Emphasis vs Focus Dog

Emphasis is an ADHD-friendly Focus Timer. It is built around the principles of the Pomodoro Technique, which in a nutshell are bursts of intentional focused work followed by short breaks. Every couple of hours you take a longer break to recharge and get ready for the next cycle. Following this approach lets you get into the flow state without much effort. Plan your day ahead with time blocks for focused work and start the timer. Emphasis will take care of blocking out distracting apps like social media or video streaming services. It will also provide you with a steady layer of ambient sound that helps your brain feel anchored instead of hunting for the next distraction, because for an ADHD mind, silence can feel restless. Emphasis tracks the time you spent focused and gives you a nice overview of how you spend your days. Use it long enough and you will see patterns that will help you move towards your goals. Emphasis is fully integrated into the Apple ecosystem with Widgets and a watchOS app. You can also use it on your MacBook, all synced together seamlessly. Here is the full list of features: * Customizable focus timers. You define the duration of your focus time, short and long breaks, as well as the length of the focus cycle. You can also set up reminders for each timer. * Block Distracting Apps. You can select the apps that get you out of your flow and Emphasis will block those apps during your focus sessions. * Sonic Spaces. Emphasis comes with a set of ambient sounds & binaural beats. You can fully customize and create ambients that are aimed to aid your focus or relax you during your yoga session. * Statistics. Emphasis tracks your focused time and displays it in the form of interactive stats. Each focus timer has a color assigned to it so you can see how you spend your days at a quick glance at an Emphasis calendar. * Focus hours schedule. Emphasis lets you block out time-wasting apps during your focus hours. I can't tell you how many times this feature brought me back to what matters when my hand reached out for a phone to scroll some social media, only to get reminded by Emphasis that I'm on focus hours. * Widgets. Emphasis comes with a set of widgets that let you start your timers or have your focus time statistics right on your home screen. * Works on your Apple Watch, MacBook & iPad all seamlessly synchronized. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Your phone was built to eat your focus. Focus Dog feeds it back. Feed your focus. Starve distractions. Start a focus session and your donut machine starts producing donuts. Stay in the app, the machine keeps running. Open Instagram "for a second"? The machine stops. Your dog — his name is Focus — is hungry and counting on you. That's the whole loop. It works because it's stupid simple and because you care about the dog. If you open your phone to check one thing and look up 40 minutes later, you're not broken. Your apps were designed to do that to you. Focus Dog gives you a reason to put the phone down: a cute dog who eats what you earn, levels up when you show up, and gets sad when you ghost him. STAY FOCUSED • Pomodoro-style focus sessions that produce rewards as you work • Hourly challenges for a dopamine hit when you hit your time goals • Your session timer stays visible on the Lock Screen — iOS Live Activities, Android live notifications • Siri Shortcuts to start sessions hands-free (5 to 120 minutes) • Open-ended mode when you just want to lock in and go GET MOTIVATED • Collect over 120 donut recipes across normal, rare, and epic tiers • Level up donuts, unlock new dog skins, machines, and backgrounds • Seasonal events with exclusive donuts (Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Valentine's, Easter) • Climb weekly leagues against people at your level, from Bronze to Legend • Compete with friends and climb the global Top 100 leaderboard • Gift your gems — we turn them into real meals for real shelter dogs TRACK YOUR FOCUS • Tag sessions (Work, Study, Deep Work — whatever fits your life) and see the breakdown • Calendar heatmap, weekly/monthly/yearly stats, streak tracking • Per-tag time distribution so you know where your focus actually goes • CSV export of your focus time for your own analysis (Pro) BUILT FOR • Students fighting homework procrastination • ADHD brains that need external scaffolding, not willpower • Remote workers drowning in tab-switching • Anyone who's tired of their weekly screen time report FOCUS DOG PRO Install Focus Dog for free and use its core features as long as you want. Subscribe any time to Focus Dog Pro via in-app purchase — available as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. Payment will be charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. Focus Dog will automatically charge your App Store account at the end of each subscription period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time in your App Store Account Settings after purchase and still receive full functionality until the end of your current period, but we can't refund unused portions of the subscription. In-app purchases and subscriptions cannot be shared via Family Sharing. Terms of use: https://focusdog.app/terms/ Privacy policy: https://focusdog.app/privacy/ CONNECT WITH US • Twitter: https://twitter.com/FocusDogApp • Support: https://focusdog.app/help/