Stay Focused App/Site Blocker

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1. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

   Was Able to Delete. I installed Stay Focused and placed on strictest setting. For work, my IT team requires me to download a uninstall and reinstall an app. I was able to, without having to enter the 64 character code. Then I uninstalled Stay Focused, again without having to enter the code. What a waste of money.

2. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

   I thought it had worked but now it doesn’t work. So there is a loophole you can just restart or power off your iphone and when it turns on the shortcut block settings doesn’t work instantly, so you can just go to settings remove permissions and other filters and volla every restriction disappears so yeah it would be better if they work on it right away!

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   user unfriendly design. It’s really difficult to figure out how to use this app. I can’t figure out how to set screen time limits, and there’s no help center basically. Poor, user unfriendly design.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Popped up with a screen forcing me to leave a review, so you get 1 star. A message popped up forcing me to leave a review, so here is your 1 star review

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Does not work. This app on Android is amazing. You can set timers for individual apps and block websites. You can also set a timer on a tab within the app so you know how much time is left. The iOS app is bare by comparison, not to mention more expensive. There's no timer. And it's either a glitch or a fault that the only way to set timers for individual apps is to make a "profile" for each one. Even doing that, the app is not working for me. I sent an email asking for support but have yet to hear back. A real shame. I am cancelling my subscription, requesting a refund, and looking elsewhere.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Free. We want to free

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Pay to Play. I’ll start this by saying i’m sure if you buy the subscription, this app is wonderful and does as it says. However, I don’t spend money on things without testing it out for a while first, and in such cases it pays for a company to be a little generous. Limit to two profiles? Perfectly reasonable. One app per profile? Also reasonable. One day per profile? Defeats the entire purpose. So, i downloaded a different app that does the same thing with a less complicated UI, only to find that there is. No. Option. To delete this app. At all. Which makes me incredibly unhappy. Wouldn’t have left any kind of review if i could just delete it and move on :(

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   So many bugs. I want to use this app but it’s full of bugs. I am on iphone 11, most recent ios version and when trying to make the selection of apps to block within a profile it keeps crashing/freezing or showing a blank page. It’s very frustrating. Then when you finally set up the block list, if you want to click pause it doesn’t do anything. Like the state is not updated. So you have to close the app and reopen it and hope it will work. Like no one tested the most basic feature of this app?!

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Bad. It blocked my messages and I couldn’t open the app even when I had it deleted

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Please. I think this app is an amazing idea but why can’t at least some features be free? Technology addiction is so damaging and it’s so selfish of ever person who’s worked on and supported this app to monetize that addiction. It’s a good idea, and I understand production costs completely, but why can’t the basic features be free? All I want is to block a website permanently.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    different apps. android and apple versions are vastly different. you can't do anything with the apple version

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Buggy. [skip this app, buy something else] Hello, Often i’m able to enter the app without passcode, and access to app is password protected. This happens on my & my wife’s phone. There is no obvious pattern when/how this happens, so i can’t give more specific info. For paid version of the app I would expect that minimum of promised functionalities actually works. OS: iOS 18.0.1 Latest version of app.

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    This doesn’t work anymore. I updated my IPhone and now the app is not working. Before it was working fine. I already paid for the year.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Was great on another platform but destroyed the app on iOS. Was great on my android but they nickel and dime you on here while removing some of the features that kept me off the phone. Will not be using this again and will be looking for a different app.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    مشكلة. عندما اقوم بضبطة على ساعات معينة في اليوم لا يعمل مثلا اقوم بإشتراط غلق الانستجرام من الساعة الثامنة مساءا حتى الحادية عشر مساءاً حتى اقضي نصف ساعة على اليوتيوب ف هو لا يعمل

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    :(. This is disappointing. I was hoping for an app that would force me to take 15 minute (or so) breaks every hour I was on my phone for every day in the week. It looked promising, yet you have to get premium and pay to actually get it to work for multiple days of the week. The free version only lets you choose one day.

17. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    iPad issues. I love this app on my phone (Samsung)! However on my iPad I cannot get it to work at all. Please help I don’t know what is wrong. I tried finding a customer service number but had no luck. I would love to rate this 5 stars but just can’t on the apple App Store due to it not working on my iPad.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Too many bugs. Too many bugs can’t I read the hours when trying to chose a time limit because the screen is cut off. After allowing all access to my apps, it still doesn’t work properly and will not give me any notice to end screen time just lets me stay on the apps I’m attempting to block. I tried working with different setting but it seems useless and hard to navigate

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Forced Rating. The app forces it to rate it and won’t let you tool around in the app unless you do

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesn’t Always Work. I’m not sure why, but some days I wake up to find myself locked out of certain apps even though I didn’t use them for the allotted time I have set. Sometimes I’ll use the apps for five minutes and it will shut down. Other times I’ll just drive home from work to find it’s shut down. Not sure the rhyme or reason but it’s wildly frustrating.

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    App functionality can be improved. The app can be disabled from settings and yes i have followed their instructions but it still didnt work. Wasted my money for the premium

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Might as well delete social media. Once I set up Focused to limit my usage of social media to 30mins a day it completely blocks all usage at all times. I can’t access my instagram or YouTube apps at all. Even when I delete the profile on the app. I turned any blocking off and even tried Normal Mode, and I tried setting up a new profile. None of it allows me to access those apps even for one minute.

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not working as expected. In strict mode, i am able to change the mode to normal. Also able to click on profile and edit it on 2nd try. There is a time to block running alongside which clashes but it still should honor the strict mode and not allow edits. Bought a subscription but disappointed

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Spaz. This app works much better on Samsung. I’ve been very disappointed on iPhone. It only works half the time

25. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Problem with adding YouTube website in browser. The app is overall amazing. It really helps to stay focused and don't be distracted by social media. But there is problem with blocking YouTube website in browser. In current suggested list of websites there is wrong website for this and no options to add your own website to this list for blocking.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Really good app… if you get the premium version. The app is virtually useless Without the premium version and you can only set 30 study minute timers and you have free range to pause it whenever you want. That said the premium is only $24 a year and seems to have some pretty good stuff like a infinite study time timers and an infinite block mode which lock you from changing your settings,-the regular one only lets you have three hours in one day.

27. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Occasionally Stop Working!. The overall experience is good. The only annoying thing is the App stops working randomly. Which the debug method is to deactivate the “strict mode”-> enable the access to App group which stops working currently-> disable the access for that App group -> enable the strict mode. Hopefully it could be fixed!

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Decent app. Could use one or two more features in free plan.. Free version is alright—I think it would be greatly improved if given just one “pause for X amount of minutes” was enabled for free users. I understand that some features are locked behind a paywall for a reason, but I think giving free users a sample of this one feature would prevent many more from uninstalling the app. To me, there’s just not enough functionality to justify paying a subscription for a screentime app. I would definitely consider a one-time payment (because it is helpful enough to justify that!) but $4 a month indefinitely is not worth it to me.

29. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Lock mode doesn't work. I'm still able change settings in the app during my window

30. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Me siento estafada. Esta app es un total desastre en iphone. Pagué el premiun para nada. Aunque tengas el modo estricto activado, lo puedes desactivar entrando a configuración desde la interfaz de wifi. Además la opción de bloquear la configuración con atajos tampoco funciona. Lamentable que haya perdido mi dinero de esta manera