Freedom kills focus. iPromise is a new deep work protocol built on the principle of Body Doubling, the idea that having a "witness" boosts accountability. // Your AI Buddy lives elegantly in your Mac notch. It understands your active window’s context. When you drift into distractions, it gently nudges you back. // Make a promise. Your buddy helps you keep it.
Hi I’m Todd, some of you might know me or my team from Cubox, our tool for managing digital knowledge and reading.
Over the years of building efficiency tools, I ran into a deeply personal problem that no reading or note-taking app could fix: The ultimate freedom of working on a Mac was secretly destroying my focus.
Without a boss or an office setting, the temptation to "just check one notification" was constant. Willpower alone was a losing battle. I noticed that I always focused best in bustling coffee shops or libraries, anywhere with a "presence." That led me to dive into the psychological concept of Body Doubling — the proven idea that having a "witness" to your work drastically reduces procrastination.
I built iPromise to digitize that exact energy and bring it straight to your Mac screen.
Why iPromise is different:
The "Witness" Protocol: You commit to one single, hard task. Your AI Focus Buddy, living elegantly in your Mac notch, becomes your companion and keeps you accountable.
Context-Aware, Not an Intrusive Monitor: It doesn't just run a timer. It understands the context of your active window and knows if you're actually building or getting lost in a thread.
Privacy-First: Like with Cubox, I care deeply about data privacy. Your screen data never sends to us.
iPromise is currently completely free. I haven't even figured out a pricing model yet because my main goal right now is to perfect the core experience and build it alongside this community.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any feature requests. What’s the biggest distraction you fight on your Mac every day?
Let's stop working alone, and start making promises.
Stay focused!
About iPromise on Product Hunt
“Bring "Body Doubling" to your Mac notch”
iPromise launched on Product Hunt on May 22nd, 2026 and earned 175 upvotes and 25 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Freedom kills focus. iPromise is a new deep work protocol built on the principle of Body Doubling, the idea that having a "witness" boosts accountability. // Your AI Buddy lives elegantly in your Mac notch. It understands your active window’s context. When you drift into distractions, it gently nudges you back. // Make a promise. Your buddy helps you keep it.
On the analytics side, iPromise competes within Mac and Productivity — topics that collectively have 755.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how iPromise performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted iPromise?
iPromise was hunted by Todd Jiang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of iPromise including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Todd Jiang