Hank Green's "Focus Friend" asks users to put down their phone for 15 minutes so their bean friend has time to knit. I ...

Similar to Flora, you do get a virtual reward for completing sessions. Instead of trees, you are awarded one cartoon tomato.

Billie is a bean from the Focus Friend app, launched last month for iOS and Android by Hank Green of assorted internet fame.

But what makes Focus Friend different is that it assigns you a new friend — a little bean — which you can give a cute name, like Garbanzo, or Susan Bean Anthony, or Eda (it’ ...