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Master anything.
10,000 hours at a time.

TenKHours is a deliberate-practice tracker for the people who actually keep at it. Time your sessions, cross real milestones, and watch the hours compound into mastery.

Free to start Local-first, on-device Built for iOS 26, Watch & Widgets
Pomodoro · Block 2 of 4
+52 XP earned today
Focus
62%
of daily 2h goal
Now practicing

Swift & Concurrency

Coding Goal: 2h today
01:14:32
Session #214 Started 13:08
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The 10,000-hour principle

Mastery isn't a moment.
It's a slow, deliberate stack of hours.

The research is consistent: it takes roughly ten thousand hours of focused, deliberate practice to reach world-class command of a complex skill. TenKHours doesn't promise shortcuts. It promises a tool worthy of the effort.

01
Time honestly. Sessions with start, end, and intent — not vague streaks.
02
Cross real milestones. Twelve thresholds from your first hour to your ten-thousandth.
03
See the pattern. Insights that reveal when you do your best work — and when you fade.
Today's number
10,000
Per skill goal
≈ 27 years @ 1h/day
Today, you
start at 0.0
What's inside

A tool that takes practice as seriously as you do.

Every feature exists because something gets in the way of consistent deliberate practice — and we built the antidote.

Sessions & Timer

One-tap to start. Pomodoro blocks built in. Live Activity on the Lock Screen so you never lose track of a session.

Live Activity Pomodoro

Mastery Roadmap

Twelve milestones from your first hour through 10,000. Each one earned, never granted. Achievement chips that genuinely feel good.

12 thresholds XP & Levels

Insights

Weekly review, peak-hour heatmaps, focus scoring, and a Year in Review that's worth waiting all year for.

Weekly Review Year in Review

AI Coach

On-device practice plans tuned to your skill, your energy, and what you actually got done last week. Quiet, private, useful.

On-device Pro

Streaks & Achievements

Forgiving streaks that respect rest days. Achievements that mark genuine moments — not engagement bait.

Forgiving Earnable

Everywhere you are

Apple Watch for hands-free sessions. Widgets for at-a-glance progress. Siri Shortcuts so "Start Swift" actually starts Swift.

Watch Widgets Siri
Active Session

A timer worthy of the work itself.

The session screen is the one you'll look at most. So we made it the one we obsessed over most — a ring that breathes, numbers you can read across the room, and zero chrome between you and the work.

Pomodoro built in. 25/5, 50/10, or roll your own block-and-break pattern.
Live Activity. The session sits on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — glance, don't unlock.
Journal on finish. One quick note becomes a year's worth of insight.
TenKHours active session screen showing breathing ring, large timer, and floating session chips
The mastery roadmap

Twelve milestones. Each one earned.

Every threshold is a real moment in mastery — Apprentice, Journeyman, Master, Grandmaster. We don't hand them out. You cross them.

1h
First hour
10h
Novice
25h
Beginner
50h
Hobbyist
100h
Apprentice
250h
Journeyman
500h
Adept
1k
Expert
2.5k
Specialist
5k
Master
7.5k
Grandmaster
10k
World-class
12 levels
Milestone tiers
skills
Track in parallel · Pro
100% local
SwiftData on-device
0 ads
Forever
Real screens, not renders

Every screen you'll live in.

From the Mastery Roadmap to the Year in Review, these are the screens you'll see every day. No mockups.

Mastery roadmap with horizontal milestone spine and tier progress
Mastery Roadmap

The whole climb at a glance — your current tier, your next threshold, your distance to ten thousand.

Year in Review summarizing the year's practice on one page
Year in Review

Your year of practice, on one page. Hours, peak hours, breakthroughs, and the milestones you crossed.

12-week activity
214h / 10,000h
Swift
Streaks & Insights

The patterns of your best work, made visible.

See when you ship, when you fade, and when the streak is real. Insights that give you a reason to pick the right hour of the day — not a reason to feel bad about the wrong one.

Peak-hour bar chart — when you actually do your best work
Focus score per session, never gamified into nonsense
Annual Year in Review — your year of practice, on one page
Practitioners on TenKHours

The kind of tool we always wished existed.

Finally, a tracker that doesn't treat me like I need a sticker. The Year in Review made me cry on January 1st.
MK
Maya K.
Jazz pianist · 1,840 hrs
I've used eight habit apps. This is the first one I haven't deleted within a week. The milestones feel earned.
RD
Rohan D.
Indie iOS dev · 612 hrs
The Live Activity on the Lock Screen is dangerously good. I keep practicing because the timer is right there.
AL
Anna L.
Climber, route-setter · 2,103 hrs
Start the first hour

Ten thousand hours starts with one session.

Free to start. Pro when you're ready. Built by an indie iOS developer who's tracking their own 10K right alongside you.