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Ikuna saves each project as a complete workspace: apps, tabs, windows, layouts, and Focus Mode. Restores in under 3 seconds. Native macOS. Local workspace data. Built in EU.
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When we moved from office to remote, productivity dropped. Not from laziness. The office did invisible work for us: the chair, the setup, the ritual of arriving all cued the brain into work mode. At home those cues were gone. So we built replacements: fast context launch, audio and visual rituals, and focus metrics to see where your attention actually goes. That is Ikuna.
Roberto · Founder, Ikuna / BRNSFT · Oulu, FinlandSnapshot tools stop at putting apps back. Ikuna turns every context switch into a signal, so you can see how you work and protect what works.
A dashboard that reveals your real patterns: how often you switch context, which modes you go deepest in, and when your focus is at its best. You can’t protect focus you can’t see.
Ikuna remembers where every window lives across each display. Plug in an external monitor and Device Link rebuilds the whole layout for you, pixel for pixel, the moment it connects.
Give each context its own wallpaper, playlist and launch video. The ritual fires the instant you switch, a cue that tells your brain exactly which mode it is entering.
Reach for social media mid-sprint and Ikuna steps in. A gentle nudge first, then a full-screen block for the apps you set off-limits while focusing. The distraction stops before it costs you the flow.
You set x.com off-limits while focusing. 24:13 of flow and counting.
Back to workIkuna isn’t a single app. It’s built to understand your focus and follow it wherever you work, on your Mac today and on your iPhone once Trigger ships.
Focus intelligence for macOS
Read your context patterns, rebuild any mode in three seconds, and defend your deep work with Focus Shield, natively on your Mac.
Focus continuity for iPhone
Carry your contexts and rituals beyond the desk. Trigger keeps your focus state continuous between Mac and mobile, one identity, every surface.
Focus Intelligence on Mac today, Trigger on iPhone once it ships. Pay monthly, or save a third with yearly.
Snapshot tools stop at putting your apps back. Ikuna treats save-and-restore as the mechanism, not the point. Every context switch becomes a signal, so its Focus Intelligence dashboard can show you how you actually work and help you protect it. You’re not buying a window restorer; you’re buying insight into your focus.
A context is a complete mode of work, its apps, tabs, window layout and the ritual that puts you in it. Each saved context is an “Ikuna”. Click one and your whole environment rebuilds at once, the same way every time.
Ikuna uses macOS Accessibility APIs to see which apps are open and where their windows are positioned, that’s what lets it save and restore your workspace. We don’t track what apps you use or send that data anywhere. All data stays on your device.
Trigger is the mobile half of the Ikuna platform, focus continuity for iPhone, keeping your contexts and rituals going beyond the desk. It’s coming publicly in Q3 2026, and it’s included in the same Ikuna platform you’re subscribing to.
Ikuna comes from the Finnish word “Ikkuna”, which means window. We liked the analogy.
Ikuna runs on macOS 13 and above, built natively for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Yes, the core product is free forever, no card required. Pro (€9/mo) unlocks unlimited Ikunas, Device Link, Focus Shield, advanced dashboards and priority support.
The save and restore is the mechanism. Underneath it sits decades of cognitive science about why context switching hurts, and what genuinely repairs it.
The mind slices continuous experience into discrete events. Crossing an “event boundary” flushes working memory, which is exactly why a new task can feel like starting cold.
Jeffrey Zacks, Washington UniversityIkuna turns every switch into a clean, deliberate boundary, so the reset works for you, not against you.
Walk through a doorway and you forget why you came in. The mind updates to a new “location” and drops the old thread. Changing projects on your Mac triggers the same wipe.
Gabriel Radvansky, Notre DameIkuna rebuilds the exact room you just walked out of, so the thread comes back with it.
When you jump between tasks, a slice of your attention stays stuck on the last one. You are never fully present in the new context, and the residue compounds with every switch.
Sophie Leroy, 2009Ikuna means fewer, cleaner switches, so less residue and more attention on the work.
You recall information best in the same setting where you formed it. Change the environment and recall measurably drops, the classic finding from the underwater-diver studies.
Godden & Baddeley, 1975Ikuna restores your environment precisely, so the recall returns along with the windows.
You can hold only a handful of things in mind at once. Every stray tab and wrong window quietly occupies one of those slots before you have written a single line.
Miller’s law, cognitive load theoryIkuna clears the old context in one click, so working memory goes to the work, not the mess.
Which window, which tab, what to close. Each tiny decision draws from the same limited pool of self-control. Dozens per switch leave you depleted before the real work even starts.
Roy BaumeisterIkuna removes the setup decisions entirely. You arrive ready, not drained.
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