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Focus - Deep Work Timer: what 19 low-star reviews complain about

We read 19 one-to-three-star reviews written between 2018-01-04 and 2026-09-03 and kept the ones that describe a specific unmet need. Grouped with reviews of other apps that say the same thing, they land in 7 repeated complaints. Store listing.

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What reviewers complain about

  • £4/month is too expensive for basic countdown functionality
  • £35/year too expensive for basic feature
  • Zero free tier
  • Yearly fee unjustified for limited functionality
  • Website constantly down
  • Watch app rich notifications broken for months
  • Very expensive for functionality offered
  • Useless without paid subscription
  • Timer resets and loses session data
  • Task manager has bad ui for setting due dates

The opportunities these reviews point to

  1. 0178Simple pomodoro timer without premium bloat3 of 41
  2. 0278Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity2 of 36
  3. 0380Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity1 of 10
  4. 0450Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity1 of 2
  5. 0549Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity1 of 2
  6. 0647Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity1 of 3
  7. 0741Locked — subscribe to read this opportunity1 of 2

Score out of 100, then how many of the cluster's reviews are about this app out of its total. Category: Productivity.

Every opportunity with the quotes, the apps named, a build memo and the score breakdown.

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