Focus modes can help you stay on task or unplugged by hiding notifications and other distractions on your smartphone.

Can a smiley cartoon bean help you stay focused? Hank Green, one of the earliest and most influential online creators, hopes so. Focus Friend allows users to set a timer to get a task done, similar to ...

Hank Green's "Focus Friend" asks users to put down their phone for 15 minutes so their bean friend has time to knit. I decided to give it a try.

Brain.fm is a mindfulness app you can download on your iPhone or Android phone. The app uses specially designed music to improve your brain activity, and help you focus and relax. You can turn on ...

Focus Friend is a Pomodoro timer app that gives you a cute little bean to look at. The app comes with custom funky music and is available both for free and via a paid subscription. Focus Friend is ...

You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project ...

Announced at WWDC, Apple's Focus app may be a useful tool for any remote worker attempting to get things done. Apple introduced Focus at this year’s WWDC. This is likely to be a quite useful tool for ...

Here’s how it works: Once you download the app, you meet your little cartoon bean and give it a name. This bean really loves to knit socks, but it keeps getting distracted when you mess around on your ...