Focused Work - Pomodoro Timer

Last version is feeling laggy on macOS, but the app is great.

Great app, but I wish there were a possibility to customise apps on the blocking list. For instance, I am addicted from telegram but it’s not on the list.

• the developer is amazing! • there’re focus sessions for various tasks; • it’s responsive and delightful; • it’s available for all devices; • it integrates with Toggl; • and it’s growing rapidly ( ✅ macOS app, Shortcuts on the way 👀)

Nicely designed and built, has a great widget. But notifications about focus period starting do not work sometimes, and they are crucial for my workflow. I think the first notification about the work period fires off OK, but next ones do not. Break notifications work properly though. iPhone 8, iOS 14.2 If this problem is fixed the app will be almost perfect. At the moment it is not usable for me unfortunately. I will be waiting for the fix and a watch app perhaps) Thank you!

Wouldn't it have the best experience when used on the iWatch?

Im writing this review to try to get the app to stop bugging me to write a review, and because this app is a little intrusive with messages and notifications I can’t give it 5 stars. But other than that it’s a 5 star app. You can use premade pomodoro style timers or make your own custom ones. It’s helping me greatly to concentrate

So useful! Having set time sessions for work and break are easy to use and follow along :)

This app checks several of the boxes I’m looking for in a pomodoro system. Though, I can’t bring myself to use this app or pay for the subscription as it’s incredibly ugly. It needs a substantial UI upgrade. Very off-putting colors, constrained menus, odd layouts, etc. The entire experience needs to be more minimal while maintaining functionality. What’s worse, is there isn’t a single setting to alter any part of the app’s appearance, which is a very odd decision on the developers part. For instance, the green and orange glowing icons on the session structure screen. Yikes. That along with the ugly, bold purple core app color is just terrible. I also don’t understand why integrations is mentioned on this screen, it’s already in settings. There’s also a glitchy Siri thing at the bottom that is spazzing out. It’s unfortunate because having a session view screen like this that breaks down and labels each section of the pomodoro system isn’t available in other apps that I’m aware of. And it’s a bit ruined by the ugliness of it all. Also the tiny icons above the pomodoro timer wrapped in a bold red line. Why?? This is so weird. The entire top of the app is so cluttered and strange. And the bold red, uneditable color of the timer is not cool. And again, why is integrations on a tiny system menu icon that’s just cluttering up the limited space available? Integrations should be in settings and left alone. Makes absolutely no sense to keep pushing integrations. If someone wanted to use the functionality, they will… in settings. You also can’t remove the dumb tomato icon in front of pomodoro. Some of your users are over 12 and don’t want to use emojis. Weird thing to hardcode. Under appearance settings, where you’re weirdly only able to edit the font thickness (seriously), it even shows a purple timer color and yet the only available color on the actual main screen is VERY red. We also don’t need the “ready to focus?” text. Yes, we’re ready to focus, that’s why we downloaded a focus app. This isn’t to say that other pomodoro apps are much better, though some apps with limited functionality have a much better UI. This app has a lot going for it, but as a person who shys away from ugly apps, I just can’t bring myself to use it. But I do see a lot of potential here, so I’ll check back to see if UI improvements are made.

Hearing the timer helped SO much!!!

I love using Focused Work!! I love how I can change the focus sessions and make a workflow that works for me. Thanks for making this!!