Every ping, from every app, lands with Tempo first.
Slack, mail, WhatsApp, Teams, Linear, Instagram. Tempo picks them all up the moment they arrive, on your Mac, iPhone and Android.
How it works
A quieter phone, without missing a thing.
Tempo sits between your apps and your lock screen. It catches every ping, holds it, lets the important ones ring through and hands you the rest in one calm tide.
Then it holds them, quietly.
No buzz, no badge, no banner. One small line tells you how many are waiting and when the next tide comes in. That's all you see.
The people who matter ring straight through.
Family, your manager, the on-call pager, a flight change. Anything you've made a doorbell skips the queue, any time of day.
At your tide, everything arrives sorted.
One notification, three piles: what needs you, what's worth knowing (summarised by thread), and what was quietly filed. Summaries are written on your device.
Deal with it in one tap. Then get back to work.
Reply, add to your calendar, open the thread, or push it to the next tide. Most tides take less than fifteen minutes.
Features
Small details that make quiet feel safe.
Everything in Tempo is built so you can trust the silence, and so you never spend a tide wondering what you missed.
SUMMARY · 14 MESSAGES IN #LAUNCHLaunch moved to Thursday. Copy is approved. Marcus needs final screenshots by noon tomorrow.
Summaries written on your phone
Long threads become two lines. The model runs on your device, so your messages never leave it.
One schedule, every device
Mac, iPhone and Android follow the same tides. Clear a ping on one, it's gone everywhere.
Linear · 3 issues17:00 tide
Push to the next tide
Not now? One tap moves it to the next tide, with no reminder in between.
Tempo is quiet too
No badges, streaks or "you've been away". Our own notifications follow your tides.
FunmiTide · 14:00
MarcusDoorbellFocus status, shared
Show "in a tide until 14:00" in Slack and Teams, so people know when you'll reply.
Focus12:00
Design review13:30 – 14:30
Tide moved to after your meeting14:00 → 14:30
Calendar-aware tides NEW
If a tide lands in the middle of a meeting, Tempo waits until you're out.
LIGHTS OUT · 21:00 – 07:30Only Mum, the on-call pager and flight changes can ring. Everything else waits for your morning tide.
Lights-out hours
A firm evening boundary. Your first tide each morning catches you up on the night.
Modes
A different rhythm for every kind of day.
Switch modes yourself, or let Tempo change them for you from your calendar.
MODE
DEFAULT
Workday
08:0011:0014:0017:0020:00
Tides3
Longest focus2h 45m
Auto-replyOff
DOORBELLS IN THIS MODE
Platforms
Wherever your pings find you.
macOS
Menu-bar app. Holds desktop notifications and syncs tides with your phone.
AVAILABLEiPhone
Works with Focus filters, so held pings stay off your lock screen.
AVAILABLEAndroid
Full notification access, including replies from the tide digest.
AVAILABLEWindows & web
A browser extension and Windows app are in private testing.
EARLY 2027Early access · opening in small batches
Take your afternoons back.
We're letting people in a few hundred at a time. Join the list and we'll send one email when it's your turn. Just the one.
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- Mac, iPhone and Android
- One email, ever