At login
The first BootTask surface after you log in — the earliest honest moment to ask the question.
Native Gate for Mac + Chrome extension
Choose the work before your computer opens the day.
Plan your tasks in Chrome. When your Mac starts or wakes, the Native Gate asks which one deserves your attention before your desktop and browser take over.
- 1Add BootTask to ChromeRequired · free · tasks, timer, Focus BarAdd to Chrome
- 2Then add the Native Gate to your MacFree · macOS 14 or laterDownload
Why both, and how to install →
No BootTask cloud. Your task data stays on your device or syncs to your own Google Drive.
What will you work on?
✓ Task list synced
✉ I just want to check my email↗ Open Chrome Dashboard
docs.google.com / launch-plan
Write the launch plan☰
Launch plan / draft
Your browser opened with the intention already set. The Focus Bar keeps it in view on every site.
Session started · 25 min planned
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Native Gate for macOS
Start your Mac with a choice, not your inbox.
The Native Gate is the first BootTask experience after login, a real wake, or a return to your session. It shows the tasks you have planned and asks what deserves your attention before the desktop opens around you.
After a real wake
When the machine truly wakes from sleep, the gate is there before mail, tabs and messages.
Back to your session
Return to your user session and it asks again. Double-click the app to summon it on demand.
Not on a plain unlock
Unlocking the screen for a minute does not trigger it. A signal, not a prison.
01Set up BootTask. Install the Chrome extension for tasks, the Focus Bar, timer, Drive sync and browsing guidance — then the Native Gate for your Mac.
02The Native Gate opens first. At login or wake, it puts your planned work ahead of email, tabs and messages.
03Choose what starts now. Select one task, then open your workspace with that intention already set.
Type, and it finds the task. Matching tasks appear as you type; Enter starts one, or creates it if it is new.
Resume your last task in progress in one click, or plan your next 3 tasks before the day starts.
Check your email, Free Surf, or open the Chrome Dashboard — open browsing is a choice, not a failure.
It wears your theme. The gate follows the palette and accent you picked in the extension.
Sets itself up. It installs its login agent and Native Messaging for every Chromium browser it finds, and repairs them on each launch.
If the Native Gate is not installed, BootTask falls back to the Web Gate in Chrome. The gate appears after macOS login; normal user apps cannot appear before the system login screen.
Step 2 · Get the Native Gate for Mac
The part of BootTask no browser extension can do: your Mac starts with a choice.
- Open the download and drag BootTask into Applications.
- Launch it once. It installs its login agent and connects to Chrome on its own.
- Next login or wake, the gate asks what you will work on.
Download for Mac
Step 1 first: add BootTask to Chrome · All releases
Make it yours
Ten palettes. One calm instrument.
Dark, light and high-visibility templates, your own accent, your fonts and text scale. The same settings travel through the extension, its Focus Bar, the web app and the Native Gate. Click one — this page changes too.
Focus Bar
Thirteen ways to keep the task in view.
A slim bar holding the task, the time and the controls, on every page. Pick the shape that suits your screen — the Notch by default, or a capsule, a rail, a line, a pill you park in a corner.
+ Glass shelf, Guilloché, Hourglass, Brushed steel…
Plan before you browse
Your tasks, in the order you intend to do them.
Add the work, set its duration and useful websites, then explicitly choose what starts now. BootTask keeps everything else waiting without hiding it.
01Choose one task
02Set the useful sites
03Stay in the flow
Everything else
Quietly in place, all day long.
Timer
A timer that overruns
Past the planned time it shows +MM:SS and keeps going. It is a signal, not a prison.
↗ Free SurfBrowse on purpose
Open browsing as a deliberate choice, with its own duration and its own name.
↗ Focus ModeGuidance, per task
Set a default for browsing guidance, then let every task inherit it or choose its own rule.
↗ On-device AIOff-task, detected locally
Chrome's built-in model reads the page summary locally and tells you if it looks unrelated to your task.
↗ BreaksPause without losing your place
Stop the clock without losing your place — for five minutes or for as long as it takes.
↗ PremiumRecurring tasks
Daily, weekly on chosen days, or monthly on chosen dates. A new occurrence appears once you finish the last.
↗ Side panelThe dashboard beside the web
The full dashboard beside the web, as an in-page panel or Chrome's own side panel. Cmd+Shift+B.
↗ SyncYour own Google Drive
Optional backup and multi-device sync through a Google Sheet you own, in your Drive.
↗ Web appEven on your phone
Your tasks, folders and projects in a browser without the extension — including on your phone.
↗The timer tells you something. It does not tell you who to be.
Add a minute, pause, switch, or finish. BootTask makes the state of your work legible without pretending work follows a perfect clock.
Sites are guidance, not a cage.
When a task has no sites, browsing stays open. When it does, BootTask can gently ask whether you mean to drift.
Free Surf is a choice too.
Open browsing deserves its own place. Set a duration and step away from the fiction that every tab needs to be productive.
Simple by design
Start free. Upgrade once.
Free forever with the Chrome extension, Google Drive sync and the Native Gate for macOS for up to 10 unfinished tasks. Early Adopters get BootTask Premium for $29.90 during the launch period (reg. $49.90). A lifetime payment unlocks the current Premium features.
For a more deliberate day
$0 / forever
- Up to 10 unfinished tasks
- Native Gate for macOS and Web Gate fallback
- Google Drive sync
- Focus Bar and timer
- Free Surf sessions
- On-device AI off-task detection
For your whole working system
$29.90 / lifetime
Get Premium ↗- Unlimited unfinished tasks
- Recurring tasks
- Unlimited on-device AI: site suggestions and task splitting
- Everything in Free
Install BootTask for free
Choose the work before your workspace opens.
- 1Add BootTask to ChromeRequired · free · tasks, timer, Focus BarAdd to Chrome
- 2Then add the Native Gate to your MacFree · macOS 14 or laterDownload
The Chrome extension is your workspace. The Native Gate makes your Mac start with a choice.