Focus Builder Pro1.0.17 - App Store

Focus Builder: Targeted Eye Movement Exercises for Functional Neurologists and Patients

Focus Builder is an iPad-optimized app delivering evidence-based eye movement exercises to promote brain plasticity and neurotherapeutic outcomes. Access requires creating an account and selecting your role:

Subscription & Access Details
Focus Builder requires role selection upon signup: Practitioner (Functional Neurologist) or Patient. This choice is permanent.

- For Practitioners: Auto-Renewing Subscription
Unlocking:
- Access to 12 exercises with lots of customizable settings. Create new exercises based on the settings + sequences of exercises.
- Patient session builder: Create and assign personalized exercise sequences for your patients, including progress monitoring and adjustment based on outcomes.
Subscriptions auto-renew via Apple and can be managed in your App Store account. No free trial, but full access starts immediately upon purchase. Cancel anytime.

- For Patients: One-Time In-App Purchase
Permanent access to all exercises under your practitioner's guidance. No ongoing fees-includes any sequences assigned by your doctor for personalized therapy or usage of the exercises.

Payment details are shown in your user profile after login. Role selection is permanent and cannot be changed later. No free trial or limited access-full functionality begins after purchase.

Eye movements are a very powerful way to exercise the brain and to create long-term change in the brain, known as plasticity. The “Focus Builder” app contains a variety of exercises which challenge users to voluntarily move their eyes in various patterns, speeds and directions, which have been proven to activate specific parts of the brain depending on which eye movement is performed.

This app is specifically designed for doctors that specialize in Functional Neurology and their patients. There is currently no app available that can provide these specific exercises. For best results, patients should consult a Functional Neurologist to determine how to use this app according to their needs and obtain the most therapeutic value.

There are 3 types of eye movements that can have profound therapeutic benefits and all three are available in this app.
1.Pursuits (slow eye movements): Smooth pursuit eye movements allow the eyes to closely follow a moving object. Most people are unable to initiate pursuit without a moving visual signal. The pursuit of targets moving with velocities of greater than 30°/s tend to require catch-up saccades.
2.Saccades (fast eye movements): Saccades are quick, simultaneous movements of both eyes in the same direction. Initiated cortically by the frontal eye fields (FEF), or subcortically by the superior colliculus, saccades serve as a mechanism for fixation, rapid eye movement, and the fast phase of optokinetic nystagmus.
3.Anti-saccades (look away): The anti-saccade task has emerged as an important task for investigating the flexible control that we have over behavior. In this task, participants must suppress the reflexive urge to look at a visual target that appears suddenly in the peripheral visual field and must instead look away from the target in the opposite direction. A crucial step involved in performing this task is the top-down inhibition of a reflexive, automatic saccade. Patients diagnosed with various neurological and/or psychiatric disorders that affect the frontal lobes or basal ganglia find it difficult to suppress the automatic pro-saccade, revealing a deficit in top-down inhibition.

The areas of the brain that are activated by these eye movements are too numerous to list, but to name a few, I have listed some of the functions that can improve with these eye exercises.
1.Executive function/behavior
2.Attention
3.Concentration
4.Impulse control
5.Social behavior
6.Motivation
7.Goal directed behavior

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Version History Sound for Pursuits. You can now play a continuous 100 Hz (utricle) tone, 500 Hz (saccule) tone, or both during any pursuit. A new Sound Position setting controls where the sound plays: fully left or right, panning with or against the target, locked to the target's side or the opposite side, or in both ears.

Connect patient profiles to accounts. Practitioners can link a profile to a specific patient's app account using their email address.

Manage pending invitations. From a patient's profile, you can resend an invitation, correct a mistyped email, or cancel the invitation.

Improvements and fixes
- Pursuit speeds updates.
- Saccade gap and overlap timing is corrected, including when the metronome is on.
- Invited patients who tapped Sign Up could get locked out of their account. The app now catches this and directs them to their invitation.
- Practitioners are no longer signed out when they try an action they don't have permission for. 1.0.17 Sep 21 • New Sound side option for saccade exercises — audio pans hard to the target’s side of the screen.
• Improved Bluetooth headphone reliability — audio no longer drops out mid-exercise.
• Fixed timed exercises (OPK/Hemistim) that could occasionally run past their set duration.
• Smoother handling when the app is sent to the background mid-exercise.
• Assorted exercise and stability fixes.
• Updated for iOS 26. 1.0.16 Jul 8 NEW
• Low-frequency vestibular tones — 100 Hz (Utricle) and 500 Hz (Saccule) — for bone-conduction headphone work
• Stereo - sound now pans left and right to match the on-screen target position during directional exercises

IMPROVEMENTS
• Switching between patients reliably clears the prior session, so the next patient's Finish screen no longer routes into the previous patient's sequence
• Metronome taps register reliably on touchdown, including held taps that previously dropped
• Editing a patient's profile with a duplicate email now shows a clear error instead of silently destroying the patient's data
• Inviting a patient from an existing draft no longer creates a duplicate profile
• Exercise settings persist after navigating away and back

BUG FIXES
• Visual Memory finish screen restored Back / Repeat / Home buttons
• The "already signed in" login error now auto-recovers without reinstall
• Unconfirmed sign-ups can request a fresh confirmation email
• Several navigation and save-state stability fixes 1.0.15 May 30 - Fix bugs 1.0.13 Apr 16 - Fix payment integration 1.0.11 Apr 13 Fix bugs regarding Gaze exercise and background colors 1.0.10 Apr 3 - Fix errors on 1.0.8 1.0.9 Mar 30 - being able to use the app being offline 1.0.8 Mar 29 - fix saccades exercise
- add better messages for new users
- Redirect to patient screen after adding a new one. 1.0.7 Mar 13 - Fix error in the sound player
- Add new authentication screen to verify the email. 1.0.6 Feb 13 - Add option for practitioners to add sequences from scratch
- Fixed bugs on memory saccades 1.0.3 Feb 1 - Anti-saccades bug fixes
- New icon for visual memory 1.0.2 Jan 28 1.0 Jan 27