Turn your phone over. Leave the screen behind. Focus with Tom.
Bear Focus Timer is a simple Pomodoro timer for work, study, reading, writing, and everyday tasks. Choose a session, place your iPhone face down, and let Tom the bear keep you company while the timer runs. When focus time ends, take a break and receive an illustrated praise card.
FLIP TO FOCUS
• Choose your focus time and place your iPhone face down to begin
• Keep the screen out of sight while you work or study
• Build a small physical ritual around starting a focused session
CUSTOM POMODORO CYCLES
• Alternate focus sessions with breaks
• Adjust focus and break durations
• Choose a rhythm that fits the task in front of you
FOREST-STYLE WHITE NOISE
Add an optional nature-inspired background sound to your session. The calm audio and hand-drawn black-and-white design create a simple setting for time spent on one task.
TOM AND PRAISE CARDS
Tom is friendly, but he notices when it is time to concentrate. Complete a session to receive an illustrated praise card, then save a favorite card to Photos. Praise cards are available in English, Korean, and Japanese.
APPLE WATCH SUPPORT
Use the Apple Watch version when you want focus and break timing on your wrist. Available alerts and session behavior can vary according to your device and operating system settings.
USE IT FOR
• Study sessions and exam preparation
• Reading, writing, and creative work
• Work sprints and personal projects
• Chores or any task that benefits from a defined focus period and break
Bear Focus Timer keeps the experience straightforward: set your time, turn the phone over, focus, and take a break with Tom.
Support: BearFocusTimer@gmail.com
This app has genuinely aided my focus so much and I really recommend it. Sometimes the timer fails to start when I turn it face down and I have to try again more violently which I notice as I have the white noise on but if you didn’t use the white noise then you might not notice it hadn’t started? This may just be because my table is old and not that flat but my only wish would be that it could be slightly more sensitive to the turn. Great app.
Life changing for adult with adhd
R0sielee
This is just what I posted on Facebook immediately after I finished studying (using BFT for the first time) and it’s so honest I thought I’d just copy paste: ❗️I JUST DID nearly 4 HOURS OF STUDYING WITHOUT GETTING DISTRACTED!!!!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟(this is not an ad I’m just very excited that I could actually get my degree at this rate)Thanks to this *p a W some* (sorry not sorry) app (designed for kids but I don’t regret a penny of the £1.99 it cost). The kicker is that your phone has to be FACE DOWN else the countdown stops but it makes a satisfying vibration when you put it back down again ☺️It schedules short and long breaks (you can chose, I did 45 minute focus sessions with 5 minute short breaks and 20 minute long breaks) and doesn’t jar you out of focus with an alarm but flashes your flash a couple times and chirps (you can change this). It’s all customisable and there’s even some lovely white noise tracks you can listen to in your focus time. And you get these neat postcards which you can add a lil time stamp to, to show you actually CAN study for 3 hours 45 minutes with the right tools!
Brilliant
alex. 🍎
Great little app, simple and works well.I’ve noticed some reviews saying that the timer doesn’t always start when you place your screen down but I personally haven’t had this issue although just so you know - I have only had the app a few days so might notice this issue in the future. However, it does vibrate slightly when it starts so you will know if it doesn’t work correctly.
Sometimes doesn’t recognise when you flip phone
annanewport
First of all the vibration when your 25 minutes or whatever is over is quiet, so if you’re listening to music even quietly, you’ll probably miss it. Happened a lot for me. Secondly about 1/4 the time i flip my phone it doesn’t recognise it and doesn’t start the timer.. very frustrating. When i’ve noticed i’ve tried turning over my phone slowly and faster etc but still nothing It’s a really nice design though and the slides with encouragement one are so cute! I would highly recommend it if it worked all the time it’s a shame
Usability improvements and bug fixes
Version 16.4
The developer, EUIHYUNG JUNG, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Provider
EUIHYUNG JUNG
Size
172 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
