BFT - Bear Focus Timer 4+

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.

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!

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