Aftertone

Aftertone is a one-time purchase task management app for macOS that rejects the bloat, subscriptions, and artificial complexity that plague modern productivity tools. We built Aftertone because productivity software has lost its way. Tools that should help you finish work have become work themselves—endless features to learn, integrations to maintain, AI gimmicks to navigate, and monthly fees that never end. You complete your actual tasks but never finish managing your productivity system.

Aftertone takes the opposite approach: extreme simplicity focused on two core workflows that actually matter.

Time Blocking First

Protect focused work time before meetings and requests consume your calendar. Visual blocks show exactly where your time is allocated. When you're in a block, you can hide everything else and focus on just that one thing. No distractions, no notifications, no context switching.

Instant Task Capture

Hit a global keyboard shortcut from anywhere on your Mac to capture thoughts instantly. Save the task and return to your flow. Deal with organizing it later when you're planning, not when you're thinking.

That's it. Everything else is stripped away.

No complicated project hierarchies. No artificial intelligence features. No integrations beyond Google Calendar sync. No systems that need maintenance. Just simple tagging to filter your view by project when needed.

The entire app is keyboard-first, so you never have to break focus by reaching for your mouse. Every action is a keystroke away.

Most importantly: no subscription. Pay once, own it forever, get lifetime updates. We charge for software, not for access to your own data and tasks.

Aftertone works with Intel and Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 10.13+. It syncs in real-time with Google Calendar so changes update everywhere automatically.

Our philosophy is simple: productivity tools should help you get work done, then get out of your way. When your work is finished, you should be finished. The aftertone should be silence.