One honest sentence from a tester goes here, in their own words.
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The honest anti-booster
Tell your PC which app to protect.
Pick the game or program that matters right now. Olicus Focus gives it first claim on the CPU, so it stays smooth while background apps stop fighting it. Stop it and everything goes back.
Free
No account
No data
Local only
START FOCUS
For the one app that matters right now.
How it works
One choice. One app protected.
1
Pick one app
The one app you need running its best.
2
It goes first
It gets Above Normal priority. The background eases off.
3
It all reverts
Close it or restart, and your PC is back to normal.
Without Focus
Everything competes for the CPU at once.
With Focus
Your pick gets first claim. The rest step back.
Not only games
You are the boss of your own computer.
Point Focus at anything that needs the room. A render that has to finish, a CAD model, an editing timeline, a stream, a heavy browser. You decide what your PC works hardest for.
Games
Rendering
CAD
Editing
Streaming
Browsers
The stand
This is not a game booster.
Boosters sell you frame numbers. Independent testing puts the real gain at about two frames, and near zero on a modern PC. So we do not promise them. We do the one honest thing that works: give the app you pick first claim on the CPU.
From testers
What some of the testers said.
A short line about what they noticed, kept real and specific.
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One sentence, no hype, just what it felt like on their rig.
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Their honest take in a single line, good or measured.
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A real quote from a real tester lands here once collected.
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The data
Less fighting over your CPU.
Across multiple machines, the background workload gave up around 5 to 7% of the CPU when Focus was on. That is more room for the app you chose, and a cleaner run for it. It is the background easing off, not your FPS going up, and we are honest that the gameplay side depends on your machine, which we are still measuring in the open.
STEP 1
Same test, every machine
A competing CPU workload (3DMark CPU Profile) across thread counts.
STEP 2
Focus off, then on
Your app set to Above Normal, background eased to Below Normal.
STEP 3
Measure the competitor
The effect grows with contention and peaks around 8 threads.
Per-machine numbers
SystemCompetitor CPU, avgPeak at 8 threads
i7-12700K, RTX 4080 SUPER-6.7%-8.8%
i7-13700K, RTX 4080-5.1%-11.1%
i7-14700K, RTX 5070-5.3%-8.9%
Straight answers
The questions you would actually ask.
Why is it free? Am I the product?+
It is free because it is alpha, because we are a small studio building a name, and because there is nothing to sell. No ads, no bundled software, no upsell, and nothing collected about you.
Will it get me banned?+
It never touches anti-cheat, the game's files, or protected system processes. It only nudges Windows scheduling priority, the same setting you can change by hand in Task Manager. Nothing enters the game.
Windows showed a blue warning. Why?+
That is SmartScreen, and it says "unrecognized app," not "malware." It flags any new app that not enough people have downloaded yet. Click More info, then Run anyway, after checking the publisher reads Olicus Technology and Gaming AB.
Is it really reversible?+
Yes. One click sets everything back to Normal, closing Focus reverts on its own, and Windows resets priority on restart anyway. Uninstall leaves nothing behind, and there is no background service or auto-start unless you ask for it.
What data do you collect?+
None. Focus runs fully local. No network calls, no telemetry, no analytics. There is no server on our end because the app never talks to one. You can confirm it with any network monitor.
Who made this?+
Olicus is a Swedish company building honest hardware and software for people who care how their machine runs, from the Octa V1 case to Focus. We would rather earn your trust than sell hype. Reach us at info@olicus.tech or in our Discord.