When comparing Forest vs Focus To-Do, the Slant community recommends Forest for most people. In the question“What is the best Android Pomodoro app?” Forest is ranked 4th while Focus To-Do is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Forest is:
You can easily visualize how much time you spent productively
Specs
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pros
Pro Gives you a feeling of accomplishment
You can easily visualize how much time you spent productively
Pro Kills your tree if you open other apps
... except those on your whitelist
Pro Makes work feel enjoyable
Planting trees makes you feel enjoyable
Pro Activity log
Pro Forest thing is cute
For every pomodoro session, you get awarded sunlight to grow your plant.
Pro Minimalistic
Has a clean and beautiful interface.
Pro Easy to use
Pro Premium lets you whitelist apps
Pro Premium lets you define your own pomodoro timer
Default timer is 25-5.
Pro Groups up to 100 members
You can enter in groups up to 100 members and see the ranking of hours worked per day and per week.
Pro Infinite mode
You can active a "pomodoro" that starts at 00:00:00 and doesn't stop at 00:25:00 or have breaks, but alert you when reaches at 00:25:00. You need to stop manually.
Pro Not restrictive
In the sense that some apps block for real distraction-free focus-on-your-work thing.
Cons
Con Not a true pomodoro app
There's no option to set time for a break, and it doesn't automatically start a new session after finishing the current one
Con Looks too much like an iOS app
Even the share icon is loaned from iOS
Con PC browser sync is limited
Con No dark mode
It's too bright , and there's no way to change the theme of the app.
Con Not entirely free
You have to upgrade to use the review and chart and other reports.
Con Buggy
Con Not that student friendly
Not that student friendly as compared to Flip which is really for students (or those studying).
