Comparison

Focus Dog vs Focus Noodles

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

Head to head
About

Focus Dog

This gamified productivity app helps you build focus and reduce screen time by rewarding you for staying on task. Earn virtual currency to feed your digital dog, unlock new features, and even donate to real animal shelters.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus challenges
  • Virtual dog feeding for rewards
  • Time tracking and statistics
  • Unlockable recipes and customizations
  • Donations to real animal shelters
  • Pomodoro timer for focused work
Features
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Your phone was built to eat your focus. Focus Dog feeds it back. Feed your focus. Starve distractions. Start a focus session and your donut machine starts producing donuts. Stay in the app, the machine keeps running. Open Instagram "for a second"? The machine stops. Your dog — his name is Focus — is hungry and counting on you. That's the whole loop. It works because it's stupid simple and because you care about the dog. If you open your phone to check one thing and look up 40 minutes later, you're not broken. Your apps were designed to do that to you. Focus Dog gives you a reason to put the phone down: a cute dog who eats what you earn, levels up when you show up, and gets sad when you ghost him. STAY FOCUSED • Pomodoro-style focus sessions that produce rewards as you work • Hourly challenges for a dopamine hit when you hit your time goals • Your session timer stays visible on the Lock Screen — iOS Live Activities, Android live notifications • Siri Shortcuts to start sessions hands-free (5 to 120 minutes) • Open-ended mode when you just want to lock in and go GET MOTIVATED • Collect over 120 donut recipes across normal, rare, and epic tiers • Level up donuts, unlock new dog skins, machines, and backgrounds • Seasonal events with exclusive donuts (Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Valentine's, Easter) • Climb weekly leagues against people at your level, from Bronze to Legend • Compete with friends and climb the global Top 100 leaderboard • Gift your gems — we turn them into real meals for real shelter dogs TRACK YOUR FOCUS • Tag sessions (Work, Study, Deep Work — whatever fits your life) and see the breakdown • Calendar heatmap, weekly/monthly/yearly stats, streak tracking • Per-tag time distribution so you know where your focus actually goes • CSV export of your focus time for your own analysis (Pro) BUILT FOR • Students fighting homework procrastination • ADHD brains that need external scaffolding, not willpower • Remote workers drowning in tab-switching • Anyone who's tired of their weekly screen time report FOCUS DOG PRO Install Focus Dog for free and use its core features as long as you want. Subscribe any time to Focus Dog Pro via in-app purchase — available as a monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. Payment will be charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. Focus Dog will automatically charge your App Store account at the end of each subscription period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time in your App Store Account Settings after purchase and still receive full functionality until the end of your current period, but we can't refund unused portions of the subscription. In-app purchases and subscriptions cannot be shared via Family Sharing. Terms of use: https://focusdog.app/terms/ Privacy policy: https://focusdog.app/privacy/ CONNECT WITH US • Twitter: https://twitter.com/FocusDogApp • Support: https://focusdog.app/help/

About

Focus Noodles

This app helps you stay focused on tasks by using a fun timer that penalizes phone usage. Earn rewards and enjoy fairytale cards after successful focus sessions. It aims to combat phone addiction and boost productivity.

Highlights
  • Phone screen down timer
  • Distraction alerts (vibrate, flash, noise)
  • Reward system for focus sessions
  • Fairytale cards for relaxation
  • Combats phone addiction
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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"Focus Noodles" is a creative focus app. 2022 Apple Design Award finalist. Focus is the key to a perfect bowl of noodles. Place your phone screen down and start the timer. Focus on the task at hand and resist the temptation to touch your phone, or it will vibrate, flash, and make noises to remind you to put it down! When the timer goes off, your noodles will be perfectly cooked, and you will have accomplished a meaningful focus session. As a reward, you'll receive a "mind-expanding" fairytale card to relieve the tension after your focused session and prepare you for the next one. Your phone is like a Pandora's Box that once opened, can be difficult to close. You never know which tap will steal your attention next. Focus Noodles hopes to help you put down your phone in a humorous and enjoyable way, to fight phone addiction, and to regain the most valuable resource of our time. Where there is focus, there is productivity. Join us now and focus on cooking a bowl of noodles with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide! App credentials: · Apple Design Awards 2022 Finalist. · "Best of March 2020 " in China. · AppStore Editors‘ Choice. (HealthKit integration available to sync focus time to "Mindfulness Training") ideaTiny creates fun apps. fb@ideatiny.com

Screenshots

Focus Dog4 screens
Focus Noodles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Focus Dog at Free against Focus Noodles's $3.99. Focus Dog also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (910 vs 205). Focus Noodles's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Focus Dog is free to download; Focus Noodles costs $3.99 up front. Focus Dog sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Focus Noodles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Focus Dog against 4.7 for Focus Noodles. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 910 and 205 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Focus Dog's written reviews are positive against 80% of Focus Noodles's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Dog ships an update fortnightly, Focus Noodles every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Focus Dog versus Focus Noodles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus DogFocus Noodles
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.7 (910 ratings)4.7 (205 ratings)
Positive reviews85.3% of reviews — better79.6% of reviews
Number of ratings910 — better205
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB201 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFancy Ventures UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)ideaTiny Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Focus Dog

All ratings910 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews353 reviews
Positive85.3%
Neutral7.4%
Negative7.4%

Focus Noodles

All ratings205 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative9.3%

Bugs and requests

Focus Dog

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Login and password reset issues
  • Disappearing progress and paid features

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customization options for the dog
  • Detailed activity tracking and statistics
  • Break timer and idle mode features
  • Ability to choose different animal characters

Focus Noodles

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Focus Dog

Subscriptions2
  • Donut Dog Pro + Monthly Coffee$2.491 Month
  • Donut Dog Pro + Monthly Coffee$4.991 Month
One-time10
  • Small Gem Bundle$0.99
  • Donut Dog Pro$1.99
  • Donut Dog Pro$2.99
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  • Medium Gem Bundle$2.99
  • Donut Dog Pro + Coffee Support$5.99
  • Donut Dog Pro$13.99
  • Donut Dog PRO$16.99
  • Donut Dog Pro$19.99
  • Donut Dog Pro + Coffee Support$29.99
  • Donut Dog Pro + Coffee Support$34.99
1 purchases

Focus Noodles

One-time1
  • Story Cards$0.99

Questions

Is Focus Dog free?
Focus Dog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Noodles free?
Focus Noodles costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Focus Dog or Focus Noodles?
Focus Dog and Focus Noodles are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 910 and 205 ratings respectively.
Do Focus Dog or Focus Noodles have ads?
Neither Focus Dog nor Focus Noodles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Dog or Focus Noodles?
Focus Dog ships an update fortnightly, and Focus Noodles every 2 months. Most recently, Focus Dog was updated on September 25, 2026 and Focus Noodles on September 23, 2026.

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