Accumulate vs focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Accumulate
Enhance focus and build discipline with a Pomodoro timer and daily attendance tracker. Analyze your time data to manage it better and record your progress and achievements. Immerse yourself in poetic concentration scenes to aid your workflow.
- Pomodoro Technique for efficiency
- Daily attendance for goal adherence
- Time data analysis
- Achievement and progress recording
- Themed concentration scenes
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Functions: 1. Concentration & Daily attendance - Daily attendance helps you stick to your goals or build self-discipline - Pomodoro Technique helping you to improve your working efficiency 2. Data analysis - Help you manage your time better by analyzing time data 3. Achievement Record - Record your progress and achievements 4. Various concentrate scenes - Poetic scenes: Beyond the Clouds,Interstellar,Under the Moon.. Keep accumulating, Let the world find its way to you.
focus
This application helps you stay focused on tasks using a simple timer. It guides you through work sessions and scheduled breaks, with options to skip breaks and track your progress towards longer rest periods.
- Work and study session tracking
- Short break notifications
- Option to skip breaks
- End of break notifications
- Longer break reminders
- Session history
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The focus app is a very simple pomodoro timer that does not distract you from actually being focused on what matters. With focus you can: - Track your work or study sessions - Get notified when it's time for a short break - Skip short breaks if you feel like skippin' - Be notified when breaks end - Keep track of your sessions to remember about taking a longer break after 4 complete work sessions Use the focus app now, and achieve more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Accumulate at 11.0 against focus's 18.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Accumulate sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and focus sells 5 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 — 4.0 for Accumulate against 4.0 for focus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Accumulate ships an update every 10 days, focus every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Accumulate | focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 215 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰玉 徐 | Jakub Adamczyk |
Customer experience
Accumulate
focus
In-app purchases
Accumulate
- All music scenes$2.99
- All data analysis$2.99
- Upgrade to VIP$4.99
focus
- Home brewed coffee$0.49
- Notifications Customization$1.00
- Session Customization$2.00
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- Coffee at the café$3.00
- Take me to lunch$12.00
