Focus - Timer for Productivity App Reviews

Great, solid approach. Works great. Syncs fast. On a lot of platforms. Awesome stuff. Requests: 1. Show active task on Apple Watch with option to complete 2. Show list of upcoming tasks in another view. Tap and hold on one to make active. 3. Show active task with option to complete in Notification Center of iOS.

There is no notification on the watch. If I need to check my watch every few seconds it completely defeats the purpose of using this as a timer for focusing on a task. Reinstalled and adjusted all settings after requesting support and still no watch notification.

This is easy to use, does help you focus, and syncs well. I wish the tasks were more integrated with the focus periods in the history view (instead of separate disconnected views) so it would be far more useful.

I found this featured app while searching for watch apps so one would expect that this app is actually built around the watch. Nope. Im not even sure how you screw something so simple up. You tell the watch to start a 25 minute timer. 2 hours later, the timer still has 6 minutes left. How do you screw up a simple timer in 2015. Unbelievable. Getting a refund.

Original review: I dont know why the ability to create a task list is included in this app. The number of times a task is repeated is not recorded. Nor is the task listed in the activity log. Instead it just says "Focus Session" over and over. This makes it impossible to record how much time is spent on each task, a feature I was looking for in addition to knowing when I completed a session. The time each session ends is the feature that motivated me to get Focus, but in the balance I would rather know how much time I spent on a certain task than when each individual session ended. Also, it does not seem possible to switch between tasks at the end of a session without marking the current task as "done." I am VERY disappointed as this is one of the few apps Ive actually spent money on... And it feels like something of a waste. Especially since this app is remarkably good in most other ways. If tasks were integrated into the activity log or a simple session counter on each task were added, I would give this app five stars without hesitation. Update: I wrote in with the suggestions listed above a received a personal email than addressed my concerns. Because I was handled so courteously (even to the point of providing the proper link when I asked about how to get a refund), Im going to stick with Focus. Also, Jan said that they plan to improve the statistics with an update in a couple of months. Will wait it out with an inferior pomodoro app (not Focus) and hopefully start really using Focus in Jan/Feb.

Syncs across devices and looks great, which is important for a software youll be looking at many times a day! Features feel nicely balanced and, well, in focus.

The iCloud sync option seems broken. Also new tasks should appear below previous entries not above them. Ive loved this app but the iCloud sync being broken makes it not worth it.

This is a well-thought out app and actually helps me stay more productive! Id love to see how exactly the development of this app continues! In my opinion, Id love to see an "Import from Reminders" option because I tend to keep all of my to-dos there and move them to Focus when I want to work on them that specific day.

The app works quite well; but would be much more useful if the focused sessions can be broken down by individual tasks. There probably should be a tab that will tell you how many focused sessions you have completed for that one particular task.

The alert sound still does not work when a device locked even with this update. I dont understand how the developer charge for non-functioning app. The alert sound is "the" basic function. Useless app as a pomodoro timer. It looks like they dont have any intension or ability to fix the problem.

Focus is one of the nicest apps of the Pomodoro bunch, and integrating it into my life has been very, very helpful to me. I use it across devices (Mac, iPhone, and iPad) and it works seamlessly via excellent Handoff integration. I believe it’s the only Pomodoro app at the moment that offers this specific mix of flexibility and features.

Works great across all platforms. Syncs in real time. I can move seamlessly between devices and watch while on a task. Well done. Wish List: integration with reminders and calendar. Folders for tasks. Hierarchical task structure. Keep going!

A great way to go when youre looking to be more productive. Focus makes is very easy because of the obvious thought and care thats gone into the app design.

I like how it tracks time spent on each task, but the presentation of statistics is too scattered to make sense of in a hurry. It would be great to have some kind of line graph--either for total work time per day, or according to tags that could be assigned to multiple tasks. Id also like an option to hide the numerals from the countdown timer while its running. The timer is less distracting if its graphical only.

Far and away best pomodoro app on the Mac. I like this version on the iPad. I wish this one had dark mode like on Mac...that color scheme looks much cooler.

App has no function other than being identical to clock app timer? Anyone can set timer for 25 minutes to finish a task. Waste of money. Nothing can be done to improve app because it is pointless to start out with.

This is primarily about the new Focus watchOS 2 app. Ive been trying a whole bunch of third party apps in hopes of finding a solid complication, and all of them either arent very useful or work unreliably. Not so with Focus. Having a pomodoro timer on my wrist that I can quickly refer to is excellent and, best of all, it works very well! Theres occasionally a bit of lag syncing back to the phone app, but whats important is that it actually *syncs* and the Complication accurately shows where Im at in my pomodoro interval. Im very impressed with it. Keeping it on my watch face for sure.

A+ Pomodoro Apple Watch app

I bought the app based on a recommendation from an article on Flipboard. It is a bad purchase. It does not worth the $6.99. There are timers that are better than this one. It lacks a task list. So you would have to enter the same tasks every day .

The watch app is flakey and just doesnt work.