Hey, You!
Yes YOU.
Are you supposed to be getting work done?
Do you have a task list of a thousand things you should probably get to?
Do you get easily distracted by the internet and a bunch of other things that kinda feel like work, sorta?
Do you find yourself picking up your phone for a perfectly fine reason only to surface twenty minutes later, deep in TikTok, with no memory of why you reached for it?
Are you sitting in front of a screen?
Two screens?
Five screens?
You poor bastard.
Look. Put at least one of those screens to work with Currently — your new companion for actually getting things done.
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Unlike you, Currently has ONE job. To remind you what you are currently supposed to be working on.
It sits there, in the corner of your eye — on an adjacent screen, on your lock screen, on an old iOS device you have lying around. It looks lovely. It pulses and shifts color every now and again, not enough to be annoying, just enough to subtly remind you that YOU ARE DOING THIS THING.
When you finish a task, you change it. It updates. You do the next task. That’s the whole app.
Add the widget to your home screen. Add it to your lock screen. Run it on every device you own. Update once, Currently updates everywhere. Every screen you pick up will remind you what you’re DOING RIGHT NOW.
Surround yourself with old devices, all silently nagging you to GET SHIT DONE.
If your device is fancy enough to run Apple Intelligence, Currently will use it to throw you a few tips when your diligence wavers. If it isn’t, you’ll get “Currently Intelligence” instead, which is a collection of tips we wrote down. Both work. Neither will replace willpower, but they’ll give you something to read other than your group chat.
Currently quietly tracks how long you’ve spent on each task — so when you tell yourself “this’ll only take ten minutes,” there will eventually be evidence. It pulls in your calendar too, because somebody who likes wasting more than just their own time has invited you to a meeting, and Currently might as well know about it.
At the end of every day and every week, you get a report. Where you were. When you were focused. What you actually did, versus what you told yourself you were doing.
All of this is free. Forever. No subscription. No “limited free tier.”
The whole app.
If you want more, there’s Currently Plus. Fifteen bucks, once, yours forever. It adds a Watch app, a Mac OS menu bar thingy, proper goal tracking, and a few other useful things. Scroll down a bit if you care.
That’s pretty much it. There is no Pro tier coming. There will not be a subscription next year. You buy it once and you own it.
Currently probably won’t fix you. You will still get distracted. You will still sadly scroll instagram and feel bad watching other people’s amazing lives. You will still spend forty minutes choosing a font.
But maybe — you’ll do it slightly less often. And when you make it back, there’ll be a quiet little screen in the corner of your eye, telling you what you were doing before all this happened.
Now get back to work.