Comparison

RPLife vs Focus Quest

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

Head to head
About

RPLife

This app helps you achieve your goals by gamifying your tasks and skill development. Track your progress, level up your abilities, and gain a clear, motivating overview of your achievements. It blends video game concepts with a minimalist design to keep you focused on your life's projects.

Highlights
  • Gamified task completion
  • Skill level progression
  • Visual skill overview
  • Minimalist design
  • Positive reinforcement
Features
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Evaluate your skills as easily as in a video game. RPLife is a todo app that uses gamification and positive thinking to help you achieve your projects. Just add the skills you love and their associated tasks. Each time you complete one of those tasks, your overall level and your skill’s level increase. You then have at all times a clear and motivating vision of the state of your skills. Even if the app uses video game concepts and has nice animations, its minimalist and clean design allows you to stay focused on your goals. You are not playing a game, you are playing your life!

About

Focus Quest

This app combines a study timer with RPG elements to help users improve self-control and reduce phone distractions. Earn in-game resources by focusing to train a hero and upgrade equipment, making productivity more engaging.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus timer
  • RPG hero training
  • Equipment forging
  • Task and time management
  • In-game achievements and rewards
  • Phone addiction management
Features
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Have phone addiction? Want to improve self-control? Want to remove distraction? Let Focus Quest help! Focus Quest is a study timer and RPG mashup. Save Focusland by turning your focus time into resources to train the hero and upgrade the equipment. Begin your focus adventure, and let us help you manage time and stay focused on the most important things in life. A gamified focus app helps you better improve productivity, self-control, and concentration on study and work. Sometimes self-discipline is just not enough to keep us away from phones. This is when gamification comes in. The in-game achievements encourage users to stick with the app, better manage their time and get things done. FEATURES: * Beat phone addictions and stay in control, help you with study, uni, and work * Stay focused - Collect hero resources when you put down the phone and focus * Train hero - Use resources to train your hero * Forge gears - Collect gear materials to forge powerful gears * Save the world - Fight off monsters and bring time order back to Focusland * Records - Stay on track of the time you focused so that you can better plan your tasks * Rewards - gamified tasks and rewards help you stay on track of your focus goals SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS: Focus Pass offers USD $3.99 monthly subscription for accessing exclusive resources and premium features. End of trial and subscription renewal: This price is for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy policy: https://site.shikudo.com/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://site.shikudo.com/terms-of-use

Screenshots

RPLife4 screens
Focus Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RPLife at none against Focus Quest's 32. RPLife also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Focus Quest's advantage is ratings volume (505 vs 155). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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

Both are free to download. Focus Quest sells 32 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. RPLife asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RPLife holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 155 and 505 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of RPLife's written reviews are positive against 83% of Focus Quest's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RPLife ships an update every 6 weeks, Focus Quest every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
RPLife versus Focus Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRPLifeFocus Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (155 ratings) — better4.7 (505 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.4% of reviews
Number of ratings155505 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB230 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSteve GigouShikudo Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

RPLife

All ratings155 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Focus Quest

All ratings505 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral4.0%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews181 reviews
Positive83.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative8.8%

Bugs and requests

RPLife

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Focus Quest

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Training button not working during tutorial
  • Time not accurately tracked in some cases
  • Crashes on startup for some users

Requested features

6 requests
  • More music and white noise options
  • Ability to change character appearance
  • Longer storyline and quests
  • Offline mode or better sync capabilities
  • Pomodoro timer integration
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  • Ability to pause/resume focus sessions

In-app purchases

None

RPLife

No in-app purchases

32 purchases

Focus Quest

Subscriptions3
  • Focus Pass$4.991 Month
  • Focus Pass Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Focus Pass Yearly7 Days trial$28.991 Year
One-time29
  • Weekly Pack 1$0.99
  • Stage Currency Pack 1$0.99
  • Stage Gear Pack 1$0.99
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  • Stage Gear Scroll Pack 1$0.99
  • Stage Glyph Pack 1$0.99
  • Weekly Pack 3$0.99
  • Raid Pack 1$0.99
  • Stage Material Pack 1$0.99
  • Monthly Pack 1$1.99
  • Stage Currency Pack 2$1.99
  • Currency Pack 3$1.99
  • Currency Pack 4$1.99
  • Currency Pack 1$1.99
  • Currency Pack 5$1.99
  • Gem 1$1.99
  • Currency Pack 2$1.99
  • Raid Pack 2$2.99
  • Material Pack 1$2.99
  • Weekly Pack 4$4.99
  • Glyph Pack 2$4.99
  • Skill Pack 1$4.99
  • Skill Pack 3$4.99
  • Skill Pack 2$4.99
  • Battle Pass Raid 1$6.99
  • Raid Pack 3$6.99
  • Gem 3$9.99
  • Monthly Pack 2$14.99
  • Fund 1$19.99
  • Battle Pass Time Rift 1$29.99

Questions

Is RPLife free?
RPLife is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focus Quest free?
Focus Quest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RPLife or Focus Quest?
RPLife is rated higher. RPLife averages 4.9 out of 5 from 155 ratings, while Focus Quest averages 4.7 from 505 ratings.
Do RPLife or Focus Quest have ads?
Focus Quest shows ads; RPLife does not.
Which is updated more often, RPLife or Focus Quest?
RPLife ships an update every 6 weeks, and Focus Quest every 2 months. Most recently, RPLife was updated on October 29, 2026 and Focus Quest on October 29, 2026.

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