Focus Friend by Hank Green

Focus time with a friendly companion

Focus Friend by Hank Green is a productivity app built around timed focus sessions. You choose a period to work, stay with the session, and take planned breaks rather than drifting between tasks. A small Bean Friend gives the process a more personal feel, making the app a good fit for students, remote workers, and anyone who finds plain countdown timers too easy to ignore.

A softer approach to staying on task

The app turns concentration into a simple routine: start a session, keep working until the timer ends, then use the break period before beginning again. Your Bean Friend is tied to that progress, so ending a session early has more weight than closing an ordinary timer. This gives users a gentle form of accountability without framing every missed session as a failure.

• Focus sessions: Work through timed intervals with built-in breaks.
• Distraction control: Deep Focus Mode can block distracting apps while a session is active.
• Personal touches: Bean skins and decorations provide ways to customize the companion and workspace.
• At-a-glance progress: Live Activity support lets compatible devices show timer progress without reopening the app.

Who it suits

Focus Friend is best for people who want structure but dislike the clinical feel of many productivity tools. Its cozy presentation and visual rewards may be especially useful if motivation, attention switching, or starting a work block is the main obstacle. It is less about managing a large task list and more about helping you give one task a defined stretch of attention.

At a glance

Published by Honey B Games, the app is listed in Productivity and has earned a 4.33/5 rating from 6,350 reviews, with 1,000,000+ installs. Those figures point to an established audience for its companion-based take on focused work.