FocusVilleGamified Pomodoro timer for iPhone and iPad
A focus timer game that builds a village while you work.
Start a session and put your phone down. A pixel villager chops wood, mines stone and digs clay for as long as you stay focused. Finish, and the loot grows your village. Leave early, and it is gone.
Download on theApp Store- 7-day free trial
- No ads, no account
- Works offline
Turn focus into a village.
No streak guilt, no leaderboards. Just a small world that quietly grows out of the time you actually spend focused.
Sessions that pay out
Pick 15, 25, 45, 60 or 90 minutes, or your own length up to 180. Every finished session pays out wood, stone and clay.
Grow your village
Spend your loot on the Timber Hut, the Quarry and the Clay Pit. Grow from a lonely campfire into a busy little town.
Distracting apps? Blocked.
Block the apps that steal your attention, powered by iOS Screen Time. They stay locked until the timer ends.
Strict focus
Leaving the app during a session forfeits the harvest. Locking your screen is fine. For the days you really mean it.
See your focus add up
Your best hours, strongest weekdays, ideal session length and your whole year as one heatmap.
Cozy companions
Invite 16 pixel companions to your fire, like a cat, a fox and an owl. Your focus time earns every one of them.
How it works
Start a session
Choose a building and how long you want to focus. Then put your phone down.
Your villager works while you do
Chopping, mining, digging, for as long as you stay focused.
Collect and build
Finish the session, collect the harvest, grow the village.
Why a focus game works when willpower does not
Most focus timers ask you to stay off your phone and give you nothing back. FocusVille borrows the loop of an idle game instead: progress happens while you are not playing. Your 25 minutes of reading become a stack of wood, your 50 minutes of coding become a new roof. The reward is small, visible and immediate, which is exactly what a distracted brain responds to.
Underneath, it is still the Pomodoro technique: a fixed block of focus, then a break. The game simply gives each block a reason to finish. Give up halfway and the harvest is lost, so the moment you want to check your phone, something you can actually see is at stake.
FocusVille is built for students revising for exams, remote workers who want deep work blocks and people with ADHD who need something visual where short sessions count. Not sure how long your sessions should be? Read how long a Pomodoro should be.
A cozy world in your pocket.
Warm campfires, moonlit mountains and a village that remembers every session.
Little friends move in.
As the village grows, so does the family around the fire.
All 16 companions are part of FocusVille Plus.
One plan. The whole village.
FocusVille is free to download. To focus and build your village you need FocusVille Plus: €4.99 a month with a 7-day free trial, or €19.99 once for lifetime access. Prices in euros, the App Store shows the price for your country.
The whole village
Unlimited sessions of every length up to 180 minutes, every level and all 16 campfire companions, plus the app blocker and your statistics.
Focus insights
Your best hours, your strongest weekdays, the session length that suits you, when you tend to give up, a twelve-week trend and your year as one heatmap.
Already playing?
Nothing changes for you: your village, your free sessions and your purchases stay as they are. Bought FocusVille when it was a paid app? You keep everything.
Focus guides
Practical, no-fluff guides on Pomodoro, studying and getting started.
How long should a Pomodoro be?
25, 50 or 90 minutes: how to pick the work and break length that fits you.
How to stop procrastinating and start studying
Seven steps that work on the real reason you put studying off.
Apps that make studying feel like a game
The five kinds of gamified focus apps and what to look for.
Frequently asked questions
What is FocusVille?
Is FocusVille free?
Can FocusVille block distracting apps?
What happens if I give up a session?
How long are the focus sessions?
Is FocusVille good for ADHD?
Is there a calmer app without the game?
Made by Caspar
Hi, I am Caspar, an indie developer in Berlin. I build FocusVille on my own: the code, the pixel village and the economy behind every harvest. No studio, no ad budget, no advertising trackers. If something is broken or you miss a feature, tell me on X at @casparbuilds or by email. I read everything.
Support
Questions, feedback or a bug to report? I read everything.
Wondering about your data? No ads, no account, no data sold, and your focus data stays on your phone. Details in the privacy policy.