Tape Measurements vs Orbital Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tape Measurements
This app displays millimeter, centimeter, and inch measurements on a virtual tape measure. It's designed for quick, offline use, helping users accurately identify measurements without guesswork. Ideal for DIYers and professionals in construction or carpentry.
- Offline tape measurement display
- Millimeter, centimeter, and inch markings
- Intuitive and easy to use interface
- No internet access required
- Accurate measurement identification
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This app was created in response to requests from people that use our popular web-based tape measurement tools. Visitors to our site https://valeur.uk requested a fast app that does not require internet access to display tape measurements in remote areas or places with a weak signal. This is a standalone app that does not require internet and has no advertising. It is a must-have app for do-it-yourselfers, builders, construction workers, carpenters, and the like. The Tape Measurements App shows you where your millimeter, centimeter, and inch measurements are on a tape measure. Leave the guesswork out of figuring out exactly where on the tape measure a specific measurement is. We think you will find that our Tape Measurements App is intuitive and easy to use.
Orbital Focus
This app transforms focus sessions into space missions, with longer focus times leading to higher orbits. It features customizable missions, a living 3D Earth visualization, and gamified progress tracking. Optional app blocking and ambient soundscapes enhance concentration.
- Themed focus sessions with space mission progression
- Living 3D Earth visualization with real-time data
- Gamified progress tracking with ranks and rewards
- Optional app blocking for distraction-free work
- Ambient focus music and soundscapes
- Live Activities and Apple Watch companion app
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Your attention is the most powerful engine you own. Orbital Focus turns every focus session into a rocket launch — pick a destination, strap in, and the only way to arrive is to stay on task. The longer you focus, the higher you fly. A 15-minute warm-up is a suborbital hop. 25 minutes is one clean orbit of Earth. A focused hour parks you in geostationary orbit, 35,786 km up. Push past 90 minutes and you leave Earth orbit entirely. Every minute is real thrust. HOW A MISSION WORKS • Pick a destination — a 15-minute Suborbital Hop, 25-minute Low Earth Orbit, a 45-minute rendezvous with Station Aurora, a full hour in High Earth Orbit, or a 90-minute Deep Space run to lunar distance. Each is a fixed block of focus. • Name your payload (the thing you're actually doing) and choose a crew role — Work, Study, Read, Create, Code, Write, Train, Plan, Chores, or Relax. • Feel the countdown. A cinematic haptic launch ritual — ignition rumble, Max-Q, stage separation — marks the real milestones of your session. • Fly a living 3D Earth. Watch your spacecraft climb its true trajectory over a hand-rendered planet with daylight, city lights, and every flight you've ever flown. • Coast phases = built-in breaks. Long missions split into burn segments with short coasts between them — pomodoro, in orbital mechanics. Fully configurable, or fly one unbroken burn. THE HANGAR Every focused minute earns Δv. Spend it across a fleet of real rockets — from the workhorse Falcon 9 to the mighty Falcon Heavy — and upgrade engines, tanks, and avionics. Launch from seven real-world pads: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg, Baikonur, Kourou, Tanegashima, Wenchang, and Starbase. Premium also unlocks an exotic collection of legendary sci-fi capital ships, for pilots who want to fly something out of a movie. A LOYALTY PROGRAM FOR YOUR ATTENTION Climb six ranks, Cadet to Mission Commander, by logging real focus time. Ranks unlock new destinations and craft. Your lifetime distance is measured in light-seconds — and it only ever goes up. LAUNCH LOCKDOWN Optional app blocking powered by Apple's Screen Time. While a mission is in flight, your chosen distracting apps are shielded. Leave early and you don't crash — re-entries and pad scrubs still bank partial credit. Orbital Focus never punishes you for being human. THE CUPOLA Look out the window. Stream real satellite imagery of the world passing beneath your spacecraft — a live view from orbit, in flight. FOCUS MUSIC Download ambient flight-deck soundscapes on demand and cache them for offline sessions. Deep Space pilots can also pick a station skin — five orbital outposts to fly past. MISSION REPLAYS Scrub through recreated historic launches — Sputnik 1, Vostok 1, Crew Dragon Demo-2, the Space Shuttle and more — and watch them fly out on the same living globe. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. An Apple Watch companion that flies on your wrist. Home Screen and Control Center widgets. Share your mission to a TV or the big screen. STREAKS, ACHIEVEMENTS, LOGBOOK Daily launch streaks, 16 achievements, and a full flight logbook with charts of where your hours actually go. ORBITAL FOCUS PREMIUM (optional) The core app is free, forever. Premium adds the live Cupola view, Advanced Insights and your full Flight Log, exclusive craft and destinations, and alternate app icons. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or unlock it once for life. Your focus minutes always bank — free or Premium. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads in the app. We never sell your data. Every mission record lives on your device, and Screen Time data never leaves your phone. Built for students, makers, writers, engineers, and anyone with ADHD-adjacent attention who needs the session to feel like it matters. Wheels stop. Mission complete. Fly again tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Orbital Focus at 89% against Tape Measurements's 0%. Orbital Focus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). Tape Measurements's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 18.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Orbital Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Tape Measurements asks for nothing beyond the download.
Orbital Focus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Tape Measurements's written reviews are positive against 89% of Orbital Focus's.
Tape Measurements ships an update every 4 months, Orbital Focus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tape Measurements | Orbital Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 301 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | H Valeur | Red Honey LLC |
Customer experience
Tape Measurements
Orbital Focus
In-app purchases
Tape Measurements
No in-app purchases
Orbital Focus
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- LifetimeFree
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