Comparison

To vs Cold Focus

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

To

Features
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Take control of your day with To-Do List Track Progress, the simple and easy-to-use task manager designed to help you organize your life. This app cuts through the clutter, giving you a straightforward tool to track and complete your daily tasks without the fuss. From work to home and school, managing your to-do list has never been easier. Just add your tasks and check them off as you go. With a clean, minimalist interface, you can focus on what really matters: getting things done. Key Features: Simple Task Management: Easily create, complete, or delete tasks with a tap. Progress Tracking: Watch your progress as you check off items throughout your day. Intuitive Interface: A clean and easy-to-use design helps you stay focused. Effortless Organization: Sort your tasks to keep your list exactly how you want it. Start your day right and boost your productivity with To-Do List Track Progress.

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Cold Focus

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Your phone was designed by teams of engineers to hold your attention. One app standing against that has to be serious. Cold Focus is a calm, disciplined focus timer for students and anyone doing deep work. Start a session and the distractions get locked away. Not hidden behind your willpower. Actually blocked. No cheating your way out. Cold Focus is a subscription app. There is no limited free version: you get everything from day one. WHY COLD FOCUS IS DIFFERENT Most timers trust you to behave. This one doesn't have to. When you start a session, Cold Focus locks the apps that pull you away and watches for the little escapes: picking up your phone, bailing early. It keeps you honest, so the time you set aside actually becomes focused time. FOCUS SESSIONS - Set a session, put the phone down, go deep. - Distracting apps stay locked until you're done. - Optional penalties raise the stakes when you break focus, as gentle or as strict as you want. FOCUS SOUNDS - A calm ambient sound plays while your session runs, and keeps playing with the screen off or when you leave the app. - Rain, wind, a river, forest, brown and pink noise, or quiet music. Let them flow one after another, or pick one and stay there. - Mute it any time from the session screen. It mixes with your own music, so it never interrupts what you are already listening to. MEET STEVE Steve is your focus companion. Calm when you're locked in, honest with you when you drift. A little character, a lot of accountability. Focus doesn't have to feel cold and clinical. BUILD A DISCIPLINED IDENTITY - Keep streaks and climb through focus levels. - You're not just logging hours. You're becoming the kind of person who finishes what they start. SEE YOUR FOCUS CLEARLY - Clean weekly, monthly and yearly stats. - An AI focus coach reads your patterns and tells you, in plain language, where your attention is leaking and how to fix it. YOU'RE NOT ALONE See how many people are in a focus session right now, around the world. Quiet company for deep work. BUILT FOR THE ENEMY OF FOCUS Endless feeds, notifications, the reflex to check your phone every few seconds. Cold Focus is built to break that loop, for exams, deadlines, reading, or any work that deserves your full attention. YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Everything above is included. No locked corners, no ads, no upsells inside the app. Subscribe monthly or yearly. It's never too late to take your attention back. Your focus data stays yours. We only sync what you allow. Cold Focus is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or annual). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://coldfocusapp.github.io/coldfocus/terms-of-service.en.html Privacy: https://coldfocusapp.github.io/coldfocus/privacy-policy.en.html

Screenshots

To4 screens
Cold Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: To at none against Cold Focus's 3. To also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Cold Focus's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 117 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Cold Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. To asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

To ships an update every 117 months, Cold Focus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
To versus Cold Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToCold Focus
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 117 monthsEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB241 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAishvarya SadasivamHASAN BURAK ERDIN

In-app purchases

None

To

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Cold Focus

Subscriptions3
  • Cold Focus Premium (Monthly)$7.991 Month
  • Cold Focus Premium (Yearly)$49.991 Year
  • Cold Focus Premium (Yearly)$59.991 Year

Questions

Is To free?
To is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cold Focus free?
Cold Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do To or Cold Focus have ads?
Neither To nor Cold Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, To or Cold Focus?
To ships an update every 117 months, and Cold Focus every 2 weeks. Most recently, To was updated on October 26, 2026 and Cold Focus on October 31, 2026.

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