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Forest Review
Forest is a great app and I recommend it for everyone who wants to reduce screen time or focus for work or hobbies. It’s unique feature of planting trees really does motivate you to not pick up your phone. Personally I have got so much more work done thanks to this app. It also gives a visual representation in a pie chart and also most productive times of the day and week this helps focus down in those areas
Improvements to make
Although forest is a great app, it does need some improvements in my opinion
- to be able to change the tag of what you are doing DURING when the timer is on (it’s annoying when you set the wrong tag for something and you can’t change it during the timer because otherwise it kills the tree)
- when a timer/tree is started, to get a notification saying when the tree will be planted eg if at 3 o clock there was a 2 hour tree planted a notification would pop up saying “tree will be planted at 5 o clock
- to be able to set the time in hours and minutes rather than in minutes (this just makes it easier because usually people work in hours and minutes rather than just minutes)
- when checking the timeline of events, to be able to update the note/tag
All in all forest is a great app and I highly recommend everyone to try it!Show lessXxmichaelxX8
Excellent app
This app is really good. I’m a student who uses my phone way too much and this app has both made me aware of that and helped me spend less time on my phone. It takes a while to get new trees but I don’t even care because you start out with 2 or 3 anyway. I like to use different types of trees for different activities.
As someone who enjoys nature but doesn’t have much opportunity to be in it, I’m very drawn to the forest aspect. I also like how you can see your forest for the day, week, month, or year.
My ONE suggestion so far would be to have a feature that counts up instead of down; either that or a way to continue the same tree immediately after the timer goes off assuming you’re still focusing. If I’m focusing on reading I don’t always know how long it will take so if I set it for 25min and read for 45, I’d rather just extend the tree than have multiple smaller ones.
Other than that this app is fantastic and I highly recommend. I’ll keep using it for sure.Show lesshijgkfmdkfnfkdnekfj
Great for studying
Honestly, I’m the type of person who just suddenly goes on my phone or laptop in the middle of doing homework, projects, etc. It’s especially been a problem since this new school year started. This app has helped me quite a lot, though sometimes I forget to plant a tree before I begin completing assignments. It’s helped with decreasing the amount of time I spend on schoolwork, and makes me feel like I’m doing so much more. Whenever I do reach over to my phone and am about to do something besides studying, like scrolling through Instagram, I’d open it and see the tree on my screen. Then, I’d ask myself, “Do I really want the tree to die?” I’d say no. In the beginning of using this app, I was always close to using my phone while the tree is growing. I began to develop a mentality after a few days that I should finish my homework before going on my phone and do other things. Of course, I sometimes still do it when I don’t use Forest, but I feel as if I’ve lessened the amount. This is the first productivity app I’ve used, and I’ve always seen people recommend it. It’s definitely an app worth the money. You can use it on your laptop or computer as well, as a Chrome extension (which is what I started out with). It’s simple to use, and has a minimalistic aesthetic that I really enjoy. Overall, it’s a great app.Show lessDisarray Human Being
Flora is a better app and it’s free
Flora is a better app and it’s freeskfjdjwjkfksns
Great for students
I know I’m not the only one who’s a pro at procrastinating which is why this app is a great motivator for those who genuinely want to get things done. It’s not just for study but for other things you’d like to focus on whether it be cleaning, reading, exercising etc
Totally recommend!! You get to plant some cute little virtual trees! Or if you’re a real pro, you get to save your coins and plant REAL trees!!Show lesstoriiiiiiiaaaaaaa
Amazing app
This app is actually amazing and has helped me prioritise certain tasks that need to be finished. Other than that, it has helped me to minimise my time with studying different task each day. Instead of not balancing my study time on different task, this app helps me identify how much time I should spend on a task. It motivates me to actually study more since I get a tree at the end. What I love about it the most is how when you start studying, there is a rain noise in the back ground that you can either listen to. And it is optional, but I always listen to it because it is very relaxing and you can focus properly. This app is extremely helpful. I mostly recommend it, it’s worth the money.Show lesskakara lee
Such a useful app
My first app review...here we go!
This has to be one of my favorite apps. I take some pretty advanced classes and it’s important that I get the focus time I need. This app does an amazing job at encouraging me to not only stay off of social media apps, but to actually want to use this app to rack up coins and study time. You get coins for using the timer, and once you finish, you can spend them in the virtual store. It’s so satisfying to be able to earn new study sounds and/or trees to plant. Ah- forgot about that. While you focus, a virtual tree is planted and grows until you finish. It’s then added to your personal virtual garden- and I make a daily goal to make it as pretty as possible! Also you can use the coins you earn to have a real life tree planted somewhere In the world! Imagine getting work done AND saving the environment? Killing two birds with one productive app!Show lessmiskidngkdbdk
Fun and works, but needs more features
So far I’m actively using it and having fun with it. I do feel more rewarded and accomplished when I finish a task which makes studying more fun and working from home less of a chore. It was definitely worth the $2! I think a reading feature would help though, especially for studying. It operates strictly on a timer, but say you need to read two chapters before tomorrow. It’s really hard to tell how long that will take. If you take to the material easily, it won’t take nearly as long as you expected to finish but if you stop the timer early you don’t get rewarded. So a checklist or task feature that maybe worked it conjunction with the timer would be better, something where you could mark a task as completed without being pinged because you got it done quicker than you thought. This could also work well if you’re trying to get chores done without getting distracted. Right now, this is better for work or sleep when you know you’re only going to be doing it for a set amount of time.Show lessNouveau_Riche
Incredible, just incredible
This app works, I bought this app a while ago and its made me a lot more productive. The idea is great for having a reason to stay off your phone being getting trees and real life trees. Other things like the payment in the app itself is smart not giving you coins but tripling your coin output is really smart to get people motivated to put on a timer. I highly recommend this app and think the price is certainly worth it.Show lessTheChillinFlame
OK
one thing is bothering the hell out of me. The overtime timer only counts when the device is off. I thought it wasn’t working because i use my ipad to work (drawing) and it doesn’t count when i’m continuing to draw after the timer has gone off. gives me a very inaccurate time of how much i actually worked for.Show lessMadelence
