Your world, with the voices melted out
Not silence — your real surroundings, ASMR-soft, while AI filters out every voice. Speech is the #1 measured focus-killer. It never gets through.
A focus app for ADHD brains that already work in headphones
Three hours deep. It felt like twenty minutes.
That's flow — and it has a sound. clir Focus plays your surroundings ASMR-soft, every voice filtered out by AI, with colored noise and binaural beats underneath. Made for noise-cancelling headphones and brains with 47 tabs open.
Pre-order on the App Store
No charge today. It downloads itself on release day. Cancel anytime before then.
Why headphones weren't enough
Noise cancelling is good, not great: it hands you silence — and in silence, an ADHD brain spirals.
Layers to sink deeper
White, pink or brown noise on top, binaural beats to settle you in. Dial the mix until your brain goes quiet.
Structure that starts before you do
Sessions are shaped before the first task, so starting doesn't depend on a good brain day.
No streaks. No guilt.
Nothing flashes, counts down, or keeps score against you. Low sensory load by design — your attention goes to the work, not the app.
The science, minus the hype
We come from hearing technology, so we read the actual studies.
Speech is the focus-killer
Intelligible background speech is one of the most disruptive sounds for concentration — and masking it measurably improves cognitive performance. That finding is the core of clir Focus. The ambient sound itself can stay: a café-level hum has even been shown to help creative thinking.
Haapakangas et al., 2020 · Indoor Air
Mehta et al., 2012 · J. Consumer Research
Colored noise: small, real, ADHD-specific
A 2024 meta-analysis of 13 studies: white and pink noise bring a small but significant improvement in attention and task performance for people with ADHD — and the benefit reverses in people without it. Built for exactly one kind of brain. Yours.
Nigg et al., 2024 · J. Am. Acad. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Binaural beats: for settling, not focus
The honest version: evidence that binaural beats sharpen attention is weak. What they measurably do is calm — a meta-analysis found a medium-to-large reduction in anxiety, strongest for low-frequency beats. So that's what they're for here: easing you into the session.
clir Focus is a focus tool, not a medical device. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything.
How clir Focus works
-
Create silence
Put your headphones on and activate noise cancelling. The world drops away.
-
Bring back the room — softly
Start the app. Your surroundings return, warm and ASMR-soft, while AI keeps every voice out.
-
Sink deeper
Enable colored noise for enhanced focus, and binaural beats to settle you into the session.
Frequently asked questions
What does the app cost?
Your first 3 sessions are free — enough to know if it's for you. After that, clir Focus is a monthly subscription; the exact price depends on your country and is always shown in the App Store before anything is charged. Pre-ordering itself costs nothing.
When does clir Focus launch?
The App Store shows the expected release date on the pre-order page. We're a small team and we'd rather ship something that works than hit an arbitrary date — pre-ordering means it arrives the moment it does.
What does it actually sound like?
Like the room you're in, gone soft. The ambient hum of your café, office or train stays — warm, steady, a little ASMR — but speech is filtered out by AI before it reaches your ears. Under that you can layer colored noise or binaural beats. It's not music, and there's nothing to skip, rate, or fiddle with mid-session.
Is this another productivity app with an ADHD label on it?
Fair question — it's the first thing we'd ask. clir Focus is built audio-first by the team behind clir hearing technology: the same AI that lets hearing-aid users pull one voice out of a noisy restaurant, flipped around to take every voice out of your day. Sound first because that's where we come from, and because headphones are already where you work. No streaks, no gamification, no shame mechanics.
Is this actually backed by research?
The parts that matter, yes — and we're picky about the difference. Voice-masking rests on decades of replicated research: background speech is the #1 measured focus-killer. Colored noise has meta-analytic support for ADHD-type attention — small but real. Binaural beats we use for what the evidence actually supports: calming, not focus. Sources, with links, in the science section above.
I don't have a diagnosis. Is it for me?
clir Focus is built for how a brain behaves, not what a chart says. If the 47-tabs feeling is familiar, you're who we built it for. And to be clear: the app doesn't diagnose or treat anything.
What happens to my data?
The pre-order happens entirely inside Apple's App Store — we never see your name, email, or payment details. And in the app: we never record or collect any audio, full stop. The AI runs entirely on your device — what your microphone hears never leaves it. This page uses analytics only if you consent to them.
You've read this far. That's the point.
Attention like yours is exactly what we built for. Pre-order clir Focus and on release day it's just there — headphones on, one tap, and the world goes soft while the work pulls you in. Nothing to remember, no inbox involved.
Pre-order on the App Store