Productivity Challenge Timer
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | Free | Vladimir Jovanovic | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
What this app is really about is challenging you to work harder and tracking your work habits. You'll earn/lose ranks depending on your performance, earn achievements and track your productivity over time, so you'll know how long you worked on what and during which days of the week and hours of the day you're at your most productive.
Now here's a few things you should know before downloading:
- This is not an organizer. If you can't keep track of what you're supposed to be doing, this is not the app for you. The app includes tracking of projects so you know how much time you spent working on each of your clients/books/websites/whatever - like a time sheet, but it's not meant to be an organizer or a to-do list.
- This app will not let you pause work sessions or finish them early, so if you have a tiny baby-sized bladder and you need to pause every few minutes, this is not the app for you. The shortest work session you can set is 10 minutes and you're not supposed to be interrupted. Besides, I use this app too, and I'd be the first to abuse that pause feature to go look up useless nonsense instead of getting work done.
- The purpose of this app is not to promote a healthy work-life balance, but to get you to work harder. Because of this, it does not recognize weekends or holidays or parenting or any other excuse people come up with to take time off, and it will demote you if you start slipping. Please don't expect the app to validate your goals, its sole purpose is to make you work harder, even when you shouldn't.
That's it, thanks for reading and I hope you find this app as useful as I do.
Reviews
Helped in improving productivity
him.reva@gmail
User friendly Enjoyed Using it Work became fun & focus increased
Very Helpful, but...
JacquelynJay
The app stops music if it is playing in the background. I use music to help me concentrate but every time I pull this app to the forefront it pauses my music, which gets annoying when you would like the app open and visible, but also want music to be playing. Other than this I really like the app. I just hope they fix whatever is causing music to stop.
Effective!
Bad Yams
I've been searching for an effective productivity app for a while now, and this does the job extremely well for me. I love looking at my stats at the end of the day! My only annoyance is, when I opt to skip a break- I usually hit the skip button and continue work. However, another click is needed to start work again. Minor issue that I'm still trying to get the habit of remembering. I guess I'd rather log less work than more than what I'm really doing. :p
Great App, Please Fix Music Issue
MileHigh Maniac
Great app and performs exactly per the description. The only issue I've noticed is that it pauses music (Spotify/podcasts) when you go back to the app with an ongoing work session. There's a workaround by starting a work session, muting the sound in the productivity app, playing your music/podcast and then navigating back to the productivity app and unmuting the timer. That's the only way I've found to still be able to play music while the timer is ongoing and the app open. Please work on addressing this issue in the next release.
Love the judgements!
Pamlovesbooks
It's a good thing this is an app bc if it were a real person I'd wanna throat punch it. I love how judgey the comments are, they keep me motivated so I don't have to imagine it's face. Negative reinforcement for sure, but it's only for the cool kids. And possibly the insane.
Great overall, but please different sounds.
Athena Mannings
I've been using this app for years, first on my two Android phones and now on my iPhone. Bought the full version both times. My only gripe are the harsh sounds as another reviewer mentioned. Even with the volume turned down they are very jarring. Please give us the option to pick our own sounds. A simple ding would do just fine. Thanks for a great app.
Nice but would like a couple nav upgrades
tdj1031
1) would like to change the duration of a session from the work screen ( not the project screen) 2) would like to be able to log a session manually 3) would like to have categories for home, work, etc - I have to do this with the project desk now.
