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.
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
My studying revolves around this
Repairedpizza
I really really like how this app looks and functions. it’s very cut down, including what is needed to get you going but not enough to spend time on. Trust me, after like 300 hours if i could futz about customizing planet exteriors id do nothin else. The visuals are lovely and unique, including especially fantastic looking widgets for your home screen! Theres a small little slot machine to pull for planet seeds, and it’s very limited. it makes it a truly once a month activity, and feels really really earned.The little descriptions that appear when you finish a session are all varied and have small little things that make you want to read them, but without pushing you to just get the time in and over with.This app has been tuned to help you get lots done over a long time.My only critique is that the microtransactions are advertised very attractively. I haven’t had the cash to pay for it for a few months, it won’t change now, i’m honestly real sorry. I’ll support when I can though!
[Fix] Translation issues
Terms of Use: https://byland.work/exocus/terms-en.html
Support: exocus@byland.work
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Recent Updates
v1.4.5
[New] Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese language support
[Fix] Added missing translations in the English version
[Fix] Timer notification issue under specific circumstances
[Fix] Other bugs and UI issues
Version 1.4.6
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Information
Seller
雯莉 张
Size
80.7 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
