FocusPomo · Pomodoro Timer Hack 3.3.0 + Redeem Codes

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.

the beauty of this app is in its cleanliness and simplicity. i love using it and seeing my pomos build up over the week :)

if i could have one suggestion, it would be to do something with the pomos after they clear at the end of the week. maybe we can sell them in an orange market or use our built up pomos to buy different colored or types of oranges in the shop. maybe little slides or puzzles that we can play with our pomos on the timer screen. these are just ideas, but it would be nice to be rewarded for our work at the end of the week instead of them just being cleared from our screen :P

oh and i would ABSOLUTELY LOVE to have this app be able to sync with my apple watch! that would be my absolute #1 request

this app provides all the essentials you would think a pomodoro timer app should have and they all work well for those (and my) intended needs. there are only two issues that i have with this app

1. i think it would be useful to have a pausing feature. however you choose to incorporate that into the app (whether pausing takes time away thus making the tomato smaller or not doesnt really matter, it would be helpful either way)

2. im not sure if this was intentional or not but when im in the app and the timer ends, the sound/notification is on and alerts me that the timer has ended. but, when im out of the app and the timer ends, i have no way of knowing as i dont get a vibration notification nor a sound even though those settings are on (i tested it out to see if maybe i just missed it) i think its crucial to add a feature where there is a noise that alerts the user that the timer has ended even though they have exited the app/turned off their device.

despite these two issues i love this app's features and its cute layout :)

I have ADHD and this has been a game changer for me keeping on track and focus for work!! I do wish I could change the colors and maybe even the cute little tomato icons into other fruits or veggies or characters but overall, I love this one the most I love being able to see my progress during the week as well. My tomatoes did not reset this morning. (Monday) but it’s also my first week using it and only 7:30 AM so maybe it resets at a certain time?? Idk.. but i love it so far. :) close to the end of my first year I may buy the lifetime version. :D

Stopwatch mode is great to track an undetermined amount of time but I often want to track focus time with a timer value as the minimum. So a 20 minute timer to get myself into a rhythm, but stopwatch mode after the 20 minutes to track how long I spend working on it beyond that.

I used to have to break out of want I was doing to hit “break” and then “stop break” “start” to keep tracking, but stopwatch has made this much easier. I just want a timer that transitions into stopwatch mode so I can get the benefits of the Pomo timer still.

I find the app really nice and easy to use to help keep me focused on tasks and track my time. Two feature requests would be to have an option at the end of a focus timer to keep the focus timer ticking as I sometimes get into a flow and have worked 40 min versus when I only set the 25min timer. As I use this for work having a 20/30 min long break doesn’t work for me as I take an hour lunch. So it would be nice to disable that long break or have more options to customize the length of time and when it should appear.

Idk what the tomatoes do with my monkey brain it just wants to collect them so I actually use the app, the tomatoes also motivate me when I see how many I was able to collect during the week.

The only thing that I wish that was possible to change tasks without having to cancel and getting a sad tomato because sometimes I end all my work before the timer runs out and I like to track how much time I spend on each subject so I have to cancel, but besides that I think that the app is 10/10

The little orange tomatoes are very motivating. That is what it has over some other Pomodoro apps. Otherwise it’s very bare bones, the developer doesn’t respond to emails, the link to submit feature requests doesn’t work (it prompts you to submit a review), and the premium version doesn’t give you much extra. It would nice if it implemented some features that are common to other such apps, like more flexibility to adjust focus and break lengths, ability to skip breaks, ability to change colors of backgrounds, etc. Nice start but needs somebody’s time and attention.

This is a great focus pomodoro application. I went ahead and got the lifetime subscription. The user interface is the real deal with this app. It’s very simple and easy to navigate. And the little jolt of good feelings with collecting the tomatoes throughout the week is great.

Things that may be good down the road: WatchOS application which I know is coming. Maybe a notification or nudge that can be customized to let you know when your countdown is at certain times? Such as “5 minutes left” and you get a notification. More background noises.

For starters, I like how this app doesn’t need to be the most complex thing unless you want it to. Personally, I don’t want to manage my whole week in a sub-par app just for a timer, but I get that some want that.

That said, it needs a reset button. If I run two 25-minute sections then, IDK, go to lunch, I likely don’t want to take a 25 minute break an hour after I get back to it.

And the price… woof. I understand that development isn’t cheap, but its quite pricey for a glorified timer, and, honestly, for me, I’m not sure what benefits I would gain (that I would use) from it.