Hard work,
honestly recorded.

Endured records focus sessions. The gradient deepens as the session does. Tap End when you're done — and the record stays as it was.

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The idea

Most focus apps want to coach you. Streaks to defend. Daily goals. Encouraging notifications when you've fallen behind. Animations that celebrate completed Pomodoros. Productivity scores aggregated across weeks and months.

Endured doesn't do any of that. The premise is much smaller — that the work itself is the point, and the most a tool should do is sit with you while you do it, then write down what happened.

You tap Begin. A gradient fills the screen, the lightest stage. As the minutes accumulate the gradient deepens — Stone at ten, Slate at twenty‑five, Graphite at fifty, Iron at ninety. You tap End when you're done. The session is saved as it was: duration, depth reached, the date. If you stopped early, that's the record. If you went long, that's the record too.

No streaks. No daily goals. No notifications. No productivity score. Sessions can sync to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes, if you allow it. Everything else syncs across your devices through your own private iCloud, and we never see it.

The app

The Tonight screen, mid-session, with a Slate-stage gradient backdrop and the elapsed time in large serif type. — *Tonight — the live record. The gradient deepens as the session does.*

The History screen, showing past sessions grouped by day with stage chips and elapsed times. — *History — a ledger of every session, finished or broken.*

The lock screen showing an active Endured session as a Live Activity, with the gradient backdrop and live-ticking elapsed time. — *Live Activity and Widgets — lock the phone. The session continues. Your history right on the lock screen.*

The Trends screen showing total focus time, the spread of depths reached, a time-of-day histogram, and the longest sessions. — *Trends, the long view of your sessions.*

Over time

Alongside the live screen and the history, Endured keeps a long view of your sessions, gathered across a week, a month, or all of them. It shows the total time you've put in, the spread of depths you reached, when in the day you tend to begin, and the longest you've sat.

Most apps would turn a screen like this into a game. Endured doesn't. The numbers rise and fall as your weeks vary, and the app has no opinion about which way is better. It shows you what happened. What it means is yours to decide.

Also

The five-stage Bone-to-Iron gradient, shown as a continuous vertical band.

The gradient.

Sessions deepen visually as they run — Bone for the first ten minutes, then Stone, Slate, Graphite, Iron at ninety. Five stages, one continuous transition.

A history detail showing a broken session displayed with the same dignity as a finished one.

Honest by default.

Broken sessions count, with equal weight. There are no streaks, no goals, no goading notifications. The record is what happened, not what should have.

The Settings screen showing the iCloud sync row and the Apple Health row, both indicating sync is on.

Yours, across your devices.

Your sessions sync across your iPhone and iPad through your own private iCloud, encrypted under your Apple ID. Completed sessions can also write to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes, if you opt in. No account, no servers of ours, no tracking, and nothing we can see.

Made by

Endured is designed, built, and supported by one person — Kurt Klein — in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. It's the fourth app from KSQ Studios, after Minuted, Winnowed, and Eclipsed.

If you've used it and want to say hello, report a bug, or suggest something: [email protected].

Hard work, honestly recorded.