Planet Evolution · Painless Focus
Exocus is a pixel-art, gamified focus timer app. Here, your focus is no longer boring, repetitive, or meaningless because every moment of your focus will transform your very own planet.
Do you struggle with staying motivated when you commit to doing something valuable in the long run, like learning new words, practicing an instrument, working out, or mastering a new language? Initially, you're full of enthusiasm, but soon, your passion wanes. Memorizing words becomes a chore, the instrument is neglected, workouts turn into a burden, and progress in the new language stalls...
You start doubting yourself: “Maybe I just don’t have what it takes to stick with long-term commitments.”
That’s not true! Let us explain the real reasons.
● Lack of Immediate Rewards:
You understand the long-term value of these tasks, but how much does this half-hour of focus matter right now?
● Repetition Leads to Boredom:
When the initial novelty wears off, the repetitive nature of the task can make you feel bored and tired.
● Overly Negative Focus:
Focusing on what you haven't accomplished rather than acknowledging what you have done can lead to negative self-evaluation and loss of motivation.
Let Exocus Help You!
====== Exocus Solutions ======
Exocus is a gamified focus timer that visualizes your concentration as a planet's evolution, helping you achieve long-term, pain-free focus.
● Emotional Design and Sense of Meaning
After each focus session, you’ll see the story of what happened to your planet during that time. Even five minutes of focus equals 38.53 million years of evolution for your planet, so your focus is crucial. Want to raise the stakes? You can enable “Hardcore Mode,” where failing to focus might cause your planet to be destroyed!
● Stage-Based Incentives
Short-term Incentives: After each focus session, the planet’s landscape changes and tells you its story.
Medium-term Incentives: After several hours of focus, the planet undergoes more significant transformations, like forming magma, oceans, and land.
Long-term Incentives: After around ten hours of focus, the planet completes its evolution. You can then add it to your star system, with each project corresponding to a star system, showcasing your long-term accumulation in that project.
● Continuous Freshness
We offer hundreds of unique planet designs, satisfying your curiosity and desire to collect with constant surprises. See a planet's full appearance only after evolving it through focused efforts. Earn Stardust coins by focusing to unlock new planet seeds, motivating continuous concentration.
====== What Makes Exocus Special? ======
● Meticulously Crafted Design
Exocus uses a unique pixel art style, maintaining simplicity while incorporating delightful little Easter eggs for you to discover. We believe the beauty of Exocus can bring joy, which will ultimately translate into more focused time.
● Fun Game Elements
Exocus embraces gamified design in a bold yet restrained and professional manner. We hope the game elements help you enjoy focusing, and we also care deeply about your ability to truly focus. We’ve eliminated anything that could distract you because we genuinely want to focus on achieving long-term goals with you.
● Flexible Focus Modes
Exocus supports countdown timers, stopwatch mode, and the Pomodoro technique. In the Pomodoro technique, you can flexibly set focus and break durations and specify longer breaks after several focus cycles.
● Convenient Project Management
Each project corresponds to a planet. You can track different categories of focus time with projects and quickly switch between projects on the home screen by swiping left or right.
● Personalized Statistics
Based on your focus data, we provide personalized charts to help you understand your focus patterns and stay motivated to maintain consistent focus.
Terms of Use: https://byland.work/exocus/terms-en.html
Support: exocus@byland.work
This app is nearly perfect as it is now, but there’s one feature I miss from other apps. This app has a Focus Mode so you can’t open other apps while growing your planet, I love this feature but I wish it was possible to create a whitelist of apps that are allowed. Sometimes I need to check my email or use another app during the focus session. You can pause the session, but that doesn’t really help if the task is something that needs to be done on your phone and takes a long time.That being said, everything else about the app from its style to its permanent membership is amazing, and I’m very happy with it as someone with ADHD who struggles to focus.
Worth it, but one thing that frustrates me
Iminurwalls<3
I have adhd and autism, and this app has helped me so much. It’s motivating and fun to watch your planet evolve, and it doesn’t even have any ads. Although some features require a subscription, a lot of it is still free. Definitely would recommend, it’s the most fun and best focus app I’ve tried yet. Just a small thing, when I hyperfocus for long periods of time, like when I write or read for hours on end it doesn’t count for the time I actually spent. For example, if I spent 6 hours reading, that would count for 3 stage progressions according to basic math. But it only counts for one stage progression, which I find extremely unfair because I spent so much time focusing in hopes of evolving my planet further. Everything else is perfectly fine, it’s just this one thing.
Developer Response
Thank you for your love for Exocus. The feature you mentioned—adding only one stage in six hours—is actually an intentional design. It’s meant to encourage a healthy work-life balance and remind users to avoid excessive fatigue. Even taking a short break to stand up, stretch, or look out the window is beneficial.
Great App
CrazyCatLady10101
Hey, thanks for making this app. I bought the Pass right away and really enjoyed the artwork, the idea of locking in to witness a universe evolve and many other things. I have a few feature requests that I would love to see implemented:1. Something like a daily login mission. I used to use the forest focus timer and their daily challenge feature is what makes me feel the most motivated. I feel the pull to do something everyday in order to receive the rewards from the app. I would appreciate a feature like this in Exocus.2. I haven't been using Exocus for very long, but there does not seem to be a built-in functionality to share the content/timer records on social media. To be fair, I personally do not post in social that often but I think a feature like that will help with promoting this App, especially since the artwork is so great.3. I would appreciate a desktop version of the App. I don't like to have to interact with my phone while I am focusing. Also since I do most of my work in the laptop, it would be best to have everything in one place.Thanks again for the App.
Developer Response
Thank you for your recognition and suggestions. These are truly valuable ideas and thoughtful considerations, which we will seriously evaluate for our future plans. Wishing you a happy New Year and happy focusing!
Cool focus app
Ak_47a
I just needed an app to record/track my focus with a timer when I want to lock in. This apps free version gives just that, it’s kind of gamified, when you end the focus you want to see what happens to the planet which makes it more rewarding. I probably focused for 2-3 overall more then if I used another app. Note to the devs: if you’re reading this can you please add other planets, it gets repetitive visually how every planet I do is just remodeled earth. You could like, add gas giants or smaller planets or something more creative, you know space is pretty fascinating. And closing it all off thanks for the app that doesn’t put the subscription everywhere, I like it
[Fix] Incorrect "Mastered" classification for the Rabbit Planet in the Encyclopedia
[Fix] Statistics heatmap display issue
[Fix] Issue on lower version devices where Encyclopedia cards overlap the planet
Terms of Use: https://byland.work/exocus/terms-en.html
Support: exocus@byland.work
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Recent Updates
v1.5.0
[New] Planet Encyclopedia System!
[New] Planet name meanings (viewable in the Encyclopedia)
[Optimization] Full display of heatmap on Statistics page
[Optimization] Star system performance
[Optimization] Added confirmation dialog when deleting projects with existing records
[Fix] Page loop navigation issue
[Fix] Planet lagging issue in some cases
[Fix] Occasional issue where projects could not be deleted
[Fix] Home page white screen issue
[Fix] Corrected certain planet seed names based on research
[Fix] Fixed English translations
[Fix] Other bugs and UI issues
Version 1.5.1
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Information
Seller
Byland Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Size
82.6 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
