Focus To-Do: Focus Timer&Tasks Ratings and Reviews

Listen, I've used a lot of productivity apps. Like...all of them. And, this one is my favorite. The pomodoro feature is so well done, and with background and audio options, the tasks options are top of the line with an inbox and date or "someday" options and possibilities for tags. There are project spaces. And, all of it ties into a gamified feature that you can be all about or totally ignore- whatever your vibe is. I personally am all about it being like a forest tamagotchi. Just adds a little dash of fun to a productivity app. I love Habitica because it has features for setting up tasks that happen on specific days as well as a regular tasks lists and habits page and gamifies it with an Avatar. But, this app is more more focused and with more advanced features that keep everything streamlined and it syncs to your watch and other devices. And, the option for a lifetime purchase... this is the app of my dreams and I can't believe it's take. Me ten years to find it. Thank you.

Bought and paid a lifetime subscription. App is still the same…broken for my intents and purposes. Here is what I need: 1) Tasks under “today” to be custom sorted 2) The pomodoro estimated time to be based off of the pomodoro lengths and the breaks for the day. (It maybe is, but it might be off of past pomodoros…not sure) 3) Upcoming pomodoro lengths to be adjusted under the settings. Currently, I have to go into every single pomodoro. That way, I can quickly put tasks into my day, organize them and see how long they’ll take. If I need to adjust down the Pomodoro lengths to fit my schedule, then I should be able to easily. Then hit play and have the Pomodoros start and I just follow along for the 8 hours of work or whatever. Perhaps the length on some Pomodoros could be set…but I prefer that there is a Pomodoro length that gets set for the task…”Pull from settings” or “As Set” or something. Without these capabilities, this app is lost to me. One final thing. There appears to be a lot of connection or something going on with the pomodoro screen now. I get headaches from data transmission. Not sure what’s happening here, but please stop spying if that’s what it is. I never got headaches from the main screen before. I don’t even know what’s happening…is there data being transmitted or usage being pulled constantly now?

First, I really do love the app as is, but I also see how much potential it has for people who are struggling with ADHD, or any other focus based disorder. Big wins: gamification of task complete. This is huge for someone who gets distracted easily. We need something to come back to and be excited by. I love that you can use hashtags, although i wish that you could add a label to a task simply by adding a #label within the task description. That would be a HUGE win.

Second opportunity for growth I believe is the lack of interface options when it comes to your desktop version. I love that everything syncs, but wish it was more universal for UI and Ux. I love that you can filter based on so many different things, but I wish you could search for a task via a search bar. And last but not least, try marketing on tik tok. You have an amazing app that is so user friendly, but still complex and simple. 10/10. But I hope that you keep making improvements. Because it seems like it is 3 years behind while being so ahead and unique.

I’ve been using this for about a week and it has been so helpful and motivational to see where I’m spending my time. I love the different projects and tasks. The charts it self generates are colorful and easy to understand. It makes me feel proud to see what I’ve accomplished. I wish there were a way to bulk export the raw data in spreadsheet form, just because I’m a bit of a data nerd and would love to run my own analyses on my productivity and time spent on certain activities. Also, I read someone else’s review and you can manually add in things that you forgot to start the Pomodoro for. You just have to go to the completed section and tap on the time that you want to add an event for. It’s easy to customize with different task lengths too (though I think no matter the time length you stretch it to, it will still only count as one Pomodoro in the averages and summary section). Five stars have already recommended it to all my friends and I’ll confidently recommend it to you too!

I have a tendency to go on productivity app sprees as I feel I am constantly trying to find tools to help me stay focused especially since I am ADHD. It helps me breaking my tasks into smaller parts and I have noticed that I am actually more productive since finding this app and implementing it with my other apps.

I did pay for the lifetime access as like many of these apps to be able to organize the way many people like you have to either sign up monthly or yearly with this one being a rare exception being lifetime access (and it was on sale! #winning) so I had to take advantage!

It did have an issue with upgrading after I paid for it but i was able to get into contact with the developers and they activated it for me with no issue! Like I said love this app so far!

The app has lots of good aspects but falls short of great. On MacBook it sometimes freezes and needs to be force quit. The promodoro timer sometimes disappears from the top taskbar on Mac when switching between different windows and apps as it runs in the background, and there is no ability to have a visual cue for the timer going off instead of a sound cue (e.g. if you aren’t using any sound) such as going full screen when the time goes off like in for example the competing app, Flow. The app also has limited settings for customization, like switching from 24h clock time to 12h clock time if desired. It would also be great if you could log multiple pomodoro’s retroactively in terms of your chosen base pomodoro time, e.g. logging 50 minutes of focused time would be automatically summarized as completing “two 25 minute pomodoros”. It’s not as useful to count # of pomodoro’s done each day if some pomodoro are 1 hour and some are 25 min, etc.

While there is always room for improvement, this app is as perfect as it can get. Just wish the Mac app and the Google Chrome extension had the same features as the iOS apps. It is missing two vital features that make the iOS apps shine, dark mode and calendar events view. I could have forgiven the lack of dark mode in hopes it would be added in an update. I can’t ignore the missing calendar events feature as that was the reason I paid for the lifetime subscription. Posted a premature review on the Mac App Store that I need to go back and change since I didn’t notice events was missing. Got a Mac? Use Google Chrome? Windows? Don’t bother downloading for those if this features are important to you, just stick with the iOS/Mobile versions.

This app is great which is the first time I got one here this is the first time I ever go a review on the first day I downloaded it I checked it out and I saw that it was managing time. I Offaly think this app can have some improvements. So for now I will leave and four star I would’ve gave you a five star it would’ve let me Just go straight to the calendar and let me plan out everything single minute of my time. Because I’m strictly required to use my time wisely I have to plan everything single minute. For example I plan when I eat drink sleep. so for instance I only have 10 seconds to drink a sip of water. 30 minutes eat,10 minutes and 13 seconds of a break from work and 4 hours of studying straight no bathroom no nothing, then 10 hours of sleep. You might be like “what in the world is this?”, your answer is it’s an review, that’s what this is. I’m basically describing.

Great app, love the scorecard grows a forest, grams of sunlight scenario. I also like the fact that you can make one time payment and then use on different devices. Used to have at 5 stacks but then they started asking me to review it every time I used it, which is annoying and, since I’d already reviewed it once, a little obnoxious. Hence the loss of one star adjustment. Hopefully this bought some time with that annoying prompt. Other than that works great for me and I have adhd. The point system is cool but interface is easy to use tag etc and I really like the growing a forest grams of sunlight concept. Certainly helps to keep me on task or at least get back to it when I get distracted more than just trying on my own. Helps me keep track of how long tasks take because adhd people are notoriously bad at underestimating how long some task will take.

So, first I love and recommend this app frequently. I use it daily to help me stay on track with my work and find I can avoid brain fry and get more productively out of myself with this technique. One extremely annoying bug is that every few weeks or months, it quits working, you start the timer and it starts counting down, but then at some point in the interval it resets to “ready to work” and doesn’t count the time in your report. It does this frequently once it starts. To fix it you have to sign out of the app and then sign back in. Caveat, that also restarts your daily login streak. I was bummed when I had over a sixty day streak, which affects my daily sunlight gamification motivator boost. Still love it and am still motivated, it’s been great for my dissertation.