DeakinWELLBEING vs FocusTale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeakinWELLBEING
This app offers a comprehensive collection of tips, tools, and resources to help users cultivate healthy habits and achieve life balance. It allows for progress monitoring, goal setting, and connection with a community, while also providing information on support services.
- Health and wellbeing tips
- Habit formation tools
- Progress monitoring
- Goal achievement support
- Community connection
- Information on support services
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DeakinWELLBEING is an app that can help you achieve balance in your life. Designed to enhance your wellbeing and create healthy habits, the app brings together a wide range of tips, tools and resources that are accessible 24/7. Use the app to monitor your progress, achieve your health and wellbeing goals, and stay on track, whilst staying connected to the Deakin community. You can also find information about services that support your success at Deakin and beyond.
FocusTale
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Turn study time into an adventure. FocusTale helps students start studying, stay focused and build consistent habits through focus quests, XP, levels and streaks. Choose a session, begin focusing and watch your progress grow without adding unnecessary pressure. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Choose Focus Magic, Quick Focus or Rest • Personalise session durations • Earn XP, level up and build a study streak • Complete daily quests and track your progress • Challenge your Dragon of the Day • Review focus minutes and completed sessions • Use Extreme Focus when distractions need to disappear • Study with calming, lyric free background audio • Explore immersive visual themes • Choose an encouraging Focus Spirit • Follow the guided first time tour to learn the app quickly RELIABLE FOCUSING Your timer continues accurately while the app is in the background. On supported iPhones, Live Activities make it easier to follow an active session from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Controls remain locked during an active session to protect your focus. Your progress and unlocked rewards remain saved when the app is updated. FREE TO USE The core focus features are free. Optional rewarded ads let you unlock additional music, themes and companions. Ads never interrupt an active focus session, and rewards remain unlocked after completion. Make starting easier, turn consistency into visible progress and make studying feel more rewarding with FocusTale.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DeakinWELLBEING at none against FocusTale's shown. FocusTale's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 9 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DeakinWELLBEING ships an update every 9 months, FocusTale every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeakinWELLBEING | FocusTale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UniWellBeing | Shrey Saraf |
In-app purchases
DeakinWELLBEING
No in-app purchases
FocusTale
No in-app purchases









