CONCLUSION FLIPD

From the beginning, this app looks more polished and organized than the other apps. When you first open the app you are shown an easy to understand tutorial which shows all of the features and advertises the premium version. There are many options for timers; a normal timer, a pomodoro timer, and a stopwatch timer where you study and live with other people. The study live timer is a good idea in my opinion because it makes people feel like they aren’t the only ones who are studying and are all doing it as a group. It doesn’t disappear from the screen, which is both good and bad here. It is good because you can see how many minutes you have been focused and see options like pausing, finishing, and multitasking, which means turning on a feature that makes it so that you can leave the app without the timer pausing the timer. It also offers lofi music or white noise to help focusing, but the problem with all of these features offered and not disappearing is that it is distracting. I keep feeling the need to glance over to see how much time I have studied and also see how many people are studying, out of curiosity.

What is quite nice about this app is how you can set goals for yourself. It automatically gives you a goal of studying for three hours, which you can change.

For the normal timer, something I don’t like is how it continues to count up instead of down.

Overall, this is my verdict: My favorite app was FocusPomo, with Flipd being a close runner up. FocusPomo was just simple to use with an amusing but not ridiculous motivator. Flipd was very nice as well, but there were just too many features for me. I think it would work very well though for people who enjoy being very organized. Flora might work for some, but not for me. I’m still haunted by “You killed a tree”, and probably will be forever. Focus Land is just weird. Focus Pomo for the win.