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FocusRecipe
A gamified focus timer that helps you step away from your phone and build your ultimate recipe book.
Press contact:
Balazs Vidumanszki – info@vdmnszk.com
A gamified focus timer that helps you step away from your phone and build your ultimate recipe book.
Press contact:
Balazs Vidumanszki – info@vdmnszk.com
Scroll less, cook more. FocusRecipe is a gamified focus timer that helps you master the skill of healthy habits.
FocusRecipe is a gamified Pomodoro timer designed for people who want to break their doomscrolling habits and achieve deep focus. FocusRecipe gives a reason to stay away from your phone: cook something instead. Set your timer, start cooking a virtual or a physical meal, and stay off your phone—if you leave the app, your meal burns. Successfully complete sessions to collect recipes in your personal cookbook, turning abstract focused time into a tangible achievement. Available for $19.99/year (with a 7-day free trial) or $2.99/month on iPhone and iPad.
We believe that being healthy is a skill to master, and true wellbeing requires a balance of both mental and physical health. Unfortunately, modern habits like doomscrolling destroy our productivity and pull us away from the physical world. FocusRecipe gives a reason to stay away from your phone: cook something instead.
Instead of a stressful countdown, FocusRecipe turns focus time into cooking time. You set the duration with a tactile kitchen timer that feels real thanks to haptic feedback. Once the timer starts, the cooking begins. The core mechanic is simple but strict: if you touch your phone, leave the app, or get distracted by notifications, your meal will burn.
Finish your session successfully, and you are rewarded. The meal is added to your personal cookbook, turning abstract focused time into a tangible, collectible achievement. It bridges the gap between mental health and physical habits, gamifying productivity in a way that feels rewarding rather than restrictive.
Full-resolution, unframed screenshots capturing the actual app experience.
I'm Balazs Vidumanszki, an indie mobile app developer based in Hungary. I've previously worked on productivity and interior design apps.
I built FocusRecipe to connect mental health and physical health together. I believe that being healthy is a skill to master, and FocusRecipe is designed to help users achieve it by bridging the gap between digital focus and tangible rewards.
Contact:
info@vdmnszk.com
