# Villa Focus — Study together, grow your town

> Study together, grow your town (iPhone/iPad app by Beatriz Aruk da Silva.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/villa-focus/id6807197014 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Beatriz Aruk da Silva](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807197016)
- Category: Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 57 MB
- Languages: American English, European Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-09
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Villa Focus?

Studying alone is exhausting. In Villa, every focus session becomes a house in your town, and you study together with your friends.

HOW IT WORKS
• Pick a subject and how long you want to focus.
• Stay focused until the timer ends.
• Session complete, house built. The more you study, the more your village grows.

STUDY WITH YOUR FRIENDS
• Create a group for your class, study club or study buddies and invite them with a link.
• See who in your group is studying right now.
• Compete on the weekly leaderboard of study hours and celebrate each other's progress in the group feed.

TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
• Set goals and track your hours by subject.
• Keep your daily study streak going.
• See your stats and share your achievements.
• Reminders to keep your routine on track.

WHO IT'S FOR
For anyone studying for medical school, residency, college, entrance exams or public service exams who wants consistency, discipline and company in their study routine.

Turn your study hours into a town that grows with you.

## Is Villa Focus safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Villa Focus.

## Is Villa Focus legit?

Villa Focus has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Villa Focus is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.1 — 2026-11-09

Adjustment using the phone's light during a focus session

### 1.4.0 — 2026-11-07

New: build your first house in 10 minutes! Create a group, invite your friends and see who builds the biggest town by studying. Weekly leaderboard.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-27

This update makes Villa faster to start and more reliable while you
  study.

  A SIMPLER SIGN-UP
  • A new step-by-step flow with a progress bar — create your account in
    under a minute.
  • Email and password autofill.
  • If your @username is taken, you can fix it right away without losing
    what you already typed.
  • You can now tell us who referred you during sign-up.

  MORE RELIABLE FOCUS SESSIONS
  • A live card with your house and timer, visible without opening the app
    — and it switches from focus to break on its own.
  • If the app closes mid-session, your time is no longer lost: you'll see
    your session results when you come back.
  • The end-of-session sound now plays on time, and you can mute the bell.
  • Sessions of 10 minutes or more count toward your streak.

  GROUPS AND FRIENDS
  • Group invites by link: one tap to join, and you can share straight to
    WhatsApp.
  • Expired invites now explain what happened instead of getting stuck.
  • The "who's studying" screen shows correct times and updates faster.
  • Invite friends to unlock exclusive houses — with a fixed referral
    counter.

  YOUR VILLAGE AND STATS
  • A redesigned house picker with bigger, easier-to-browse houses.
  • New houses to build.
  • Correct numbers in Ranking and My Stats.
  • An expanded intro tour covering study time, subjects, and metrics.

  FIXES
  • Fixed a freeze when opening the app on an unstable connection.
  • Fixed a case where already-signed-in users were asked to sign up again.  • Various stability and layout fixes.

  Thank you for building your village with us.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-11

Villa 1.1.0 — study together, live.

  NEW
  Live Study Grid
  Start a session and your house appears in the Study Grid of every group
  you're in. Watch everyone's houses fill up in real time — see who's
  focusing, who's on a break, and who just finished. No scheduling, no
  joining: just start studying.

  Group rankings
  Weekly and monthly leaderboards for each of your groups, with minutes
  studied, sessions completed, houses built and dropouts. Friendly
  competition with people you actually know.

  Subjects
  Create up to 12 subjects with their own colors and tag each session.
  See exactly where your time goes.

  Your stats
  A new Stats view in the Map tab: your most productive hour, focus vs.
  break time, time per subject, an intensity calendar, daily hours and
  your focus rate.

  Shareable cards
  Turn any session into an image. Pick a layout and colors, use your own
  photo as the background, then share it, save it to your gallery, or
  post it straight to your group.

  Groups during sign-up
  New accounts can join up to 3 groups right from onboarding.

  CHANGED

  One streak, simpler rules
  Your streak is now days in a row with at least one session of 10
  minutes or more. Your daily goal is tracked separately — the two no
  longer depend on each other.

  Group sessions are gone
  Scheduled group sessions and the group calendar have been removed.
  There's one session now — yours — and it shows up live in all your
  groups while you study.

  Comeback quest
  Lose a streak of 3 days or more and you'll get a chance to earn part
  of it back.

  FIXED

  - Presets with breaks now record time accurately. Break time is no
    longer counted as focus time, so your stats and rankings show the
    real numbers.
  - People studying with their screen locked no longer disappear from
    the Study Grid.
  - Your house is now the same size on the home screen, during the
    session, on the completion screen and on the map.
  - Pull to refresh on the group ranking and on your stats.
  - The intensity calendar now shows weekday and date labels.
  - Fixes to session recovery when the app is closed mid-session.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-09

No release notes.

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