estimating how long a short task will take — in minutes — strengthens an “implemental mindset” and makes you measurably less likely to put it off. Yappie asks for a quick time on every task and step.
Chun, Lembregts & Van den Bergh (2024), Journal of Consumer Psychology, 34(4), 502–509
If-then, not “someday”
Tying an action to a specific moment — “at 9am, I’ll start” — raises follow-through far more than a vague “someday.” Yappie lets you put a time on a task or step and brings it up right when that moment arrives, turning intentions into the next concrete move.
Gollwitzer (1999), American Psychologist
Earned, visible progress
Specific, challenging goals with clear feedback drive motivation. Every level and rank your Yappie gains is real progress you can see and feel.
Goal-setting theory — Locke & Latham
Momentum you can see
People push harder and stay engaged as they watch themselves close in on a goal. Yappie’s streaks, levels, and progress rings turn that pull into daily momentum.
Kivetz, Urminsky & Zheng (2006), Journal of Marketing Research, 43(1), 39–58
What gets tracked, gets done
A meta-analysis of 138 studies found that keeping an eye on your progress helps you reach your goals — most of all when that progress is recorded and visible. Yappie keeps it in front of you: charts, streaks, and a daily recap.
Harkin et al. (2016), Psychological Bulletin, 142(2), 198–229
Breaks that protect focus
Brief mental breaks during long stretches help you hold your attention instead of fading out. Yappie paces gentle focus-and-break cycles so your concentration lasts.
Ariga & Lleras (2011), Cognition, 118(3), 439–443
Every day, a clean slate
People feel most motivated to pursue a goal at the start of a fresh period — a new week, month, or year. Yappie gives you that reset, tucking yesterday away so today starts clean.
Dai, Milkman & Riis (2014), Management Science, 60(10), 2563–2582
A running start
People are more likely to finish what they’ve already begun than what they haven’t started. Yappie gets you moving from the first minute — setup ends by helping you add your first task, so you’re already underway.
Nunes & Drèze (2006), Journal of Consumer Research, 32(4), 504–512
Built to become automatic
Repeating an action consistently helps it become more automatic over time. Yappie’s recurring tasks and daily streaks make showing up the easy, repeatable default.
Wood & Neal (2007), Psychological Review, 114(4), 843–863
Yappie is a friendly focus companion — not medical or psychological advice.
Start free. Upgrade if you love it.
“All the productivity features will always be free. You pay for extras if you like.”
We never paywall the focus loop. The timer, your tasks and steps, your streak, your growth, charts, achievements, time off, friends, one-on-one co-focus and study groups are free, and cloud sync between your devices is free too. Yappie does cost something to stay alive, so the extras you enjoy are what keep the lights on.
Time off is free on every plan, and it always will be.
Free
“Free and calm, side by side with you, always.”
You do not need a card or an account. Just download it and start growing. Free users cost us almost nothing, so it would not feel right to charge them.
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Download freeYappie Lite
“Smarter and funnier, I get to talk to you more.”
More secrets to find in your sky, the hand-drawn Premium Yappie with the full wardrobe, AI features for a productivity boost, and plenty of soundtracks and scenes.
Yappie Super
“Seamless across your devices, all you need and even more.”
An ocean of constellations to discover, and plenty of AI credit, enough for a productive and fun day. The whole library of soundtracks and scenes, on three signed-in devices.
Yappie Super Family
“Share it with family and friends, and cheer each other along the way.”
Five seats. Everyone gets full Super on their own account, with their own pet and their own streak, and it costs less per person.
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