# Focus Gnome: Study Timer — Ending early still counts

> Ending early still counts (iPhone/iPad app by MATTHEW MALHAM.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focus-gnome-study-timer/id6792183008 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [MATTHEW MALHAM](https://appshunter.io/developer/1875604080)
- Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 9 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-08-24
- Data updated: 2026-09-07
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focus-gnome-study-timer/id6792183008/reviews.md

## What is Focus Gnome?

The gnome is already sitting. Wind the dial — it runs backwards on purpose, like a kitchen timer — take three settling breaths, and begin.

While you work, he meditates. Remaining time is a golden wedge that quietly shrinks; no ticking numbers to squint at. Lay the phone face down and he sinks deeper, the sounds soften, and the room gets calmer.

Every sitting leaves a firefly drifting in the grove. Ending early still counts — a dimmer firefly, never a dead tree, never a broken streak, never a scolding. However long you stay counts. Nothing here is lost, and nothing is taken away.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• A hand-wound visual dial: 5 minutes to 2 hours, a soft click for every detent
• Three settling breaths before the clock starts (skippable, and it remembers)
• Face-down deepening — putting the phone away is the point, so the app rewards it
• The grove: every sitting you've ever finished, drifting behind him
• Name your sittings ("Thesis · 45m") and keep an honest ledger
• Hand-made ambient soundscapes: hearth, rain, forest night
• A choosable clock: storybook or blocky, in three inks
• One notification, ever: when your sitting ends

NO CATCHES
No ads. No account. No subscription. No streaks you can lose. Everything stays on your phone.

We built Focus Gnome for everyone who has ever been scolded by a productivity app. This is the timer that doesn't punish you for being human.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-03

The gnome now speaks Japanese. And his shelf grew: Settings links to the rest of the family — the other gnome apps, the album, and the coloring books.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-24

No release notes.

## More apps by MATTHEW MALHAM

- [100 Kanji: Japanese N5 Starter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/100-kanji-japanese-n5-starter/id6759027737)
- [Weather Gnome: Cozy Forecast](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/weather-gnome-cozy-forecast/id6759417050)
- [Times Table 400: Space Math](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/times-table-400-space-math/id6789003942)
- [Softly: Bedtime Stories](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/softly-bedtime-stories/id6789408466)
- [ZoneCycle: HIIT Bike Trainer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zonecycle-hiit-bike-trainer/id6790217662)
- [Stock Gnome: Cozy Markets](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stock-gnome-cozy-markets/id6791432078)

All apps by MATTHEW MALHAM: https://appshunter.io/developer/1875604080

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