Productivity
Forest: Focus for Productivity
Tree-growing focus timer with app blocking, scheduled phone-free windows and Apple Health sync.
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- Developer
- SEEKRTECH CO., LTD.
- Score
- 4.8
- Downloads
- 10K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 5.33.0
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Set a focus session in Forest and a sapling starts growing; it keeps growing as long as the phone is left alone, and withers if the session is abandoned. Over weeks the completed sessions build into a visual forest, which is a surprisingly effective nudge for students and people working from home. Forest is the original app of this type. Beyond the timer, Allow Lists block chosen apps during sessions (iOS 16 or later), and Time Guard schedules phone-free windows across the day. Friends can plant together in shared sessions, custom tags break down where focused time went, and Mindful Space offers breathing exercises and soundscapes between sessions. Focus time syncs to Apple Health, and completed sessions earn coins that go towards real trees planted with Trees for the Future. Forest Plus, a subscription, triples coin rewards and adds exclusive tree species. The app runs on iPhone and iPad.
Forest: Focus for Productivity: the full guide
What the app is
The original tree-growing timer, and still the one others get compared to. In Forest a sapling grows while the phone is untouched and withers if you quit the session early; weeks of sessions become a forest you can scroll through. SEEKRTECH has since layered on controls that go beyond a timer: Allow Lists that block chosen apps on iOS 16 and later, and Time Guard, which schedules phone-free windows.
Shared planting with friends, custom tags for categorising focus time, breathing exercises and soundscapes under Mindful Space, and Apple Health sync complete the set. Coins earned from sessions fund real trees through Trees for the Future.
How it works day to day
Set a length, tag it (work, study, reading), and plant. If you've enabled an Allow List, the distracting apps are blocked for the duration; otherwise it's on you not to leave. When the timer ends the tree joins your forest and the coins tick up.
Time Guard changes the rhythm: instead of starting sessions, you schedule them, so 9 to 11 every weekday is automatically phone-free. Between blocks, Mindful Space offers a breathing exercise. Plus subscribers earn triple coins and see rarer species.
Why people look for it
Name recognition drives most searches; Forest is the app people have heard of when they look for a focus timer. The app-blocking and scheduling features now give it a second audience, people who want enforcement rather than a game. The real-tree programme is a genuine motivator for some users and a frequent reason the app gets recommended.
Look and feel
Five screenshots appear on the listing, and the forest view, a grid of grown trees, is surely one of them since it's the app's identity. Expect a clean illustrated style with a round timer and plenty of green, consistent with the Productivity category. The blocking and schedule screens will be more functional. The input doesn't describe them.
