Power Focus - Work Break Timer

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1. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   What’s up with the adds?. Why is there no option to opt out of the adds? This app is supposed to help you concentrate but you can’t do that with the lower banner with adds.

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

   Ads. This app is ad-supported. The author should state this in the description.

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

   Problematic.... I lose track of time when I’m working almost as easily as I do when I’m taking a break. So I need something like this for studying/homework assignments. The trouble is, I’m also easily distracted when I’m getting notifications, so I put my phone on “do not disturb,” which silences the app... I don’t know if that’s a flaw in the phone itself, or if it rests on the developer... but it makes this app impractical for me.

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

   Full of bugs. Sometimes it rings when the timer hasn't finished yet. Sometimes it doesn't ring. There are this problems when you may stop and continue the timer or do something like receiving a call or answer on whatsapp. I hope you can fix it, It would be the best app of this kind!

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

   Doesn't start break when screen is off. So... No breaks for ever if I don't wake my phone?

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

   ad appears.. Don't download it If you don't like ads.

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

   I wanted to like it, but.. Good interface, but I would up having to delete it because the sound between timers isn't loud enough and I could never hear it.

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

   pro version has banner ads. this is not the pomodoro timer you're looking for. don't waste your $.

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

   This app has ads. Please note this app has ads. But it doesn't say in the description.

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

    Not reliable. I am disappointed with this app. It locks up and fails to cycle appropriately. I have paused it and then taken it off pause with the timer sounding from the original time while the timer shows 7 min left. It has never given the longer break after 3 pomodoro's as it is set. I work past my effective time and feel drained not productive using it as I become distracted by its inability to monitor time properly. I find my self attention switching to see if it is working properly.

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

    Beautiful but hungry. This is a well designed app with an intuitive interface. It shows adds while you're using it, but it's free, so that's expected/excusable. What's not excusable is how data hungry it is. Over the course of 3 hours, it used 20 mb of data! I'm on a limited data plan, so this was a bit of a blow. If you want to use it, I strongly suggest turning off data usage for this app. Beyond that, it also shows incompatibility with the current iOS, in that it does not reliably signal the end of a pomodoro when the screen is off. I will not be using it anymore.

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

    "Pro Version" has distracting banner ads. Misleading as other reviewers note because banner ads aren't mentioned before you buy. No way to upgrade out of ads. Distracting! With other pomodoro apps available - shop elsewhere. Can I get my money back?

13. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    No notifications. There are no notifications, please add this feature and I'll update the review.

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

    Not what I need. Some of us work and need to use our devices. This app stops the timer when you open other apps. Not useful for my needs.

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

    almost what I need. I was super excited when I found this app because it’s exactly what I’m looking for. I want to choose how long the sessions are, and the short and long breaks, and I don’t need any fancy extra stuff cluttering the main screen. The only problem is that the notifications don’t work! Yeah, they show up on my home screen, but I have all the sound and vibration settings on (both the app and my phone and watch settings) and yet nothing’s happening. If it would just vibrate my watch when a session or break ends, this would be awesome.

16. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Watch app needs work. The phone app is fine - simple, easy to navigate and set up. The watch app is a different story. It works for a period of time and then just stops. I’ll press “continue” after a work session and it won’t connect with the phone app to start the next break. Which is a key reason I want to use it. I’ve had this happen about 3 weeks ago, and then deleted and reinstalled the app. Unfortunately the same thing keeps happening. If this bug can be fixed, the app is quite useful.

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

    Nice and clean but missing a feature I needed. Love the simplicity of the app but sadly it had one major miss for me: the ability to disable auto-start on the breaks and timers. You can manually pause them, but if I'm trying to finish my train of thought before I take a break, I don't want to interrupt myself by having to reach over to pause the break timer. If that feature were added, I'd re-download in a heartbeat!

18. ★★★★★excessive or broken notifications

    Just a couple problems. Pleeease fix these bugs. They’re driving me crazy. I’ve loved this app for years - I used it to stay focused studying in college, and I now use it while I’m working. It’s very simple and overall functional. I just have three issues. 1. The app for the Apple Watch NEVER gives me alerts when the timer’s done. I’ll be working and go over my work timer (but I don’t know it because it hasn’t made a noise), and I eventually realize it’s been a while, turn my watch to look at it, and the screen lights up and the timer goes off. So the watch version is effectively useless. I’ve messed with lots of settings for alarms, and I know my sound is on, etc. It just doesn’t work. 2. The phone app does give me alerts, but they’re always wrong if I’m not currently on the app. Just now I was on a different app on my phone when the work timer supposedly finished, so it beeped and the banner alert showed up. I tapped on it, only to find out I actually had over 11 minutes left on the timer. Why did it alert me that it was done? It wasn’t?? 3. Sometimes, the timer cycle just stops running. Just now, I started my work timer, then switched to messages and the camera a couple times, then went back to the timer and it had stopped completely and went back to displaying the initial time of 30 minutes. No reason. No alert. It's so annoying, and it totally throws off the work-break cycle I was on. So, basically, the app is most useful when I leave my phone open where I can look at the timer. Please fix these issues!!

19. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not a very good watch app. I wanted to like this, but it's very clear that the app's priority is the phone app, not the watch part, which makes it less than useful for me. There is a watch app, and it kinda works, but it's just missing too much. What's missing includes - no complication - no integration with Siri (and specifically the Siri watch face) - no notification that break times are over It's OK if you insist on a free app: attractive, apparently bugfree, does what it promises. But I'm willing to pay real money to have an app that delivers a much better watch experience.

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Clean App, but I wish I could purchase the Ads away.... I’d give it five stars if I could buy an in App purchase for under $3 that would make the phone App ad free. It would also be the dream if it was cross platform and my multiple Macs, Phone, and Watch all knew how productive I was and synced together. Ok I’d bump the cost up to $5 for that.

21. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    I would pay to take away the ads.. The app is great- I don’t need stats, just a Pomodoro timer with options, that doesn’t penalize me for looking at the timer. That said, I would be willing to pay to remove the ads. I have to hide the bottom half of my phone to not be distracted by them- bad for an app meant to help with focus.

22. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Widget for Apple Watch?. Would be great if you added a little widget so I can see this on the home screen of my Apple Watch!

23. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Nothing fancy, just a streamlined timer app.. Does what it says it will, nothing extra. I appreciate that you don’t have to pay to literally use a timer like other apps.

24. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    no alarm+ads😶. no alarm when iphone is locked! ads?!its very bad!!:( no option for remove ads!!

25. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Love it. My favorite work timer. I've got 3 suggestions: 1) I wish that it could run in the background. 2) The alarm beeps are pretty annoying and excessive, I'd prefer if it just beeped maybe 3 times. It goes on and on and makes me want to throw my phone across the room. 3) I would love it if there was a Mac app! It would be great to be able to run this app straight from my laptop while I'm working, so I could turn my phone off to prevent distractions. Overall, good app. Thanks!

26. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Great with a minor problem. Overall, this works very well but I've noticed that if I have to pause a round, the notification that my time is up is based on the original start time and ignores the time for which you paused.

27. ★★★★★clear and easy workflow

    Great with one problem. Great intuitive simple app but add a widget to see time left and start next cycle easier

28. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Making me more productive. I love this app! I've only used it for a few days and I'm already more productive. My only problems are that the "stop" button is way to easy to accidentally press, and also the "long break" doesn't seem to be working for me.

29. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Love this.. I wish I could pay to remove the ads, because this is great.

30. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Nice, simple app. The thing I like most about this app is it simplicity. It does what it is supposed to do with no bells or whistles. It is supposed break up your work time into chunks of your own devising. When the timer goes off it's time for a short break. You can set the length of the break time as well. You get up and stretch or exercise or do whatever and then you get back to work. This is a great health enhancing app And it is one of my favorites.