Hatch - Focus Timer for Study

This is an incredibly fun way of helping me to stay focused, and prevent me from compulsively checking my phone when I’m completing boring tasks. As someone with ADHD, this has been invaluable! Not only do I use it to prevent me from checking my phone while completing tedious tasks, but as a way to help me race against the clock. I set the timer in the app that I need to focus for before my alien hatches, and then challenge myself to complete the task before my time runs out. This turns the tedious task into a game, and has helped me to complete tedious tasks in less than half the time it would take for me to complete them if I didn’t have this app! The baby aliens are absolutely adorable, and I love making a game out of collecting all of the different aliens! This game is not only a great way of preventing you from compulsively checking your phone, but is also an amazing time saver and productivity tool, because it not only prevents you from compulsively checking your phone, but it also helps you get twice as much done with your day than you otherwise would by giving you a fun goal to reach (collecting the alien) by racing against the clock. This an awesome app for anyone, but especially for someone like me who has ADHD, this app has been invaluable! Highly recommended!

Don’t get me wrong, I like the app structure. I like how it’s a hatching game and how longer sessions give you rarer pets… but I hate the other features. First, no breaks. I get that some people might ask, well why can’t I just use the focus timer as a break? For me, it doesn’t provide the same satisfaction because I get a egg as a reward while the break IS supposed to be the break. Plus, this also unmotivates me as it makes me collect eggs faster (will quit this timer after collecting all pets). Second, the radio from the tutorial is nowhere to be found. Third, I hate how there’s no settings, no toggle, NOTHING. Fourth, there’s no alarm. Even if I finish my session, I can’t detect that I did because it doesn’t signal me. This brings me to my fourth issue, it deletes my timer when I return back to the app. Sometimes, I like to check the alarm to see how much time I have left after a assignment is finished. Well, I did just that, and I got JUMPSCARED by a void cutscenes with LOUD sounds (I have heart problems, don’t do me like this). This is SUPER annoying and is the reason why I’m quitting this app. Overall, this app barely even has the bare minimum.

I have never written a review on an app. This app is great. I try to personally do a lot of mindful meditation when I can and I’ve been wanting my 6 and 3 yr old to do something like mindful meditation but never knew what to do. This was awesome and they loved it. They want to hatch more. My 6 year old wants a legendary and elite! The downside is when I tell them to stare and focus they both shake their heads when the egg shakes. Haha -They look kind of funny. My only suggestion would be to add 2-10 minutes as individual time options. This would be great for timeouts or just a break from everything. Well done, nice concept! It’s been 10 minutes and they are still talking about going after the elite, and wondering what other types of species there might be. 👍