Productivity Challenge Timer vs Engross: Focus Timer & To-Do Usage & Stats
Productivity Challenge Timer aims to help you be more productive, more focused, waste less time and so on, you already know all that stuff.
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 personal 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.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Productivity
Store Rank
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Engross is a combination of Pomodoro Inspired Timer with Todo list and Day Planner. It helps to keep your work/studies more organized, make you more efficient and get things done faster.
How Engross helps you?
- Be more focused while working or studying.
- Create to-do lists and keep yourself organised.
- Keep record of your sessions and get insights into your work & progress.
- Set daily work targets.
- Label everything to keep better control on time and tasks.
- Keep ADHD at bay.
Engross uses a unique ‘Hit me when you are distracted’ method in its sessions that helps to work with more focus and engagement.
Pomodoro Timer and Stopwatch
• A fully customisable Pomodoro timer with work session length up to 180 minutes and long break up to 240 minutes.
• A Stopwatch when you do not wish to work in fixed sessions or just want to track time.
To-Do list
• Recurring Todo: Create repeating tasks with end dates & custom recurrences for long-running or regular tasks/habits.
• Progressive Todo: Track the progress of long tasks with a progress tracker attached to the task.
• Reminders: Set reminders and get notified when it's time.
• Sub Tasks: Divide Big tasks into smaller and achievable sub-tasks to reach your goal faster and better.
Calendar/Day Planner
• Create events and plan your daily, weekly schedule.
• Get notified with reminders and stay on track with your routine.
• Create Recurring events with daily, weekly and custom repetition.
Focus Timer integration with To-do List
• Attach focus timer with your tasks and start sessions right from the To-do list.
Statistics and Analysis
• Work Statistics and Focus Analysis with 6 different Graphs.
• Summary of work & focus for a quick assessment.
• Detailed History of Work Sessions.
• Filter History and Statistics for each label to get better insights.
Work Target
• Set daily work targets and track hours worked each day.
Labels/Tags
• Label Timer sessions & Tasks to keep your work more organised and analyse time with label-wise Statistics.
White Noise
• Soothing sounds to help you be more focused when working.
Automatic Cloud Backup & Sync
• Automatic backup of your work sessions, tasks, events & labels and sync across your devices.
More features
• Dark mode compatibility.
• Session almost over warning for work and break.
• Pause a work session.
• Automatic and Manual modes for timer.
• Extend timer session in case you need more time to finish work.
Pomodoro™ and Pomodoro Technique® are registered trademarks of Francesco Cirillo. This app is not affiliated with Francesco Cirillo.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Productivity
Store Rank
- -
Productivity Challenge Timer VS. 
Engross: Focus Timer & To-DoDecember 30, 2024