Focus Plant：forest app blocker

I didn’t find this app motivating. Too much game play that seems kinda irrelevant to helping me focus. “Points” (raindrops) come mainly from meeting random and even irrelevant challenges rather than from actual time spent focusing, which is rather discouraging if their challenges don’t align with your goals or intents. I find there are too many things to keep track of too. I like simplicity. Anything more than that seems a waste of time. I love the website StudyTogether, but can only track one thing on there, so I went looking for something similar that would help me to track something else, but haven’t found anything, so I tried this, but this is just too cluttered with a bunch of things to keep track of which felt like a waste of time. There also doesn’t seem to be a way to turn off the haptics. Each time you water a plant it shakes your phone about three times. This is a waste of battery life and feels annoying too. I also don’t need a whitelist since I rarely use my phone for anything other than calls and if a call comes in, I must take it and don’t want to lose track of how much time I spent on my task, not to mention that feels punitive. I also would just end the session since I can’t talk and work on my task also. So, I just end up doing 5 minutes at a time so I don’t get penalized, but that is disruptive of flow. I don’t need a babysitter. I needed an app that encourages me to spend more time on my task and tracks it accurately. Growing plants seemed fun, but looking at the plants didn’t give me a feel for how much I’d focused, which would have been encouraging. The two felt out of sync. If you are looking for something similar to what I was, then this may not be the app for you.

This app is the only one that actually motivates me so much more to focus on my work!! The many plants and levels you can unlock keeps this game going for me. Bonus—everything in this game is so adorable and the animation is joyful and nice to look at. Also, THANK YOU for not making this app so ad heavy like other apps can be! The only way you need to watch ads is if you want bonus rewards which is a pretty good incentive because I always want extra rewards to grow my plants and buy more things from the store 🙂 I really can’t wait until the developers make a multiplayer mode for focusing on tasks, I think that’d be pretty cool! One thing I think would be cool to add, is if you can actually see the gardeners around the plants! I find myself pretty disconnected from the gardeners so adding this feature would make it much more enjoyable and realistic? 🙂 Lastly, if there could be more options for land bgm and white noise such as coffee shop jazz or people talking in the background, etc., that’d be awesome! Instead of me having to go on my laptop to play some bg noise, this would be convenient! Other than that, great job developers! Keep up the good work!

I very much love this game. It’s so adorable and it excites me to know what other species of each realm I have unlocked. I personally love this game a lot because it revolves around gardening; I garden myself and I try to learn more about it. The game itself is self-explanatory for the most part. The game itself is manageable without any in-app purchases in my opinion. I have no particular issue with app thus far. I can’t wait for the upcoming updates for this app although. I’m not sure if the 3rd stage evolution of the plants is a secret that must be figured out or if it just hasn’t been patched in yet. I’d like to get insight on that to be honest. Overall, great app that has adorable characters/plants/atmosphere. In regards to its effectiveness as a focus app, I’d say it does a great job. I honestly have a phone addiction and I’d spend hours on my phone watching YouTube/Netflix, scrolling through social media, and so on. Even with the app limits that Apple implemented, I still find myself bargaining with myself to add more time to these apps. I consciously know that I’m doing it, yet I can’t get myself out of that habit quite yet. The basic function of the app which is focusing for durations of time to earn more water to grow and to plant new plants has helped me reducing my screen time and focus on my coursework for college. I’m so grateful to have come across this app and the developers who created it.