focus vs SummaScan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
SummaScan
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Description Need a clean PDF and a real summary, not another photo of a page? SummaScan scans, detects document edges, straightens pages, and creates multi-page PDFs. Then Summarize and Ask across the whole document. Built for multi-page work and legal packets, not one-page receipts only. SCAN AND PROCESS Capture multiple pages, detect document edges, correct perspective, and turn your scans into a processed PDF instead of a simple camera photo. OPEN AND SHARE Review your processed PDF, then save or share it when you are ready. SUMMARIZE AND ASK Get an AI summary of the whole file and ask follow-up questions grounded in the scanned content. EXPORT Export to PDF, Word, images, or text. Add signatures, initials, dates, and text in the app. FREE VS PRO Free: Up to 15 processed pages every 7 days, watermarked exports, basic export and signing, and up to 3 Ask AI uses. Pro: Unlimited scanning, full AI Summarize and Ask, no watermark, and PDF, Word, image, and text exports. Available as a weekly subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: focus at 4 against SummaScan's 1. SummaScan's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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. focus sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and SummaScan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
focus ships an update every 9 days, SummaScan every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | focus | SummaScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jakub Adamczyk | Ana Grace Lapu |
In-app purchases
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
SummaScan
- SummaScan Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Ask Credits (10)$1.99
- Ask Credits (40)$4.99
- Ask Credits (100)$9.99
