silo - focus and study timer 4+
A focus timer for your wrist
Omar Hijaz
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Limited offer: upgrade to SILO Pro for Apple Watch Complications and more, for a lifetime purchase.
Pomodoro-style focus timer made for the Apple Watch.
With distractions all around the hardest part is getting started. With Silo Focus, a tap on the wrist reminds you to focus and take breaks. Silo on the Apple Watch lets you work in quiet spaces (library or office) without disturbing those around you.
Focus-Break (pomodoro) method: 25 minutes of focus with 5-minute breaks in between. Studies show that taking breaks between periods of uninterrupted focus is a healthy way to boost productivity. Having this super power right on your wrist, makes it even better.
How it works (phone or watch)
1. List your top tasks of the day
2. Pull up your Apple Watch (or iPhone), and hit FOCUS
3. A tap on the wrist tells you when to take a break and back to focus
4. Rinse and repeat
FEATURES
- #1 focus timer on Apple Watch
- Haptic feedback for discreet focus
- Auto-pause between each focus-break
- Adjust timer intervals right from your watch
- Distraction-free mode in airplane mode
- Pause and resume a session
UPGRADE TO SILO PRO (one-time purchase)
- All new watch Complications
- Plan your day using To Do’s and reminders
- Add #tasks to your focus session
- Mark tasks as Done
- Save timer intervals as a presets using #tasks
- Track daily and weekly focus time with Stats
- Stats and #tasks are backed up to iCloud
- Dark Mode
"To add something to your daily life without too much intrusion or making it complicated, that's what the watch is all about, and I think this app does a great job of that”
—Apple WatchCast Podcast
For questions or feedback, please reach out at support@silofocus.com
https://silofocus.com/terms
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What’s New
Version 2.0.2
Support for the newest Apple Watch complications.
General stability and reliability improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Beta testers?!
The latest app update calls us beta testers?! That would have been nice to know before *paying to purchase*.
Little functionality on phone, needs a watch to be useful.
Developer Response ,
All new update! Please check it out and revisit your review. Appreciate your support!
Nice watch app for timeboxing
This is the kind of focus timer I’ve been looking for, I really like the complication and the nudge when the timer is up. It’s simple, clean, and unobtrusive.
The reason for the 4 stars instead of 5 is that I think the cycles feature is really confusing. I couldn’t find any explanation for why the cycles exists, and only really got it after trial and error.
Basically, the cycles just repeats the work + break cycle that number of times. Seems obvious, but here’s the catch: it doesn’t seem to log work time unless you complete *all* the cycles. So if you choose 4x, but only do two cycles, that work won’t be recorded. Secondly, if you choose the 1x cycle, it seems to skip the break altogether and just exit.
If I could suggest an improvement, I think the cycles feature could be removed altogether, and instead at the end of a work/break timer it could give you a few options: Start break, start work, dismiss. Then, it just repeats as many times as the user doesn’t press dismiss.
Poor response in app
This app on the Apple Watch doesn’t let you know when the focus time is up and it jumps out when the watch screen goes off. Tends to also log when you haven’t auctioned sometimes. Great idea poorly executed the screens are ok but again the vibration and alarm for a finished focus session don’t seem to work on the watch.
The timer analogue display is good but should have the Digital under neath as well.
iPhone seems to work ok.
With a few little tweaks it would be a great little app.
Maybe play some of your favorite music which a person could select when its time for a break.
Developer Response ,
All new update! Please check it out and revisit your review. Appreciate your support!
App Privacy
The developer, Omar Hijaz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
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- User Content
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Information
- Seller
- Omar Hijaz
- Size
- 18.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 6.2 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 dark matter developers
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- SILO Pro $2.99
- Unlock Pro Features $5.99