Pomodoro Timer: Stay Focused App Reviews

It’s free, has great work sounds, has a simple and efficient interface, and a minimalist yet customizable design, what more are you looking for?

Simple and to the point

Look, a “minimalist” aesthetic pomodoro timer was charging $30/month, and this is free. What can I say? There is no feature-bloat here. They’ve nailed it by not overdoing it. There is basic customization, and I like how the digital timer countdown is overlaying a horizontal kitchen-timer dial that you can use to extend/progress your timer as you wish. Simple is enough.

The app works overall fine and has been useful. That said, starting from earlier this year/late last year, the first round of 4 sessions would go smoothly, but after I skip the 25 minutes break and go directly to the next group of 4, each interval is that 25 minutes break (instead of the 5 minutes one). Was this done on purpose to promote a 25 mine break? Would much prefer being able to skip/jump as I wish.

I like the timing structure of the app. The app is also very customizable! However, I am having a problems with the app not auto resetting each morning. This is becoming very frustrating. I do not want to go into the chart feature to see how many rounds I have completed each day. When the whole point of this app is to help me focus on tasks.

There’s no freakin in app purchases!! Features I love include: - pausing the timers - change the length of sessions and breaks - changing numbers of session between long breaks - changing background colors - alarm sounds - white noise options Honestly the best app I could find so far

I used this app for several years. It has been free, and we had options to select colors. Nos, if I click on it , the app closes on you. Hope they will fix the issue

I have tried several but this has been the first one that works for me and provides me, and my writing, what it needs. Thank you for a fantastic app!

I love this pomodoro timer. It has all the functions I would expect, and it’s easy to configure. Reminds me to stand up & take a short break every now and then.

Paid for full access. Intuitive, efficient, beautiful. Boosted productivity immediately!

makes me a lot more productive. would be better if I could get a vibration notification of a time change even if my phone is on do not disturb so I can use it without bothering people in quiet libraries.

Good app with a user friendly and nice design. This technique really helps me focus. The stats are cool too.

I love that I can change the length of my focus time, the colors, and the sounds. Nice interface. One additional thing I would like to see is some kind of progress bar or circle visually showing how far I am into the session.

As a writer I found this to be just what I needed.

I have done a few needed assignments with the tool, it's good so far... Helps

This is a great tool to help you get through projects and work that needs to be accomplished. I like the peaceful sound effects during the long break. 😊

This app is amazing. Before i used to find other things to do then my HOMEWORK but now I stay on task. Also I like how you get breaks in between and you get to custom you timer. Great App👍

Very handy app for maintaining focus and tracking time spent on activities. It showed me how much time I was wasting. Scheduled breaks are a necessity and duration of activities is customizable.

Easily worth the 2 bucks I spent on it. Great pomodoro tool!

Does what is says it does. Setup and skips somewhat counterintuitive ti learn. Wish there was more white noise sound types. Good app.

Particularly, it’s updated regularly which reflects the sincerity of a developer.

Excellent work and I love this app. Inexplicably, the music selection doesn’t work on iPad or iPhone any more, whether in the free or paid versions. When that’s restored, I’ll add a star back in.

Simple and easy tool to keep focus and reminders to break. No issues with the app. Would be nice for the app to integrate with the Apple Watch.

Simple to use app but very powerful

Normally I’ve issues staying put and focused when working on my home. However, this app has been super helpful in keeping me in line with my studies. Truly, my grades have improved because of this app. Thank you!

Sometimes I think this app uses the battery so much, Is it TRUE?

Unbelievable that there is no corresponding Watch app. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have purchased this in the first place.

Pretty much what other five-star reviewer say. At least one reviewer mentioned it being a great way to deal with ADD/ADHD, and I absolutely agree. I find it pretty much impossible to work on-and complete-any project without this.

I’ve been using Focus Keeper for a while and it’s my pomodoro app of choice. But since the last update the timer stops when the app is in background, making my device useless when I need to track a pomodoro session.

The interface is so neat and clean - not a single unnecessary tab. The sounds are good as well, really helping with focus. I love the red it has - not causing anxiety but giving me an urge to finish whatever I’m doing.

I really liked the free version and never had any issues with it, so I bought the pro. I’m disappointed because the timer suddenly stops when I’m using other apps on my phone or even just when an alarm on my phone goes off. If not for this issue, I would have given it 5/5 stars.

Daily experience with this app: start the timer, go to some other apps, then an hour later find out the timer stopped in the middle for no reasons...didn’t the developers use the app themselves? Edit: okay, so the app stops counting when you leave it or lock screen now, making it pretty much useless to me. I didn’t see any option that might change this and I definitely will not keep my screen on all time for this app.

This app used to work great until this past year. App automatically shuts down whenever I try to change the color scheme. Also the timer always reflects “25 min” even though I have changed the study session time in the options menu. This app was suppose to be an upgrade of the other time keeper app by pixio, but it seems that they have now made the two apps completely separate from each other

Even with all sounds disabled, it steals the audio focus of an iPad. So if you have music playing while you work, EVERY timer change (pause/play, or focus start/stop) pauses your music. Apple could fix this at the iPad level, but this app shouldn’t be trying to grab the audio source when all sounds are disabled.

Disappointed after purchasing the pro version 😣

I would love to give 5 stars. It has to work first. Please update the app.