There are always opportunities to save money and it is easy to look past financial issues when faced with an onslaught of recommendations.
That is why I always like to consider those free or buy-it-once products that are more than good enough or even beat out those ongoing subscription fees.
Let us take a look.
(1) Forest $3.99 iOS or FREE on Android to replace Timely — Forest is the most recommended Pomodoro timer there is. There is a simple joy in using Forest and it has spent a fair amount of time on my homescreen despite tough competition.
When other pomodoro-type apps and time trackers try to do things more formally and offer a vast array of other features for time tracking, for me, this is just not necessary. I am tracking time using my productivity system. A focused timer app like Forest serves this purpose as a specific tool and that is good enough to save me on another subscription.
