{"id":157790,"date":"2025-08-19T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157790\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:13:11","slug":"hank-green-launches-new-adhd-friendly-focus-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157790\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Green launches new ADHD-friendly ‘focus app’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hank Green<\/a> \u2014 the beloved YouTuber, author, educator, and TikTok personality \u2014 is no stranger to a side quest.<\/p>\n

The multi-hyphenate Internet-tainer and entrepreneur is a sock salesman<\/a>, word game investor<\/a>, and cancer survivor-turned stand-up comic<\/a> who is often found creating new things for the good of humanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"HankHank Green. Photo courtesy of Hank Green\/Bluesky<\/p>\n

His latest endeavor is a productivity app called \u201cFocus Friend<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is advertised as an \u201cADHD-friendly focus timer\u201d in the App Store<\/a>, where it has skyrocketed to popularity in recent days, currently sitting at #4 on the \u201cfree apps\u201d chart, just ahead of Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I forgot to tell TikTok about the best idea I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d Green started a new video<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an app that installs a bean on your phone. And the bean really wants to spend more time knitting,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can focus for an amount of time, and that will allow the bean to make socks or scarves. And then you can trade those socks or scarves in for more furniture in the bean\u2019s room.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"aThe Focus Friend app gives users a “bean” that knits. Photo courtesy of B-Tech Consulting Group LLC<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a quintessential cozy game \u2014 \u201cobviously, you want this,\u201d Green ended his TikTok \u2014 but with the intention to \u201cgive people their time back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The app itself is free, but it does offer some in-app purchases. Those, Green said, are there for good reason.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up video<\/a>, he explained that the developer of the app, Bria, told him to consider advertisements in the app to offset the cost of creating it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I didn\u2019t really want to do that,\u201d Green said. \u201cThe app is about giving people their time back. It\u2019s about letting people be in control of their attention, not selling their attention to someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AThe bean really wants to keep knitting. Photo courtesy of B-Tech Consulting Group LLC<\/p>\n

So, he and Bria decided to make a free app with no ads, leaving the choice up to the user whether they want to make purchases for their own beans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t break the app. It\u2019s not like it closes down if you don\u2019t pay for it,\u201d Green added. \u201cBut the people who do pay make it so that we can continue developing the app. And we have a bunch of ideas now that we have some income.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green himself has not publicly disclosed a diagnosis of ADHD, though two years ago, he did tweet<\/a>: \u201cPeople often ask if I have ADHD and, look, I don\u2019t know what I have but, honestly, whatever it is\u2026I think it\u2019s great.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Therefore, the app is for anyone \u2014 ADHD diagnosis or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerfect for anyone who struggles with long sessions of concentration,\u201d the app\u2019s description reads. \u201cFocus Friend is for students and beyond.”<\/p>\n

\"TwoAn introduction to the app explains the premise. Photo courtesy of B-Tech Consulting Group LLC<\/p>\n

The app also discloses that it does not collect or share any user data<\/a>, to which Green said: \u201cWhat would we need your data for?!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Inside Focus Friend, users can find a live activity timer to see their progress when their phone is locked, activate a Deep Focus Mode that locks distracting apps during focus sessions, and break timers that are designed around the Pomodoro Method<\/a> of productivity.<\/p>\n

There are also hundreds of decorations to unlock and decorate the bean\u2019s room, as well as skins to customize the user\u2019s Focus Friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hank said his is a cat-bean named \u201cGummybean,\u201d since his real-life cat is named Gummybear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those interested in downloading the app can do so via the App Store<\/a> or Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Header images courtesy of Hank Green\/Bluesky and B-Tech Consulting Group LLC<\/p>\n