Pomodoro - Focus Timer

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Ads in Paid Version—REALLY. This has been my go to app for years. I like the simplicity it no frills, does exactly what I need it to do. Now I’m seeing ads at the bottom of the main screen. There have been no significant improvements to this app to warrant ads for those of us who paid for this app. Will the greed train ever end!!!???

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Love and use but TIRED. TIRED of resetting my saved sounds EVERY time when I’m paying. Would gladly upgrade STILL because I use this almost daily, but I HATE that I can’t rely on it.

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Skip this. Paid for the lifetime premium but still getting ads in the app.

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Ads for Paid Version. This app was great for my focus time and getting work done until now. I am getting distracting ads during my Pomodoro sessions when I bought lifetime premium and thought I wouldn’t get ads. What’s the point in purchasing the app? I wouldn’t recommend if you get distracted easily with ads during your focus time.

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Ads?. Paid in full from the beginning and supporting this app creator. So disappointed. All of my timer’s pre-set sounds are wiped and I have to reset them every day. Moreover, I’m now getting ads when I already had paid for lifetime to remove ads for good?

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Paid $10 to still have ads. Not worth it. The ads are more distracting than the timer and ruins the idea behind using a pomodoro timer for productivity. Not good for anyone with ADHD.

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Not Free. Cannot use app at all without paying

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Apple Watch - sounds are locked even though I paid for premium. On the Apple Watch, the sounds are locked behind a pay wall. Which I paid premium and it’s still locked. This is clearly a glitch because I’ve seen several several other people complain about this and it’s disappointing to see that the developer is taking peoples money that has not fixed this yet

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Money trap. Pay to use , no options for free

10. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    No support, glitchy. Update: still does not work. No premium despite paying for it and contacting support. Now support link does not work. Sounds are locked. Audio alert at end of session does not work 40% of the time. Hi I still have no access to sounds despite paying for premium membership. There is no app support response, it is a sketchy temporary website. This app was ok when the sounds worked, though it will definitely glitch on you and the timer will stop unless you have the app open or it won’t announce the end of a session.

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Student. I purchased a lifetime subscription and the app is prompting me to pay again.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Premium with ads. I pay for premium, but when I launch the app I get shown ads. I have to close and reopen the app to get them to go away. The app is good otherwise but this has been an issue for literally years and hasn’t been fixed. Feels insulting as a customer to choose the premium option to still have to see ads.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Why am I hearing adds?. This is not ok. It interrupts focus are you nuts putting this in?

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No audio. The audio on this app only works intermittently. Sometimes it only works with the timer. 🤔🤨

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No idea what I’m doing. Help!

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    No way- Ads, greedy. 1) sign up for premium- even before you start using the app-lol! Pathetic! 2) ads, even when timer runs. Great job folks, kinda defeats the purpose you know( obviously not). 3) after timer stops- more Ads blocks entire screen now, fantastic idea! 4) watch does not sync with the phone with the timer. No correlation. Nah, flushed it out, and Deleted the app in 30 mins after trying it. No thank you!!

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    $10 disappointment. Consider 3 things before downloading: 1. Timer only works (alarms end if cycle) with sound on the entire Pomodoro cycle. 2. Support was contacted and they never responded. (It’s been over a week) 3. For $10, you can try other apps that are a lot more customizable.

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Paid $1.99 to not be able to use pro features on Apple watch. What the tittle says, I didn’t want to spend $10 on an app before trying it. Since there’s no free trial I was more than happy to pay the $1.99 to try the product. Unfortunately it would seem that $1.99 doesn’t go toward being able to use the pro features on your Apple Watch. I tried to select a sound to listen with the timer on my watch, and was prompted to select the $10 lifetime subscription. It’s really not that much money, but I already paid to try these features. Such a shame I do like the interface and it was easy to use from my watch, but if I can’t select a track to listen from my watch it completely defeats the point of the app, I can do the same thing with Spotify and the timer app if I’m just going to be using my phone to play the music anyway.

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Ads?. When did ads get placed in the app? I paid for the premium version and know I’m getting ads?! That’s so disingenuous. To just sneak them like that AFTER I PAID. I hate shady companies. Deleting this app.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Ads and more full screen ads. So many full screen ads

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No free sounds. No free sound so it is not doing what I wanted to do, I will delete it

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Watch app for Pomodoro. Watch app does not work does not let u pay or restore to play different audio

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Paid app👎. waste of time

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Need purchase to have ticking sound. Previous can have free background ticking sounds . But now Need purchase.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I hate this app. It made me do more work and my mom is just screaming in my ear because it said get back to work

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Confusing interface. It doesn’t immediately say how to connect calendar

27. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Inefficient. The free version doesn't really provide anything, not even an alarm clock that goes off once the time is up so I feel like it's not very efficient unless you do pay for it.

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    No free premium trial. Impossible to assess value without being able to try premium. Big miss

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App support not 24/7. No instructions.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can’t use for Free. “In App Purchases” is false advertising. They should be required to put a minimum price in the App Store if you can’t use it for free. “In App Purchases”