Best Focus Apps to Boost Your Productivity

Maintaining focus and productivity is becoming more and more challenging with the increasing number of digital distractions (apps, social media, websites and others) and then to increase productivity one opts for multitasking ineffectively. The solution to this is Focus Apps which help individuals and teams stay focused, block distractions and increase their productivity. Corporate Citizen brings to you some of the popular Focus Apps

Freedom: This app is available for android and iOS devices. You can choose the websites to be blocked during the focus session. You can prepare multiple block lists of websites and apps for various activities or times of the day. If you need focus sounds to increase your concentration, then you can choose from a range of sounds. It also enables you to set up regular focus sessions for daily routines. To instill self-discipline, you can’t turn off the focus sessions once it begins. There is a free version and a paid version with extra features.

Forest: This app enables you to focus your attention on your tasks and complete them. These tasks could be like completing your home or office work, responding to your emails and spending quality time with your friends or family. A virtual tree gets planted when you begin working on a task, this tree will grow till you keep focused on it, but if you leave the app halfway without completing the task then your virtual tree will die. A free version is available only for android devices while paid version is available for both android and iOS devices.

Rescue Time: This app helps you manage your time effectively through an automated time tracking software. It shows you exactly what you’re doing on your computer every hour of the day. It gives reports and graphs of daily activities. It is available for both android and iOS devices. After a free trial period, you need to buy the subscription plans.

Focus To-Do: It combines Pomodoro Timer and task management to help the user to remain focused on his/her work. You can prepare a list of works, organise tasks in your to do-list, start focus timer. You can also set reminders for important tasks and errands, check time spent at work. You can synchronise data between multiple devices. You can set due date to not to miss deadlines, split a task into small pieces, repeat tasks. This app is available for both android and iOS devices and has free and paid version.

Engross: This app is inspired from the Francesco Cirillo’s pomodoro technique. You can set work timers and break timers as well as manage to-do-list using this app. Further, you can break down your work and time into sessions for better management of work and time. This app is available for both android and iOS devices. The subscribed version has extra features. It is available for both android and iOS devices.