If you’re looking for an app to keep you from going down a social media or procrastination rabbit hole, this is the one for you. Very nice to use app with incentive to spend more time being present to unlock more foliage to build in your forest.

It said the app costs $1.99, but I was billed $2.11. It’s not a big difference, but I don’t like when apps are deceptive and misleading for no reason at all.

Thank you!!

People need to use this app when studying and even hanging out with friends so you're not constantly disconnected. Great idea and execution. Thank you Forest creators.

This app helps me stay on task and makes it fun for me to work. With the added incentive of planting real trees, it makes me want to work hard for long periods of time. Overall, this is a really great app and I highly recommend it.

I really like the app because it helps to incentivize focus and keeping your phone down while studying or working. I was really excited that I could grow trees with friends in the Room feature, but I dislike that you have to enter a room code for each day and that you have to be focusing at the exact same time. It would be nice if you can make a room among friends that can be saved and the each friend could contribute to the room at different times and not be confined to their friend’s study time.

I set this for 2 hours at bedtime so I can’t scroll mindlessly at bed time. I wish you could do longer times to keep me off it all night, but it does help. The trees are really pretty.

help me focus on my study

Can't study without it!

Planting trees is way more fun than tomatoes.

I sometimes have trouble focusing on my boring homework. My mom bought me this app and I love it. I helps me focus and get my work done. I love how you can see your little virtual forest, and how you can get different plants, and how there is relaxing sounds. I really love that they REWARD you for focusing on your stuff. I can’t list everything, or this review would be like a book. To summarize, I love the app. It’s awesome.

This is a great app that does help you concentrate in whatever activity you are looking forward to do. However, I think it still can get better, there's still a lot of room for improvement. Something I think would be nice is a different point of view of the forest. Maybe a 3D kind of exploring through it or something more enticing to the eye. A more dynamic environment with more customization. This would make me wanna use the app a lot more frequently. Above all great app, keep the hard work please!

I have just the absolute worst habit of procrastination, and I have no idea what else to do to help me stop being such a sleaze-bag and stop sleazing around and shirking my homework and studying. I needed something to take my Sleaze level way down from Super Saiyan Sleaze God to, like, just a regular Super Saiyan Sleaze. One day, during my procrastination addiction, I was looking though some apps and I saw it: Forest-Stay Focused. I immediately felt drawn. “I’ll just keep procrastinating and sleazing it up while I check out this app,” I thought. Unbeknownst to my Sleazy Habits, this app would soon become the death them. I use it all the time and have gone from not studying or doing homework at all, to working on homework and studying for over 3 solid hours a day (and growing! As is my forest!). This app is awesome, and I can actually feel my Super Saiyan Sleaze Power leave me. Best $2 I ever spent. If you think about it, I’m only giving up like, a snickers bar and like, one or two 4-packs of Wrigley’s gum. Also, I can’t wait to unlock mushrooms and start sleazing it up with them.

This app has helped my productivity levels so much! Studying, reading, working, or just enjoying quality time with people is easier when you break yourself of the habit of picking up the phone every time you get an alert. I love this app so much and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone!

Please fix it

This app has been very useful to improving productivity in a positive way. I’m always a big fan of positive reinforcement, and this is a great tool for that.

This is a great app. I really like the way the settings and options within the app. The only thing is that I can seem to adapt to using this app in my iPad because I always have it connected to a keyboard which is seen in landscape mode. Well this app is not in landscape mode so, my head tilts every time I have to use it. But, I am sure it will come with the updates soon. Keep up the great work!

Great for add sufferers. I need rewards/punishment to make sure I study so this is awesome. Also great for watching movies, eating, and sleeping. Nice little app to make you more conscious.

Good app!

I love this app! It really keeps you disconnected and the tree you get as a reward really helps with that.

This app really helps me set times to get work done and not interact with my phone. I if you need something to help you carve out undistracted time I would encourage you to use Forest.

Love this app. It keeps me liable for my actions while studying. I used to just keep my phone in my car when I studied; but now I can grow a forest! :3

The app works well on iOS but leaves lots to be desired for the watch app. On the watch app, all you can do is look at the forest. You CANNOT plant a tree/start a timer. The complication doesn't show remaining time properly either(as shown in the 3rd watch app screenshot). Had high expectations because of the reviews but was pretty disappointed so far.

En tan solo 1 mes he logrado reducir el uso de mi cell. Antes lo usaba 6 horas diarias, gracias a esta app ahora lo uso solo 3 horas

This is the first review I have ever written! This app is exceptional !!! It’s made me more productive then ever , I use this app with the pomodoro technique to get stuff done. Highly recommend it!

I’ve been using this for weeks now to help keep me focused. I’ve definitely seen a boost in my productivity. The interface is simple. I can track my focus on work for my job and home separately by using different types of trees. The background sounds are helpful as well.

You grow trees and bushes for not looking at your phone. I like the more “complex” trees for longer time periods and that you can turn on a setting to get coins even after your preplanned time period runs out. It doesn’t block notifications, which I appreciate. I wish there were somewhat better faqs or at least a way to figure out why it planted four dead trees for one failed session.

This app is so useful for being present during study times, work, or even studying with friends. This app gives my friends and I have study parties, and this app gives all 5 of us the ability to stay committed and motivated together, even from other continents. So happy with this app.

This app is wonderful. I get the worst feeling when the little tree dies, and so this app works wonderfully at keeping me off my phone. It’s helped me get away and study, but also keep me off of my phone before bed. I highly recommend! (If you need to message someone REAL QUICK you can leave the app for a few seconds, and just double click your home button to go back. I would not change this feature.)

I love this app, it helps me stay focused while writing.

I get distracted at work easily and always reach for my phone. This app has helped me save countless hours off my phone during work hours and has helped me become more productive. I actually feel shame when I open my phone while the app is running and it tells me to put my phone down. App is easy to use and understand and I would recommend for anyone who needs help keeping away from their phone during work hours.

It helps so much with productivity.

This app is particularly phenomenal at keeping you off your phone, as the risk of killing a tree you have spent time growing overshadows the drive to use your device. For me, I have an added incentive to grow trees in order to save up and purchase the “Grow A Real Tree” option. 2$ may seem like a lot at first, but after owning the app for a month now I could see myself paying more for it.

I love Forest. For someone who procrastinated a lot it helps me stay focused and on task. I do think you should get more coins every time you grow a tree though, but overall it is totally worth the money!

very good for studying

This app has cut down my phone dependency by so much!! I went from using my phone on average 8-9 hours a day and now it’s 3.5 hours a day!! (I got these numbers from the screen time app on my phone). This is so awesome, my productivity has never been this high. However, is there a way to restrict the amount of hours people are putting in that are unrealistic? I was trying to get to the top 100, maybe even top 50 in the global ranks so I could get the reward in the achievements page of the app but it was impossible. I checked out how many minutes the top 10 have and they’re each almost at 10,000! How?! That’s over 23 hours a day! This round ends today and it’s just sad how I’ll never be able to reach the top 100, top 50, or top 10 because some people literally go out of their way to plant a tree every 2 hours. The rewards are part of what make the app so much fun 😞😞😞

Why do the prices keep getting more and more expensive each time I purchase a one of them!!! It doesn’t make any sense!! Why would you do that!! I want a refund!

I have used this app for two days and it really works. It helps me to concentrate on my study instead of my cellphone. I love it.

This app definitely has increased my productivity and is worth the low price. It’s nice to have a pomodoro app that tries to stop you from using your phone when you need to focus rather than just serving as a timer. The rewards are also nice and help motivate me to keep using the app since I like to use the app’s white noise sounds while I work.

I actually use this daily, versus other apps that do the same thing. Best one I’ve found so far - easy to use, pretty, witty, and I can see the results of my focus (both in my work and in the Forest). ❤️

I was hesitant at first that the price would be worth it, but have been delighted at the polish of this app that others lack. I first tried Flora, a similar app that I believe originated in the same university lab, because it was free and has all of the same basic functionality as this app. However, the developers of this app have thought through the UX much more carefully, and the result is a useful and fun way to put my phone down and focus. Recommended!

I love this app for all the reasons that other reasons have mentioned before. As med students, it’s been a great motivator for me and my friends to focus and study. Which brings me to my next point - we have noticed that most (95%) of the time we invite a friend to a room to share a tree, the other person does not receive a notification. We’ve had to resort to entering the room code which is arduous especially if we are not physically together at that junction in time. There have been several occasions where the other individual has successfully received an invitation to join the room but that has become less and less often. Please fix this feature because we love it!

❤️❤️❤️

Great app for studying, wish I could change the landscape though. That would be cool

I don’t like how there’s no timer when you’re on the lock screen. You have to physically go into the app to see how much time you have left. However, when you unlock your phone to do that, it counts it as “looking at your phone” so your time gets broken up. I also don’t like how every time you buy something, the prices of everything else go up. That’s the opposite of a motivating factor to me.

I’ve never written a review for an app before because no app has had such an extreme effect on my life. I was horribly addicted to Reddit. I was spending 5-6 hours scrolling my life away reading one forgettable post after another. I tried content blockers but addiction just made me delete them when I needed to mindlessly scroll. This app is different. The fact that it’s like a game where you can watch beautiful things grow and even make a real difference by planting a tree in the real forest is so motivating. Now when I start scrolling I plant a two hour tree so I can read, practice music, do yoga, or a multitude of other productive things. Thank you so much for creating a wonderful app! Looking forward to more trees and more updates in the future :) One suggestion. I think it’d be really cool if you could have a custom forest where you could pick and choose trees and bushes to decorate your own plot of land!

Love how motivated I feel to get things done and the end outcome of planting a real tree! Great way to track and visually see progress!

Awesome app only downside is you have to pay

I’ve never been more productive in my life!

Only works if you feel guilty for the lives of cute little digital trees

The trees are cute and the reminders are helpful. Love that you can grow a real tree in the real world.

Love Forest ❤️❤️❤️ A fun way to keep me off my phone! It works!

I use this app daily and I love it. Every time I have the urge to grab my phone I remember how strong my virtual tree is growing. The last thing I would want for that tree is to kill it because of my lack of focus. In the end it’s kind of satisfying to see how your forest keeps expanding as well while at the same time doing something productive by keeping your mind out of the phone.

This is so great and the fact that you can use the coins for an actual tree is so great!!!

I love this app! I don’t use it as much as I should but am trying to get back to it as I study for my boards. I recommend it and have gifted it to college friends before to help with study focus and/or phone addiction. I get very distracted from my studying and need this kind of subtle motivator to stay away from my phone for specified periods of time. I’ve heard friends recommend such free apps as tomato clock or something like that, but Forest (I always accidentally call it “Trees”) is nice because you can visually see your success and trends over time as your forest grows, and it’s gratifying. If you’re a completionist like me, it would also bring you great displeasure to have to kill a tree that you’ve invested any amount of time in, which is an extra push to go all the way when you feel like quitting. I like the concept of seeing something through to fruition for your efforts. I also like that, if you choose to leave your phone open while you work, at any given time you can glance at your phone and see a little motivational message to stop stalling and get back to work! You also have the option to input custom messages, but I haven’t taken advantage of that. Another nice feature is that you can customize tags to indicate how you spend your time focusing, whether it be studying, reading, exercising, or just relaxing. My suggestions: One or two more visual “stages” of a tree. As you set your focus goal, you’ll notice that the appearance of a tree will slightly change at certain benchmarks. For instance, a bush becomes a basic tree at 20 minutes. The tree will gain some extra branches, visually, at 60 minutes, then 90, then finally 120. I like this feature but would love a couple more benchmarks, like maybe a visual change at 40 minutes, as going from 20 minutes to an hour is quite a big difference when intensely studying, and a lot of the time I only want to focus for 30 or 40 minutes at a time. My next suggestion... this app offers you the remarkable option to save up points to purchase a real life tree to be planted somewhere in Africa. To do so is quite expensive (2,500 points—much more expensive than a new tree skin/design for your virtual forest). I think I understand why the price has to be as high as it is (as the developers of the app are donating the tree out of pocket), but my concern is that there is not a lot of incentive to save up to plant the real tree while you are still establishing your use of the app and want to diversify your virtual forest. I just bought my first tree design after much deliberation. It cost 500 points, and the prices will just keep getting higher. Of course I want new cute tree designs, sadly more than I want to plant a tree in Africa. But I still want to plant that tree in Africa. Maybe someday I will own all the designs I like and can then put my extra points towards planting a real tree. I suppose this is more of a personal matter of altruism and priorities than a design flaw, but I still wish there were some kind of reward system or achievement that allowed you to plant a real tree after buying 4 tree designs or something like that, instead of having to choose between all or nothing. I also don’t really benefit from the friend features/achievements of this app at all, as it’s not well-known among my peers and lots of people are surprisingly too cheap to buy a $2 app. So, I hope this app continues to come out with more achievements to make up for all those achievements that I miss out on.

Prevents me from looking at phone and give me a sense of serenity whenever I have the urge to look.

Being a millennial with a desk job, I’m constantly distracted by my phone. Now with forest I have a goal (no dead trees) and I leave me phone alone! Productivity has never been this high

Was skeptical, but buying it definitely made me realize how much time I truly spent on my phone rather than studying. Kept me on task and have been more effective!

Hands down my favorite timer!

Totally worth the purchase! I love this app and use it all the time

It’s a fun and interactive way to be productive. I’ve gotten to know what time chunks work best for me with all the alerts it gives too. Overall it’s a well executed app!

Love this app!! Keeps me on track and off of my phone when I am trying to concentrate and motivates me to do my work in a fun way. Has saved me a lot of time for sleeping too!

I really do well with this method (Pomodoro) of staying on task. It is a powerful productivity tool. FOREST takes it up to a higher level with the motivation and visual reward of the forest and the variety of trees and bushes that can be bought with reward points.

Great app. Feel my gpa boost already :)

good app

So I had bought this once before but somehow lost access to it so I tried something similar that was free. It didn’t cut it I had to have this back. I’m poor and really can’t spend any money at all but this thing keeps me on my game and makes me more productive

I love this app. I absentmindedly pick up my phone while I’m studying the moment my mind starts to wonder. Now I see my baby tree doing its best to grow and immediately set down my phone!! The time I “study” has decreased as my studying efficiency has increased !! thank you forest!!

besides, why can't we build a room and forest in this room as Long as we want? we have to invite each other again and again! and send the invitation in at least 5 steps.

trees trees trees. trees trees trees trees trees trees. maple pine baobab ginkgo cherry blossom mushroom. tree tree tree

Helps me focus on what I need to do, especially with studying.

i rarely write a review but this app is definitely worth the buy. i can finally focus on studying without the distraction of my phone. plus, the trees, bushes, sounds that you can buy (from gathering “studying coins”) are very cute and peaceful. also, you can plant a tree and help the environment ! what’s better than that?

Works well and helps me stay off of social media where I often get in trouble.

I use this all the time for both in class and during homework. The Chrome extension is super useful and keeps me focused. The idea of growing a little forest is more motivating than one might think. But it really is a fun, good app.

Great app!

I needed this! Growing the trees (and having the fun of “buying varieties” with coins earned) has been a great way for me to stop using apps/my phone too much. I like how it allows phone calls and Siri texting, for times you NEED to communicate. The best part is that it actually “makes me” want to set aside my phone and do a task, errand, “to-do” that I have on my list, without getting distracted by the phone. Worth the $1.99. But if the company wanted to give it to me for free, I’d be happy to accept 😉😂!

This app is great! It allows me to stay focused so I don’t “ kill” my tree or bush! I also love that at 2500 points I can PLANT A REAL TREE! 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲

this app is pretty good but everything gets very expensive and its challenges are too hard to complete, but overall a smart and creative app !!

I love this app. I really wish I had more control with the watch OS app. That would make it five stars.

It’s a smart idea to make an app dedicated to fighting instant gratification by using a rewards system—counterintuitive, but it works! It’s saved me a lot of time. Thanks devs!

Such a fun app to stay focused. I use it for reading!

Tree helped me a lot in concentration and focusing on what’s important, hope you keep it up, and update it with a new design and colors!

I do hope the developer will find other forms of login. I do not trust Facebook on any device or with any of my information.

I love this app and how you can work towards planting a real tree!

If you care about plants and want to build resistance to picking up your phone while trying to be productive, this app is for you!

Beautiful interface, easy to use, and I love that it allows for group focused time.

forest is not connected to Apple Watch, please fix this

It makes me study!

This app is the only thing getting me through the book and notes I have to take on it for my English class🙏🏻

💜💜💜

This app is so helpful for getting work done!

Works great, has never crashed, and I particularly like the notifications sent to the Apple Watch. Use this if you want some accountability while working/studying. Highly recommended.

so cute and so effective! I look forward to studying now lolll not just because i’m getting ish done but because i get to look at my cute lush forest afterwards

I purchased this app hoping that this could help improve focus on my tasks and support use of the Pomodoro method. The idea of having a visual outcome of a virtual forest to show a productive day sounded great. The issue is, while you can certainly set the timer to 25 min blocks of time, this means you can only get the less ornamental (just above the base-model/bush) version of trees since the fanciest versions require setting the timer to longer stretches of time. Over time, this has led to me having to use a second timer to break down a 2 hour block into the 25 min/5 min Pomodoro segments, which ultimately shows the app’s limited usefulness as a fun, standalone task timer. As a result, my use of the app has gradually fallen off (still trying though). One thing that revived my interest was the developers putting holiday themes for the trees/bushes in December. It was a nice touch.

This app is great and I helps with my productivity and phone attachment. However it is very difficult for me to plant an actual tree with the coins I earned from time off my phone. Every time I am directed to safari, I am unable to log into my account and nothing appears to help me fix that problem.

Love this app, it allows me to focus and look forward to getting off my phone

This app is great and helps me stay focused! Unfortunately, I still have to motivate myself to plant a tree and start a task, but you can set reminders to plant a tree to help with this problem... I love how you can plant real trees in the world with this app and help the environment!🌲🌳🌴🌵There are also no extra fees included, which is great! There are some background sounds you can play, but I wish there were some more options... Overall, I think this is a great app that you guys should definitively check out! Good luck staying focused!! 😉🌲 "Life is short, focus on what matters and let go of what doesn't."

This app has been great for keeping me on track with my studies. Getting a tree to put in your forest gives me just a little extra nudge to do my work uninterrupted. Where I used to easily get sidetracked, there is just something about having that tree growing that stops me if I want to google some random fact or click on a news article. Even though the app is on my phone (so my computer is still available), I have no desire to “cheat”. What is the point in a forest full of trees you didn’t earn? One overall suggestion I will make is that the sky is the limit with an app like this. How about a building? A town? A farm? An amusement park? There is definitely a lot of potential here if a talented group of programers want to expand on this whole idea. For immediate improvements I would like more it the shop. I have a feeling that will keep coming though.

This app is great for productivity and accomplishes it in the most adorable way. I appreciate that they plant a tree for a certain number of hours you remain off your phone. Beneficial for my work efficiency and the environment!

Great app! I use it almost everyday and it keeps me on track, and despite how simple and childish it may seem, it works! Trust me when I say anyone will stay on track with Forest. The app is also simple to use and has good features. Would 100% recommend to every student trying to stay on task.

If you’re looking for an app to keep you from going down a social media or procrastination rabbit hole, this is the one for you. Very nice to use app with incentive to spend more time being present to unlock more foliage to build in your forest.

It said the app costs $1.99, but I was billed $2.11. It’s not a big difference, but I don’t like when apps are deceptive and misleading for no reason at all.

Thank you!!

People need to use this app when studying and even hanging out with friends so you're not constantly disconnected. Great idea and execution. Thank you Forest creators.

This app helps me stay on task and makes it fun for me to work. With the added incentive of planting real trees, it makes me want to work hard for long periods of time. Overall, this is a really great app and I highly recommend it.

I really like the app because it helps to incentivize focus and keeping your phone down while studying or working. I was really excited that I could grow trees with friends in the Room feature, but I dislike that you have to enter a room code for each day and that you have to be focusing at the exact same time. It would be nice if you can make a room among friends that can be saved and the each friend could contribute to the room at different times and not be confined to their friend’s study time.

I set this for 2 hours at bedtime so I can’t scroll mindlessly at bed time. I wish you could do longer times to keep me off it all night, but it does help. The trees are really pretty.

help me focus on my study

Can't study without it!

Planting trees is way more fun than tomatoes.

I sometimes have trouble focusing on my boring homework. My mom bought me this app and I love it. I helps me focus and get my work done. I love how you can see your little virtual forest, and how you can get different plants, and how there is relaxing sounds. I really love that they REWARD you for focusing on your stuff. I can’t list everything, or this review would be like a book. To summarize, I love the app. It’s awesome.

This is a great app that does help you concentrate in whatever activity you are looking forward to do. However, I think it still can get better, there's still a lot of room for improvement. Something I think would be nice is a different point of view of the forest. Maybe a 3D kind of exploring through it or something more enticing to the eye. A more dynamic environment with more customization. This would make me wanna use the app a lot more frequently. Above all great app, keep the hard work please!

I have just the absolute worst habit of procrastination, and I have no idea what else to do to help me stop being such a sleaze-bag and stop sleazing around and shirking my homework and studying. I needed something to take my Sleaze level way down from Super Saiyan Sleaze God to, like, just a regular Super Saiyan Sleaze. One day, during my procrastination addiction, I was looking though some apps and I saw it: Forest-Stay Focused. I immediately felt drawn. “I’ll just keep procrastinating and sleazing it up while I check out this app,” I thought. Unbeknownst to my Sleazy Habits, this app would soon become the death them. I use it all the time and have gone from not studying or doing homework at all, to working on homework and studying for over 3 solid hours a day (and growing! As is my forest!). This app is awesome, and I can actually feel my Super Saiyan Sleaze Power leave me. Best $2 I ever spent. If you think about it, I’m only giving up like, a snickers bar and like, one or two 4-packs of Wrigley’s gum. Also, I can’t wait to unlock mushrooms and start sleazing it up with them.

This app has helped my productivity levels so much! Studying, reading, working, or just enjoying quality time with people is easier when you break yourself of the habit of picking up the phone every time you get an alert. I love this app so much and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone!

Please fix it

This app has been very useful to improving productivity in a positive way. I’m always a big fan of positive reinforcement, and this is a great tool for that.

This is a great app. I really like the way the settings and options within the app. The only thing is that I can seem to adapt to using this app in my iPad because I always have it connected to a keyboard which is seen in landscape mode. Well this app is not in landscape mode so, my head tilts every time I have to use it. But, I am sure it will come with the updates soon. Keep up the great work!

Great for add sufferers. I need rewards/punishment to make sure I study so this is awesome. Also great for watching movies, eating, and sleeping. Nice little app to make you more conscious.

Good app!

I love this app! It really keeps you disconnected and the tree you get as a reward really helps with that.

This app really helps me set times to get work done and not interact with my phone. I if you need something to help you carve out undistracted time I would encourage you to use Forest.

Love this app. It keeps me liable for my actions while studying. I used to just keep my phone in my car when I studied; but now I can grow a forest! :3

The app works well on iOS but leaves lots to be desired for the watch app. On the watch app, all you can do is look at the forest. You CANNOT plant a tree/start a timer. The complication doesn't show remaining time properly either(as shown in the 3rd watch app screenshot). Had high expectations because of the reviews but was pretty disappointed so far.

En tan solo 1 mes he logrado reducir el uso de mi cell. Antes lo usaba 6 horas diarias, gracias a esta app ahora lo uso solo 3 horas

This is the first review I have ever written! This app is exceptional !!! It’s made me more productive then ever , I use this app with the pomodoro technique to get stuff done. Highly recommend it!

I’ve been using this for weeks now to help keep me focused. I’ve definitely seen a boost in my productivity. The interface is simple. I can track my focus on work for my job and home separately by using different types of trees. The background sounds are helpful as well.

You grow trees and bushes for not looking at your phone. I like the more “complex” trees for longer time periods and that you can turn on a setting to get coins even after your preplanned time period runs out. It doesn’t block notifications, which I appreciate. I wish there were somewhat better faqs or at least a way to figure out why it planted four dead trees for one failed session.

This app is so useful for being present during study times, work, or even studying with friends. This app gives my friends and I have study parties, and this app gives all 5 of us the ability to stay committed and motivated together, even from other continents. So happy with this app.

This app is wonderful. I get the worst feeling when the little tree dies, and so this app works wonderfully at keeping me off my phone. It’s helped me get away and study, but also keep me off of my phone before bed. I highly recommend! (If you need to message someone REAL QUICK you can leave the app for a few seconds, and just double click your home button to go back. I would not change this feature.)

I love this app, it helps me stay focused while writing.

I get distracted at work easily and always reach for my phone. This app has helped me save countless hours off my phone during work hours and has helped me become more productive. I actually feel shame when I open my phone while the app is running and it tells me to put my phone down. App is easy to use and understand and I would recommend for anyone who needs help keeping away from their phone during work hours.

It helps so much with productivity.

This app is particularly phenomenal at keeping you off your phone, as the risk of killing a tree you have spent time growing overshadows the drive to use your device. For me, I have an added incentive to grow trees in order to save up and purchase the “Grow A Real Tree” option. 2$ may seem like a lot at first, but after owning the app for a month now I could see myself paying more for it.

I love Forest. For someone who procrastinated a lot it helps me stay focused and on task. I do think you should get more coins every time you grow a tree though, but overall it is totally worth the money!

very good for studying

This app has cut down my phone dependency by so much!! I went from using my phone on average 8-9 hours a day and now it’s 3.5 hours a day!! (I got these numbers from the screen time app on my phone). This is so awesome, my productivity has never been this high. However, is there a way to restrict the amount of hours people are putting in that are unrealistic? I was trying to get to the top 100, maybe even top 50 in the global ranks so I could get the reward in the achievements page of the app but it was impossible. I checked out how many minutes the top 10 have and they’re each almost at 10,000! How?! That’s over 23 hours a day! This round ends today and it’s just sad how I’ll never be able to reach the top 100, top 50, or top 10 because some people literally go out of their way to plant a tree every 2 hours. The rewards are part of what make the app so much fun 😞😞😞

Why do the prices keep getting more and more expensive each time I purchase a one of them!!! It doesn’t make any sense!! Why would you do that!! I want a refund!

I have used this app for two days and it really works. It helps me to concentrate on my study instead of my cellphone. I love it.

This app definitely has increased my productivity and is worth the low price. It’s nice to have a pomodoro app that tries to stop you from using your phone when you need to focus rather than just serving as a timer. The rewards are also nice and help motivate me to keep using the app since I like to use the app’s white noise sounds while I work.

I actually use this daily, versus other apps that do the same thing. Best one I’ve found so far - easy to use, pretty, witty, and I can see the results of my focus (both in my work and in the Forest). ❤️

I was hesitant at first that the price would be worth it, but have been delighted at the polish of this app that others lack. I first tried Flora, a similar app that I believe originated in the same university lab, because it was free and has all of the same basic functionality as this app. However, the developers of this app have thought through the UX much more carefully, and the result is a useful and fun way to put my phone down and focus. Recommended!

I love this app for all the reasons that other reasons have mentioned before. As med students, it’s been a great motivator for me and my friends to focus and study. Which brings me to my next point - we have noticed that most (95%) of the time we invite a friend to a room to share a tree, the other person does not receive a notification. We’ve had to resort to entering the room code which is arduous especially if we are not physically together at that junction in time. There have been several occasions where the other individual has successfully received an invitation to join the room but that has become less and less often. Please fix this feature because we love it!

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Great app for studying, wish I could change the landscape though. That would be cool

I don’t like how there’s no timer when you’re on the lock screen. You have to physically go into the app to see how much time you have left. However, when you unlock your phone to do that, it counts it as “looking at your phone” so your time gets broken up. I also don’t like how every time you buy something, the prices of everything else go up. That’s the opposite of a motivating factor to me.

I’ve never written a review for an app before because no app has had such an extreme effect on my life. I was horribly addicted to Reddit. I was spending 5-6 hours scrolling my life away reading one forgettable post after another. I tried content blockers but addiction just made me delete them when I needed to mindlessly scroll. This app is different. The fact that it’s like a game where you can watch beautiful things grow and even make a real difference by planting a tree in the real forest is so motivating. Now when I start scrolling I plant a two hour tree so I can read, practice music, do yoga, or a multitude of other productive things. Thank you so much for creating a wonderful app! Looking forward to more trees and more updates in the future :) One suggestion. I think it’d be really cool if you could have a custom forest where you could pick and choose trees and bushes to decorate your own plot of land!

Love how motivated I feel to get things done and the end outcome of planting a real tree! Great way to track and visually see progress!

Awesome app only downside is you have to pay

I’ve never been more productive in my life!

Only works if you feel guilty for the lives of cute little digital trees

The trees are cute and the reminders are helpful. Love that you can grow a real tree in the real world.

Love Forest ❤️❤️❤️ A fun way to keep me off my phone! It works!

I use this app daily and I love it. Every time I have the urge to grab my phone I remember how strong my virtual tree is growing. The last thing I would want for that tree is to kill it because of my lack of focus. In the end it’s kind of satisfying to see how your forest keeps expanding as well while at the same time doing something productive by keeping your mind out of the phone.

This is so great and the fact that you can use the coins for an actual tree is so great!!!

I love this app! I don’t use it as much as I should but am trying to get back to it as I study for my boards. I recommend it and have gifted it to college friends before to help with study focus and/or phone addiction. I get very distracted from my studying and need this kind of subtle motivator to stay away from my phone for specified periods of time. I’ve heard friends recommend such free apps as tomato clock or something like that, but Forest (I always accidentally call it “Trees”) is nice because you can visually see your success and trends over time as your forest grows, and it’s gratifying. If you’re a completionist like me, it would also bring you great displeasure to have to kill a tree that you’ve invested any amount of time in, which is an extra push to go all the way when you feel like quitting. I like the concept of seeing something through to fruition for your efforts. I also like that, if you choose to leave your phone open while you work, at any given time you can glance at your phone and see a little motivational message to stop stalling and get back to work! You also have the option to input custom messages, but I haven’t taken advantage of that. Another nice feature is that you can customize tags to indicate how you spend your time focusing, whether it be studying, reading, exercising, or just relaxing. My suggestions: One or two more visual “stages” of a tree. As you set your focus goal, you’ll notice that the appearance of a tree will slightly change at certain benchmarks. For instance, a bush becomes a basic tree at 20 minutes. The tree will gain some extra branches, visually, at 60 minutes, then 90, then finally 120. I like this feature but would love a couple more benchmarks, like maybe a visual change at 40 minutes, as going from 20 minutes to an hour is quite a big difference when intensely studying, and a lot of the time I only want to focus for 30 or 40 minutes at a time. My next suggestion... this app offers you the remarkable option to save up points to purchase a real life tree to be planted somewhere in Africa. To do so is quite expensive (2,500 points—much more expensive than a new tree skin/design for your virtual forest). I think I understand why the price has to be as high as it is (as the developers of the app are donating the tree out of pocket), but my concern is that there is not a lot of incentive to save up to plant the real tree while you are still establishing your use of the app and want to diversify your virtual forest. I just bought my first tree design after much deliberation. It cost 500 points, and the prices will just keep getting higher. Of course I want new cute tree designs, sadly more than I want to plant a tree in Africa. But I still want to plant that tree in Africa. Maybe someday I will own all the designs I like and can then put my extra points towards planting a real tree. I suppose this is more of a personal matter of altruism and priorities than a design flaw, but I still wish there were some kind of reward system or achievement that allowed you to plant a real tree after buying 4 tree designs or something like that, instead of having to choose between all or nothing. I also don’t really benefit from the friend features/achievements of this app at all, as it’s not well-known among my peers and lots of people are surprisingly too cheap to buy a $2 app. So, I hope this app continues to come out with more achievements to make up for all those achievements that I miss out on.

Prevents me from looking at phone and give me a sense of serenity whenever I have the urge to look.

Being a millennial with a desk job, I’m constantly distracted by my phone. Now with forest I have a goal (no dead trees) and I leave me phone alone! Productivity has never been this high

Was skeptical, but buying it definitely made me realize how much time I truly spent on my phone rather than studying. Kept me on task and have been more effective!

Hands down my favorite timer!

Totally worth the purchase! I love this app and use it all the time

It’s a fun and interactive way to be productive. I’ve gotten to know what time chunks work best for me with all the alerts it gives too. Overall it’s a well executed app!

Love this app!! Keeps me on track and off of my phone when I am trying to concentrate and motivates me to do my work in a fun way. Has saved me a lot of time for sleeping too!

I really do well with this method (Pomodoro) of staying on task. It is a powerful productivity tool. FOREST takes it up to a higher level with the motivation and visual reward of the forest and the variety of trees and bushes that can be bought with reward points.

Great app. Feel my gpa boost already :)

good app

So I had bought this once before but somehow lost access to it so I tried something similar that was free. It didn’t cut it I had to have this back. I’m poor and really can’t spend any money at all but this thing keeps me on my game and makes me more productive

I love this app. I absentmindedly pick up my phone while I’m studying the moment my mind starts to wonder. Now I see my baby tree doing its best to grow and immediately set down my phone!! The time I “study” has decreased as my studying efficiency has increased !! thank you forest!!

besides, why can't we build a room and forest in this room as Long as we want? we have to invite each other again and again! and send the invitation in at least 5 steps.

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Helps me focus on what I need to do, especially with studying.

i rarely write a review but this app is definitely worth the buy. i can finally focus on studying without the distraction of my phone. plus, the trees, bushes, sounds that you can buy (from gathering “studying coins”) are very cute and peaceful. also, you can plant a tree and help the environment ! what’s better than that?

Works well and helps me stay off of social media where I often get in trouble.

I use this all the time for both in class and during homework. The Chrome extension is super useful and keeps me focused. The idea of growing a little forest is more motivating than one might think. But it really is a fun, good app.

Great app!

I needed this! Growing the trees (and having the fun of “buying varieties” with coins earned) has been a great way for me to stop using apps/my phone too much. I like how it allows phone calls and Siri texting, for times you NEED to communicate. The best part is that it actually “makes me” want to set aside my phone and do a task, errand, “to-do” that I have on my list, without getting distracted by the phone. Worth the $1.99. But if the company wanted to give it to me for free, I’d be happy to accept 😉😂!

This app is great! It allows me to stay focused so I don’t “ kill” my tree or bush! I also love that at 2500 points I can PLANT A REAL TREE! 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲

this app is pretty good but everything gets very expensive and its challenges are too hard to complete, but overall a smart and creative app !!

I love this app. I really wish I had more control with the watch OS app. That would make it five stars.

It’s a smart idea to make an app dedicated to fighting instant gratification by using a rewards system—counterintuitive, but it works! It’s saved me a lot of time. Thanks devs!

Such a fun app to stay focused. I use it for reading!

Tree helped me a lot in concentration and focusing on what’s important, hope you keep it up, and update it with a new design and colors!

I do hope the developer will find other forms of login. I do not trust Facebook on any device or with any of my information.

I love this app and how you can work towards planting a real tree!

If you care about plants and want to build resistance to picking up your phone while trying to be productive, this app is for you!

Beautiful interface, easy to use, and I love that it allows for group focused time.

forest is not connected to Apple Watch, please fix this

It makes me study!

This app is the only thing getting me through the book and notes I have to take on it for my English class🙏🏻

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This app is so helpful for getting work done!

Works great, has never crashed, and I particularly like the notifications sent to the Apple Watch. Use this if you want some accountability while working/studying. Highly recommended.

so cute and so effective! I look forward to studying now lolll not just because i’m getting ish done but because i get to look at my cute lush forest afterwards

I purchased this app hoping that this could help improve focus on my tasks and support use of the Pomodoro method. The idea of having a visual outcome of a virtual forest to show a productive day sounded great. The issue is, while you can certainly set the timer to 25 min blocks of time, this means you can only get the less ornamental (just above the base-model/bush) version of trees since the fanciest versions require setting the timer to longer stretches of time. Over time, this has led to me having to use a second timer to break down a 2 hour block into the 25 min/5 min Pomodoro segments, which ultimately shows the app’s limited usefulness as a fun, standalone task timer. As a result, my use of the app has gradually fallen off (still trying though). One thing that revived my interest was the developers putting holiday themes for the trees/bushes in December. It was a nice touch.

This app is great and I helps with my productivity and phone attachment. However it is very difficult for me to plant an actual tree with the coins I earned from time off my phone. Every time I am directed to safari, I am unable to log into my account and nothing appears to help me fix that problem.

Love this app, it allows me to focus and look forward to getting off my phone

This app is great and helps me stay focused! Unfortunately, I still have to motivate myself to plant a tree and start a task, but you can set reminders to plant a tree to help with this problem... I love how you can plant real trees in the world with this app and help the environment!🌲🌳🌴🌵There are also no extra fees included, which is great! There are some background sounds you can play, but I wish there were some more options... Overall, I think this is a great app that you guys should definitively check out! Good luck staying focused!! 😉🌲 "Life is short, focus on what matters and let go of what doesn't."

This app has been great for keeping me on track with my studies. Getting a tree to put in your forest gives me just a little extra nudge to do my work uninterrupted. Where I used to easily get sidetracked, there is just something about having that tree growing that stops me if I want to google some random fact or click on a news article. Even though the app is on my phone (so my computer is still available), I have no desire to “cheat”. What is the point in a forest full of trees you didn’t earn? One overall suggestion I will make is that the sky is the limit with an app like this. How about a building? A town? A farm? An amusement park? There is definitely a lot of potential here if a talented group of programers want to expand on this whole idea. For immediate improvements I would like more it the shop. I have a feeling that will keep coming though.

This app is great for productivity and accomplishes it in the most adorable way. I appreciate that they plant a tree for a certain number of hours you remain off your phone. Beneficial for my work efficiency and the environment!

Great app! I use it almost everyday and it keeps me on track, and despite how simple and childish it may seem, it works! Trust me when I say anyone will stay on track with Forest. The app is also simple to use and has good features. Would 100% recommend to every student trying to stay on task.