Focus Keeper Pro - Manage Time Reviews

No longer runs in background

Jarovize

Edit: with the update releases 06/14 the app does run in the background and in the widget for about two minutes and then it randomly stops possibly to do with using the phone for other tasks or who knows why. Point being it runs for a moment and quits this update DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM!!!! App in its current form remains unusable. OP: This is a great app and I’ve used it for a long time I love that it previously functioned in the widget on lock screen as well. I know you have had problems with the previous update and just released an additional update attempting to rectify those issues but at this point the app only works when the phone is unlocked and open if I do something else or lock the screen it stops counting and therefore is no longer working in the widget screen in either locked or unlocked mode. I love this app and it is still helpful but sometimes I need to do other tasks on my phone and it would be great if the timer didn’t stop. Is there still work being done to rectify this issue? Any idea when an update or fix will be available? Thanks!

update

Instaa-user

i used to love this app but i’m not sure if there was a new update that changed things? now when i disable “prevent screen lock” to try and save my battery life on my devices it doesn’t accurately keep track of my time spent studying (i’ve timed it and it lags and it ends up documenting a lot less time than i actually have spent studying). it also no longer works when i decide to utilize another app which is super inconvenient. i don’t want to have my screen on for hours i would like to be able to have my screen lock and still keep track of my studying on this app! pls fix i do enjoy this app a lot!!

Has potential, but needs to be thought through more

Wattslefft

Focus Keeper Review Focus Keeper is close to being a great app, it’s just too buggy and not thought through enough to be an everyday app for most Pomodoro technique practitioners. Positive first: the interface is beautiful, very clean, a gorgeous app to look at, and having a session automatically leading into a break leading into a session is great, that has really helped keep my break times to a minimum. But usage needs to be more thought out. For example, making a simple audio change like when I’m listening to a podcast during my session (I want ticking off) or working at my computer (I want ticking on) takes 7 button presses! This is way too many. Also, a bug: Focus Keeper is supposed to reset the number of sessions you’ve done so far each day, and indeed the first time you use it each day it asks if you’d like to reset, but it usually ignores your response (hasn’t reset 4/5 days so far). Per Pomodoro “rules” Focus Keeper has long breaks built in, which is really cool, but it doesn’t let you skip them. I sometimes pause a long break because the time on long breaks varies for me, and when I resume I just want to skip it and go to my session. If I do that it will come up again after my next session, and again after the next, and so on, until I actually fulfill a long session. It got so annoying that I finally deactivated that feature (by making a “round” which is usually 4 sessions, something long, like 30 so it doesn’t come up). Overall, this app feels like it’s about 80% thought through. It definitely needs to smooth its rough edges, but once it does I think it’ll be a killer app for people who use the Pomodoro system.

Used to be my go to Timer app for a long time

MachiN9

I’ve being waiting for a fix to this problem for months now, but so far all recent updates have not fixed it. This app for whatever reason don’t work in the background anymore. I would turn it on, and it would run in the background for a tiny bit and then it would stop. If this app. Can not run in the background, then it isn’t useable for me anymore. This is so upsetting as this was my favorite app. It was that good and still can be, but without the ability to have this app run in the background it is USELESS!!!

Doesn't Work In Background

everyeffinnnameistaken

The time doesn't elapse on it when it's in the background. I set the timer and a stopwatch on Google. After 2 minutes and 15 seconds had elapsed on the stopwatch, the timer had only passed 35 seconds.

Suggestions for fix/change

KangPKU

The app works overall fine and has been useful. That said, starting from earlier this year/late last year, the first round of 4 sessions would go smoothly, but after I skip the 25 minutes break and go directly to the next group of 4, each interval is that 25 minutes break (instead of the 5 minutes one). Was this done on purpose to promote a 25 mine break? Would much prefer being able to skip/jump as I wish.

It’s good!

Shraga!bz

I had this app (the free version) on my older device, it worked perfectly! Switched to a new phone and used the auto backup process to set it and now it is all messed up. First the app version I had didn’t even open (the only app that failed the auto move process), so I had to delete and reinstall it. Then, the new version I installed didn’t support any of the cool features I loved so much, they are all blocked now under the “get pro version” wall. Very poor experience to have it all open and then get a crippled version when upgrading my phone... Ok, so I bought the pro version and guess what, the main feature that made me do it won’t even work!! Trying to set a song from my music library as the ticking sound keep failing, and actually does nothing (won’t even open my songs list to pick from). For me it was the main feature (it is an awesome feature) that distinguished this app from the rest of the similar apps out there. Not only that I could set a song as ticking sound but I could also have it keep playing in the background when other sounds (videos, lectures etc) were playing simultaneously. And now it is all gone.... Rather than that the app is fine but doesn’t offer any key advantage compared to many free timer apps. Please fix it. The app support link leads to a tumblr page ? so I had to write this review as a support ticket in addition to a message I’ve sent on tumblr (didn’t get any response to it). —- UPDATE—- They have finally fixed it!

As of most recent update, timer stops running in background when I switch to a different app

haplessharpooneers

This app was working perfectly for me for years until the most recent update. As of today, whenever I switch screens, the timer stops running. I’m resorting to posting this review because, as at least one other reviewer has pointed out, the app and “application support” link to a tumblr page, which displays a different email address than the contact address given in the app and its most recent posts were in 2014. I’ve tried contacting the other email address—the one given in the app (I can’t be sure that email address is even still in use)—but haven’t heard back.

Bug since last update

Leandrolra

I’ve been using Focus Keeper for a while and it’s my pomodoro app of choice. But since the last update the timer stops when the app is in background, making my device useless when I need to track a pomodoro session.

used to be great now it doesn’t work

jeffjlin7

all the behaviors have changed and it no longer works well.

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