Flow Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience86.1% of reviews
Neutral4.9% of reviews
Negative experience9.0% of reviews

~ Based on 589 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Flow

Is Flow Safe?

Flow: Focus & Pomodoro Timer appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Flow is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 1,755 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

94.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,755 App Store ratings for Flow.

Is Flow Legit?

Flow: Focus & Pomodoro Timer appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Flow is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Problem syncing the Watch

I’ve installed the app and started the trial. I’ve tried it on my Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch. The Mac and iPhone stay in sync, but I can’t get the Watch to sync with the other two. It just starts its own timer.

Useful app!

Really good, my suggestion would be to let users adjust the floating window size and transparency as I like to see my desktop background while keeping the timer visible.

Awesome

I used forest for a long time. I’m so glad this app has stayed true to its roots unlike forest - this is a massive upgrade.

Works

Team has fixed some issues

Je l’utilise tous les jours

Je l’utilise au travail, et le gros plus par rapport aux autres applications pomodoro pour moi est son métronome qui me met dans le flow.
En version payante, je n’ai pas compris l’intérêt de la synchro avec le calendrier.
Les tags sont bien pratiques. Toutefois j’aimerai avoir la possibilité de pouvoir les sélectionner dans mes raccourcis. Si vous pouvez implémenter ça je n’aurai plus rien à redire.
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Response from developer

Bonjour ! Merci beaucoup d’utiliser Flow au quotidien et de partager vos retours ! Nous sommes ravis que le métronome vous aide à entrer dans votre flow et que vous trouviez les tags pratiques. Bonne nouvelle : il sera bientôt possible de sélectionner des tags directement avec Raccourcis. Cette fonctionnalité a déjà été implémentée et sera disponible dans la prochaine mise à jour ! — Lea de l’équipe de développement 💚

There needs to be a complete overhaul of the timer sync cause it’s acting like it is still in beta

The timer sync is getting on my nerves I have emailed multiple times about it and it still hasn’t gotten fixed as a lifetime pro user I think the timer sync just needs to be reset because it will completely stay on the last Flo I had when I closed the app and paused even when I just finished a flow and it the flow duration settings will not stay the same also it is about time you added the ios26 alarms to this app but I need this fixed like next week or I will be using another app and requesting a refund
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what is going on ?

I used to love this app so much I paid for pro, but unfortunately I will need to move on. It absolutely sucks. it is not accurate no matter how much I change the settings or contact customer support it simply can’t count a flow period. It outrageous having 8-9 hour study days just for this app to tell me I have 3 hours…. whattttttt. Last thing I want to worry about while studying is calculating my time or trying to figure out weather or not a break is coming up. so disappointed. 3 years of loyalty, idk if its an update or what but this is need to be fixed
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“Free” Trial is very misleading

Its one thing to charge so much for a little app timer that you could clone with Claude in less than 5 minutes, but its another thing to mislead your customers into thinking they are getting 7 days to trial the app, whereas its saying you can pay for a year but get 7 days added on top. Very sneaky and misleading. -1 star for a terrible simple mediocre app that hopefully someone clones for free.

Glad AI is taking away jobs from people who make overpriced apps like this.

Cheers for making me spend 30 bucks accidentally for a kitchen timer.
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This app is great

I’ve tried a few focus apps but this one…man it just hits it out of the park for me. It’s the only one that really works! It’s in the background, has a great menu bar timer, nice chime sounds, great aesthetic. Love this app!

After Add Block , Add is playing in youtube

Add blocker not working.

Sound doesn’t work

So far I am pleased with the UI, it’s clean and does what it is supposed to do but unfortunately sound doesn’t work when completing the 25m or 5 minute intervals. This needs to get fixed.

Serious Sync Issues Between Mac and iOS

I’m extremely disappointed with the synchronization reliability between the Mac and iOS versions.

I enabled the option to sync data to Calendar, but the data never appeared in my calendar. Even worse, the data inside the Flow app itself became inconsistent — I originally had three records for today, but now only the middle one remains.

There are also serious timer synchronization problems. The timer can keep running on the Mac app while the iOS notification is still active, but the iOS app itself shows no active timer at all. This makes the whole tracking system unreliable.

Another confusing design choice is requiring tags for break time. Breaks are not related to my work categories, so forcing users to categorize rest periods adds unnecessary friction.

The core idea of the app is productivity tracking, but inaccurate syncing and inconsistent timer states make it difficult to trust the data. Please prioritize fixing synchronization and reconsider the break tagging workflow.
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Mehr Konzentration beim Lernen

Ich nutze die App täglich beim Lernen und sie hilft mir enorm dabei, konzentriert zu bleiben und mich nicht ständig ablenken zu lassen. Die 25 Minuten Timer motivieren mich, fokussiert an meiner Arbeit dranzubleiben, anstatt mich von jeder Kleinigkeit aus dem Konzept bringen zu lassen. Gleichzeitig erinnert mich die App daran, regelmäßige Pausen einzulegen. Besonders dann, wenn ich völlig in meine Arbeit vertieft bin. Ein wirklich tolles Tool, das ich zu 100% weiterempfehlen kann! :)
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Response from developer

Vielen Dank für deine tolle und ausführliche Bewertung! Es freut uns sehr, dass Flow dich beim Lernen unterstützt und dir dabei hilft, konzentriert zu bleiben und gleichzeitig deine Pausen nicht zu vergessen. Danke für deine Weiterempfehlung und weiterhin viel Erfolg beim Lernen! — Lea vom Entwicklungsteam 💚

Good

A bit pricey but it’s simple and helps me stay productive. I hope it stays this way and doesn’t turn into bloated corporatized garbage over the years like so many of these types of apps do…

Please fix desync

update:
Down from 3 to 1 star.

it just gets worse. I dont even have timer sync enabled to try help it work consistently.

missing sessions, 1 hour sessions coming up as like 57 minutes??

i dont get it … I actually hate I paid for this

old review:

Ill start the timer and a live activity starts but 20 minutes will pass and ill realise the actual timer hasn’t started at all.
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Please enable alerts when app open on watch!

Great app with just the right amount of features to help you focus. My only issue is, I wish the app still alerted you to the end of a session when it’s open on Watch! I use it on my watch to avoid picking up my phone, but because of the watch’s automatic wake system, if I have it open and happen to turn my wrist to where it wakes, the alert won’t go off (I guess the app assumes I’m looking at my watch, but I’m not). This makes me miss the ends of sessions a lot. Otherwise great app!
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Best distraction-free focus app!

The Pomodoro really helps me stay on tasks and not burn out with interval breaks. I've used the Flow app for several years as my go-to Pomodoro timer, and it is perfect. Its easy to set up and has a great looking design.
The free-version has been free from pop-ups and ads -no distractions, yay! The paid version ($2.99/mo) has some useful features or you can pay $39.99/once to buy it for life. And its nice to have that option if it works for someone.
I totally recommend Flow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Excellent, minimal, and easy

Not a lot gets in the way of using this app. Strong recommend.

Just Flow into deep work.

If you want a genuinely useful focus timer, with a clean and unbloated tool to keep you locked into deep work, flow is the best option out there.

closing unexpectedly

First of all thanks, it’s a great app. I’ve tried dozens of pomodoro timer apps and all of them were either much more complicated than a pomodoro timer needs to be, or almost totally behind a very expensive paywall. I really love this one, simple and clean, and also iCloud sync with my iPhone which is really useful.
Just one issue, I’ve been using this app for the past 5-6 months, at first it used to work just fine. Now it’s been around a month or so that it keeps closing unexpectedly. It only happens when it’s only in menu bar, having its window open prevents that. I mean it’s not a big problem but a little bit annoying.
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