Focus Noodles vs DoRepeat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Phone screen down timer
- Distraction alerts (vibrate, flash, noise)
- Reward system for focus sessions
- Fairytale cards for relaxation
- Combats phone addiction
- HealthKit integration
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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
DoRepeat
This app helps you manage recurring tasks and routines by creating reusable checklists. You can tick off items without opening the app and set reminders for lists or individual tasks. Sync your lists across devices for seamless management.
- Reusable checklists
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Task and list reminders
- iCloud sync
- Unlimited lists
- Color-coded organization
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Build a checklist once. Check it off. Reset it. Run it again. DoRepeat is the recurring checklist app for morning routines, meeting prep, weekly chores, and anything you repeat. Unlike to-do apps, DoRepeat is built for lists you use over and over – not tasks you check off once. THE CHECKLIST APP FOR ANYTHING YOU DO ON REPEAT Life is full of things we do over and over. Morning routines. Packing for trips. Monthly bills. Meeting prep. Quality checks. That’s where DoRepeat comes in. It’s a checklist app built for the tasks you repeat, because some things are too important to leave to memory (or sticky notes that fall off your monitor). RECURRING LISTS, ZERO HASSLE Create checklists once, use them forever. Morning routine? Saved. Packing list for your weekend getaway? Saved. Monthly team meeting prep? You guessed it – saved. No more recreating the same list every time. Just check off your tasks, hit reset, and you’re ready to go again. CHECK OFF TASKS WITHOUT OPENING THE APP With home screen and lock screen widgets, you can tick off tasks without even opening the app. Because you’re busy and don’t have time for those extra taps. REMINDERS FOR LISTS AND TASKS When you need an extra nudge, you can set a reminder (or two, or ten) for any checklist or task. ICLOUD SYNC Start a checklist on your iPhone and complete it on your iPad. Your lists are everywhere you go. WHAT PEOPLE USE DOREPEAT FOR People rely on DoRepeat for anything from staying consistent with a personal habit to nailing quality control at the job. Here are some more examples: • Morning Routine • Meeting Wrap-Up • Skincare Routine • Workday wrap-up • Evening Wind Down • Monthly Budgeting • Medication Management • Weekly Household Tasks • Workouts • Preparing for Calls • Software Release Checklist • … and many more Manage an unlimited number of lists, organized in beautiful color cards. Edit your lists anytime as your routines may grow or change. You can have multiple checklists in progress at the same time and use your lists for daily, weekly, monthly repeating tasks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DoRepeat at none against Focus Noodles's 1. DoRepeat also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (91% vs 80%). Focus Noodles's advantage is ratings volume (207 vs 7) and price ($3.99 vs $5.99). On rating, ads 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
Focus Noodles costs $3.99 and DoRepeat $5.99 up front. Focus Noodles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DoRepeat asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Focus Noodles against 4.7 for DoRepeat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus Noodles has 207 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Focus Noodles's written reviews are positive against 91% of DoRepeat's.
Focus Noodles ships an update every 2 months, DoRepeat every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Noodles | DoRepeat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (207 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 207 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ideaTiny Co., Ltd. | Philipp Sackl-O'Neill |
Customer experience
Focus Noodles
DoRepeat
In-app purchases
Focus Noodles
- Story Cards$0.99
DoRepeat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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