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 ...

YouTuber Hank Green's "Focus Friend" app pairs you with a sock-knitting bean, rewarding time spent off your phone. Days after its debut, "Focus Friend" went No. 1 on the App Store, topping ChatGPT.

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Hank Green is no stranger to virality. Green has been creating content on the internet since 2007, when he and his brother John (you know, the author behind most of your favorite coming-of-age novels) ...

Can a smiley cartoon bean help you stay focused? Hank Green, one of the earliest and most influential online creators, hopes so. The longtime YouTuber, known for his educational videos and ...

Focus Friend, the screen time assistant from YouTuber and entrepreneur Hank Green, is Google Play’s app of the year. Launched in August, the productivity tool lets you block yourself from distracting ...

No matter what we are doing, it only takes one buzz or ringtone to break our concentration. Smartphones are designed to grab our attention, not give it back. That is why one simple app stood out to me ...

It's hardly a revelation that we're living in an era of distraction and smartphone addiction. Our phones interrupt us, hijack our attention, and tempt us into scrolling. Even when we aren't ...

Can a smiley cartoon bean help you stay focused? Hank Green, one of the earliest and most influential online creators, hopes so. Focus Friend allows users to set a timer to get a task done, similar to ...