Comparison

Stay for Safari vs Focus

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

Head to head
About

Stay for Safari

Enhance your Safari browsing experience with custom scripts, cross-device bookmark syncing, faster downloads, and robust ad blocking. Enjoy a cleaner, more efficient, and personalized web with features like dark mode for web pages.

Highlights
  • Userscripts for extended functionality
  • Cross-device bookmark synchronization
  • Faster, categorized downloads
  • Ad blocking with popular filter support
  • Dark mode for web pages
  • Custom ad-blocking rules
Features
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# The choice of 2 million Safari users. A Must-Have Extension for Safari.  Stay is a powerful extension designed specifically for Safari, focused on enhancing browsing efficiency, flexibility, and cross-device continuity. Stay supports all Apple platforms and offers a one-time payment that covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. With Stay installed, what new features can you expect in your Safari browser? 【Userscripts】 Give Safari more capabilities. By installing or writing user scripts, Safari can support features such as automatic pagination, immersive translation, redirect blocking, aggregated search, and more. 【Cross-Device Bookmark Sync】 Enhance Safari’s bookmark functionality. With Stay’s multi-platform coverage, your bookmarks are no longer limited to the Apple ecosystem and can be synced across devices. 【Downloads】 Enhance file downloads in Safari. Downloads are faster, and files can be saved into categorized folders, making it easier to manage downloaded resources. 【Ad Blocking】 Enhance Safari’s ad filtering capabilities. Supports AdGuard, uBlock Origin, and AdBlock Plus, compatible with EasyList filtering rules, making your browsing experience cleaner and safer. 【Dark Mode for Web Pages】 Enable dark mode for all web pages browsed in Safari. By purchasing Stay Pro, you can enjoy the following additional benefits: - Supports self-hosted script synchronization - Unlimited custom ad-blocking rules - Ability to mark ads directly on web pages - Download management with privacy mode support Privacy policy: https://www.privacypolicyonline.com/live.php?token=ZPXT0Jfv2diYUfbf5ciLDV9oYRgJ6Evc Terms of service: https://fastclip.app/policy/terms-stay.htm Visit our open-source version address at https://github.com/shenruisi/Stay. For any questions, please follow our official Twitter @stayfork to provide feedback. Join our Telegram group at t.me/fastclipchat.

About

Focus

Enhance your browsing with a customizable video player, powerful ad blocker, and advanced reading tools. Enjoy hands-free page turning, web translation, and script support for a personalized online experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable video player
  • Userscript support (JavaScript, Tampermonkey)
  • Advanced reading mode
  • Hands-free auto page turning
  • Powerful ad blocking
  • Web translation
  • Bookmark syncing
Features
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【Video Mode】 Customizable player supporting floating video, playback speed control, picture-in-picture, DLNA and AirPlay casting, and one-click screen lock. 【Userscripts】 Supports both JavaScript and Tampermonkey 5.3.0 syntax. After years of user feedback, Focus has greatly improved compatibility with various scripts, ensuring more scripts run smoothly on Focus. 【Reading Mode】 The best reading mode on iOS, supporting automatic preloading of the next page, font size, line height, margin adjustments, and webpage theme selection. Supports text filtering and regular expression rule filtering. 【Auto Page Turning】 Hands-free page turning for novels, comics, or forums. Supports search engines like Baidu, Google, Bing, and Yandex. Try it out now! 【Redirect Blocker】 Can block malicious app redirects within webpages. 【Custom Homepage】 Add your favorite websites to the homepage and set a personalized browser homepage. 【Web Translation】 Super fast translation, making it easy to understand any webpage and breaking down language barriers. 【Ad Blocking】 Powerful ad-blocking feature supporting AdBlock Plus and AdGuard syntax. Includes ad tagging, webpage blacklists, and custom ad rules. 【Bookmark Sync】 Import bookmarks from Safari, Chrome, and Alook into Focus and export Focus bookmarks to those browsers, ensuring seamless bookmark syncing. 【URL Scheme】 Open URLs via Shortcuts: FocusBrowser://search?url=search term or link. 【Other Features】 Supports iPad, iCloud bookmark sync, dark mode, incognito mode, ad marking mode, fingerprint/FaceID login, feedback, and full-screen mode. 【Privacy & Security】 Focus respects your privacy. Incognito mode doesn’t save browsing history, cache, or cookies.

Screenshots

Stay for Safari4 screens
Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Focus at none against Stay for Safari's shown. Focus also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Stay for Safari's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 54%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Stay for Safari 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Stay for Safari against 4.7 for Focus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.1K and 5.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Stay for Safari's written reviews are positive against 54% of Focus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stay for Safari ships an update every 5 weeks, Focus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Stay for Safari versus Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStay for SafariFocus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better4.7 (5.1K ratings)
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews — better53.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2.1K5.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB34 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer寅 沈庆彬 邓

Customer experience

Stay for Safari

All ratings2,060 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral1.8%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews359 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative18.1%

Focus

All ratings4,932 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral9.0%
Negative37.2%

User reviews

Stay for Safari

From 2.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Useful app for adding userscripts
  • 🚀 Efficient performance
  • 💡 Customizable features
  • 🔒 Secure and reliable

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with some scripts
  • 🌐 Lack of English localization
  • 💰 Paid features could be more affordable

Focus

From 5.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast download speeds
  • 👍 Useful features
  • 💡 Powerful script support
  • 🔒 Effective ad-blocking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and reloading issues
  • 🔋 Draining battery life
  • ⛔ Removal of download functionality

Bugs and requests

Stay for Safari

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when saving downloaded videos
  • Interferes with DarkReader extension
  • Broken login and sync features in recent updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • One-click script update functionality
  • Better integration with Greasy Fork
  • Improved dark mode and theme customization
  • Video download and sniffer capabilities

Focus

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incompatibility with certain websites
  • Inconsistent script performance
  • Inability to export bookmarks

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add mute tab button
  • Implement desktop mode
  • Improve video playback controls
  • Restore video download feature

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Stay for Safari

One-time1
  • Lifetime2 variants$4.99
1 purchases

Focus

One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is Stay for Safari free?
Stay for Safari is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus free?
Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stay for Safari or Focus?
Stay for Safari is rated higher. Stay for Safari averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Focus averages 4.7 from 5.1K ratings.
Do Stay for Safari or Focus have ads?
Stay for Safari shows ads; Focus does not.
Which is updated more often, Stay for Safari or Focus?
Stay for Safari ships an update every 5 weeks, and Focus every 3 weeks. Most recently, Stay for Safari was updated on October 24, 2026 and Focus on October 25, 2026.

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