FocusPomo · Pomodoro Timer 4+

Love the app

Love the app! Been using it around 2 weeks now and it makes it much easier for me to focus on tasks that don’t necessarily have end dates/times. I’ve always struggled with ongoing things like cleaning or responding to work emails but this helps me give tasks like these a finite amount of time as opposed to feeling like they’re looking over me indefinitely. Instead of being like “oh no I have 100 emails I need to get through” I can instead just be like “I am spending the next 25 minutes on emails.” I get so much more done with so much less existential dread. And it gives me a sense of accomplishment that just powering through part my inbox doesn’t. I also like that the app doesn’t force you to shut everything down to use it. I’ve used apps like that in the past and found them helpful but not the right fit for me.

Great app

This app is great for the standard pomodoro user, and i love watching my tomatoes collect on the main screen after each session. It is very satisfying and motivating! There are some features i think should be added. Under the pomodoro technique section of the settings, there are options to change the length of the short and long breaks, but no way to change the length of the focus sessions. This would make the app alot more customizable and usable by more people for more purposes. I also find the labeling confusing for the focus session settings. The default setting of “3” i believe has 3 short breaks before the long break but the wording is odd and confusing and should offer a description or change to reflect its true meaning.

I know more color themes are in development now but the devs should consider maybe different fruits/characters to accumulate on your screen as well if at all possible. overall, this app is my personal favorite for tracking my use of the pomodoro method and i hope to watch the app continue to grow and expand.

New feature

I love Pomo so far, but I would personally love it more if we had the ability to customize our Pomo colors. Overall, I think the functionality of the app is great. The user interface is very easily usable. There’s a solid foundation & design for this app. I just love the idea of being able to customize our background colors or tomato colors maybe even the timer colors would be awesome too.

update in response to pomodoro team:
so initially i just liked the idea of changing the color of tomatoes simply for fun, but now that you’ve mentioned it as a way of having a visual breakdown of how time is spent & the different tasks we’ve achieved throughout the day, i love it because you could look back at it and see how much you were able to get done. & i also enjoy the idea of the actual timer background being able to have a different color, so instead of it being light orange tinged with gray numbers the background could be pink or green etc.
that aspect is more so just for aesthetics because i know me personally, i love anything that can be aesthetically pleasing, & a lot of times when i see reviews of apps on productivity on social media platforms something i always hear them mention is how they like the personalization features an app can offer.
little add-ins like these would have me feeling more motivated to log my productivity throughout the day. thank you for hearing out my thoughts! you guys are doing great.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for the kind words—we’re really happy you’re enjoying FocusPomo! Your suggestion about customizing tomato, background, and timer colors is fantastic, and we’d love to explore it further.

Just to make sure we fully understand your idea:
Do you imagine using different colors to represent different types of Pomodoros (like work, study, rest, etc.), so it becomes easier to visually reflect what you’ve spent your time on?

We’d love to know what your use case is—are you hoping this will help you better reflect on how you spend your time, or make it easier to optimize your schedule and energy throughout the day?

Your insights are incredibly valuable, and we’re always open to making FocusPomo more customizable and helpful!