Comparison

Focus Noodles vs Reefie

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Phone screen down timer
  • Distraction alerts (vibrate, flash, noise)
  • Reward system for focus sessions
  • Fairytale cards for relaxation
  • Combats phone addiction
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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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

About

Reefie

Features
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Reefie turns focused work into a dive. Choose a depth - anywhere from 10 to 120 metres. A metre is a minute, so 45 m is a 45-minute session. Drop the line, do your work, and if you stay under until the timer ends, whatever was circling down there follows you home. SIXTY SPECIES, BY DEPTH Common fish drift through the shallows. Rarer things live further down, and the legendaries only stir below 85 metres. Every catch fills a page in your Ocean Book, so a long dive is worth more than two short ones - in pearls, and in what you can actually find. DEEP FOCUS Switch it on and leaving the app ends the dive. The line snaps and the catch is lost. Reefie cannot block other apps and doesn't pretend to - it just makes walking away cost something, which for most people is enough. DIVE TOGETHER Add friends by diver name to see their reef. Trade the species you have doubles of. Join a room to work towards a shared total, or race a weekly leaderboard that resets every Monday. YOUR REEF Pearls from every dive buy boats and hooks, and one-dive boosts when you want better odds on a deep run. YOUR REEF FOLLOWS YOU Sign up with an email address, or use Sign in with Apple. Your collection lives on your account, not on one phone - change handset or reinstall and it is still there. There are no ads, no third-party trackers, and nothing is sold to anyone. You can delete your account and everything in it with one button in Settings. REEFIE PRO (optional) A subscription for divers who want better odds: +10% catch chance on every dive, boosted rare and legendary weighting, and +25% pearls from every catch. Monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Reefie works completely without it. Reefie Pro Monthly and Reefie Pro Yearly are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Reefie Pro Lifetime is a one-time purchase and never renews. Terms of Use (EULA): https://api.reefie.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://api.reefie.io/privacy

Screenshots

Focus Noodles4 screens
Reefie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Reefie at Free against Focus Noodles's $3.99. Reefie also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Focus Noodles's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Reefie is free to download; Focus Noodles costs $3.99 up front. Focus Noodles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Reefie sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Noodles ships an update every 2 months, Reefie every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Focus Noodles versus Reefie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus NoodlesReefie
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (207 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings207 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperideaTiny Co., Ltd.Choy Sim Hwa

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Focus Noodles

One-time1
  • Story Cards$0.99
8 purchases

Reefie

Subscriptions2
  • Reefie Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Reefie Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year
One-time6
  • Handful of Pearls (500 Pearls)$0.99
  • Pouch of Pearls (1,300 Pearls)$1.99
  • Chest of Pearls (3,300 Pearls)$4.99
Show 3 more
  • Haul of Pearls (8,000 Pearls)$9.99
  • Trove of Pearls (20,000 Pearls)$19.99
  • Reefie Pro (Lifetime)$39.99

Questions

Is Focus Noodles free?
Focus Noodles costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Reefie free?
Reefie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus Noodles or Reefie have ads?
Neither Focus Noodles nor Reefie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Noodles or Reefie?
Focus Noodles ships an update every 2 months, and Reefie every 3 weeks. Most recently, Focus Noodles was updated on October 19, 2026 and Reefie on October 4, 2026.

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