# Focus Timer - Keep you focused — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Focus Timer by Real Number Works Inc., rated 4.61/5 from 150 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focus-timer-keep-you-focused/id974920073/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/focus-timer-keep-you-focused/id974920073.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 125 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 10 ## Newest reviews (11 of 50) ### 4/5 — Add history feature please *2019-02-06, version 1.7.3* Could we have the “add history” feature? Sometimes we forgot to record and we dont want to lose the time focuses!! ### 5/5 — One of the best!!!! *2018-10-25, version 1.7.1* I like this app. It has very good design and helps me a lot to track and focus on a habit or task. All the best for its team. ### 4/5 — Simple and Useful App *2018-10-10, version 1.7.1* This app works perfectly and displays information in a useful manner. However, some of my tasks require my phone and there is no way to start the timer without flipping the phone over. I understand that the purpose of the app is to prevent you from getting distracted with your phone to begin with, but it would be amazing if you could allow certain tasks to work with a tap instead of phone flip. Thanks. ### 5/5 — I LOVE this app *2018-09-24, version 1.7.1* Do realize that, by slowly forcing you to rely on your phone less, this app is doing you more good than harm! At the price of a only a little inconvenience okay! I’ve stopped getting carried away, distracted, or multitasking— all habits this app has indirectly helped me fix. Besides, if I’m in an urgent situation, this app lets me set a 60 sec countdown before it ends my session. If I need to search up a definition or two, this app in no way inhibits my that. The design is another thing. It’s so modern, usable, and customizable. Maybe it’s because Asians designed it lol— but looking at my home page: it’s really comprehensive, but at the same time very clean and comfortable. I can’t ask for anything more with the design, I feel like they can’t do anything to make this better. Another thing is the overview: the summaries, data, easy google drive backup option, graphs, etc.... they’re all amazing! My only issue though (this has nothing to do with this app) is that I prefer to see a clock, which is not possible with my phone turned face down. I hope the developer keeps this app the same, but makes another one with the clockface function instead. Purely a suggestion. Thanks for this life changing app. ### 5/5 — Good *2018-03-14, version 1.7* I need that Fix incorrectly entered theme And Please allow me to expand the nine themes further. ### 5/5 — Pretty great *2018-01-30, version 1.6.2* Overall the app is good. It does what it is supposed to do, keeps you from using your phone when you should be studying/working. I would love to see more themes however, but I just happen to have 7 profiles ### 5/5 — Update! *2018-01-20, version 1.6.2* Excellent app but needs update for iPhone X ### 5/5 — Start Button *2018-01-02, version 1.6.2* Please add start and stop button, It's good for time that we want to work with my iPhone. For example listening a podcast of my lessons. Sorry for my English ### 5/5 — Keeps you from checking your phone *2017-10-05, version 1.6* The start/stop mechanism of focus timer is perfect. Pick up your phone for a quick email check and you are presented with the amount of time you have managed to go without being distracted. I find it helps keep me on task and motivated. ### 4/5 — Basic *2017-09-18, version 1.5.1* I like how you can choose to have the led flash to signal your timer started . ### 5/5 — Don't change a thing it's perfect *2017-08-07, version 1.5.1* Mucho perfecto, in other words it's already really good. This is a really good way to track if used consistently and appropriately. Awesome. Thanks developers ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t use my phone or I stop the timer *2020-12-01, version 1.9.2* Text support will not reply after repeated emails. Maybe 6? Just trying to find out if I can change the settings. I want to log my time but need my phone for my tasks. Hey developer 👋🏼 feel free to reply here since you won’t respond to emails. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2019-11-04, version 1.9.1* I rarely purchase apps, but did so with this one because of the positive ratings and reviews. I tried reaching out to the developer...no response. I guess you live and you learn... ### 1/5 — No start notification *2019-10-28, version 1.9.1* Vibrate, led, and sound notification is not working at all ### 1/5 — Not ipad ready.. looks like junk in a tiny box. *2019-08-02, version 1.8.2* there is no true ipad version. its still for the junky iphone. update the app to support ipads to get a higher score. ### 1/5 — Slow *2019-03-17, version 1.8* I think after the recent update it got so slow. Please fix this. ### 1/5 — Major regret purchasing this app *2018-08-09, version 1.7.1* Thought this app was exactly what I needed with the face down feature. I then realized that sometimes I need to be using my phone for something — like studying flash cards and I can’t keep track of the time. Would be awesome if there was a manual feature enabled, but there isn’t at the moment. Going to be reinstalling ATracker and hopefully Focus Timer will add in a manual time tracker feature soon. ### 1/5 — Free version useless *2017-12-29, version 1.6.2* Free version is just a timer. Every phone already has one. ### 1/5 — regret buying it *2017-08-13, version 1.5.1* the backgrounds are nice, and that's about it. The fact that you need your phone face down to track time is a huge drawback -- often times I think I'm tracking time, just to find that it wasn't at all, but I can't check because it only works when your phone is face down (which turns the screen black). contrast this to Forest, which I think is a much better app -- the time stops when you leave the app, so it achieves the same purpose, but doesn't require this annoying facedown business. useless! ### 3/5 — Crashes *2016-10-16, version 1.4.3* I liked it, but after a while it begun crashing upon launching. Tried deleting and reinstalling with no success. Running iOS 10.0.1 on iPhone 6. ### 4/5 — Decent app, one flaw *2019-09-30, version 1.8.2* Overall this is one of the better focus apps I’ve tried. I used to do time management/focus tracking the old fashioned way, by using graphs, but that never worked out because I have adhd, which essentially means that anytime I tried to keep track of the amount of time I focused I lost interest after two or three recordings and went off in another direction. This makes it much easier to keep track and I know would enjoy looking at the metrics if I ever got to view them long term, the problem is, that never happens because I always end up forgetting that I am keep track of my focus time within a week and let the timer run on for an hour or two before I remember to turn it off, which messes up the record and the flaw is, as far as I can tell, there is no way to erase a single recorded time. If your timing gets skewed you have to erase every recording and start over. Regardless this is a minor complaint for an app that has enough free features to keep me more than satisfied. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best App Ever, simple and easy to used *2021-01-24, version 1.9.4* I ### 5/5 — Forced Focus is great! *2020-05-18, version 1.9.2* I love how this focus app does not work unless you put your phone down. Placing your phone upside down forces you to ignore your notifications. It is good that you get a grace time period if you need to check the notification source. Sometimes emergencies occur at work and you need to end your focus. ### 5/5 — Good *2020-04-08, version 1.9.2* This is the best app I ever tried. But, it would be nice if you allows me to change focus category. Sometimes, I select wrong category and collect the time. The app allows me only deleting time. ### 5/5 — I love this app but wish for just one thing *2020-03-05, version 1.9.2* the design is cheerful which makes me feel active and this app helps me to focus on my work. But I wish it has more categories. I need more than 15 categories to organize my work but it has only 9. ### 5/5 — So good *2020-02-07, version 1.9.2* Buy it ### 5/5 — Helpful App *2019-11-23, version 1.9.1* Very useful! But sometimes I require my phone to use learning apps. I hope a mode without clipping the phone over. ### 5/5 — Worth it for the price *2019-10-25, version 1.9.0* Very few apps(one other as of today) have this feature where you need to turn down your phone to activate. This is very effective and I love the app so far! It makes me realize my phone use. My screen time has gone down by 30% this week. What moves me to use it more is the stats, I want to reach a certain amount of hours a day for my projects. Keep the stats coming I wish there was a feature to automatically set the goal for each day, instead of putting it in every day I love the screen that shows the time blocking view of the day by hour. I wish there was an option for “Super Focus” but to leave music on. I listen to white noise, but it turns it off (as it says) — otherwise a good feature ### 5/5 — Awesome and yikes! *2019-10-24, version 1.9.0* Still the best... I just wish I could edit session length. App is genius. Great way to keep track of time worked, especially since you have to put your phone face down while using app - cuts down on texting, playing, being distracted by your phone every 5 seconds. Although, oops, I really don't work nearly as much as I thought!!! Really like the ability to turn on vibrate so you know when your phone is facedown. Wishes - Ability to manually add sessions. Cause I need that 1.5 hour credit towards my weekly goal. I am pathetic. And very ADHD.. ### 5/5 — THE APP *2019-10-20, version 1.9.0* I have been using this app for years and I love it. All the needed features are here. There is no app that supports all the features that this app offers. Btw the recent update bugs a bit and waiting for fixes to come. Improvements in design could be done like solid colored background and background consistency(in some menu the changed bg does not apply). ### 5/5 — Could you provide more choices of the background and title colors? *2019-10-05, version 1.8.2* I love the app and is using it for a lot of projects. The choice of title colors are really limited. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*