Kanso - Zen Focus
Yutaro Kawahara Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Kanso - Zen Focus is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Yutaro Kawahara. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 11, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 32 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 11
- 2026 · v1.1.2
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About Kanso - Zen Focus
Simplicity — handle multitasking with ease. Kanso is the ultimate task management app designed with the spirit of Zen, to bring clarity and balance to the way you live. ■ Key Features · Pick your 3 Most Important Tasks (MITs) each morning — the things that truly must get done today · Instantly capture fleeting thoughts with Voice Mind Dump · Auto-sort tasks by importance and urgency with the Eisenhower Matrix · Automatically schedule focus blocks in your Calendar app · Track everything you've delegated in the Waiting On page · Monitor progress across all your work in the Projects page · Stay in the zone with a Pomodoro timer (25 min focus / 5 min break) · Watch a beautiful Japanese landscape transform as you complete your MITs · Switch seamlessly between Japanese and English ■ Pro Features (¥300/month · ¥1,800/year) · Unlimited BACKLOG tasks, Mind Dumps, projects, and delegated tasks · Recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly) · Full Eisenhower Matrix prioritization (free plan: once per day) · Background themes: Rock Garden, Bonsai, Sakura (free plan: Rock Garden only) ■ Who It's For · Executives and managers juggling countless projects and responsibilities every day · Anyone exhausted by constant context-switching between tasks · People who chase efficiency yet keep losing sight of what truly matters · Those who appreciate design that is both minimal and intellectually refined ■ Subscription · Monthly plan: ¥300/month (auto-renewing) · Annual plan: ¥1,800/year (auto-renewing · save 50%!) · Payment is charged to your Apple ID · Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings · Includes a 7-day free trial · Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period · Privacy Policy: https://bevel-porch-9ea.notion.site/Kanso-37217501552180ca9a26c80df73b0489 · Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.1.2 · Updated September 11, 2026
Improved Home navigation and task management. • Fixed an issue that could prevent Calendar, Journal, and Settings from opening. • Touch and hold a task on Home without moving to choose a red, blue, or green outline. Hold and move to reorder tasks. • Fixed outline selection being cancelled by slight finger movement during a hold, and added distinct haptic feedback for reordering and outline selection. • Waiting tasks now appear in Calendar. • Tap the title at the top of a task to edit and save it in place. • Improved the display after completing all three MITs and swipe actions for routines.
App privacy
The developer, Yutaro Kawahara, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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