FocusPomo · Pomodoro Timer 4+

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.

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.

So this is a new app, and it’s been great so far. Has a ton of potential, and I’m happy to use it in its current state, but here is some stuff I would like

1. After a session ends, option to break *or* transfer to stopwatch mode, for when you aren’t quite ready. Then you can just break when you’re ready
2. Way to pause the pomo. I get that this isn’t really the Pomo method or whatever, and some penalization can happen, but real life does happen and that would be a great option
3. Instead of clicking the notification, I’d like to be able to transfer between focus and break states from the live activity. Flow supports this and it’s great.
4. A way to get the session history out of the app in a programmatic way. Maybe a shortcut action for this, like things 3’s find action
5. A way to add a text description (eg. “Summarize meeting notes” instead of a general label like “Writing”)
5.1 Maybe, these labels could be pulled *from* things? I see this is on the Flow roadmap. Then I can see how long I spent on each task

Personally I don’t care about all the self control stuff like blocking ect, and these suggestions are all minutia, but add up to a gigantic improvement. Just some food for thought. Nice work.