Focus Noodles vs Study Timer for Students
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
Study Timer for Students
This app helps students improve focus during study sessions. It functions as a timer and tracker for academic subjects, aiding in concentration for school or university work.
- Study focus timer
- Subject tracking
- Pomodoro technique support
- University study aid
- School subject management
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Study timer is the #1 App for focusing on your study. It lets you focusing while studying for your school or university subjects, while keeping track of them. Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/47498420
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Study Timer for Students at Free against Focus Noodles's $3.99. Study Timer for Students also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Focus Noodles's advantage is ratings volume (205 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Study Timer for Students is free to download; Focus Noodles costs $3.99 up front. Focus Noodles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Study Timer for Students sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Study Timer for Students holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus Noodles has 205 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Focus Noodles's written reviews are positive against 100% of Study Timer for Students's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Noodles | Study Timer for Students |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (205 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 205 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ideaTiny Co., Ltd. | Francesco Paciello |
Customer experience
Focus Noodles
Study Timer for Students
In-app purchases
Focus Noodles
- Story Cards$0.99
Study Timer for Students
- Unlimited access$0.991 Month
- Unlimited access3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Unlimited access$29.991 Year
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