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Flow - Focus & Pomodoro Timer 4+
Concentration at work & study
Yugen GmbH
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
"Mary Poppins of pomodoro apps. 'Practically perfect in every way.'" - ronanpinto
Join hundreds of thousands of happy users enjoying this simple way to stay focused and productive. Use Flow and get things done.
Flow is a tiny but mighty app that helps you working on a task, studying for school or simply keeping focus without being distracted for a certain amount of time. Flow divides your workflow into sections with defined breaks and thereby enables you to stay focused easily. This method is scientifically proven to be efficient in increasing your focus and motivation while reducing stress. The use of a pomodoro timer can increase your productivity significantly.
I always use Flow when ...
... having to concentrate
... working on a task
... studying for an exam
... developing a project
... coding all night long
... in Home Office
Benefits of this Technique
• More Focus and Concentration
• Increased Productivity
• Less Stress and Better Health
• Better Management of Interruptions
• Keeping High Motivation Levels
• Reinforcing Determination
Features
• Pomodoro timer with work intervals and breaks
• Block apps and websites to prevent distractions
• Fullscreen break to force short relaxations
• Overview your completed sessions
• iCloud sync
• Right-click the menu bar timer for quick activation
• Global keyboard shortcuts
• Optional desktop notifications
• Minimalistic design with no dock icon
• Compatible with Dark Mode
• Compatible with all modern macOS versions
FLOW PRO
The basic version of Flow is free to use forever. You can upgrade to Flow PRO within the app if you want to unlock certain additional features, such as custom durations and session counts, CSV export, calendar sync, and more.
Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period through your iTunes account. For more information, see our Terms of Use at flowapp.info/terms.
YOU MATTER TO US!
We want to make Flow even better! Please give us your honest feedback in order to help us fix bugs and improve the app. We will update Flow regularly based on your feedback. Thank you!
ABOUT US
Yugen is a small independent developer studio based in Frankfurt, Germany. Our team is devoted to making great apps that we want to use ourselves. We strive to create products that help people in their everyday life with intuitive user experiences and minimalistic design.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions or problems, feel free to write us an email. We offer awesome support and love to help!
support@flowapp.info
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What’s New
Version 3.1.0
Hello everyone! Today's update includes various new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
NEW: Dedicated settings view
NEW: Global keyboard shortcuts are now customizable
NEW: Option to adjust volume of ticking sound
NEW: Option to adjust volume of notification sound
NEW: Redesigned cycle indicator
NEW: Celebration animation for cycle completion
NEW PRO: Option to open a Flow mini window
TWEAK: Make opening the app after running the toggle timer intent optional
TWEAK: Add close window button to fullscreen break
TWEAK: Show skip break button on pending break with commitment mode enabled
FIX: Session title now properly truncates
FIX: Window now hides when session starts via notification and 'Hide window when timer starts' is enabled
FIX: Fullscreen break no longer stays visible when skipping via the main window
FIX: Start/stop button now takes the app accent color instead of the system accent color
FIX: Right-click on menu bar icon no longer pauses session with commitment mode enabled
FIX: Next button in advanced controls no longer opens fullscreen break
FIX: Global keyboard shortcuts now work correctly
If you have any questions, let us know at support@flow.app. If you want to thank our team, please write a review or recommend Flow to your friends!
Ratings and Reviews
Surprisingly good, almost life-changing
So I had problems getting accustomed to it first, but in time, I found myself truly changing the way I work and view work. Or anything that requires a lot of time and dedication, for that matter.
My problem with ADHD brain is that I tend to forget time. I can't really "feel" time the same way I suppose most do, so I've always had the problem of either working 8 hours straight with no breaks and getting extremely tired and weak suddenly (didn't drink water, eat, etc.), OR with more tedious and off-putting tasks I would work something like 10 minutes and take a break, thinking I just did a nice hour of work.
The thing that eventually pushed me past the "getting-used-to" part, was finding Raycast had an extension for it, and that's been amazing. The menubar icon with the second click start-stop is just excellent, and it's just aesthetically pleasing in my bartender setup, which makes it nice and somehow inviting, even, to use.
The best part of this app is that it gets out of your way. It's not like those confusingly configurable pomodoro apps or such, that have huge application windows with almost unnecessary GUI to confuse the experience. This is just perfectly subtle, it mostly lives in my menubar and I control it mostly with Raycast. Even if I do use the GUI to operate it (like skipping or whatnot), it's just a perfectly nicely-sized little window, with nothing unnecessary in it, just press the skip arrow or next phase, and forget it extists as anything other than an assistant that reminds me with a big green screen when to have a pause and chill a bit. Or return to work. It's just nice to use.
This is a perfect UX for this kind of app, and the way it has extensions in some other UX and QoL-improving apps such as Raycast just makes it downright perfect (for me, anyway). I don't know if these integrations/whatever are official, or if the app has a cli api for example that they make use of, but be it as it may, it's great!
If you've found traditional pomodoro or other time-managing widgets and such too bulky or confusing or "heavy", you know, then I would encourage giving Flow a show.
The only thing I truly miss, is syncing the state of Flow between devices. As it is, my phone and my ipad both have their own Flow stuff, and so does my macbook. I mostly work with the macbook, but if, on a break, I go for example for a walk, it'd be immensely useful to have my phone alert me when the break is over so I can hurry back and get to it.
If such feature exists, I haven't found it. But this is the one single thing I am "lacking" with this app. Everything else is almost like I'd designed it for myself. It's just nice to use, it's so pragmatic, and it really does what it says on the tin, without getting on your way.
So as a suggestion to the dev(s), I would encourage exploring a way to sync the state, maybe it can be done via iCloud, it doesn't have to be exactly real-time, it would suffice, for me anyway, to sync the alerts (ends of phases), which always tend to have at least 10 minutes to sync (for me, depends how you config the times of course), so that would seem sufficient even for something slow and not intended for real-time sync, like iCloud. But maybe just give us a chance to define endpoints with simple REST api or something, set the urls in the settings, then have the app check them x minutes and fetch/merge/sync any changes they receive to the state they hold locally. It doesn't have to be provided by the app, it just would be nice to get a very simple (as in "just works") configuration option to set an api root url or specific endpoints for specific actions, so we may self-host it at least.
But maybe it is somewhere hidden in the app alraedy, though I doubt it.
But this app is great. It is downright life-changing for someone who's struggled with finding any actually bearable, sustainable UX for something like this.
This is it.
Developer Response ,
WOW! Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We really appreciate you taking the time to share your detailed feedback! We're so glad to hear that Flow has been helpful for you.
We definitely plan to implement the option to sync the timer and current session progress across devices in the future. Thanks for your input!
— Lea from the development team 💚
Great app
Helps me with productivity
Developer Response ,
Hey! Thanks for your 5-star review! We're thrilled to hear that Flow helps you be more productive.
— Lea from the development team 💚
Helps with ADHD
Wonderful app! Waiting to get Siri Shortcuts support
Developer Response ,
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your kind feedback! We'll add support for Siri Shortcuts in the near future, so stay tuned!
— Lea from the development team 💚
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Information
- Provider
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Yugen GmbH has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 314570647
- Address
- Eugen-Kaufmann-Str. 4 60438 Frankfurt am Main Germany
- Phone Number
- +49 15566043022
- hello@yugen.design
- Size
- 10.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.2 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.2 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018-2024 Yugen GmbH
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly PRO Subscription 1,49 €
- Annual PRO Subscription 12,99 €
- Lifetime Pro Access 29,99 €
Supports
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Family Sharing
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