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
It is literally my app of the year with sooo many aesthetic design of planet growing with me while I am trying to decrease my screen time and tracking my input on personal project.A few suggestions:1) show all planet & variation for collectors ! When I read the text that each planet seeds have evolution variation. I would love to see what others ones that I have not collected2) I would love a widget to show statistic on focus hour for today; or I can show how many hours I have done for multiple projects with the planet shown. I think it will greatly motivate me.
MAJESTIC AS EACH PLANET!!!
charikliajm
This app is beautiful in every possible dimension of space and time. On one hand it taps into my reptilian motivation and makes me excited to sit on my desk. On the other, as a writer I cannot express the immense joy I feel after bringing my focus to an end and reading the gorgeous writing that weaves the tale of my planet’s evolution. The care and love that went into the making of this app is so greatly appreciated for it really makes my day and inspires a writing itch in me, just like all other works of art I encounter!
Beautiful app
A/A/D
It really does help with focusing and motivating, I would strongly recommend it if you struggle with procrastination like I do. The planets are such a cute feature, and I love the fact that it explains what has happened to the planet after you have focused.
So motivating
BSUEMSBSHEIWNBS
I actually really love this app; I prefer it to the other focus apps as it’s simple and is not laggy at all (looking at you Flora). Only downside is the amount of micro transactions for things that are available in other focus apps. For example, getting the premium version to simply get a countdown or breakdown statistics on how much you’ve done, which other apps do free of charge. Other than that, I’d use this over them anyway.
[New] "All" section on the Stats page
[New] Overview data displayed in the menu
[Optimization] Stats page performance
[Fix] Directional issue when rotating planets in landscape timer mode
[Fix] Widget navigation issue with special characters in star system names
[Fix] Stats screenshot getting stuck in some cases
[Fix] Display issues with some stats charts
[Fix] UI display issue in landscape timer mode on lower system versions
[Fix] Rose Planet display issue
[Fix] Other bugs and UI issues
Terms of Use: https://byland.work/exocus/terms-en.html
Support: exocus@byland.work
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Recent Updates
v1.7.0
[New] Comprehensive upgrade to statistics!
[New] Support for landscape mode during focus sessions on mobile
[Optimization] Support for binding Apple ID to email account
[Optimization] Support for toggle settings for haptic feedback
[Fix] Login expiration related issues
[Fix] Added missing translations for all languages
[Fix] Focus sessions not syncing to Apple Health
[Fix] Other bugs and UI issues
Version 1.7.2
The developer, Byland Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., 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
Byland Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Size
84.2 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
