Comparison

My Knitting Journal vs FocusCard

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

Head to head
About

My Knitting Journal

Features
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In My Knitting Journal you will have a complete overview of your knitting projects, yarn stock and needle stock. You can plan future projects and have full control of the yarn warehouse. You can also upload recipes and link them to your project. In each project you can add a lap counter and timer. In other words, you have all the necessary tools gathered in one App. Do you want to create your own recipes? With My Knitting Journal you can create your own recipes that you can link to your projects. A fantastic tool you will enjoy a lot. In the tool category you will find a calculator that you can calculate increase / decrease evenly, calculate yarn consumption and check yarn alternatives. In the calculators, you simply enter numbers and you will get a simple description of your next steps. In yarn alternatives, you can enter yarn alternatives in your own knitting tension categories. Terms & Conditions: https://myknittingjournal.com/tos Terms includes Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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FocusCard

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You sit down to do one thing — twenty minutes later you're three apps deep wondering why. FocusCard puts that one task, huge, on your screen and Lock Screen, until you mark it done. You'll still drift. The way back is one tap. Built for deep work, ADHD focus, and anyone who's ever taped a sticky note to their laptop. HOW IT WORKS • Pick one task from your iOS Reminders. • Tap it. The screen turns black, the title fills it. • The same task lives on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while you work. • Tap "Mark Complete" when done. Tap anywhere else to pause. FEATURES • Reads from iOS Reminders. No extra task list to maintain. • Grouped by Reminders list, color-coded. • Lock Screen Live Activity with the active task title. • Screen stays awake during focus sessions, so you can prop your phone up. • Swipe left or long-press to mark done, with undo. • Settings lets you choose which Reminders lists show up. • Long-press any reminder to deep-link to it in the Reminders app. WHY THIS WORKS FocusCard isn't a Pomodoro timer or a habit tracker. It's a digital index card, propped where the thing you most want to ignore lives. The research: • Attention residue (Leroy, 2009): switching tasks leaves cognitive sludge. A single visible focus reduces it. • The Zeigarnik effect: unfinished tasks loop in your mind until you externalize them. • Cognitive offloading (Risko & Gilbert, 2016): writing a task down frees working memory. PRIVACY FocusCard does not collect any data. No accounts. No analytics. No third parties. The whole app runs on your device. BUILT BY ONE PERSON For a year I had a stack of 3Ɨ5 index cards on my desk. Every morning I'd write the one thing I most needed to do, in big letters, and prop it next to my laptop. The cards worked. They kept going missing. So I built FocusCard. Same idea, on the device I always have with me. — Dewang Mistry

Screenshots

My Knitting Journal4 screens
FocusCard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FocusCard at none against My Knitting Journal's 2. FocusCard also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. My Knitting Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. FocusCard asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
My Knitting Journal versus FocusCard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Knitting JournalFocusCard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWiklem ASDewang Mistry

In-app purchases

2 purchases

My Knitting Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Premium membership 1 month$1.491 Month
  • Premium membership 1 year$13.491 Year
None

FocusCard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Knitting Journal free?
My Knitting Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FocusCard free?
FocusCard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Knitting Journal or FocusCard have ads?
My Knitting Journal shows ads; FocusCard does not.

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