FocusCalm vs PISON
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FocusCalm
Train your brain for improved focus and a calmer mind with science-backed exercises and real-time feedback. This app helps you manage stress, enhance mental performance, and track your progress towards a more focused and tranquil state.
- Brain training exercises
- Real-time brain activity feedback
- FocusCalm score tracking
- Neurofeedback technology
- Stress management techniques
- Performance tracking metrics
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Now it's easier than ever to train your brain for better focus and a calmer mind. Your brain is like a muscle...with training, you can make it stronger and better able to handle the stress and pressure in your life. Sleep, relationships, productivity, and even your performance at work, school, and in sports are all affected by your mental state. But you CAN learn how to get control of your mindset and manage feelings of stress, no matter how crazy life gets. FocusCalm trains your brain to enter a powerful state of mind that is focused, engaged, aware, and mindful, without the stress that makes you feel poorly. --BACKED BY SCIENCE-- In a recent study by the FocusCalm team, users who completed 25 exercises in the app had a 21% improvement in their feelings of well-being as reported on the respected WHO Wellness Index. For many years, studies have shown that neurofeedback training like the exercises in FocusCalm can literally change the way your brain works. Through the power of neurofeedback, you can learn how to control your mental state. FocusCalm's games, activities, and exercises are developed by neuroscientists, sports psychologists, and physicians to help teach you how to manage your mindset, while our lightweight, wearable EEG (electroencephalogram) headband accurately shows you how well you're doing in real-time (sold separately). --MORE THAN MEDITATION-- Meditation apps help you relax and unwind. FocusCalm does more. It starts with your FocusCalm score...a real-time display of your brain activity on a scale from 0 - 100. A low score means your brain is active or stressed. A high FocusCalm score means your brain is calm and tranquil. Through our meditations and expert-developed content, FocusCalm helps you LEARN how to put your mind in a FocusCalm state. Then, with our games and activities, you PRACTICE getting into that state more quickly, consistently and deeply. Over time, as you improve your skills, you can then CHALLENGE yourself to keep your FocusCalm high as you perform mental tasks that simulate stressful or difficult situations in life. --RESULTS IN JUST A FEW MINUTES PER DAY-- FocusCalm is a wearable that you wear only when you're using the app. Our programs are quick 15 minute sets of exercises designed to help you reach a goal: • Getting energized for the day • A quick break during stressful times • Gently winding down after a stressful day • Preparing for sleep • Gearing up for athletic competition or a big meeting --TRACK YOUR IMPROVEMENT-- Like any skill, FocusCalm is all about practice. FocusCalm provides detailed results after each exercise so you can see a variety of metrics about your performance: • Depth - Measures your peak FocusCalm score to indicate how calm your brain became during an exercise or meditation. • Consistency - Shows the percentage of time during the exercise that you were able to keep your FocusCalm score above 65. • Speed - Indicates how quickly you were able to reach a score above 65 in the exercise. • FocusCalm Minutes - The length of time you spent in a FocusCalm state. Like a goal of 10,000 steps, 7 minutes in FocusCalm has been shown to have positive benefits in your life. FocusCalm tracks all of these metrics on your profile so you can see your progress over time. --THE FOCUSCALM HEADBAND-- • Available at www.focuscalm.com • Bluetooth connection is quick, reliable and simple • Lightweight and comfortable so you can use it anytime • Accurately monitors up to 1200 EEG data points per second • Up to 8 hours of use on a single charge FOCUSCALM | BRAIN TRAINING FOR BETTER FOCUS AND A CALMER MIND FocusCalm saves your meditation data to the Apple Health app. FocusCalm Subscription plans for full access to the App: - FocusCalm Annual Subscription: $69.99 (12 month) - FocusCalm Monthly Subscription: $9.99 (1 month) Terms of service: https://focuscalm.com/terms/ Privacy policy: https://focuscalm.com/focus-calm-privacy-policy
PISON
This app provides insights into your cognitive and physical performance using data from compatible smartwatches. It helps you understand readiness, mental agility, and focus, with advanced metrics for sleep, stress, and health available through membership tiers.
- Cognitive performance metrics (Readiness, Agility, Focus)
- Sleep and fatigue tracking
- Stress and health monitoring
- Fitness metrics (respiratory rate, calories)
- Community leaderboards and groups
- Insights from neural sensor technology
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Unlock Your Mind. Unleash Your Potential. Pison helps you reach new heights of human performance and health. The Pison app enables you to improve your whole self. It works in tandem with smartwatches or fitness trackers that are powered by Pison sensors to give you unprecedented insights into your mind, body, fatigue, health, and safety. Note - a Pison-powered wearable and a Pison membership are required. Innovative Sensor Technology Your unique performance and health insights are possible because of Pison’s innovative sensor technology. Unlike other wearables, all Pison-powered wearables include Pison’s novel neural sensor which decodes signals from your mind and nervous system, discreetly collected at the wrist, and gives key insights about your mental state that were never before possible. Some Pison-powered wearables also include other sensors that monitor vital signals such as your heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing frequency, pulse rate, and stress. When this information is blended with the insights from Pison’s neural sensor, you get richer information about your sleep, fatigue, fitness and health. Measure. Understand. Excel. The Pison app enables anyone with a Pison membership, including Pison READY and Pison PERFORM memberships, to monitor three critical cognitive performance metrics: - Readiness - A real-time indication of your ability to mentally perform. It can reveal impairment from fatigue, head injury, diet and disease. - Mental Agility - How quickly you process information, make decisions, and react. In competitive sports or high-stress professional scenarios, Mental Agility is crucial to success. - Focus - A reliable indicator of your ability to maintain attention. This is the gold standard measurement for fatigue testing. If you have a Pison PERFORM membership, you can also monitor additional metrics, including: - Sleep/Fatigue - Sleep time, sleep stages (REM, light, deep, and awake), sleep quality, sleep debt, circadian rhythm - Stress - Emotional reactions - Health - Heart rate, resting heart rate (RHR), heart rate variability (HRV), skin temperature - Fitness - Respiratory rate, calories burned - Safety - Sustained attention (PVT-B) In addition, all Pison memberships allow you to engage with the Pison community through leaderboards and personal groups where you can share and benchmark your performance scores with elite performers, friends, family, and peers. Revolutionary insights drive success Pison helps you measure and track your cognitive performance and physical performance metrics so you can improve your performance. Pison can help you improve cognitive and physical performance: - Optimize training programs. - Adjust diet, sleep schedules or other lifestyle factors. - Understand your circadian rhythm to optimize your preparation schedule. - Detect decreases in performance that may indicate impairment from head injury, fatigue or lifestyle choices, such as drugs or alcohol use. Get focused. Play smarter. Think clearer. Whatever your challenge, wherever your opportunity, Pison delivers unprecedented awareness of your mental and physical state. Realize your full potential—on the field, in the boardroom and beyond.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PISON at 5.0 against FocusCalm's 3.9. PISON also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). FocusCalm's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. FocusCalm sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. PISON asks for nothing beyond the download.
PISON holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FocusCalm has 53 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FocusCalm ships an update monthly, PISON every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocusCalm | PISON |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BrainCo Inc | Pison Technology |
Customer experience
FocusCalm
PISON
In-app purchases
FocusCalm
- FocusCalm Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- FocusCalm Annual Subscription$69.991 Year
PISON
No in-app purchases









