FocusList vs Motivation Streaks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FocusList
Plan your day and boost productivity with timed work intervals and breaks. Track your progress, analyze estimates, and identify your peak work times.
- Daily planning with task estimation
- 25-minute work intervals with 5-minute breaks
- Timeboxing for focused work sessions
- Retrospective analysis of estimates and time spent
- Real-time sync with Mac app
- Productivity statistics
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# Simplest Pomodoro app that sync with Mac in real-time (visit focuslist.co) # Get more DEEP WORK done. FocusList is your one app to plan the day and be more productive using 25 minutes intervals, timeboxing and retrospective. Here's how: Plan: Start the day by planning your activities throughout the day. Give each task an estimate. Plan your entire day, and try to get everything on your list done. Focus: Go through your tasks in 30 minute blocks. (25 minutes work + 5 minutes break). It helps you focus by separating work time and rest time. Retrospect: With stats, you can go back in time and see how good your estimates were, how much time you've spent on each task, and when is your best time in the day to get work done.
Motivation Streaks
This app helps you track your energy levels during activities, distinguishing between motivated and unmotivated sessions. It visualizes your patterns and provides insights to help you discover what truly energizes you and when to let go of draining pursuits.
- Motivated/unmotivated session tracking
- Streak counters
- Day-of-week energy patterns
- Customizable quit alerts
- Clean interface
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Stop forcing things that drain you Motivation Streaks helps you track how your work actually feels—not just whether you showed up. Perfect for people who start lots of projects and need to separate fleeting ideas from the ones that actually light you up. Track energy, not discipline: After each session, log whether you felt motivated or unmotivated. The app shows your patterns over time with simple visual streaks and day-of-week insights. Permission to quit: When you log too many unmotivated sessions in a row, the app nudges you to reconsider. Life is too short to grind through things that don't energize you. Built for explorers: Great for people who are always trying new things—workouts, side projects, creative hobbies, learning goals. Use it to discover what actually motivates you instead of forcing perfect attendance. Features: • Simple motivated/unmotivated tracking • Streak counters that celebrate consistency • Day-of-week patterns to see when you're naturally energized • Customizable alerts when it might be time to move on • Clean, focused interface Find what lights you up. Let go of what doesn't.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Motivation Streaks at 100% against FocusList's 52%. Motivation Streaks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4). FocusList's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Motivation Streaks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FocusList has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of FocusList's written reviews are positive against 100% of Motivation Streaks's.
FocusList ships an update monthly, Motivation Streaks every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocusList | Motivation Streaks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Median Tech, s.r.o. | One Step LLC |
Customer experience
FocusList
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In-app purchases
FocusList
No in-app purchases
Motivation Streaks
No in-app purchases
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