You must stay focused. You cannot open TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever little phone games you like to play. If you fail, you will make an anthropomorphic bean very sad, because its knitting project depends on your ability to stay focused.

This is the premise of Focus Friend , a productivity app created by Honey B Games and Hank Green , the longtime online creator/entrepreneur/educator/ sock salesman . Though the app was soft launched last month, Focus Friend is only now gaining momentum the App Store charts — likely because Green and his brother, author John Green, are posting about it more — reaching No. 4 among all free apps and No. 2 among productivity apps.

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Your Deserve a Focus Friend ♬ original sound – Hank Green

Focus Friend, which is available on i

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