PrivateSea vs CatFocus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PrivateSea
This app helps you achieve your goals by generating personalized game levels based on your resolutions. Customize your 'life game' levels, add rewards, and track your progress with detailed statistics and habit tracking.
- AI-generated game levels based on resolutions
- Customizable 'life game' levels
- Add rewards for completed tasks
- Habit tracking and notes
- Graphical statistics
- iCloud data sync
- Today Widget
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*** Brand new version *** Explore limitless possibilities. Challenge yourself here. Make efforts. Make drops. Make your sea. Main Features: * Automatically and intelligently generate game levels based on your New Year's resolutions! * You can also customize "life game" levels. * You can Add rewards for Games / Challenges / Breadth Exploration / Plans. After you finish your exploration, you can buy rewards later. In this way, you can motivate yourself to do more things and no longer spend much money. More Features: * Explore a broader world, acquire more skills. * Set a deadline for the todo/goal * Add notes for habits and todos * Track your habit * More graphics statistics * Use a powerful search tool to search your drops * Sync your data through iCloud * Today Widget - check todos and the time you are tracking now easily Pro subscription: Dream/Goal Decomposition by AI; Little angel (AI chatbot). Terms of Use: https://orealmlab.com/privatesea-terms Privacy Policy: https://orealmlab.com/privatesea-privacy-policy
CatFocus
This app helps individuals with time blindness visualize their day. It offers five activity modes to log time spent, allowing users to see where their hours go and adjust their habits naturally without relying on willpower.
- Visualize daily time usage
- Five activity modes (Focus, Cruise, Meditation, Exercise, Drift)
- Daily animal rescue gamification
- Daily intention and anti-intention setting
- Calendar and timeline review
- No data collection or third-party tracking
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WHERE DID YOUR TIME GO? If you’ve ever felt like “I did nothing, yet the whole day is gone” - this app is made for you. This app, CatFocus, was built by a developer with ADHD. I’ve tried countless Pomodoro timers and productivity apps on the market. None of them worked for me. A 25-minute countdown? My brain can’t even stay focused for 10 minutes. To-do lists? I write them down and then forget they exist. Eventually, I realized something: The problem isn’t a lack of discipline - it’s that I literally can’t feel time passing. It’s what people call time blindness. So I built CatFocus. The idea is simple: Don’t force your brain to focus - just let it see time. – HOW IT WORKS Every day, a small animal has been captured. All you need to do is stay engaged for 4-6 hours, and you can rescue it. You don’t need to stay in a constant focus mode. Because unless you’re in a hyperfocus state, an ADHD brain simply can’t sustain long periods of attention. So I designed five modes: Focus Cruise Meditation Exercise Drift These cover almost everything you do while awake. Switch freely. Log casually. At the end of the day, open the timeline and you’ll clearly see where your 24 hours actually went. For someone who has never understood where time disappears to, this can be surprisingly powerful. – WHAT YOU GET A new animal to rescue every day. Each one has its own personality, hidden details, and a small story. Five activity modes. Not just a focus timer. You can log meditation, exercise, meetings, or even zoning out. Every block of time has a label, so you won’t have those “What did I do for 3 hours?” moments anymore. Daily intention and anti-intention. What do you want to become today? What do you want to avoid becoming today? This system helps you recalibrate your direction. Calendar and timeline. Every day is recorded and easy to review. – WHY IT’S DIFFERENT Most productivity tools assume you can already feel time. They just give you a timer. But ADHD is not about needing a timer. It’s about not having an internal sense of time at all. CatFocus doesn’t force discipline. It simply lays your time out in front of you. You drifted for 2 hours. You focused for 4 hours. You meditated for 20 minutes. When time becomes visible, you naturally start adjusting without relying on willpower. – PRICING CatFocus is free to use, with all core features included. A one-time purchase unlocks more animals and permanent desktop sync and tracking. No subscriptions. No ads. – PRIVACY CatFocus does not collect any of your data. No servers. No third-party tracking. No ad SDKs. Your focus belongs to you. – CONTACT Email: cccozzy@hotmail.com Xiaohongshu: @林熠燃
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CatFocus at Free against PrivateSea's $0.99. PrivateSea's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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
CatFocus is free to download; PrivateSea costs $0.99 up front. PrivateSea sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and CatFocus sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PrivateSea against 5.0 for CatFocus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | PrivateSea | CatFocus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ORealm Technology Limited | 晨晨 林 |
Customer experience
PrivateSea
CatFocus
In-app purchases
PrivateSea
- minimum pro$0.991 Month
- standard pro$1.991 Month
- maximum pro$3.991 Month
CatFocus
- Unlock David$1.99
- 解锁牛马$1.99
- Unlock Liam$1.99
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- Unlock Kane$1.99
- Unlock Ryan$1.99
- Unlock All In One$5.99
- Achievement Animals$6.99









