Frighteningly effective
This app is brutally merciless if you lose focus. I like it.
Excellent
This has become an essential tool. Succeeding with its graphics treats and function where others have failed.
Fix the bugs not create them with your 10 million updates
Encounter the problems to read my saved data every time I update. I had to delete the app and reinstall it to fix it before. Now even doing so doesn’t help. I tried to use the in-app helpline and it glitched as well. If you want to make this app so fancy and charge people you need to make it work. I didn’t buy the app for getting myself troubles.
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REALLY dislike the new UI
I really miss the radial time select, and I hate that my trees are no longer ordered by last used. I used to cycle through plants, choosing the one I haven’t chosen before in the longest amount of time, to keep my forest a balanced mix of species. Now, even when trying to sort by recently used, it’s not giving me that actual list, because I know some of them that should be close together that aren’t. I would like the radial time back instead of having to click through another menu, and I’d like an actual list organized by the order I’ve selected plants in.
I don’t understand why this app (which at its best has been great!!) feels the need to keep reinventing itself without any seeming regard for actual user experience — it feels like someone’s just got it in their head that they NEED to switch things up regularly.
Given the app developer’s propensity for AI, in both their chatGPT developer responses and their other AI app, I’m wondering if at an upper level, someone is prompting an AI for ideas and then implementing them because AI said so. I don’t entirely trust that these are human-led poor decisions, just because some of them are SO baffling (literally why would you change the dial function to a pop up menu?? that’s more clicks and you can’t easily see what the plant looks like at each time any more. Any designer should have been able to point to that as an unnecessary change, and I KNOW this app has at least utilized qualified designers in the past, because it looked great before you changed it!)
I don’t understand why this app (which at its best has been great!!) feels the need to keep reinventing itself without any seeming regard for actual user experience — it feels like someone’s just got it in their head that they NEED to switch things up regularly.
Given the app developer’s propensity for AI, in both their chatGPT developer responses and their other AI app, I’m wondering if at an upper level, someone is prompting an AI for ideas and then implementing them because AI said so. I don’t entirely trust that these are human-led poor decisions, just because some of them are SO baffling (literally why would you change the dial function to a pop up menu?? that’s more clicks and you can’t easily see what the plant looks like at each time any more. Any designer should have been able to point to that as an unnecessary change, and I KNOW this app has at least utilized qualified designers in the past, because it looked great before you changed it!)
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Response from developer
Thank you for taking the time to share such detailed feedback — we genuinely hear you. The radial time selector and plant sort order are exactly the kind of UX specifics our team needs to hear about. These decisions are absolutely human-led, and feedback like yours is how we improve. Please share this through Settings → FAQ & Support so it reaches our product team directly. We appreciate your passion for Forest! 🌱
Could you bring back this feature
I’m really enjoying this app forest recently, especially after when the update happened. The update included the feature showing the tree growing on the ground, not inside the circular timer!! But it seems like it disappeared the day after I found this. I’m really sad.. please bring this back!
No opinion
I lowk just got this app so I don’t know if it’s good or not.
Buggy update
New update is super buggy. Extended time works half of the time and sometime the app freezes when I try to set a new time for the timer. Disappointing, used to be my go to app for tracking my time
Problem with Syncing
This app’s sync doesn’t really work lately. I often need to manually sync or restart the app to claim rewards. Very frustrating and disappointing.
Where is my stuff?
So I have spent some time over the years using the app on and off, unlocked some bits, decided to focus again only to be met with a sub paywall and all of my progress lost.
Recent update is terrible
They recently updated the UI, this is how I know they do not use the app themselves, if it’s not broken why change it, please change the app to how it was before this terrible upgrade
Latest update bug
Time not recorded after the recent update.
Helpful!
It’s really helpful during my writing
Done with the updates
I’ve been using this app since 2019 and have put up with the app being glitchy each update and the constant changes in appearance but this new update where they completely changed the functionality of the start focus screen is the last straw. Why remove the saved favorite trees with specific tags?! This change has made the app useless for me since I had a tree and a tag for a specific activity and now I have to pick a tag and tree each time I read or study or do anything instead of having my pre set favorites.
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Update is “Down”date
Dear Developers, while the bigger pictures could be appreciated (well, for the blinds), the Focus Challenge plant (let’s say, plant Gingko 4 times) doesn’t jump onto the plant anymore. Therefore we have to find it in the long list, and even if we find that we don’t have it, it doesn’t take you to its store page, so you have to find it again in the long list. 😮💨 Please, fix it and add ground types, that’s what we rather need… thanks… 👀
Oh, and now the focusing tasks don’t work anymore?? I mean when they are finished, they are not really finished, the screen doesn’t react to anything, but there is a non-working (just sound-giving) Cancel button…
Oh, and now the focusing tasks don’t work anymore?? I mean when they are finished, they are not really finished, the screen doesn’t react to anything, but there is a non-working (just sound-giving) Cancel button…
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Incredible concept
Helped me overcome my phone addiction. The only smart app on smartphones nowadays.
Awful visual update
It’s no so much more difficult to plant trees, why is the timer a completely separate screen instead of using the wheel? Can’t find favourites either
Small thing
I really like forest but recently you are sometimes unable to see how long you focused for a particular tag. For example you will see 1H… but can’t know exactly how long. I would really appreciate if this were fixed ☺️
edit a few months later: pls change it it’s really annoying
edit a few months later: pls change it it’s really annoying
Not a fan of the new UI
I know this may seem like a small thing, but the fact that you can no longer select the time radially is frustrating.
Before it was an immediate action, and I do it before nearly every session. Now you have to open a menu and scroll, feels a lot less fluid and quick to start up a session.
Before it was an immediate action, and I do it before nearly every session. Now you have to open a menu and scroll, feels a lot less fluid and quick to start up a session.
Useless app
Totally useless app. It mostly just gets in the way and distracts you. Unless you're looking to waste £5.99 a month on a fancy timer, save your money.
Great App
I actually got some study done and I made a tree :D
