Engross: Focus Timer & To-Do

Engross Apps

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About this app

Engross is a combination of Pomodoro Inspired Timer with Todo list and Day Planner. It helps to keep your work/studies more organized, make you more efficient and get things done faster.

How Engross helps you?
- Be more focused while working or studying.
- Stay on track with all your tasks.
- Plan routines and keep yourself organized.
- Keep record of your sessions and get insights into your work & progress.
- Set daily work targets.
- Label everything to keep better control on time and tasks.
- Keep ADD & ADHD at bay.

Engross uses a unique ‘Hit me when you are distracted’ method in its sessions that helps to work with more focus and engagement.

Pomodoro Timer and Stopwatch
A fully customizable Pomodoro timer with work session length up to 180 minutes and long break up to 240 minutes.
A Stopwatch when you do not wish to work in fixed sessions or just want to track time.

To-Do list
•  Recurring Todo: Create repeating tasks with end dates & custom recurrences for long-running or regular tasks/habits.
•  Progressive Todo: Track the progress of long tasks with a progress tracker attached to the task.
•  Reminders: Set reminders and get notified up to 24 hours in advance.
•  Sub Tasks: Divide Big tasks into smaller and achievable sub-tasks to reach your goal faster and better.

Calendar/Day Planner
•  Create events and plan your daily, weekly schedule.
•  Get notified with reminders and stay on track with your routine.
•  Create Recurring events with daily, weekly and custom repetition.

Focus Timer integration with Todo List and Planner
•  Attach Pomodoro timer or Stopwatch with your tasks/events and start your sessions right from your Todo list and Planner.

Statistics and Analysis
•  Work Statistics and Focus Analysis with 7 different Graphs and a summary for a quick look.
•  Detailed History of Work Sessions.
•  Filter History and Statistics for each label to get better insights.
•  Export your sessions history in a CSV file.

Work Target
•  Set daily work targets and track hours worked each day.

Labels/Tags
•  Label Timer sessions, Tasks and Events to keep your work more organized and track them with label-wise History and Statistics.

App Whitelist
•  Block all the distracting apps while you are focusing.

White Noise
•  Soothing sounds help to be more focused when working.

Revision Timer for Students
•  Add a Revision timer before or after work timer to have a dedicated slot for your revision needs.

Automatic Cloud Backup & Sync
•  Automatic backup of your work sessions, tasks, events & labels and sync across all your Android devices.

More features
•  Auto turning off of WiFi during work sessions.
•  Add a goal/comment to a timer to keep yourself focused and organized.
•  Additional Black theme for timer.
•  Session almost over warning for work and break.
•  Add custom quotes to show during a session to keep yourself motivated.
•  Pause a work session.
•  Automatic and Manual modes for timer.
•  Fast forward to next session/break.


Pomodoro™ and Pomodoro Technique® are registered trademarks of Francesco Cirillo. This app is not affiliated with Francesco Cirillo.

Ratings and reviews

Seems good and simple but it has issues. First one is that repeating tasks must be purchased. It was something I was really hoping to try out with the timer but can't. Then there's the problem with the dark theme. It looks great and all but then pop-ups blind you without warning. Not everything has been changed to dark colours, so be warned.

I have used a lot of to do apps. There is always something they get wrong. Usually small things that still affect usability. The last one, a very popular app, didn't even allow sorting by time and didn't even show the time unless you opened it. Not great when you're trying to look at a packed schedule. This app does everything I need and includes a productivity timber which is a great addition. Highly recommended. Edit: oops. Thought I did rate 5 stars

I've tried a lot of apps mainly for using the Pomodoro Method but this one takes the cake. You can even switch off the WiFi while you're working. You can sync it with Google Calendar. I really appreciate this app. Btw I'm using the free version. I wish to buy the premium version but I can't afford since I'm still a student, I would really like to support the developer(s)

What's new

v9.3.4
- Bug fix.
v9.3.3
- Improvements in widgets.
v9.3.2
- Added permissions required on Android 14.
v9.3.0
- 'Duplicate task' feature.
- Small improvements.
v9.2.0
- End-time display throughout the timer.
v9.1.0
- Bug fix.
- Small UI changes.
v9.0.0
- Refreshed interface. (We hope you all like it!)
- Collapse sub-tasks feature in the to-do list.
- Multiple bug fixes.