Focus Friend by Hank Green
When you Focus, your Bean will Focus in this cozy, gamified productivity timer
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App Info
Rating
Rated for 3+
Release
Jul 23, 2025
Last Update
Adds Dog Beans and ability to remove decorations + bug fixes
Genre
Productivity
About
Focus Friend is a cozy, gamified focus timer created by online educator Hank Green! When you Focus, your Bean Friend will Focus. If you interrupt your Bean by turning off the timer, they'll be really really sad. Complete your focus session, and this cute Bean will give you prizes to buy decorations to help furnish their room. Perfect for anyone who struggles with long sessions of concentration. Focus Friend is for students and beyond. Features: - Live Activity: See your timer progress when your phone is locked - Deep Focus Mode: Lock distracting apps during your focus sessions - Break Timers: Decorate on your breaks, using the Pomodoro method of productivity - Hundreds of decorations: Decorate your room in different fun themes - Bean Skins: Try on different Bean types to customize your Focus Friend (Coffee Bean, Edamame Bean, Pinto Bean, Kitty Bean, or even Hank and John Green... Or rather Hank and John Bean!) Focus Friend will even help you with getting started on your tasks and getting into the flow of your work or studying or even chores. Stay Focused, Have Fun, Drink Water, and Don't Forget to be Awesome~
Reviews
Isla Ferguson
almost perfect! however, pomodoro-style focusing just doesn't quite work for me. I would love love love if there was a stopwatch option as well as the standard timer. I usually need to focus until a task is complete or at a natural stopping point, rather than for a specific amount of time. as it is right now, I have to set a second timer so that I know when my focus friend timer is up (would also love an alarm feature so I know when my timer is done!) and then set another timer on focus friend.
Katherine Hajer
Even the free version of focus friend has enough going on to make it well worth the while to install and use it. The bean character is fun without being annoying. The one thing I wish I could do is choose the decoration items from a list instead of having to try and click on them in the room. That works great when you're decorating for the first time and you can click on the choose buttons, but when you're gradually switching to a different theme, it's hard to click on items to replace them.
Matdredalia (Mattie)
I'd been searching for a focus app desperately and then, like magic, I find out one of my favorite celebrities has made an app for EXACTLY my needs. I'm a knitter. Destroying knitting? Unfathomable. I will protect this bean's knitting at all costs. Which is why this app is PERFECT. 11/10. Bless you, Hank. Thanks! Edit: I do wish we could change the wallpaper and flooring colors in our rooms. 💜
Daniela Manole
I like it so far. BUT I WANT MORE. More rooms, more beans and most importantly NEW MUSIC. I like keeping the app open while I work and listening to the soundtrack but it gets too repetitive after a while. I'd like to be able to choose from a multitude of songs and make a playlist. And I'd like for them to be unlockable with the game currency edit: I would also suggest making events and giving people nice time limited decorations for everyone. The goals could be reaching a target focus time
ooXSPIRIT WOLFXoo
I absolutely love this app! it's super cute, and one of the bean skins looks like my cat. I hope they add tons of more decorations and skins, even maybe some clothes for the beans in the future! I personally am doing homework for 7 hours a day, and I get a ton of socks and scarves made. it almost makes the process of getting decorations a little too easy, so maybe there could be an easy, medium, and hard mode. overall, I think this is an amazing app for people who have procrastination like me.
Kai K
brilliant. absolutely love this and it's genuinely been so helpful. the only thing I'd like to see different is a pause function. often I want to get up and get a drink/etc mid focus session but don't want to lose 5 or so minutes of said focus time, or want to just take a like 2 minute breather/etc when working on hard tasks.
Andrea Johnson
Very cute little focus timer! I was glad to see that additional content is planned soon (please hurry), because I'll run out of incentives pretty quickly. I agree with other reviewers that additional rooms, customizable beans, and outfits would be great additions. Maybe some snacks for my bean. It's silly, but these little rewards really do motivate me!
I W
Very good experience overall. Good privacy - this does mean that if you delete the app your progress will actually be gone. They're not harvesting your data. That's a good thing, but I saw some people were confused by it. Please add the option to unlock the second room with money instead of socks. I would happily pay you £5 for that. I like that all the main functions are free but there are options to pay if you can and want to.
A M
I love this little app! It is the perfect incentive to leave my phone alone while I'm focused on other things. One of the best uses so far has been setting it for 15-30 minutes when I'm crawling in bed. It helps me not pick up my phone and do all the last-minute things I think of and then end up distracted and awake until 2:00 am. I get to settle well and still have my phone at arms reach when I wake up or if there is an emergency.
Randi Whipple
I love it for sleeping, just getting off my phone for a few minutes in between activities to clear my mind and reading. I wish there was a black cat bean for Halloween, and different music (maybe for sleeping?), and I heard talk about more rooms which would be cool. focus house that timers built. oh, longer timers? but, it's really great so far, and I'm really pleased with it.
Feagochi
It's really good in theory, but not so much in practice. Unfortunately, without paying for the full app, it doesn't serve its purpose all that well. The Deep focus option makes it so it can actually tell if I am on another app, the problem is, without paying you can't allow any apps to function while you have a focus timer on. If an alarm goes off, its a fight. if Deep Focus isn't on, you can just use your phone normally, even if you have a focus timer on.