CATCH THE GHOST™

Name: CATCH THE GHOST™
Rating: 4.8 (46 reviews)
Author: Aeeiee, Inc.

Gamified Focus & Study Timer

Only for iPhone

Free · In‑App Purchases

46 Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Aeeiee, Inc.
Language

EN
English
Size

223.3
MB

iPhone

Tired of boring timers? Turn focus into a game. Catch the Ghost is a Pomodoro timer that helps you beat phone addiction and boost your productivity by making focus rewarding. Complete sessions, earn coins, and collect the "ghosts" of historical legends. WHAT MAKES CATCH THE GHOST UNIQUE? A FOCUS GAME, NOT JUST A TIMER: Every 25-minute session is a challenge. Stay off your phone to "catch" a ghost. Build streaks, earn XP, and level up your productivity in a way that's fun, not punitive. MATCH YOUR FOCUS TO YOUR MOOD: Feeling artistic, ambitious, or musical? Our new Moods feature lets you catch ghosts that align with how you feel, personalizing your focus journey. CLIMB THE GLOBAL LEADERBOARDS: Compete for glory! Represent your country and climb the weekly leaderboards to prove you're one of the most focused users in the world and win huge coin prizes. COLLECT HISTORICAL LEGENDS: Unlock apparitions of famous figures from history. Uncover their hidden stories, famous quotes, and artwork with every successful session. You never know who you'll catch next! DESIGNED FOR THE ADHD BRAIN: Our gentle DIGITAL HOURGLASS™ timer and flexible approach helps you find your flow without the anxiety of a traditional countdown. Perfect for deep work, studying, and managing distractions. BEAT PHONE ADDICTION: By creating a real consequence for breaking focus, our timer helps you build better habits and take back control from digital distractions. HOW IT WORKS Download for free and create an account to save your progress across all devices. Run the focus timer and start catching ghosts. If you love it, subscribe to unlock pro features! SUBSCRIPTION BENEFITS • Monthly ($4.99/month) - Unlock our full Universe of ghosts. - Access History to view your productivity stats over Day, Week, Month, and Year. - Cancel anytime. • Yearly ($34.99/year, 41% off) - Same full access to Universe & History. - First week free for new subscribers. - Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. COINS & IN-APP PURCHASES • 1000 Coins – $0.99 • 5000 Coins – $3.99 • 10000 Coins – $6.99 Use can coins to extend grace periods and recover streaks. Soon you'll be able to spend your coins in our online store! WHY AN ACCOUNT? An account ensures your ghosts, coins, and progress sync across devices and remain secure. Log in anywhere to pick up right where you left off! YOUR FOCUS QUEST AWAITS Download Catch the Ghost now and transform the way you work, study, and focus. Whether you’re a student aiming for better grades, a professional seeking deep work, or anyone looking to build a healthier relationship with their phone, our gamified Pomodoro approach will help you reach your potential. AUTO-RENEWING SUBSCRIPTIONS • Payment is charged to your iTunes account upon purchase confirmation. • Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings -> Apple ID -> Subscriptions. • Unused portions of a free trial period are forfeited upon purchase of a subscription. PRIVACY POLICY & TERMS • Privacy Policy: https://www.aeeiee.com/privacy-policy • Terms of Service (EULA): https://www.aeeiee.com/terms-of-service

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

46 Ratings

Amazing App!
07/31/2024

Circher
Pokémon for adults in the best way possible. Enjoy the design aesthetic of the pixelation, quotes, and simple and effective UI.One UX improvement: The app doesn’t provide an incentive for focus periods of longer lengths: the coins allocated for 4 30-min sessions is more than 1 2-hour session, despite them being the same amount of time. This incentives users to use these lesser focus times, making them use their phones more to set up these shorter sessions - which is counter-intuitive to the purpose of the app.As a solution, a coin multiplier for longer periods (contra: equal amount of coins by cutting longer periods of time to smaller sections) would enable users to focus for longer periods of time - and enhance the purported functionality of the app.Otherwise, great job! Love it.

Developer Response
Thanks for your feedback! As of version 1.3, we award 4x the coins for one 120-minute timer (36 coins) as we do for one 30-minute timer (9 coins). What you were describing was 1.2.2 behavior where they were the same. Please try again on 1.3 and if that isn't working for you, let us know at aeeiee.com/support. The only incentive difference now is that running four 30-minute timers gets you four apparitions, while running one 120-minute timer just gets you one apparition. This is how we incentivize several shorter timers with breaks in-between instead of one long timer. We use gamification techniques like this to promote productivity best practices and brain well-being that help our users avoid mental fatigue and burnout.
Amazing App!
07/31/2024

Circher

Pokémon for adults in the best way possible. Enjoy the design aesthetic of the pixelation, quotes, and simple and effective UI.One UX improvement: The app doesn’t provide an incentive for focus periods of longer lengths: the coins allocated for 4 30-min sessions is more than 1 2-hour session, despite them being the same amount of time. This incentives users to use these lesser focus times, making them use their phones more to set up these shorter sessions - which is counter-intuitive to the purpose of the app.As a solution, a coin multiplier for longer periods (contra: equal amount of coins by cutting longer periods of time to smaller sections) would enable users to focus for longer periods of time - and enhance the purported functionality of the app.Otherwise, great job! Love it.
Developer Response 08/02/2024
Thanks for your feedback! As of version 1.3, we award 4x the coins for one 120-minute timer (36 coins) as we do for one 30-minute timer (9 coins). What you were describing was 1.2.2 behavior where they were the same. Please try again on 1.3 and if that isn't working for you, let us know at aeeiee.com/support. The only incentive difference now is that running four 30-minute timers gets you four apparitions, while running one 120-minute timer just gets you one apparition. This is how we incentivize several shorter timers with breaks in-between instead of one long timer. We use gamification techniques like this to promote productivity best practices and brain well-being that help our users avoid mental fatigue and burnout.
Updated to four stars after hearing from the devs
08/07/2024

Kirahazen
**Update: As I hoped was true the Easter egg apparition was intended to be false. It turns out that the feature that would have marked it as being fiction hadn't rolled out yet. If after the update I feel that it's obvious that this apparition was meant to be tongue in cheek I will update to five stars. But it still rubs me wrong that some people might be able to misinterpret and think that the info was true. **I honestly thought that I was going to be coming here to write a five star review. Because I love this app. But before I decided to come and write my review I did one more focus session and I got an Easter egg apparition for Mr. Rogers, except that it was a description of being in the fighting in Vietnam. It was written as though Fred Rogers was a soldier in Vietnam and was sharing his experience. The problem with this is that Fred Rogers never served in the military. I did see that the apparition was marked as an Easter egg and I thought maybe that meant that it wasn’t true, but I couldn’t find anything marked anywhere that it was not true. So I went ahead and unlocked all of the rest of the apparitions for Mr. Rogers. There is still nothing to indicate that the Easter egg apparition is not true. I have no idea where this whole “Mr. Rogers in Vietnam" diary entry came from, but it is pure fiction and very misleading not to have it labeled as such. It baffles me that a thirty second Google could have prevented this.

Developer Response
The apparition that you caught was an Easter Egg that was a wink and a nod to a decades long urban legend about Fred Rogers being a former Navy Seal or Marine Recon Sniper.We have an “About Apparition” feature for version 1.3.1 that was delayed which would have explained via an info button ℹ️ that this quote was a joke based on that urban legend. Many of our Easter Eggs contain jokes. We also communicated this in a response to your email to us yesterday. We hope you understand and update your review accordingly. Ironically, as I write this, Apple is reviewing our version 1.3.1 which contains the “About Apparition” feature.
Updated to four stars after hearing from the devs
08/07/2024

Kirahazen

**Update: As I hoped was true the Easter egg apparition was intended to be false. It turns out that the feature that would have marked it as being fiction hadn't rolled out yet. If after the update I feel that it's obvious that this apparition was meant to be tongue in cheek I will update to five stars. But it still rubs me wrong that some people might be able to misinterpret and think that the info was true. **I honestly thought that I was going to be coming here to write a five star review. Because I love this app. But before I decided to come and write my review I did one more focus session and I got an Easter egg apparition for Mr. Rogers, except that it was a description of being in the fighting in Vietnam. It was written as though Fred Rogers was a soldier in Vietnam and was sharing his experience. The problem with this is that Fred Rogers never served in the military. I did see that the apparition was marked as an Easter egg and I thought maybe that meant that it wasn’t true, but I couldn’t find anything marked anywhere that it was not true. So I went ahead and unlocked all of the rest of the apparitions for Mr. Rogers. There is still nothing to indicate that the Easter egg apparition is not true. I have no idea where this whole “Mr. Rogers in Vietnam" diary entry came from, but it is pure fiction and very misleading not to have it labeled as such. It baffles me that a thirty second Google could have prevented this.
Developer Response 08/07/2024
The apparition that you caught was an Easter Egg that was a wink and a nod to a decades long urban legend about Fred Rogers being a former Navy Seal or Marine Recon Sniper.We have an “About Apparition” feature for version 1.3.1 that was delayed which would have explained via an info button ℹ️ that this quote was a joke based on that urban legend. Many of our Easter Eggs contain jokes. We also communicated this in a response to your email to us yesterday. We hope you understand and update your review accordingly. Ironically, as I write this, Apple is reviewing our version 1.3.1 which contains the “About Apparition” feature.
Great app!
10/10/2024

Taffazin
I love that this app incentivizes not looking at my phone! I do think that getting quicker rewards in the early stages would motivate me more to run more timers. Running 10 timers just to catch my first ghost made me slack off. Overall, the user interface is very good! I love the little ghost/avatars and quotes :) keep up the good work!
Great app!
10/10/2024

Taffazin

I love that this app incentivizes not looking at my phone! I do think that getting quicker rewards in the early stages would motivate me more to run more timers. Running 10 timers just to catch my first ghost made me slack off. Overall, the user interface is very good! I love the little ghost/avatars and quotes :) keep up the good work!
Catching Ghosts to stay off phone is worth the download.
Jun 24

Reaper89403
I caught 10 Ghosts one being one I requested to be added which was Rachel Joy Scott David was quick to research and add her to keep her spirit alive. I also caught Heath Ledger. I can't wait to see how many more I can capture. I also caught Kurt Cobain.
Catching Ghosts to stay off phone is worth the download.
Jun 24

Reaper89403

I caught 10 Ghosts one being one I requested to be added which was Rachel Joy Scott David was quick to research and add her to keep her spirit alive. I also caught Heath Ledger. I can't wait to see how many more I can capture. I also caught Kurt Cobain.

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