Smart Home Widgets vs Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Home Widgets
This app allows you to create custom widgets for your iOS devices to control and monitor your HomeKit accessories. Easily manage scenes, switch devices on/off, and view accessory status directly from your lock screen or home screen.
- Custom lock screen widgets for iOS 16
- Glanceable accessory status widgets
- Medium widgets with multiple attributes
- Customizable icons and colors
- Activate accessory identify function
- Access and control HomeKit scenes
- Switch accessories on/off via widgets
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Smart Home Widgets for HomeKit allows you to access to all your HomeKit compatible accessories and: * Create custom Lock screen Widgets for iOS 16 * Create custom small Widgets which will allow you to glance the status of your favourite accessories * Create custom medium Widgets which take advantage of the extra space and show glanceable information about pair of attributes from your accessories * Customisable icons for widgets and complications * Customisable colours for widgets * Locate your accessories by activating their identify function * Get access to HomeKit scenes * Create configurable Widgets to execute your favourite HomeKit scene * Create configurable Widgets to switch on or off your HomeKit accessories * Watch complications are available only for Small Info widgets. Complications preview are only available on iPhone
Focus
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The problem isn't planning. It's having 50 things scream for your attention at once. Focus is the calm, distraction-free daily planner and timer built for ADHD minds that are drowning in decision fatigue, task paralysis, and endless phone distractions. You don't need another app with 200 features. You need one that makes you do the one thing that actually matters — right now. WHY FOCUS WORKS ◆ ONE THING AT A TIME (THE RULE OF 3) Todoist gave you 200 tasks. Things 3 gave you infinite lists. Focus gives you 3. Pick today's priorities, hide everything else, and work through them one card at a time. When you finish 3, you're done. That's your daily finish line. ◆ DISTRACTION SHIELD (APP BLOCKER) You know the pattern: "I'll just check Instagram for a second." 90 minutes later, you haven't started. Focus uses Apple Screen Time to physically lock distracting apps while your timer is active. They unlock when you're done. No willpower needed. ◆ IMMERSIVE POMODORO & SOUNDSCAPES Your brain needs the right environment to focus. Pair 25 or 50-minute Pomodoro sessions with built-in ambient soundscapes — gentle rain, brown noise, cafe bustle, and 40Hz binaural audio — scientifically designed to quiet ADHD racing thoughts. ◆ AI TASK BREAKDOWN "Write the quarterly report" is terrifying. "Open the document and type one sentence" is not. Focus breaks overwhelming tasks into tiny, 5-minute micro-steps so you actually start instead of staring at your phone for an hour. ◆ LIVE ACTIVITIES & DYNAMIC ISLAND Your current task and remaining time are always visible on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. No unlocking. No new distractions. Just a quiet reminder of what you're doing and how much time is left. ◆ 2-WAY APPLE CALENDAR SYNC See your calendar events right alongside today's priorities. Timebox your day and protect dedicated deep work blocks. No more double-booking your focus time. ◆ INTERACTIVE WIDGETS Your #1 priority lives on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Check it off with a single tap without ever opening the app. Less friction = less procrastination. ◆ GUILT-FREE STREAKS Broke your streak? Focus has built-in streak protection. Because missing one day shouldn't erase three weeks of momentum. Build daily habits without shame. WHO IS FOCUS FOR? • ADHD & Neurodivergent Minds — Overcome task paralysis, executive dysfunction, and time blindness. • Deep Workers & Developers — Guard your flow state from Slack, email, and social media. • Students — Study with structured Pomodoro intervals and zero distractions. • Minimalists — Clean, native Apple design. No bloat. No gamification gimmicks. YOUR DATA. YOUR DEVICE. • Privacy-First: Tasks stay on your device and private iCloud. Period. • No account required. No analytics. No ad trackers. No data harvesting. • Built natively for iPhone, iPad, Dynamic Island, and StandBy mode. One thing at a time. Silence the noise. Reclaim your focus. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.bytenpixels.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus at every 11 days against Smart Home Widgets's every 2 months. Smart Home Widgets's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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 Home Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Focus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Home Widgets ships an update every 2 months, Focus every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Home Widgets | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pablo Caif | Jiten Siddhpura |
In-app purchases
Smart Home Widgets
- Premium Access$4.99
Focus
- Focus Premium$3.99









