Brain.fm - Focus Music 4+

Great music, terrible app

The music is great but given what we are paying the app needs serious work. It is seriously unintuitive, particularly the Sleep section which does not explain what each choice does. What is the difference between between, Deep sleep, guided sleep, sleep & wake? Why can I only set duration, and not a wake up time? How should this be used? Also, the Meditation sessions need integrating with Apple Health to log our ‘Mindful Minutes’. The main problem is that there are no prompts throughout the app explaining how to get the most out of each section. There also needs to be a version of the app for the Mac that runs in the system tray...

Developer Response ,

Hi there, thank you for taking the time to leave us all your feedback! We will pass this all on to our team for them to take note of. Regarding how to get the most of out each session, we do have a few articles for that! Here is the link, https://brainfm.helpscoutdocs.com/category/29-quick-start-guide
And please feel free to email these/any other questions you may have to support@brain.fm. Our wonderful support team will be happy to answer!

Interesting app

I liked the idea of the app and used the opportunity to trial usage for free which was nice. I haven’t taken up subscription since it struck me that there is so much better music out there which has been composed and played by real people (rather than AI) who could do with us buying their music. Try ENO, Basinski, Aphex Twins, Keith Jarrett, Pole, The Necks or spread your wings to Mozart, Bach, Satie, David Lang, Max Richter, Arvo Part, Murcof, Gyorgy Ligeti. The list is enormous and all have created and some are creating work that can be listened in the background yet is able put you in another place without intrusion. But I do like the idea of the app and would enjoy it if it used music created by people. Maybe it does and the trial time didn’t give me time to find it. If so then let me know and I shall have another go!

Superb, but one request

I highly recommend this app, which has helped me greatly with getting in the right zone for deep focus work. My one suggestion for improvement would be to provide a uniform timer across all pieces, so that it is easy to customise the the playing length to exactly what’s wanted. Also provide a cue to stop working at the end of the session - I.e.serve as a pomodoro timer too.

Another point to make is the quality of the music. Although the music isn’t supposed to intrude into one’s thoughts, some pieces stand as great compositions in their own right, and none more so than ‘Lights in the Darkness’.

Developer Response ,

Hi there; it's great to hear that the app has been helping you get into the right zoom for work. We're soon working on getting the website timer (and all other features) to the mobile app. We're very excited and will announce it as soon as we've rolled it out! Thank you so much for the suggestion, we appreciate it and have forwarded this over to the team. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us at support@brain.fm if you ever have more. Happy listening!