Hey guys, welcome back to the keep productive YouTube channel today's feature. We're diving into a bear focus timer
We're going to be giving you a full review of this experience and how you can use the Pomodoro timer and one it noise application
As a way to keep focused when you're working whether in your new office or you're actually revising for an exam or something like that
It will give you an opportunity to keep focused and we'll be reviewing it's a $1 99 app for iOS
I believe they have an Android application, but they don't actually have a link to on the website
I'll include all you need to know in this review without further ado guys. Let's dive into bear focus timer
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They're focused time has been on the App Store for some time now and it gets a lot of love from those who love
Illustration this application is really well designed now primarily
This application is a Pomodoro timer and a white noise application
So let's go ahead and explore the iOS app and see what features you can get into now
The concept is pretty simple. You set a timer and flip your phone
Now the timer doesn't start until you do this and when flipped it does pause
So for example, if you wanted to interrupt your session, you can do that quickly
There's a lot of settings you can change which helps to improve each session you do
For example how long you actually have to focus for so for example?
If you're leaving a coffee shop in like 15 minutes
you can set it to 15 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever you want if you will be even better at longer sessions like
45 minutes that's gonna be ideal for you
You can actually set how many sessions you want to do as well when at 3 or 4
Which is typically what people go with in a cycle
and also how long your break is as well because some people want a shorter and longer break and also
You can set how long your long break is after those amount of sessions have done
You can also change the noise and the alert sound which is brilliant
Now this 10-minute session can be a lifesaver. Now when I was able to do it the sound wasn't half bad
actually
When you flip the app over the sound begins and it used the white noise
Ray mode and actually felt like I was in the middle of a thunderstorm
I actually at one point checked it outside because I was like, oh my god
This is quite scary
Because the sound quality was quite good despite the Sun being outside and not sure why I did that now
How does this compare to applications like forests now? I would say forest is a bit more interactive
You can record some form of achievement
For example, you actually get to see the forest you've built over time in the ones
You've killed I guess but in bare folks timer, it does have a similar feature by giving you what's called compliment cards
Which is a nice addition and you can collect these cards over time
now who's this app for and I would say this is a good foe Christel for students and
professionals who want to use pomos and a desk to do more
the one thing that makes this out more effective is the sound this is a great endorser for
students and those in sessions during the session
I felt like I knew when the timer was on and
Off and when I should be working and not even touching it, it doesn't do anything magical like block calls
But that's something you can do when setting your notification settings on iPhone
So it's a good application actually quite a solid inconsistent app and a good way to get started
Giving some early wins for those focus sessions you do do and they were guys
I hope you enjoyed this review of their focus timer. You can download it in description below
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