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

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

I think I forgot to tell TikTok about the best idea I’ve ever had,” Green started a new video. “It’s an app that installs a ...

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’ ...