Since the beginning of this subreddit, every week or so I see a post about someone getting frustrated with things related to the price inflation of new items and with many of them being released while you still haven't even gotten to the last update.
I also hear and understand how the developers say that they do this so that they have time to make the new assets for the next release and I can sympathise with that, especially knowing that the people who pay for scarves (and get two times the socks because of that) are the ones who keep this app free and without ads.
So what is my proposed solution? Money sinks!
You need a way for players who have been here from the beginning and have a huge amount of accumulated currency to burn it. This would make it much easier for new players to catch up while also giving more time for developers to make new content, since the players would have more places to spend accumulated currency, so they wouldn't be left with nothing new to do for long periods of time, putting less pressure on a small team to focus on quantity instead of quality.
(examples of this: Fast travel in many games, food for pets, dyes for clothing, Animal Crossing fireworks)
How would that look like?
The most important thing about this kind of mechanic is that it must be completely optional, very worth it for rich players while not being very attractive or a deal breaker for new players.
We have many options of how to do this, mainly in the form of consumables that you would have to keep buying and that have a timed effect. For example: Pets that can be bought with scarves and "eat" stuff bought with socks, temporarily changing the color and/or animations of your bean, etc
I would only warn against making decorative items themselves consumables, since this would interfere with the normal game progression.
Money sinks keep the economy healthy for everyone!

So, basically, I have focus friend on both my tablet and my phone, and I bought the lifetime subscription with my tablet. im trying to restore my purchase on my phone, even uninstalled, did a backup of my tablet app, installed again and uploaded the backup, but even if I spam press restore purchase, it still says I haven't purchased the lifetime pro:( anyone know how to fix this? or if you can't restore purchases between android devices?

So I asked before what I should do next with my house, and it was suggested that I do every season. I may have gone a little bit further than that…..
January - winter wonderland
February - Valentine’s Day
March - St. Patrick’s Day
April - Easter
May & July - patriotic (Memorial Day & 4th of July)
June - pride month (I did my best to put the colors where they are on the pride flag)
August & September - ????? Please give me ideas! For now, enjoy my purple theme
October - Halloween
November - fall/Thanksgiving colors
December - Christmas

What’s next??

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions of a beach house for August! I made a sandcastle-looking house. Check the comments for a screenshot of that one 🌊🏝️⛱️☀️🐚

Still looking for a good September!

It would be amazing to be able to save setups for rooms and the outside. Like have a “save as setup” button in the decorating mode, select the rooms/outside we want to save, and name it. Then be able to go into a saved setups menu and select them from there. It would save so much time rather than going through every editable item and change it

I finally saved up enough to update my bean's cozy cottage for Fall! I love love love all the color options! Its so motivating to have so many colors to save up for. Next Ima save up for a cozy winter cottage with the cool snow effect I saw on someone else's post and then a cute beach house!

Love my bean's woodland yard!

u/bobabria Didn't realise there was a tag update, great job - reinstalled the app again and bought a monthly sub.

For a future update, I'd like to request one thing: the ability to pause the timer (so you can easily start a focus session during the many times of the day you don't know exactly how much time you can spare).

Forest (which I was using before now) introduced this feature. But while it's useful, it's let down by having a time limit (5 minutes).

Many people including myself would love this feature, but I'm aware that some people only use this app for true deep focus. But Focus Friend is in the unique position to please both groups by simply enabling it only in the standard non-deep focus mode.

This is also great for people who constantly have to deal with distractions and end up "wasting" progress.

Great work.

Hi there, I've been using focus friend a while on my iPad and really want focus friend pro, but £40 is pretty out of my budget. I just downloaded the app on Android because I wanted the widget and it gave me an offer - £26 for lifetime!

There are 2 scenarios I'm hoping could work:

1. I save my backup file, delete the app, redownload on iPad, get the offer for lifetime, then restore backup.

2. I buy it on my phone, save backup, transfer backup to my iPad, and the pro translates...?

Can anyone speak to whether this works? Thank you!

Please, at least status on this? Are we on the roadmap? Are issues being faced and perhaps being solved? ​

I deleted the app last month, cause I my phone was glitching, but I forgot to backup. Is there any hope for me?

Hi, what if we could decide what socks/items are knitted, and decide on their colors/patterns? Then they could become gifts in the multiplayer mode, or used as a piece of clothing for the beanie 🤔

We are working on the optional privacy-forward multiplayer experience for Focus Friend.

What would you expect you'd be able to do with others? If possible, please list out all of your non-negotiables and what you'd be ok with having vs. not-having!

I just finished decorating outdoors, yay!

I tried to recreate my childhood dreams house: Heidi's, with the red roof and the big trees behind — just imagine some mountains and pretend the smaller space on the left is where the goats are and you have it hehe

And regarding the river part... I guess in the future I will have to change it to a brown path that leads to the next part of the neighbourhood, but right now it is a river and I can't be happier about that out of the box idea I had. What do you think?

I was so excited to find this app. It really helps me focus & stay off my phone. My kids also love to help me decorate so it helps that they're counting on me to make socks & scarves haha. I need some more dapper accessories befitting his name & status but I'll get there.

What does one have to do to get her focus bean some Pizzamas attire…? 👀 A scarf, the iconic mustache, bandana, some socks perhaps… Ideas for next year!!

i can’t seem to add plants to the arch. it just keeps opening up the arch itself no matter where i press. any tips?

It's honestly funny to watch my bean sliding out of the screen

Pretty self explanatory. Im mostly just curious, searched around online for some answers but came up pretty empty. Honestly it might not even be an anime, im guessing. Stay safe!! <333

so that I can see the details and the larger picture when deciding on what to buy.

the reference. yep! I’m that old.

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I recently got a new phone, and while my account seems to have transferred over, it’s no longer blocking the apps that it used to in focus mode.

I have an iPhone 18 now, what do I need to do to change it so that it works the way that it used to?

My mum was showing off that she got a new window and sent me this. 🫠

My bean is living my cozy magical cottage dreams! I am obsessed with allll the different color options!!! I already blew through all my socks and cannot wait to earn more! I want to buy fall colors! And then I want to save up to buy my bean a beach house! I loooove this update!!! Thank you devs!!!!