Your best work needs time no one is giving you.
Aftertone is the quickest and most intentional productivity app ever made. Spend less time managing everything around the work and more time actually doing it.
Aftertone
Creatives are getting fewer hours of real creative work done than ever before.
Fewer than 3 hours of real focused work gets done each day. For creatives, that number hits differently. The work that pays best and matters most needs long, uninterrupted stretches that client emails, revision requests, and admin are constantly carving up. Every interruption costs more than the time it takes. Getting back into the right headspace after a Slack notification isn't instant.
This means the creative work gets done in the gaps between everything else. It takes longer than it should. The quality suffers in ways that are hard to explain to a client but easy for you to see.
With Aftertone, this changes.
Block your creative time before the briefs fill the day.
Work through it without losing the thread.
Know what you actually did by Friday.
★★★★★
"I've noticed a massive improvement in my focus and efficiency since using Aftertone. It's a truly outstanding product."
Suleman Rafiq, Co-CEO
Plan
You open your laptop. There's a revision request from a client who saw the work last night. A brief that arrived yesterday that you haven't properly read. Two emails that need responses before you can move forward. And the actual creative work you planned to do today, which is now starting later than it should. You spend the first hour in your inbox instead of your work.
Aftertone changes the first ten minutes of your day. Every task in one view, prioritised, with your creative work given the time it needs before the day fills around it. Got a long brief, a revision list, or a set of feedback buried in an email thread? Auto-capture reads it and creates your tasks automatically.
You start the day prepared, not scrambling.
Execute
Open most productivity apps mid-work and you'll find yourself rescheduling, reprioritising, or staring at everything you haven't done. It's the opposite of what they're designed to do.
Aftertone's focus screen shows you one thing at a time. Complete a task and Aftertone surfaces the most relevant next tasks. Pick the next one with a single keystroke and your calendar updates in real time. Add subtasks as they come, extend or shorten sessions on the fly, or take a break that's automatically shown in your schedule. You never have to leave the screen.
The only time serious work gets interrupted is when you decide it should be.
Evaluate
Planning is easy. The hard part is knowing whether it worked. Most tools show you what you planned and how many tasks you completed. But that doesn't tell you how much of the week was actual creative work versus everything eating around the edges of it.
So Aftertone goes under the surface. Your weekly report shows total flow sessions, your peak day, and a full work timeline showing exactly when serious work happened (and when it didn't).
The honest account of your week that no one else cares to tell you.
Compound
Most productivity tools plateau. You set them up, use them for a month, and they stop improving and lose their shine.
Aftertone is intelligent, but unlike others, it's not in your face. It silently helps you plan your work around your energy state, provides contextual nudges to beat procrastination and includes proven techniques to help you maintain flow. Over time, these suggestions get more precise and the gap between effort and output closes.
A contextual system that gets sharper the longer you build with it.
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DM
★★★★★
"I really like it. I've used everything — Sunsama, TickTick, Todoist, Omnifocus, ClickUp. The app reminds me of Superhuman"
Dmitriy
The Science
Built on research. Not hype.
Most productivity apps add features because they're trendy, not because they work.
Aftertone does the opposite. Every feature is designed around proven behavioural science - from time blocking to habit formation. The result is an app that makes you more focussed, not more busy.
6 Hours
more focussed work each week
14 Days
to see results.
34%
more flow sessions
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Results
Set up in minutes, better work within a week.
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Plan & Execute
Week 1
Use it for one week. Block your creative time before the briefs fill the day. Aftertone learns how you work.
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Evaluate & Optimize
For Life
Get better every day. Aftertone delivers personalized insights to make you faster, sharper, and more focused.
SR
★★★★★
"I love the simplicity, color coding of tasks, and keyboard first approach to Aftertone. I love that it doesn't have infused AI in it or bloaty things. It's a pure time blocking machine."
Srikanth
Why choose Aftertone
Aftertone is designed differently.
Every productivity app promises to change your life. Then you spend more time managing the app than getting work done.
Aftertone
Aftertone optimizes for outcomes. Every feature exists because research (and our users) prove it works.
HW
★★★★★
"I've used every productivity app. Aftertone is the only one that stuck. It doesn't try to be clever, it just helps me finish what I start."
Helen Wright
Pricing
Plans for any situation.
We're independently owned and don't have investors to please. So we're not going anywhere.
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FAQ
Your questions answered.
Everything you need to know about working with us. Still have questions? Book a free call and we'll walk you through it.
My creative schedule is driven by client deadlines and revision cycles. Can I still plan properly?
Yes, and it's more useful because of it. You plan around what you know is coming, block the creative time before the admin takes it, and adjust when new briefs or revisions land. Sessions extend or shorten with a keystroke. At the end of the week, the report shows you exactly how much of it was actual creative work versus everything else. That number changes how you scope and price the next project.
Who built this and are you still working on it?
Aftertone is built by a small independent team based in Manchester. No investors, no acquisition plans, no growth mandate. We use it every day, which is probably the most honest answer to whether we're still working on it. The changelog is public if you want proof — we've shipped every few weeks since launch and we're not slowing down.
I work across multiple projects at once. Will this help me keep track?
It keeps everything separated without being complicated. Every project gets its own tag so your tasks are organised automatically. You see what's due, what needs the most attention, and what can wait, all in one place. Most creatives say the thing they notice first is that deliverables stop getting close calls because something else came up.
My best creative hours are in the morning. How do I protect those?
You block them. Aftertone helps you put your creative work at the top of the day before client emails or calls take the time. The weekly report then tells you whether that actually happened or whether something else crept in. Most people find that making the block visible in their calendar is the difference between it being protected and it being optional.
Which platforms are supported?
Mac only right now. We built desktop first because that's where serious work happens and we wanted to get it right before expanding. iOS and Android are coming. If you want to know when, follow the changelog — we ship regularly and update it every release.
Will I still be using this in six months?
That depends entirely on you, but we've built Aftertone to compound over time rather than plateau. Most tools feel useful for a month and then become another thing to maintain. Aftertone gets more accurate the longer you use it because every week's data feeds next week's suggestions. The people who get the most out of it are the ones who are serious about improving their productivity. If you do that, six months in you'll have a clearer picture of how you work than most people develop in a career.
How quickly will I see results?
Most people feel the difference in the first week. The planning view changes how you start your day. The focus screen changes how you work through it. The first weekly report usually lands somewhere between useful and uncomfortable — you see exactly where your time went and it's rarely what you expected. That moment tends to be when it clicks. After that it compounds.
I use Google Calendar for client calls and Notion for project notes. Does this replace them?
Google Calendar stays. Aftertone syncs with it two-way so your client calls show up automatically and your time blocks appear in their calendar. Notion stays too if that's where your project documentation lives. Aftertone is the layer where you plan and do your own work. The thing it replaces is whatever you were using to track your tasks, which for most freelancers is either nothing or a Notion page that's two weeks out of date.
★★★★★
"Aftertone is the only thing that's made me more productive. It's so quick to now plan my day and I love the weekly report and intelligent task suggestions. I actually feel Superhuman."
Dr Noreen Akram
Read more
Extra resources for creatives.
Creatives Setup Guide
How to set the app up around the way creatives work
Best time blocking apps for writers (2026)
Tools that help writers protect their writing time
Best Mac calendar apps for designers (2026)
Calendar tools built around the creative workflow
How to schedule deep work
Protecting your creative time in practice
Attention residue
Why being pulled away from creative work costs more than the interruption
Flow state conditions
What the research says about getting into flow and staying there
Deep work and protected focus blocks
The research case for uninterrupted creative time
How Helen Wright finished what she started
Why Aftertone is the only tool she stuck with