Smart Sloth vs focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Sloth
This productivity app combines a task manager with the Pomodoro Technique to help users stay focused and efficient. It offers customizable task lengths, notifications, and gesture-based controls to overcome procrastination and build routines.
- Pomodoro timer integration
- Task management
- Customizable task lengths
- Notification alerts
- Gesture-based controls
- Focus enhancement
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Give each task a time slot. Smart Sloth brings task planning and a focus timer together for work, study and everyday routines. Plan tasks, choose their durations and follow the current task from the Now screen. Use Plan to organize your task queue and Routines to manage reusable task lists. Start, pause and resume the timer, and receive a notification when a task’s time runs out. Choose the app language in Settings: English, Azerbaijani, Russian, Spanish, French, Turkish, German, Italian or Portuguese (Portugal). Pomodoro ™ and Pomodoro Technique ® are registered trademarks of Francesco Cirillo. This app is not affiliated with Francesco Cirillo. Privacy Policy: https://www.jafarnajafov.com/smart-sloth/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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 update cadence: focus at every 9 days against Smart Sloth's every 2 months. focus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Smart Sloth's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Smart Sloth sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month 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 — 4.1 for Smart Sloth against 4.0 for focus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Sloth has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Smart Sloth's written reviews are positive against 100% of focus's.
Smart Sloth ships an update every 2 months, focus every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Smart Sloth | focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (33 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Jafar Najafov | Jakub Adamczyk |
Customer experience
Smart Sloth
focus
In-app purchases
Smart Sloth
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$1.491 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$4.491 Year
- Lifetime$4.99
focus
- Home brewed coffee$1.99
- Notifications Customization$1.99
- Session Customization$3.99
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- Coffee at the café$8.99
- Take me to lunch$19.99
