Now in open beta, 14 days free
Plan your day.
Hawser keeps
you on it.
A blocker can't tell a 10 hour work day from a 10 hour binge. Hawser can.
Hawser is an AI accountability app for Windows, made for people who work from home or for themselves, ADHD brains included. You write today's tasks, or let your own Claude plan the week with you, and Hawser keeps you on the one in front of you. It watches for the moments you slip off it and gently brings you back, instead of blocking you outright. Like a friend over your shoulder, except they actually pay attention.
Join the beta See how a day works
Free for 14 days, no card. $25/mo when you're ready. Windows 10 and 11, plus a web app for your phone.Windows 10 and 11 for the app itself. Your phone gets a web app that works with it.
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hawser /ˈhɔː·zər/ (HAW-zer) noun
The heavy rope that holds a ship fast to the dock, so it can't drift away. Hawser does the same job for your attention.
How a day works
For the days you look up at 4pm and the page is still blank: today's tasks in your order, one at a time, and a gentle pull back the moment you drift off the one in front of you.
Today's tasks, one at a time
Write the day's tasks and drag them into your order. The top one that isn't done is your current task, and Done hands you the next. A one line mission for the day is there if you want it, never required.
A gentle pull back
Hawser watches what's on your screen and stays quiet while you work. When you drift, it doesn't lock your screen. It asks what's pulling at you, then helps you get back to it.
Wake up to your plan
Plan tomorrow tonight, or the whole week, on the Calendar. That morning Hawser opens with the plan already filled in, so you confirm it and start instead of facing a blank page.
Plan with your own Claude
Connect the Claude app on your PC and ask it to plan your days. Every plan waits on the Calendar for your yes. How it works
Blocks, only if you ask for them
Nothing is blocked until you add it. When you do want a hard line, close an app, block a site or a whole category, or just get a warning after a few minutes. Schedules switch the rules by time of day.
Local first and private
Your tasks, notes and history live on your machine. To judge a moment, Hawser sends the window's name and title to the AI, plus a compressed screenshot when it needs a closer look, answered in the moment and never stored.
You see this at setup and can switch it off there or any time in Settings. Want none of it to reach a cloud AI? Fully local mode covers that too. Here is everything it looks at
Plan your days with your own Claude
Connect the Claude app on your PC and ask it to plan your week. It reads what Hawser knows about your days and sends back a plan, and nothing changes until you say yes.
- Three presses to connect: Connect Claude in Hawser, Install in the Claude app, then Allow when Hawser asks. Nothing to copy or paste.
- It plans from what's real: your days, your goals and their dates, how the last two weeks went, your best focus hours, and what's already fixed.
- Your calendar too, if your Claude has its own calendar connector, such as Google Calendar. It plans around your events.
- Every plan waits for your yes. It lands on the Calendar, day by day, with anything it would replace. Confirm or Not now, and one press undoes it later.
- Your Claude does the thinking, on your own Claude account, so Hawser charges nothing extra for it.
Works today with the Claude app for Windows. More AI apps are coming. How planning with your own AI works
A calendar that plans the days
Your days a week or a month at a time: what you planned, what happened, and what Hawser already knows about them. Plan a day ahead, and that morning Hawser opens with it, ready to confirm or change.
- A mission and tasks on any day ahead, or just tasks.
- Reminders and alarms on the days they go off: once, every day or weekdays.
- Time blocks, deep work, a break, then admin. They can start by themselves at a time you set, and only if you set one.
- Goals on their dates. Put a step on a day and it becomes a task there.
- Your block schedules on the days they run, so the whole day reads at once.
- Your best focus hours on the days ahead, once Hawser has learned them.
Why not just use a blocker?
A blocker only sees the site. Hawser knows what you set out to do today. So a CSS Grid tutorial on a video site counts as work, and a speedrun on the same site means you've drifted. Hawser stays quiet on the first and checks in on the second. If you've tried Cold Turkey, Freedom or RescueTime, Hawser works differently: it reads what you're trying to do, not just which site you're on.
Your task, both days: finish the pricing page
Loop stands in for the video site you're thinking of.
Build a pricing page in CSS Grid
A blocker: same answer both days
Matches your task. Hawser stays quiet.
Minecraft 1.16 speedrun world record
A blocker: same answer both days
Not your task. Hawser checks in.
14 days free, no card, cancel anytime. Windows 10 and 11.
A companion you can actually talk to
It notices when you drift and pulls you back with real context, and you can talk straight back. Type or speak in plain English, and it does the thing.
- Proactive check-ins on your schedule: a gentle nudge first, a full screen one only if you asked for it.
- Co-working sessions, body double on one task for a set time.
- Set rules by talking: "block YouTube after 20 minutes," "no games weekday afternoons."
- Hands off the menus, manage tasks, goals, reminders, decks, and focus modes just by asking.
- "What's on my screen?" It looks, only when you ask.
A gentle pull back, not a lockout
It doesn't slam a wall down. It shows you the window it saw and asks one honest question: back to it, or did the plan change?
- Honest options: back to it, I meant to do this, or talk it through.
- Real context: what you set out to do, the window, and how long you were there, because time blindness makes 40 minutes feel like 5.
- Quiet by default: no nudge while you're on task.
- No guilt trip: willpower alone doesn't work, and shame works even less. No streaks to break, no lecture, just a way back.
- Just between you and Hawser: nudges go to you and nobody else, so you can be the reliable one without explaining what keeps you on track.
What people say
Here is everything Hawser looks at.
What Hawser reads
- the window title
- the app name
- the site's domain
- how long you were there
- to judge a moment or write a nudge, the window's name and title go to the AI (mark a window sensitive, or switch titles off in Settings, and they don't)
- when it needs to look, a compressed screenshot, sent to the AI (Anthropic's Claude, which does not train on it), answered in the moment and never stored (one switch turns it off)
What Hawser never does
- log your keystrokes
- read your messages or files
- keep screenshots anywhere
- send anything off your machine without showing you at setup what goes and why
Hawser is built by one person, Jacob. Questions about any of this go straight to him: support@gethawser.com. Bugs get reported in the beta Discord, to the person who fixes them.
14 days free, no card, cancel anytime. Windows 10 and 11.
Hawser on your phone
The thought that matters rarely waits until you're back at your desk. Open gethawser.com/app in your phone's browser, sign in with the same account, and add it to your home screen. There's nothing to install and no app store, and it comes with your account.
- Brain dump from anywhere, typed or spoken. It turns up in Brain Dump on your desktop, usually within a minute.
- Your notes, to read and to add to when you're nowhere near the desk.
- Timers, start one on either side and the other is showing it about a second later.
- Reminders, see what's coming, write new ones, tick off the ones you've handled.
- No signal is fine. It holds what you wrote on the phone and sends it once you're back.
- It needs sync switched on, and sync stays off until you turn it on in the desktop app.
No account yet? Start the free trial on your computer, then this is waiting for you.
It's still a beta, and it's the writing half of Hawser rather than a second copy of it: there's no day view, and a note can't be edited or deleted from the phone yet. Your computer is what fires a reminder.
Talk instead of type
Tap Ctrl+Shift+Win, or hold it while you talk, and speak into anything on your computer: an email, a doc, a chat box, your editor. Your words are typed in, cleaned up, and whatever you had copied stays on your clipboard.
- Works everywhere, not just inside Hawser.
- Auto cleanup fixes mishears and filler as you go.
- Rewrite on the fly: professional, casual, concise, or your own custom style.
- Your choice: accurate cloud transcription, or Fully local mode so audio never leaves your machine.
- Straight to brain dump. Speak a stray thought anywhere and it lands in brain dump already sorted, no typing required.
Learn in the cracks of your day
Hawser can quietly surface a flashcard between work blocks, so you chip away at a language, a deck, or a skill without ever scheduling a study session. Off by default, turn it on when you want it.
- Spaced repetition, cards come back right before you'd forget.
- Audio cards, hear a clip, then reveal. Great for music and pronunciation.
- Import your Anki decks (.apkg), audio included.
- AI deck generator, describe a topic and Hawser writes the deck.
- Ambient review, a card appears in the corner or full screen, your call.
And everything else in the box
One subscription unlocks all of it, no tiers, no add ons.
Goals
- Goals on the calendar, each on its date
- Put a step on a day and it becomes a task there
- Focus profiles, save a setup, switch in a tap
Capture and reminders
- Smart reminders, capsule, toast, or takeover
- Auto categorized captures
- Search, pin and archive
Rituals
- Wrap up the day, review, pick what goes on tomorrow, plan it
- Welcome back, pick up where you left off
- Quiet modes, mute notifications on your terms
Make it yours
- Color palettes, recolor the whole app
- Themes and accessibility, contrast, text scaling
- Rebindable shortcuts
Looking back
- Task log, every task you wrote and what became of it
- History, day by day, in Settings
- Today's numbers open up, where the minutes went
Your data
- Export and backups, manual or scheduled, encrypted
- Account and sync across devices
- Local first by default
26 updates shipped since May 2026
Simple pricing
One subscription. All features. No tiers, no add ons, no upsells. Pay monthly or yearly, same Hawser either way.
You pick monthly or yearly inside the app, after the 14 days. These two are here so you can see the numbers side by side; either button starts the same free trial.
Personal, monthly
$25
per month, billed monthly
- 14 days free, then $25/mo
- No card to start; subscribe when you're ready
- Unlimited AI nudges
- Can look at your screen when a window title isn't enough
- AI included, nothing else to sign up for
- When the trial ends, your data stays on your machine and the AI features pause until you subscribe.
- Cancel anytime, no questions
14 days free first. No card to start. Subscribe and change your mind? Full refund within 14 days of the first charge.
Two months free
Personal, yearly
$250
per year, billed yearly
- Two months free against paying monthly
- Works out at $20.83 a month, $50 saved
- The same 14 day free trial first
- Everything in the monthly plan
- AI included, nothing else to sign up for
- When the trial ends, your data stays on your machine and the AI features pause until you subscribe.
- Cancel anytime, no questions
14 days free first. No card to start. Subscribe and change your mind? Full refund within 14 days of the first charge.
$25 a month comes to about 83 cents a day, with the AI included. Win back one lost afternoon a month and it has paid for itself.
Questions people ask
Is Hawser a blocker?
No. It nudges you back on task instead of locking you out, and you can always answer that you meant to do this. Blocks exist, but nothing is blocked until you add it.
Who is Hawser not for?
Anyone who wants a wall that can't be argued with. A nudge always lets you answer that you meant to do this, and Hawser is built around that, so if a lockout is what works for you, a strict blocker like Cold Turkey is the better pick. It also needs a Windows PC for now.
How much does Hawser cost?
$25 a month or $250 a year, after a 14 day free trial that needs no card. One plan with everything in it. Cancel anytime. Payments go through Stripe, so Hawser never sees your full card number.
Why a subscription when a blocker is a one time fee?
Because a blocker is a list, and a list costs nothing to run. Hawser reads what you're doing and thinks about it all day, and that costs real money every day it runs. The AI is included in the price, with nothing else to sign up for.
What does Hawser see?
The window title, the app name, the site's domain and how long you've been there. To judge a moment, the window's name and title go to the AI (Anthropic's Claude, which does not train on it), and when that is not enough, a compressed screenshot, answered in the moment and never stored. Windows on your sensitive list are kept back. It never logs keystrokes.
How does planning with Claude work?
Press Connect Claude in Hawser, Install in the Claude app for Windows, then Allow in Hawser. Then ask Claude to plan your week. It reads your days, your goals, how the last two weeks went and your best focus hours, and sends a plan of missions, tasks, reminders, alarms and time blocks. Nothing changes until you press Confirm on Hawser's Calendar, and one press undoes it. More on planning
Does planning cost extra?
Not from Hawser. The planning runs on your own Claude account, so it counts toward your Claude plan like any other chat, and Hawser charges nothing on top.
Does it work with ChatGPT?
Not yet. Today planning works with the Claude app for Windows, the one that has been tested from start to finish. More AI apps are coming, and none is promised, or given a date, until it works.
What does open beta mean?
It's finished enough to pay for and still getting better every week. Whether you join now during beta or later, the trial is the same 14 days.
What does Hawser run on?
Windows 10 and 11. There's also a phone web app at gethawser.com/app that works alongside it, for brain dump, notes, timers and reminders; it opens in any phone browser, with nothing to install. Mac is on the roadmap; leave an email on this page to hear when it lands.
Ready to actually focus?
Free for 14 days, no card. $25/mo when you're ready, about 83 cents a day, cancel anytime. Full refund within 14 days of the first charge. Windows 10 and 11.
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