Stop running your company. Start building it.
Aftertone is the quickest and most intentional productivity app ever made. Spend less time managing your week and more time doing what only you can do.
Aftertone
Founders are busier whilst moving forward less than ever before.
Fewer than 3 hours of real focused work gets done each day. The rest disappears into investor updates, team check-ins, and tools that promised to help but added more to manage. AI is accelerating every part of this - more messages, more decisions, more noise competing for the same finite hours.
This means the most important work keeps getting bumped. So the signals you rely on for PMF get lost in the noise.
With Aftertone, this changes.
Plan every week around what actually moves the company.
Execute the work only you can do.
Know exactly where your building time is going.
★★★★★
"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 message from an investor, a question from the team, a client thread that arrived at 11pm, and somewhere underneath all of it, the actual work that moves your company forward. You spend the first hour reacting instead of deciding.
Aftertone changes the first ten minutes of your day. Every task in one view, set your priorities, and give your most important work the time it deserves. Got a wall of text from an investor, a stream of Slack messages, or a list of actions from your last board meeting? Auto-capture reads it and creates your tasks automatically, ready to plan straight from your inbox.
You start the day deciding, not catching up.
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 whether you moved the company forward or just stayed busy.
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. Plan your days around what actually moves the company. 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.
I've already tried Sunsama, Notion and Motion. What makes this different?
Most of them failed you for the same reason. Too rigid or too open-ended. Auto-scheduling that broke the moment your week did, or a blank canvas that required you to design your own system and then maintain it. Aftertone is opinionated about how serious work gets done without taking over your calendar. It doesn't reschedule your week. It helps you plan one day at a time, get through it without being pulled out, and then tells you honestly whether it worked. That last part is what almost nothing else does.
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 have about 20 minutes to set this up. Is that enough?
Yes. Download it, connect Google Calendar, and you're planning your first day. You'll get the full picture in the first weekly report, but you'll feel the difference before that. The first morning where you start with a clear plan instead of opening Slack is usually enough.
My team runs on Notion and Linear. Am I running a parallel system?
For your own work, yes. That's the point. Aftertone is for the work only you do, not the work you manage for others. Most founders need one layer that's just theirs, separate from whatever the team runs on. Investor work, product decisions, hiring, strategy. That stuff lives in your head until it doesn't, and Aftertone is where it lives instead.
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.
Is it just for me or can my co-founder use it too?
Both. It works independently so you can each run your own week without the tool becoming a shared system that nobody owns. Some founding teams use it separately and compare weekly reports. Some co-founders use it as the shared layer where they split and track who owns what between them. Either works.
★★★★★
"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
Everything you need to know about working with us. Still have questions? Book a free call and we'll walk you through it.
Founder Setup Guide
How to set the app up around the way founders work.
How Suleman Rafiq stopped letting work slip
Co-CEO of Roscap on getting intentional about his week
Best productivity apps for founders (2026)
The tools founders actually use and why.
Weekly planning for founders
A structured approach to planning your week
The weekly report and review
What your report shows and how to act on it
The planning fallacy
Why founders consistently underestimate how long things take
Aftertone vs Motion
Side-by-side for founders considering switching.
Aftertone vs Sunsama
How the two compare for daily planning