Great Pomodoro timer
If you use the entire Pomodoro technique complete with planning and reporting, this tool is excellent.
Set up work items ahead of time, record pomodoros worked, now you have time boxing and billable hours/project effort tracking sorted out.
Works just as effectively if you don’t care for the planning and tracking and just want a timer that works between macOS, phone and watch.
Set up work items ahead of time, record pomodoros worked, now you have time boxing and billable hours/project effort tracking sorted out.
Works just as effectively if you don’t care for the planning and tracking and just want a timer that works between macOS, phone and watch.
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Thank you for taking the time to write this review!
It would be nice if it’s fixed.
It would be nice if clicking “start” from the widget starts the timer instead of taking us to the app and start the timer which is slow and sometimes it doesn’t start or most of the time it doesn’t show the countdown but if we pressed start again then it will start running and stop the timer few seconds after we exit the app.
A couple of times I exited the app after seeing the timer running after the second press within the app which caused it to stop the timer and miss my countdown.
Also the Lock Screen widget on iOS 18, goes blank after the countdown starts.
A couple of times I exited the app after seeing the timer running after the second press within the app which caused it to stop the timer and miss my countdown.
Also the Lock Screen widget on iOS 18, goes blank after the countdown starts.
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Response from developer
Please get in touch with us at “support@xwavesoft.com” so we can take a look at why this is happening. Thank you.
Simple, minimal, effective.
Great pomodoro timer. The interface / graphics are minimal but I actually quite appreciate this quality—less distractions, less “shiny things”, less novelty in other words, are vastly important and hugely under-estimated means to simply begin tasks… starting the work is, for myself, half the battle. Thus I appreciate that this app has little to no frills, while maintaining core functionality aspects to simply navigate through tasks: tagging and grouping tasks by tag is something I would find challenging to go without, so I appreciate this feature quite a lot.
The fact I have been using this app for nearly all of my work—household, office, school, projects—since downloading it over a week ago is exceptionally rare for me. That alone speaks volumes. The novelty thing (“Oohh shiny!!”) is quite a crappy procrastination-distraction habitual behavior, and one which is EXCEPTIONALLY challenging to break. Yet here I am, writing this review, another rarity. Indeed, it has only been a week. However, exceptionally few productivity-oriented apps “make it” past day-2 or day-3 for me—yet this one has made it to day-7 (almost day-8!!)… that is HUGE.
This is truly a nice app. Happy I gave it a try, for sure…if my “struggle” resonates at all—it may be quite helpful for you as well!
The fact I have been using this app for nearly all of my work—household, office, school, projects—since downloading it over a week ago is exceptionally rare for me. That alone speaks volumes. The novelty thing (“Oohh shiny!!”) is quite a crappy procrastination-distraction habitual behavior, and one which is EXCEPTIONALLY challenging to break. Yet here I am, writing this review, another rarity. Indeed, it has only been a week. However, exceptionally few productivity-oriented apps “make it” past day-2 or day-3 for me—yet this one has made it to day-7 (almost day-8!!)… that is HUGE.
This is truly a nice app. Happy I gave it a try, for sure…if my “struggle” resonates at all—it may be quite helpful for you as well!
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Response from developer
Wow! Thanks for such a substantial review!
More powerful than I thought. I’ve partially used this for a while and…
More powerful than I thought. I’ve partially used this for a while just as a pomodoro timer. I’ve been looking far and wide for a good task recorder and guess what, it’s built in. And it’s better overall than anything else I’ve tried. And today I just discovered it supports tags. The only thing it appears to be a little bit weak on is that you can’t interrupt one job for another job. So if you go do something for five minutes in another job even though you’ve added it on there, it doesn’t appear to keep track of the amount of time you’ve spent on the other job, although it does appear to split the time between them. The only other thing I’d like to see in the future, is some level of integration with the IOS Reminders app.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review, we will try to consider all your wishes.
Basic but effective
Works on my watch while I work. Basic function but keeps me on track
Response from developer
Thank you for taking the time to write this review!
Awesome productivity app!
I love this app. It allows you to select daily pomodoro targets, keep track of different task categories, and even customize the length of breaks. Awesome! The only feature I wish this app had was the ability to adjust the number of pomodoro units depending on the task. For example, my pomodoro daily target for test prep might be 7, but my daily target for meditation is only 1 to 2. Currently, there doesn't seem to be a way to assign different pomodoro targets to different tasks, and pomodoro units completed in one task category will appear in all categories. But, these points don't diminish this app's value to me at all. The pomodoro method is amazing, and this app has made it so easy to get a lot more done. Thank you, BeFocused!
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Good for focus but lack flexibility
Could be more flexible for record keeping and link to calendar but good to to focus and keep track of time
Great but…
- adding a dark mode on IOS would be perfect!
Excellent app
Simple timer with just enough customization, plus syncing between devices. Appealing design. Reminder ticks are nice extra. I normally use the 25-minute work / 5-minute rest setting, but if I’m feeling particularly restless, I can reduce work sessions to 10 or 15 minutes. I set audible ticks to five minutes - a little reminder of time passing.
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A Very Useful Productivity Tool
A great tool that I use everyday to track my work activities. Easy to use and gives a clear view of what I have been doing daily, weekly and monthly.
