BeatFocus v0.2.5 (Early Access)

A cleaner BeatFocus

Release date: June 14, 2026

Same brain, new face. v0.2.5 is a top-to-bottom UI/UX refresh — flat, tech, focused. Less visual noise, more signal. Plus a smarter Insights tab that actually tells you something useful.

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✨ New Features

• 14-Day Streak Heatmap — A row of dots right inside the Score card. See your consistency at a glance — every dot is a day, filled means you showed up.
• Smarter Productivity Score — Re-balanced for how producers actually work: 40% consistency · 35% volume vs. your personal baseline · 25% quality. No more punishing hobby producers for not hitting 20h weeks.
• Stale Project Warnings — If an active project hasn't been touched for 5+ days, Smart Insights flags it with a warning. No more forgetting that EP you started three weeks ago.
• Smart Insights, deeper — Now shows your strongest day of the week, peak hour, average session length, and best session length bucket — all in one card.
• Trend Badge — Weekly Activity card now shows ↑ 18% or ↓ 12% vs. last week directly in the header.

🎨 UI / UX Redesign

• New design language — Flat surfaces, slight corner radius, Inter as the primary font, brand color used sparingly for active states and primary actions.
• Home View redesign — Left-aligned greeting with FOCUS · WEEK XX header. Project cards became clean list rows with inline status badges. The floating + button is gone — replaced with an inline + NEW action next to the section header.
• Bottom Navigation — Replaced the floating pill island with a flat bar that uses a brand-color top border on the active tab.
• Project Detail — Beat items as list rows with a brand-color left border on the selected one. The Start Session button is now solid brand color (no more gradient).
• Timer View — Refined typography with tabular-nums so digits don't shift while running. Preset pills with subtle outline style.
• Side Panels — Filter tabs and session items rebuilt in the new outline style.
• Modals — Unified across the app: slight radius, left-aligned headlines, uppercase letter-spaced action buttons. Update modal icon now correctly left-aligned.
• Insights cleanup — Removed Trends and Active Hours cards (info now lives inside Smart Insights or the Weekly Activity header). Less scrolling, more substance.

🔧 Under the hood

• CSS Design Tokens — Brand, surface, border, text, radius, and font all centralized as CSS variables at :root. Easier to tweak, easier to maintain.
• Personal Baseline Calculation — Productivity Score now references your own 4-week average instead of a fixed 20h cap.
• Removed all backdrop-blur effects for a snappier rendering feel.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Project card status badges no longer drift to the wrong side of the row.
• Update modal layout properly left-aligned.

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📥 Download

Grab the latest build at beatfocus.app/download.

Windows may show a SmartScreen warning for new apps — click "More info" → "Run anyway".

💬 Feedback

BeatFocus is built with producer feedback. Got ideas or found a bug?
→ support@beatfocus.app · Contact form

BeatFocus v0.2.3 (Early Access)

More than a timer

Release date: April 19, 2026

This is the biggest update yet. BeatFocus is no longer just a session timer — you can now manage beats, track progress, and stay organized across all your projects.

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✨ New Features

• Beat Management — Add beats to your projects, mark them as Active or Done, and watch your progress fill up with live progress bars.
• Toast Notifications — Instant visual feedback for every action in the app.
• Session Delete — Right-click any session in History to delete it.
• New Project Type: Pack — Organize sample packs alongside Albums, EPs and Singles.
• Active Hours Redesign — Insights now shows clean hour pills for only the hours you actually worked.

🎨 UI / UX Improvements

• Project Detail Redesign — New layout with a meta row, unified info card, and dynamic action buttons.
• Island Navigation — Smooth scale animation on tab switch, auto-hides in detail and timer views.
• Smoother panel transitions, instant backdrop blur, refined status flow.
• History filters and date picker merged into a single clean row.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Streak calculation now correctly counts multi-day streaks.
• Greeting name displays properly on app load.
• "Always On Top" no longer defaults to ON.
• Various fixes for context menus, canvas labels, and toast crashes.

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📥 Download

Grab the latest build at beatfocus.app/download.

Windows may show a SmartScreen warning for new apps — click "More info" → "Run anyway".

💬 Feedback

BeatFocus is built with producer feedback. Got ideas or found a bug?
→ support@beatfocus.app · Contact form

BeatFocus v0.2.0 (Early Access)

Major UI update focused on polish, smoother interactions, and quality-of-life improvements for producers.

UI Polish & Animations

• Smoother transitions – fade-ins for modals and smooth state changes
• Optimized timer start/stop button with smoother animation
• Smooth panel slide transitions
• Header optimized – logo refinement
• General design & UI improvements throughout

New Features

• Keyboard shortcuts: Spacebar = Start/Pause, ESC = End session
• History – Calendar view
• History tab optimized
• Navigation menu moved to bottom and optimized

BeatFocus v0.1.1 (Early Access)

Bug fixes and improvements.
build Changes

• Bug fixes and performance improvements
• Better Statistics
• Update/New Version Info in App