What works today, and what doesn't yet

This is a beta. Amplify is built by one person, it changes every week, and some of it is unfinished. Until now its only daily user has been Evan; you are the first people to use it for real. This page is the honest list, so nothing surprises you. It takes about three minutes to read.

What works

• Getting in. The button in your invite email signs you straight in. No password needed. After that, sign in with a code we email you, or with Google or Apple using the same email address. There is no public sign-up: only invited people get an account. Signing in the Mac app opens your own browser (Mac app 1.0.22 and later), so Google passkeys and saved passwords work there; a code by email is in the app's menu bar icon under Sign in with email instead.
• Your calendar, tasks, habits and goals on the web, with two-way Google Calendar sync (changes you make in Google show up in Amplify and the other way round, including moving or deleting one occurrence of a repeating event).
• The assistant — type or talk to it and it creates, changes and deletes events, habits and screen-blocking schedules for you. Anything that removes something or changes a whole series shows you a preview first and waits for your Confirm, and every change it makes has an Undo.
• Drive Amplify from Claude Code. If you use Claude Code, connect it under Account → API Tokens: click Connect Claude Code, then paste the one-line claude mcp add … command it shows you into a terminal on that computer. Type /mcp in Claude Code to confirm amplify shows as connected, then just ask it to look at or change your calendar, habits and focus schedules — same preview, Confirm and Undo as the in-app assistant.
• The scoreboard — the few things you hold every day ("lines"), your week's misses, and the days your first work block got started, the same numbers on the web, in the header and on your phone.
• "Where am I going wrong?" — ask the assistant and it answers from your own data (what you planned, what happened), and it tells you what it can't see instead of guessing.
• Plan drift — when you haven't followed a plan for a few weeks, it asks you to cut it or recommit.
• The iPhone app (through TestFlight): today's schedule and marks, the check-in, the assistant (it changes events, habits and blocking schedules with the same preview, Confirm and Undo as the web, and answers "where am I going wrong?"), and screen blocking with Apple's Screen Time (apps and websites, in every browser).
• Your data is yours: Account › Your data › Download My Data gives you everything as a file; Delete Account removes it and disconnects Google, WHOOP and billing.

What's partial

• The Mac app and its screen blocking. It works and it survives restarts, and it updates itself (or click Check for Updates in its menu-bar icon). Mac only (the current build is for Apple-silicon Macs); there is no Windows app.
• The block screen in your browser needs one switch on the Mac. During a block, a site from your list opens Amplify's block screen only once the extension is on: Safari › Settings › Extensions › tick Amplify. For Chrome, use the menu-bar icon › Show the Amplify screen in Chrome… and load it once. Without the extension the site still stays blocked; you just see the browser's own error page.
• Nudges during work blocks are new, on the Mac and the iPhone: "Work 2 starts now" when a block begins, and "Back to Work 2?" after a few minutes on an app you said pulls you away. On the iPhone they're on unless you switch them off (the Blocking tab › Nudges); pick the apps that pull you away there too, or you only get "starts now". A Focus (Do Not Disturb, Sleep, Personal…) files them silently in Notification Center unless it lets them through. On the iPhone they're Time Sensitive: in Settings › Focus, open each Focus you use, tap Apps and turn on Time Sensitive Notifications, or add Amplify to its allowed apps. On the Mac, add Amplify to each Focus's allowed apps in System Settings › Focus.
• The iPhone app is on TestFlight, not the App Store. You'll get it through a TestFlight invite, and builds expire after 90 days, so you'll update it from TestFlight.
• Your week by email, every Sunday morning is new: turn it on in Preferences › Email › "My week, every Sunday morning".
• Apple Health on the iPhone is new. Turn on Use Apple Health in Account (the round profile button on Today) and the app sends your sleep, workouts, heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, steps and active energy to Amplify, so your sleep and workouts count without a WHOOP. It only reads; it never writes to Apple Health. Your Apple Health numbers stay with your Amplify account: the AI assistant never receives them. It can know that Apple Health is connected and whether a block was marked done or missed from it.
• WHOOP works, but WHOOP limits apps like ours to a small number of connected people until it approves us for production. If the connect button fails, that's why.
• Voice works on the web and the iPhone. A faster "live" voice mode exists and is newer.
• On the phone the assistant sees your next 7 days of timed events, your habits and your blocking schedules. For anything further out, or for standing rules like "never a gym block on a PT day", use the web.

What's known to be limited or broken

• Screen blocking can be switched off by a determined person. On iPhone, Apple lets anyone remove an app's Screen Time access in Settings — unless you turn on locked-in mode, where Amplify holds your Screen Time passcode and only gives it back after a cooling-off wait (24, 48 or 72 hours) that we can't shorten, even in an emergency. On the Mac there's a local way around it for someone who goes looking.
• Ending a block early is limited on purpose. You get 3 emergency stops a year, shared by the web, the Mac and the iPhone (the first 5 minutes of a block are free). With none left, End won't stop a scheduled block; it ends at its scheduled time. The details are in the Terms, section 13.
• If you restart your iPhone during a focus session, open Amplify once afterwards to make sure blocking is back on. We're re-testing this on the next TestFlight build and will update this line with what we find.
• Only Google Calendar syncs both ways. Outlook, Apple Calendar and calendar links come in read-only: Amplify plans around them, but your changes in Amplify don't go back to them.
• Nothing alerts us automatically. If something breaks at 3 a.m., we find out when we look or when you tell us.
• The status page runs inside the app it reports on. If Amplify is fully down, the status page is too, and we'll email you instead.
• Security items we've accepted for the beta, found in our own audit: your sign-in session is kept in your browser's storage, and some request limits are soft. We'll tighten both before a public launch.

Your data

What we collect and why: amplifyproductivity.com/privacy. Every company that processes your data for us (database, hosting, payments, AI, voice, email, calendar, WHOOP) is listed at /privacy/processors. We don't sell your data, and those vendors can't train their AI on it.

What we measure during the beta. How many minutes a day you have Amplify open, which pages and features you use, whether each assistant request ended in a change, a preview you cancelled, or a failure, and when the iPhone shows you a nudge and whether you tapped it (with the block's name). We keep counts, not what you typed or said. Evan reads it per person to see where the product loses people; it goes when your account goes.

When something goes wrong

Check amplifyproductivity.com/status. We post there within 30 minutes of knowing about a problem and update it at least every hour for anything serious. If you were personally affected, we'll email you.

Reaching Evan

Press the Feedback button inside the app (beta testers see it on every page), email support@amplifyproductivity.com, or reply to your invite email. It all goes to Evan, who built this. Bug reports, "this confused me", and "I stopped using it because…" are all equally useful.