Drift: Focus Music

Most focus playlists loop, change tracks, or drop in vocals right when you have settled in. Drift plays music that never repeats and never interrupts, so you can stay with the work for an hour or a whole afternoon. Every session is composed live on your device. Each mood, from Deep Work to Wind Down, is a set of musical anchors the music drifts between, so tonight's hour will not sound like tomorrow's. There is no library and no loop, and it works offline with no account. It is made for long stretches of coding, writing, reading and studying: no vocals, no drops, nothing to manage once it is playing. Sixteen moods plus a mood builder for your own, a focus timer with the classic 25/5 round, saved routines, widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, and a native Mac app with a menu bar panel. Every mood and timer is free. Drift Pro ($4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, 7-day free trial) adds deep sets, journeys, the mood builder and the full journal. Honest about the science: slow tempo and no lyrics are what the research supports, and we do not claim any music makes you smarter.