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by Jaerwils

I went to update my previous review which was way more thorough, but for some reason it isn’t showing up…. So I’ll do a shorter review

The app has to stay open on your phone. If not it crashes or you lose all your collected items and experience from that focus timer. If the purpose of the app is to give a dopamine boost when you complete your focus then it hits you hard when you find out the app crashed and left you with an almost empty phone battery on top of it all. So I have moved away from using it since it just disappoints me currently when I find out that it wasn’t collecting the time.

For $100 you could buy multiple actual pomodoro timers to keep at your desk and they will last more than a year. There are also other free apps that give you the timer and even have note keeping in them if you want more. The free trial was fun for the first 5 hours of studying, but I soon realized this needed a lot of work before what is a good idea is actually created and running properly. I was quick to cancel the subscription but would consider a $20 subscription for something that didn’t crash half the time. Then go up on price as more options become available in app. I’ll try and check in on the app later this year and see if it has improved and lowered in price, but until I can only see the creator making money on this when people forget to cancel their free subscription. Do Not Pay $100.

by Idas152

So I wanted to try the app. 5 seconds in: “sign up for our annual subscription 100$ with a 7 day free trial.” No. I just want to try the app first. 30 seconds later after going through a few screens…. “Sign up for our annual subscription only 70$ now with a 14 day free trial.” No. I would like to actually use the app first to see what it’s like before giving money. 30 more seconds after setting up my name and goals. “Sign up for our annual subscription! It’s only 50$ now! This deal only last 5 mins though… oh and you cannot leave this screen for those five minutes unless you subscribe.” Closed app. Here I am. Disappointed. What the heck guys? This feels so scammy and pressures someone to drop a bunch of money, praying on people who statistically have anxiety on top of their adhd. Edit: reopened the app to try it again. Had a nice lovely sparkling gift on the home screen “subscribe for 40$/year!”.

by Kintheartist

I thought this could be a great app for someone with ADHD like me, but it doesn’t even let you try the app on its own merits before asking for money. It felt bad. I know that’s how all apps are these days, but it was still sad to see.

There are also lots of minor issues I noticed just from testing it for a few minutes. There don’t seem to be a lot of ways to customize the focus mode, and the app always chides you if your phone screen turns off or you exit the app. For someone who prefers the screen off while I’m trying to work, it was irritating.

This is very nitpicky but I’m writing it out to hopefully help the devs: Going into settings didn’t let me re-arrange my goal order, and starting a focus always defaulted to the first one no matter what I was last working on.

Another nitpick, but the number one most annoying thing to me was that for some reason, even without the sound on and my phone screen off or if I went to a different app and just had Focus Hero in the background, it would grab the focus for my Bluetooth headphones. That meant that if I paused the audiobook or music on my laptop, Focus Hero would take the Bluetooth headphones to my phone (despite not having any audio) and I would have to completely close out of the app turn my headphones off and on to listen to my audiobook or music again.

I see a lot of potential, and I hope maybe I could try this again sometime in the future and see improvement.