Stop letting the week happen to you.
Aftertone is the quickest and most intentional productivity app ever made. Spend less time figuring out what to work on and more time actually working on it.
Aftertone
Freelancers are working more hours and finishing fewer weeks with something to show for it.
Fewer than 3 hours of real focused work gets done each day. The rest disappears into client emails, scope creep, admin that piles up, and the hour you spend at 9am deciding what to start. Nobody is setting your schedule. That's the point and the problem.
This means client work expands into time it shouldn't. Your own business never gets the hours it needs. And Friday arrives with a long list of things you meant to do.
With Aftertone, this changes.
Plan every week before clients fill it.
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 one client, a brief from another, three emails that each need a proper response, and somewhere underneath all of it, the work you actually planned to do today. You spend the first hour responding instead of building.
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 before the inbox takes over. Got a long brief, a revision list, or a set of actions buried in an email thread? Auto-capture reads it and creates your tasks automatically.
You start the day working, not coping.
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 your business forward or just stayed on top of client work.
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.
02
Plan & Execute
Week 1
Use it for one week. Plan your days before the clients fill them. Aftertone learns how you work.
03
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 client work is unpredictable. New briefs land on a Tuesday, revisions come back Friday. Can I still plan properly?
That's exactly the situation Aftertone is built for. You plan what you know, block time for what's coming, and adjust as things land. Sessions extend or shorten with a keystroke. The plan bends without breaking. At the end of the week, the report shows you where the time actually went, which is how you get better at quoting and planning the next one.
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 three clients at once. Will this help me keep track or just add more to manage?
It keeps track. Every client gets its own project tag so your work is separated automatically. You plan across all three in one view, see what's urgent for each, and move through it without needing to check four different places to know what's next. Most freelancers replace a Notion page, a spreadsheet, and a sticky note with Aftertone.
I don't have a set schedule. I work when I work. Does time blocking make sense for me?
It makes more sense than it does for people with fixed hours. You're not blocking around a calendar full of meetings. You're building the structure yourself. Aftertone helps you decide what the day is for before something else decides for you. The weekly report then tells you honestly whether that worked.
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
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