9 Best Alternatives to Focused Work - Remote Work Products

Focus is the ultimate productivity planner for remote work. Let others know what you are working on with a simple tap and effortlessly share all related content. Focus incorporates elements of mindfulness so you can maintain a healthy balance between work and play. Use it at work and at home to improve your focus and well-being

• Free but premium support available

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Task management and time tracking

Focus helps to make a distinction between work and free time

The Focus App provides you with multiple timers including 5217 and Podomoro, that enable you to adapt your working pattern in a more efficient and productive manner. Analyse your productivity using provided statistics and performance metrics.

• Free to download.

Use The Focus App to focus on what's important and analyze your productivity.

Use The Focus App to be more productive during the day as a remote worker.

A shared workspace or even a regular office can be pretty annoying when there is a lot of chatter and noise around. Noisli tackles this by providing different ambient sounds, allowing one to drown the background noise and to focus on work. Available on web, Android, iOS and as a Chrome plug-in, it has a beautiful interface and offers great flexibility in choosing one's background sound by mixing various sound types.

• Free and premium version available.

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Noisy environments or when you require a no-distraction few hours of work.

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• Wide array of ambient sounds.
• Great flexibility in finding the right mix of all the sounds, with the possibility of saving the right mix for future use and sharing it.
• Beautiful and soothing UI

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Forest tackles the distractions of various applications too, albeit in a different fashion to "Space". It uses the growth of a sapling to a tree as a visual motivator to help users abstain from spending time on certain apps/websites. Available on iOS and Android too.

• Chrome plug-in and Android app are not paid, though the latter has in-app purchases. iOS app is paid.

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For daily usage but more importantly when you need a period of absolute focus, while still having to use the internet.

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• Beautiful visual representation of growth (or the lack of it) making it very engaging.
• A positive association of general environmental good.

• The chrome plug-in and the phone applications are not synced.
• The chrome plug-in lacks alarms that can indicate that you have completed your target successfully.

Effortless is a Mac menu bar app that helps you stay focused on one thing at a time. It allows you to create a simple plaintext to-do list and shows the task you're currently working on your menu bar. Effortless also keeps track of how long you plan to work on each task and features a countdown timer to help you manage your time.

• $9.99
• Complete Pricing

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Add Effortless to your Mac menu bar and stay focused, do one thing at a time.

Ideal for remote workers to stay focused and do prioritize work as needed.

OmniFocus is powerful task management software for busy professionals. With tools to help tame the chaos, you can focus on the right tasks at the right time.

• $9.99 USD/mo; $99.99 USD/yr
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Use OmniFocus to prioritize your tasks daily and focus on what's important.

Remote workers can focus on what's most important with OmniFocus.

Are you drowning in tasks? Do you become overwhelmed with other task management solutions? It all comes down to this; what is REALLY important today? With Tomorrow, you prioritize your 3 most important tasks. Tomorrow lets you focus on what really matters.

• Free.

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Use Tomorrow to prioritize your tasks daily.

Use Tomorrwo to get the most important things done first when working remotely

Ambiently is an app that bring you ambient sounds that helps you to concentrate on your work, study or simply relax. No matter if you work on an open office with pretty loud coworkers or study from home and the TV or people conversations don't let you be concentrated. Ambiently helps you to concentrate on your work and avoid distractions.

• Free to download, pay once for lifetime use.
• Complete Pricing

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Select different ambients that match with your needs in every moment.

Use Ambiently to create calming sounds when working.

## FEATURES ## * Support for iPhone, iPad, and macOS * You can use a standard timer, or customize for yourself * Force to stay in Just Focus App (Screen lock is allowed), keep away from distraction by your phone * Timer, sound effects, animation, fully customizable! * Beautiful full-screen wallpaper design, non-distraction while using the app * Statistics for daily timers, review your productive time

• Free.

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Use daily to help improve productivity.

Use Just Focus to get work done faster and more efficiently as a remote worker.