Comparison

Focus vs Dear Wander

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

Head to head
About

Focus

Engage in over 30 expert-designed brain games to enhance memory, concentration, and mental agility. This app offers personalized daily cognitive workouts and tracks your progress with detailed statistics, helping you overcome brain fog and keep your mind sharp.

Highlights
  • 30+ expert-designed brain games
  • Personalized daily cognitive workouts
  • Memory, attention, and logic training
  • Progress tracking with statistics
  • Intuitive and easy-to-use interface
  • Relaxing and Zen activities
Features
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Focus - Train Your Brain: Your Daily Cognitive Workout Beat brain fog and boost your IQ! Focus - Train Your Brain brings you 30+ expert-designed brain games to boost your memory, concentration, and mental agility. Stimulate your cognitive skills with a personalized daily mental training program! Put your abilities to the test with fun and challenging brain training games designed in collaboration with psychologists and neuroscience professionals. Whether you want to overcome brain fog or simply keep your mind sharp, Focus is your perfect daily brain trainer. Cognitive Stimulation for All Ages Inside Focus, you'll find a wide variety of exercises to stimulate every cognitive area: * Memory games * Attention and focus challenges * Coordination exercises * Logical Reasoning puzzles * Visual Perception challenges * Relaxing and Zen activities Take your brain training to the next level with interactive challenges, including activities suitable for different cognitive needs. Track Your Progress Monitor your cognitive evolution with our personalized statistics and metrics: * Detailed Progress Tracking: Access weekly, monthly, or yearly statistics. * Cognitive Summary: See your average scores from your daily workouts. Key Features of Focus * Daily cognitive workouts tailored to you. * Over 30 fun and stimulating brain training games. * Easy-to-use, intuitive interface. * Free to play, with optional subscription for premium content. Download Focus - Train Your Brain today and make expert-designed brain training part of your daily routine! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Dear Wander

Features
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Dear Wander is a screen time companion for using your phone less. Its journal helps you stick to it. You pick the apps you open too often. When you go to open one, Dear Wander shows up first, with the sentence you wrote that morning. You breathe with the orb for about a minute, then it asks how you feel now. You decide whether to open the app or put the phone down. The journal keeps track of your day In the morning you write one sentence for the day. In the afternoon the app asks how you're feeling about it, and at night how it went. If it was hard, it asks whether it was too much for one day, and the next morning you can start from a smaller step. Each pause shows up in your journal with how you felt after. When you want to write more, there's a question drawn from what you did today, or a blank page. Your week Each week you see how many times you paused and how you felt after, next to one line you wrote. For harder moments A 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise, to come back to your senses. Built on Apple's Screen Time You choose the apps and websites. What you write stays on your phone, and there's no account to create. Dear Wander is free with one app. Dear Wander+ is a single payment for every app you choose, with grounding and insights. No subscription. Warmly, Dear Wander Terms of Use (EULA): https://dearwander.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://dearwander.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Focus4 screens
Dear Wander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus at weekly against Dear Wander's every 2 weeks. Focus also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Focus sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Dear Wander sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus ships an update weekly, Dear Wander every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Focus versus Dear Wander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusDear Wander
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (867 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings867 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size272 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTellmewowAndres Vidal

Bugs and requests

Focus

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App won't open or get past loading screen
  • Games not functioning correctly or providing blank screens
  • Inconsistent performance, app freezing or crashing

Requested features

4 requests
  • Remove timer option for more flexibility
  • Improve app stability and reduce bugs
  • Add more games and categories
  • Improve responsiveness and loading times

Dear Wander

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

15 purchases

Focus

Subscriptions10
  • Focus Pro, 1 week3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Focus Pro, 1 week$1.997 Days
  • Focus Pro, 1 month7 Days trial2 variants$5.991 Month
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  • Focus Pro, 1 month3 Months trial$5.991 Month
  • Focus Pro, 1 month1 Month trial2 variants$7.991 Month
  • Focus Pro, 1 month$7.991 Month
  • Focus Pro, 1 year1 Year trial$44.991 Year
  • Focus Pro, 1 year$44.991 Year
  • Focus Pro, 1 year7 Days trial2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Focus Pro, 1 year$59.991 Year
One-time5
  • IQ Test Score$1.99
  • Enneagram Test Score$1.99
  • ADHD Test Score$1.99
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  • Fear and Anxiety Test Score$1.99
  • Brain Dominance Test Score$1.99
3 purchases

Dear Wander

Subscriptions2
  • Dear Wander+ Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Dear Wander+ Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dear Wander+ Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is Focus free?
Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dear Wander free?
Dear Wander is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus or Dear Wander have ads?
Neither Focus nor Dear Wander shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus or Dear Wander?
Focus ships an update weekly, and Dear Wander every 2 weeks. Most recently, Focus was updated on October 30, 2026 and Dear Wander on October 28, 2026.

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