# Focus Dog: Study Pet Pomodoro

> Cute Puppy Timer for ADHD

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1179111193](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1179111193)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1179111193`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fancy Ventures UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (910 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.20.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-23
- **First published:** 2018-01-19
- **Size:** 85 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-26
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focus-dog-study-pet-pomodoro/id1179111193)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://focusdog.app/privacy/](https://focusdog.app/privacy/)

## Description

**Focus Dog** is a cute, motivation-driven Pomodoro timer designed to help students, people with ADHD, remote workers, and anyone struggling with distractions. Start a focus session to produce donuts for your virtual dog, Focus. If you leave the app, production stops—creating a simple, rewarding reason to stay on task.

Use Siri Shortcuts, Live Activities, open-ended sessions, hourly challenges, streaks, focus tags, calendar heatmaps, and detailed statistics to build better habits. Collect donut recipes, unlock dog skins and backgrounds, join seasonal events, compete in leagues and leaderboards, and support shelter dogs by gifting gems. Focus Dog is free to use, with optional Pro features including CSV export and additional functionality.

## Rankings

- #56,992 — Overall
- #13 — Start a Focus Timer
- #54 — study
- #61 — procrastine

## Review summary

Users praise the app for its cute dog, donut-based gamification, and real productivity benefits, especially for ADHD and reducing phone use. It’s generally simple and engaging, with a positive feel from helping shelter dogs. However, consistency concerns—especially data loss after updates, unreliable timers, and a somewhat confusing progression system—temper the experience. Requests for more customization and mixed support experiences appear across reviews. Overall, it’s motivating and effective for many, but reliability and onboarding could improve.

### Pros

- Gamified focus with donuts and a cute dog that makes growing focus engaging.
- Real-world impact: helps focus, reduces phone use, and can aid ADHD-friendly productivity.
- Simple, beginner-friendly design that’s easy to start and stick with.
- Positive social/ethical angle: feeding dogs in shelters provides a feel-good motivation.
- Engaging visuals and outfits that keep users motivated.

### Cons

- Progress or data loss after app updates or login issues (loss of progress and paid features).
- Timer reliability problems where the timer can shut off or reset unexpectedly.
- Progression/leveling can be confusing to understand how to upgrade or what to aim for.
- Desire for more customization options (more dogs, outfits, and work categories).
- Some users report mixed experiences with support and concerns about account/deletion related issues.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1179111193)