Hi, I’m Mike Le.

Background

I’ve spent the last 11 years shipping software used by millions of people; most recently BetterPrompt, and Streamlabs before that. Focus Meter is the output from years of lessons and learnings working on consumer-grade software.

Why I built Focus Meter

I wanted a tool that could tell me where my Mac time actually goes without charging me every month and without sending my activity data to someone else’s cloud.

Focus Meter was made to achieve one thing: accurate, effortless tracking without compromising privacy.

How I work on this

I use Focus Meter every day. Most of the product roadmap comes directly from patterns I notice in my own tracking data. Two examples:

• App switch cadence shipped after I watched my own context-switching rate spike during what I thought were deep-work blocks. The daily total looked fine; the cadence inside each session told a completely different story.
• URL-level website tracking shipped because “4 hours in Chrome” isn’t useful data. Lumped browser time doesn’t tell you whether that was research, GitHub docs, or doom-scrolling — so Focus Meter now tracks the active URL in Chrome, Safari, and Arc.

That dogfooding loop: build, use, notice, ship, is the same one behind the 30-day focus experiment I wrote up on the blog.

Improvements ship as regular updates, and because Focus Meter is a one-time purchase, every update is free for everyone who already bought it. No paid upgrades, no “pro” tier, no version you have to repurchase next year.

Contact

Reach me at support@focus-meter.com. You can also find me on LinkedIn or at my personal site.

Or read all my posts on the Focus Meter blog.