Hank Green’s Focus Friend app beats ChatGPT on App Store charts

I have always cared about beans. Hank Green uses this love to encourage me to spend time out of my phone.

Green, who is famous for having always worked on many projects at the same time, created Focus Friend a few days ago. This is already the number one free application on the App Store, USURPANT Chatgpt, and has been downloaded more than 100,000 times from the Google Play Store. Everything you do is spending time out of your phone. The bean knit a sock and you use this sock to decorate the bean house. It’s a bit like a comfortable game, but you don’t spend much time playing.

“This is an application that sets up a bean in your phone. And the Bean really wants to spend more time knitting,” he said in a Tiktok video on Monday. “You can focus for a while, and this will allow the bean to make socks or scarves, and you can exchange these socks or scarves for more furniture in the bean bedroom.”

Although the game is free, there are integrated purchases. For example, if you spend a little money, your bean can be a cat grain or a coffee bean instead of the automatic pinto bean, or your grain can knit scarves instead of socks, which are worth more. Users have requested more characters for free, but Green defends its use of integrated purchases because the application itself is completely without advertising, and integrated purchases do not really make the application better; They make it a little more customizable. He explains that he discussed the addition of advertisements with the developer, a creator of independent applications named BIA, because he would probably be incredibly lucrative and would allow them to develop the application more quickly.

“The application is to give people their time. It’s about letting people control their attention, not selling their attention to someone else,” he said in another Tiktok video. “So what we decided to do is a free application without ads, and it means integrated purchases. And that does not break the application.”

And, for the most part, people seem quite satisfied with this decision.

“I love the application !!! it convinces me to get the paid version. Thank you for created it!” A person commented.

“He has no advertising, that’s what made me download it. Thank you!” Another person commented.

Of course, not everyone is completely satisfied with all aspects of the application. For example, @Lucieatsatl has beef with currencies. “Regular currencies are socks and premium currencies are scarves,” she said in a Tiktok video with more than 66,000 views. “However, as a knitting, it is obvious that they should be a switche[d]. Socks are generally considered a much more difficult project[n] Scarves. “”

Jokes apart, this application is rather nice. I love my bean and I want to give him a good house.