Will I miss something important?

Not if you set your doorbells. People, words and apps you mark as doorbells ring through instantly, at any hour. Everything else is still in its own app, so you can look early whenever you like. Tempo only changes when your phone buzzes.

Which apps does Tempo work with?

Anything that sends notifications to your Mac, iPhone or Android phone. Deeper features, like thread summaries and replying from a tide, work with about 40 apps at launch, including Slack, Gmail, WhatsApp, Teams and Linear.

Does Tempo read my messages?

Only on your device, to sort and summarise them. Message content never reaches our servers. We sync your schedule and doorbell rules, and that's it.

What happens to pings between tides?

They're held quietly. When a tide arrives you get one notification with everything sorted: what needs you, what's worth knowing, and what was quietly filed.

Can my whole team use it?

Yes. Harbour adds shared tides, quiet hours and focus status, so colleagues can see "Ada is in a tide until 14:00" before they message.

Early access is open · Mac, iPhone & Android

Let the pings wait for the tide.

Tempo holds every notification from Slack, mail, WhatsApp and nearly 40 other apps, then lets them in as calm, summarised tides. The people who matter still ring straight through.

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4,218 people are on the early-access list

TUESDAYYour workday, 9:00–18:00

Times you were interrupted87

Longest stretch of focus14 min

Rang straight throughEverything

HOLDS PINGS FROM 40+ APPSSee all

SlackGmailWhatsAppMicrosoft TeamsOutlookLinearNotionDiscordJiraGitHubFigmaTelegramInstagramLinkedInAsanaZoom

The problem

Every ping is a tiny tax on your day.

One message is nothing. Eighty of them scattered across a day is how a Tuesday disappears without a single thing finished. You didn't decide to work in eight-minute pieces. Your apps decided for you.

6min

How often the average knowledge worker checks email or chat.

Source · RescueTime

23min

How long it takes to get back on task after a single interruption.

Source · Gloria Mark, UC Irvine

3tides

All most people need in a day. That's Tempo's default, and you can change it whenever you like.

Tempo default schedule

How it works

Three minutes to set up. Quieter from the first afternoon.

Tempo sits between your apps and your lock screen. Nothing changes inside Slack or Gmail. They just stop shouting.

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Connect your apps

Set your tides

Pick when pings come in: three a day, once at lunch, every 90 minutes. Tempo gathers everything in between.

Pick your doorbells

Family, your boss, "urgent", the on-call pager. Doorbells always ring through. Everything else waits its turn.

Try it · Doorbells

Some things should still ring.

Turn a doorbell on or off, then send yourself a test ping. You'll see exactly what Tempo would do with it.

PEOPLE

WORDS

APPS

TUESDAY

14:02

Send a ping to see what happens.

14:00 TIDE31 pings, 3 need you

Next tide in 02:58:10

Needs you · 3

Slack
Tolu needs a yes or no on the onboarding copy before 4pm.
Gmail
Landlord confirmed the plumber for Thursday at 10:00.
Linear
3 issues were assigned to you in Checkout v2.

Worth knowing · 12, summarised

#design settled on the new icon set. Standup moves to 9:30 tomorrow. Kemi shared Q3 numbers (up 14%). Book club picked Piranesi.

Quietly filed · 16

Promotions, receipts, 9 reactions and 4 group chats. Nothing deleted, just out of your way.

The tide

Fifteen calm minutes instead of eighty little jolts.

Sorted for you. What needs you comes first. Everything else is summarised by thread.
One tap to act. Reply, add to your calendar, or push it to the next tide.
Nothing ever lost. Every original ping is still in its own app, exactly where it would have been.
Summaries stay on your phone. Message content is never sent to our servers.

Tide planner

How much focus would you get back?

Drag tides along your day and see your longest focus stretch, how long a ping might wait, and how many interruptions you'd skip.

Open the planner

Longest focus2h 54m

Total focus8h 36m

Longest a ping waits3h

Interruptions avoided77

From the early tiders

People are getting their afternoons back.

1,800 people ran Tempo through the private beta. On average, their longest stretch of focus went from 21 minutes to 2.6 hours.

Hannah Brooks working at her desk — Shipped a 3-month project in 2 weeks
I didn't realise how much of my day was just reacting. Two weeks in, I finished a design system I'd been putting off for three months.
**Hannah Brooks**Product designer

Tempo for teams · Harbour

Quiet hours that the whole team respects.

When one person turns on tides, they get their focus back. When the whole team does, "quick question?" culture fades.

Shared team tidesOne rhythm for everyone, set once
Focus status in Slack and Teams"In a tide until 14:00", automatically
On-call doorbells that rotateWhoever is on call hears it; nobody else does

Explore Harbour From $5 per seat a month

A product team working together at a shared table

Design teamNOW

FunmiBack at 14:00

In a tide

MarcusOn call today

Doorbell open

Priya23 pings to go

Catching up

FAQ

Questions, answered on your schedule.

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Take your afternoons back.

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