Unleash Your Productivity with Focus Hero - your Focus, Productivity, and Study Timer!
Combining a pomodoro productivity timer with a motivating RPG to help achieve your goals: study better, conquer distraction, and crush procrastination
YOUR JOURNEY:
- Complete pomodoro focus sessions to build productive habits
- As you conquer your goals, your hero levels up, finds loot, and earns Focus Energy
- Spend Focus Energy to explore a growing RPG
- Built in a game engine with old school pixelart, you can:
- Explore a 2D platforming adventure
- Battle enemies
- Save allies from Lethargloom
- Cultivate your forest with 80 fabulous flora
...but all gamification is locked behind hours of focus time and concentration. Finally, escape game addiction, phone addiction, and distraction using gamification to help stay focused on your goals!
Whether working, studying, or just being present, Focus Hero is your life coach, helping avoid distraction, manage distraction symptoms, and stay focused on your goals
FEATURES TO LOVE:
Aesthetic pomodoro timer with ambient sounds for study, work, and mindful focus sessions
Regular rewards help with motivation and alleviate distraction symptoms - a great tool to help minds stay focused
STRICT pomodoro: Block other apps and reduce phone addiction for bonus XP
OFFLINE mode: pomodoro productivity timer works offline including local notifications and alarms
Adventure: Motivation from RPG gamification, loot, planting flora in your forest, and exploring
CONNECT WITH US
As a solo developer, I need your feedback! Contact me directly at focusheroapp@gmail.com
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I’ve tried countless apps meant to motivate you and improve your productivity. This is the only one that has worked from day one. The little hit of dopamine you get for finishing your focus session on category of task you choose definitely has worked like nothing else. Finishing a focus session grants you xp in what ever attribute you choose to level up with your hero as well as grants you 3 random drops of items or gold plus focus energy. Items change your hero’s look and stats, and gold can be spent on buying a nicer home. There has been feedback about more uses for gold and I’m sure that will be implemented at some point. Between sessions you can enter adventure mode, where what you can do is limited by your focus energy. Save a character, unlock an artifact, grow some plants, open up new sections of the world, fight in trials, all of these require focus energy. This ends up motivating you to do more focus sessions. The trials are what really make me want to level up my character. The first trial is very difficult, and to even attempt it you’ll need to train your hero. The classic game loop of “play”, meaning doing more and longer focus sessions, and earn rewards that you can spend and use to strengthen and customize your character, is an addicting one. It’s why basically every game you can play nowadays rewards players for playing the game. It becomes addicting, but this time you’re going to be addicted to focusing on the task at at hand.
Great as is, and brimming with potential
Esteban y Andrea
I’ve been using this a few days and I really love it. It’s a great idea and well-executed. Totally worth using in its current state, but with some further refinement could be even better. I see the developer is still actively working on it! That’s great.I’d like to see less strict adherence to the pomodoro style optionally. I track things like workouts in other apps so if I could add them here manually that would be amazing. Its not great to have to start a timer here, open another app, start tracking there, and make sure the pomodoro timer resolves correctly and I’ve pre-estimated the time correctly. I find myself trying to work around the pomodoro aspect of the app at times. It would also be nice to suffer a penalty for ending early as opposed to no credit (optionally) and be able to get some credit for being focused longer than the original timer (again I find myself trying to work around the timer when I focus longer than expected, sometimes having gone 30m over, I then just start a new timer for 30m to get the credit, but I’m actually not even doing that task anymore (because I didn’t set the new timer as soon as the old timer finished).So in a nutshell, maybe a set of tweaks that allow you to break out of pomodoro mode if desired? I do think having strict pomodoro as the default behavior is good though, I totally get it.
Developer Response
Hey Esteban, thanks so much and glad you're finding it useful! There are a lot of potential options ahead for adding more productivity / tracking features, but it's a tricky balance between adding more while still keeping the app simple and intuitive to use. One feature in development is a 'stopwatch' style counter which doesn't require pre-setting a timer, but instead counts up and provides increasing rates of XP the longer that you focus. Always looking for new suggestions though, so any other ideas feel free to let me know at focusheroapp@gmail.com
I honestly really like this!
Maxsmittyy
I have a few criticisms and suggestions about this app but overall I really like it and I do find it helpful. Usually when I pick up an app that claims to help with adhd by making lists or giving you motivation I just don’t find them motivating. I like that I can record what I’m doing and get a prize for it, I like the cute art and I like customizing the hero. My few suggestions would be… the subscription doesn’t really feel worth it, due to the only thing you receive is the pets and expanded adventure mode, but I’m sure the features will be expanded. I don’t like that the pets are locked behind a paywall, but that’s just because I absolutely can’t afford it and I have a lot of coins I want to use. My second suggestion is adding a daily log in reward, such as coins, or a level upgrade in a certain category like defense. My third suggestion is that with the skills, really cool feature, but when it comes to the hero customization there’s not much you can get unless you work on defense and meditation, and the others don’t play as big of a part. I would like if they did play a bigger part! Genuinely this app has helped me out a lot it gives me something fun to think about and do once I’m done with my tasks for the day, and so far I’ve been using it every day and I’m enjoying it! :) thank you developers!!
The best one
Miss_magalina
Out of all the “motivator” apps I’ve tried, this is the best one. It actually helps motivate you internally instead of just externally. You want to progress because you want to see what will happen next, not just because you get a “Good Job!” There are so many activities and things to upgrade that it keeps you wanting to improve ur character so you can see what’s next. Its annoying to start all over so the motivation to upgrade is high. When you get focus points, it gives just enough to do something, but is also not hard to save up. The story gives “Hollow Knight” vibes but without the cancer. I find myself thinking about the game whenever I’m doing something else, and it’s weirdly helped me get up and clean or make some food, even when I forget to track it. The other reason why it’s different is because it sets a timer. It takes away the stress of doing the thing until it’s done. It’s more helpful for starting. You can also pause the timer, and if you decide to take more than 10 minutes or so, you can restart it and still get additional prizes! Also I have a tiny baby cat following me around during the game too. The game is free when they could charge you, so it seems like they really worked hard to help people with this game. 10/10 would recommend
Developer Response
Hey, thanks so much, it really means a lot and I'm so glad the app has helped you :) If you have any questions or suggestions you'd like to see added feel free to get in touch with me at focusheroapp@gmail.com
Major Focus Hero Overhaul
This release marks the largest update in Focus Hero's history. The app has been rebuilt from scratch in an entirely new engine, to support huge improvements in performance, stability, and a wide range of new features.
In this update:
- All focus sessions are now live interactive scenes, watch your hero fight enemies, grow plants or woodmine tree-ores in real time, with a complex combat and training system.
- Updated adventure more, trials, and expanded chapters for exploration
- Huge overhaul to productivity systems with enhanced Tasks, Habits, and Goal tracking including: Repeating tasks, Habits trackable by time & repetition; quick-add tasks, goals trackable by time or activity; and a wide range of new systems in heavily-improved for real day-to-day productivity use
- New town square with shops available to purchase expanded range of items
- A new skill- woodmining. Mine from the ancient ore-trees and trade refined ores for equipment
- New damage types - 8 new damage types on rare gleam-weapons: spark, frost, ember, venom, blood, arcane, seraph, and gloom
- Major improvements to stability, safe saving of hero progress and new cloud sync options
and many more!
This is a huge overhaul so if you find any early bugs please don't hesitate to reach out to me at focusheroapp@gmail.com and let me know
Thanks,
DXT
Version 0.9.49
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Seller
Focus Hero Ltd
Size
182.5 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
