Focus - Timer for Productivity App Bewertungen

Nutze Focus schon länger auf dem Mac und nun auch auf meinem iPad. Toll umgesetzte Orga-App, für meine tägliche Arbeit inzwischen unverzichtbar.

Habe die App jetzt auch auf dem iPad. Läuft gut und bringt System in meine Arbeit.

Focus ist ein Tool, um seinen Arbeitsalltag frei von Ablenkung zu strukturieren. Es basiert auf der Pommodoro-Technik, die davon ausgeht, dass wir voll konzentriert auf eine Sache am besten für eine Dauer von 25min arbeiten und dann 5min Pause machen sollten. Mit der ständig möglichen Abwechslung und Zerstreuung, die smartphones, Facebook etc. uns ständig bieten ist gerade das Arbeiten in der heutigen Zeit nicht einfacher geworden. Reine Selbstdisziplin und vollständiger Verzicht auf Internet und smartphone hat für mich nicht funktioniert. Die Pommodoro-Technik hat mir ein ganz neues Gefühl von Selbstdisziplin und Freiheit gleichzeitig gegeben. 25min sind irre schnell vorbei und 5min Pause erscheinen mit einem Mal wahnsinnig lang. Das hält die Motivation hoch. Und dadurch, dass man sich aussuchen kann, wie viele 25min-Session man pro Tag erreichen will, behält man auch völlig die Freiheit, diese abzuarbeiten, wann man will. FOCUS ist nun eine App, die 3 Dinge ermöglicht. Das Anlegen der Aufgaben, die man vorhat, zu erledigen. In dem Screen, wo man diese Aufgaben anlegt, kann man sie auch abhaken. Auf dem zweiten Screen hat man dann den Timer, der (voreingestellt auf die klassischen 25min, aber auch veränderbar) rückwärts herunter läuft. Nach Beendigung der Zeit fragt einen die App, ob man seine 5min Pause machen möchte. Auf dem dritten Screen gibt es dann die Erfolgskontrolle – in Bezug auf die Aufgaben, die man erledigt hat und die 25min-Sessions, die man pro Tag geschafft hat. Die App hat ein schönes schlankes Design. Die Bedienung ist intuitiv. Der Support ist großartig. Ich habe innerhalb kürzester Zeit von dem Entwickler Antworten auf meine Fragen erhalten und auch meine Vorschläge will er in ein Update mit aufnehmen. Eine Desktop-Version, die sich mit iOs-Version synchronisiert ist offenbar in Arbeit.

…und das durchgängig auf dem Mac, dem iPad oder iPhone bis hin zur Watch. Focus unterstützt mich sehr gut beim konzentrierten Abarbeiten größerer Projekte durch gute Taktung in 25 Minuten Arbeit und gezieltes Einhalten von Pausen zwischen den Arbeitsphasen. Was mich richtig begeistert, ist die flinke Rückmeldung des Entwicklers! Gefällt mir gut, weiter so!

Ich benutze Focus regelmäßig für meine Arbeit, die verschiedenen Einstellungen ermöglichen eine genaue Anpassung für meine Arbeitszeit. Dabei bevorzuge ich die "Pomodoro Technik", welche die App schön umsetzt. Hierbei arbeitet man 25 min, macht 5 min Pause und arbeitet wieder. Ich kann die App jedem empfehlen. Da Focus für iPhone, iPad, Watch und Mac verfügbar ist, hat man die App immer überall dabei.

Beste Pomodoro-App fürs iPhone und die Apple Watch. Kann ich nur weiterempfehlen!

Focus ist eine schöne Produktivitäts-App für Leute, die viel beschäftigt sind. Focus ist für iOS und für die Apple Watch verfügbar. Seit kurzem benutze ich Focus für Apple Watch. Ich bin begeistert: Focus auf der Watch bietet eine ganz neue Erfahrung für die Uni zu lernen und dabei mit der Pomodoro Technik zu arbeiten. Hierbei arbeitet man 25 Minuten und macht anschließend für 5 min eine Pause etc. Die Notification, wenn eine Session (25 min) abgelaufen ist funktioniert auf der Watch perfekt. Diese neue Art von Interaktion begeistert mich und Focus auf der Watch motiviert mich zum Lernen. Außerdem bietet Focus viele coole Features: - verschiedene Einstellungen in der iOS App - iCloud syn. zwischen meinen iOS Geräten - wunderschönes Design (Statistik) auf dem iPhone - coole Animation auf der Apple Watch Focus ist laut meiner Erfahrung die beste Pomodoro App im Store.

Die beste, die man für Geld kaufen kann.

Endlich eine gute pomodoro Lösung für das iPhone, top!

Hatte bisher die iOS-eigene Erinnerungsapp benutzt um meine Aufgaben zu verwalten, aber dann doch entschieden mir diese App zu holen. Der große Vorteil: Hier habe ich einen Pomodoro-Timer und die Aufgaben zusammen in einer App. Und durch den iCloud-Sync kann ich sowohl mein iPhone, als auch mein iPad benutzen. Das Design ist dabei recht einfach gehalten, aber das ist auch gut so, da die Bedienung somit wirklich intuitiv von der Hand geht. Habe für die letzte Klausurenphase in der Uni mit "Focus" gelernt und konnte so einen Semesterschnitt von 1,4 erreichen (zuvor 2,7). Dafür ist es das Geld allemal wert - würde die App jederzeit wieder kaufen!

Die app wäre wirklich gut - liefe sie wie vorgesehen. Dies ist bei mir - vor allem in interaktion mit applewatch - nicht der fall. Viele ruckler, aussetzer und synchprobleme. Startet manchmal garnicht. Hoffe auf gründliches update, dann gibts fünf sterne.

This is by far the best Pomodoro app on the App Store. It seamlessly integrates on your Apple Watch, lock screen, and as a widget. To top things off, their support team is very friendly and helpful. Would recommend to any student or people who struggle with distractions!

This is perfect

Focus has been up on my phone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac pretty much daily for many years. My kids have also worked Focus into their day-to-day efforts at school. It is a simple app with some pretty helpful tools and near perfect synchronization across devices. This keeps staying on task (and taking breaks) much more natural. I’m very grateful I discovered Focus Timer so many years ago.

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1 area for improvement, and its minor, but calendar integration whereby the first focus session automatically triggers and thus the day is set. Minus absolute perfection (and I’m picking) best focus / task management app and I have trialed them ALL. The widgets and aesthetics is a fantastic touch! Well done, team focus. Citizen Warrior Foundation thanks you helping us prepare for our upcoming Celsius Network & FTX Awareness Campaign.

One of the best apps for this project, I love it.

Absolutely love using this Pomodoro task/work timer. Helps me get through a lot of focused/chill working sessions.

This was a great and simple app, good UI and free. Then it got updated and locked everything behind a paywall FOR A TIMER. Maybe for another person it’ll be worth it, but for me I’m afraid I’m out.

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Please make an appropriately priced one time purchase option and I’m in. I have subscription fatigue and I can’t do another one for a timer…even if this one is great. Thank you!

$40 dollars for a timer is overpriced. Some features are just not needed. To clarify, I think it will be good to keep it simple, remove unused features keep the price lower to sell to more people. 5 stars to quick response from the developers.

You literally have to pay $40 a year to even use this app… and the whole idea of the app is just a slightly more intuitive timer… so $40/yr for a timer. I’m so tired of every single app having a subscription system when it is 100% not needed. Just more greed

Am a devoted user on the iPhone / Mac apps, and enjoying the Vision App, but… … either it’s me, or the app, but it’s quite ‘large’ in my environment, and would be great if I could get a smaller ‘widget’ like version on the VisionPro to use. Aside from that, it integrates great with my phone / Mac, and is always on when I’m using the VisionPro. Love it!

The app needs to have the ability to duplicate tasks. That would be helpful for a full time mom like myself who has to do the same tasks everyday

This helps me stay on track and complete task while also reminded me to take small breaks. Such a great app. Hopefully early adopters will get a discount after the year is up.

I have been using this Vision Pro app, having it load underneath my wirelessly connected MacBook screen. I love being able to mark off tasks with just a glance and tap, and then go back to my MacBook’s screen. This app has several amazing organizational tools that are really helping me - Thank You!

This app is hands down the best Pomodoro app on the App Store. I tried all of them and no other comes close in terms of supported devices (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac…) or features (seamless sync, Widgets, etc.). Love this app!

1. The session screen tap is super sensitive and often triggers when I don’t want to adjust the time. Could you use a less fancy time input method? 2. The action button shortcut only pauses, doesn’t begin a session, it would be incredible to be able to just press the action button to appropriately begin, pause, resume the session. Thank you for making the app, I do really love it!

Really good and streamlined! My biggest request would be for the Apple Watch app to be more consistent about vibrating upon completion of a focus session. Sometimes I check my watch and it’s already been minutes past the session. Reliable wrist vibration at the end of each session (and end of each break) would make this a 5/5 app for me!

Having used Focus since 2019 I'm happy to say it still holds up thanks to the various updates. I use it daily and I would definitely recommend it.

it looks promising but way too buggy to give a decent review. i added a widget to try out the interactive widgets and now whenever i open the app i have no control over the timer. only way to pause it is to use the widget, or let the time run out. no way to restart timers

Awesome app on all devices! Works perfectly with iOS 17.

I have to focus on myself. Being myself. Feeling better and not be lonely

Good app! Worth the download!

I have been an off and on user of Focus for a long time. The latest update adds much needed UI love, and works so much better, especially on my iPad. Great work! One area I think could use some love is the Apple Shortcuts. I can only speak for myself here but being able to add new tasks using Apple shortcuts would vastly improve my workflow. For example, it would allow me to create a shortcut to import all my daily tasks from Reminders. If I had a wishlist the two shortcuts would be “Create task with title and date” and “Filter/find existing tasks” to complete the “search and sync” features using shortcuts. Additionally, a game changing feature would be the ability to automatically trigger the app to change the OS level Focus modes when starting/stopping sessions (or maybe just trigger shortcuts instead). For now I use Apple shortcuts to start DND at the same time as starting a Focus timer in the app, but I would love to be able to exit DND during breaks and automatically resume DND when my break is over. Overall this is a great update and I love seeing it! The simplicity of this app makes it one of the best, and with some of the features above I think it would stand above the rest for me and instant 5 star. I am going to resubscribe for now. I know you can’t promise anything but I wanted to be sure to share my thoughts. Keep up the great work!

Can’t say enough good things about this app! I’m studying for a promotional exam currently and this app has helped me know when to take breaks but not for too long. There are plenty of options to customize and very helpful to have it on many platforms to use on the go or while at a desk. Keep up the great work with the app! If I could give one suggestion, which is actually more of a request, I would like to see a kid mode or kid options in the app that could help them see a timer for brushing their teeth or bed time reading of some sort. I also have some kids that are close to being teenagers and as they use the app it would be cool for them to be able to customize the background timer as a cool image of choice. Anyway, something to consider and explore for the future. It was just a thought during my study break. I need to get back to the books. Great app, studying is rough but much better when you have something that just tells you when to do it! Thanks again!!

I’ve been using Focus for quite some time and it’s fantastic at what it does! Highly recommend for anyone looking to track their time throughout the day or while working on various projects or tasks. App works seem less across iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and WatchOS.

I have been using this app for almost a year. I don’t think I would have gotten through first year of medical school without it. However, recently, I can’t add new tasks or adjust the time required for the tasks. The app keeps forcing me out. I removed the app and reinstalled it 3 times, and I still have the same issue. The app also fails to tell me that the timer is up!

I have loved Focus and been a fan of its design and function since 2016. I remember thinking that I didn't need a Pomodoro timer, but that I wanted to try out the app. I'm glad I did. If you find yourself needing to focus without distraction, and want to allow your self. Some breaks in between focused sets of work, look no further. This application has a great watch app, iPhone, iPad, and Mac counterparts. The Team has really done a great job with this update! You can drag OmniFocus task right into it, or use their "Add to Focus" Share Sheet feature in Things, for example. This way you can set aside time to focus on your important tasks for the day. Keep up the great work.

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I love this app, but recently it became unreliable in terms of sending break and focus notifications on time. I will only continue using this app once it’s fixed.

I like this app but I would love to be able to see my activity for the day, not just the month!

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Is there a way to edit your start or end time if neede? Sometimes I May forget to start the task once I start doing it. Or I forget to end it whI am done.

It’s strange that the app stops after each break. I find that lazy side tries to exploit this by taking a longer break or by simply forgetting about the timer altogether— to far too much of an “out.” There should at least be an option in settings that allows the user to set the app so that the work session begins automatically following each break. It would also be nice if the breaks had a distinct sounding tick so that they could easily be distinguished and so that you can always know whether you are working or on break.

Very basic but integrated with the apple ecosystem

I don't know how I subscribe for yearly. Okay let me say it's my fault. As soon as I realize that and it doesn’t work for me, I tried to canceled it. But there was no way to contact you guys. So, you rub my $45. 😔

I’ve found this to be the best timer tool since it syncs across devices.

The lock-screen widget / apple watch complication are generally broken. The widget shows a progress bar that seems to sync but the timing does not move. The complication straight up doesn’t work or is out of sync (showing break when a focus session is in progress, or just a white bar)

Sweet app

Unless I’m an idiot user (it’s just a timer really) I couldn’t even start a session without subscribing. So how is this a free app exactly?

I’ve been using this app for years with the basic timer functions. Now it’s completely unusable unless you pay for the subscription. Ridiculous - deleting the app and finding something else

loved the app for simplicity but the new watch app creates extra lag time when i just need to quickly start and stop cycles

Logging over midnight seems to generate bad data.

I understand developers should make money, and I would be happy to pay a one-time fee for the basic features that used to be completely free. But I’m not going to be paying an ongoing subscription for the basic pomodoro timer feature that I need and a bunch of features that I would never use.

This app really lives up to its name: it helps me to focus, with timed work blocks and rest blocks. Also, I love that it syncs between all of my devices, so that I can start it on my computer, leave my office for a coffee break, and the timer continues on my watch and phone. Recently after two years of perfect functioning, I had a small glitch between devices. I emailed the support team and they responded in minutes. Very helpful, friendly, and resolves my problem. So, I was back focusing in no time. Thanks Focus team!