Comparison

Habi vs Focus

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

Head to head
About

Habi

Develop positive habits and daily routines with this straightforward and effective application. It's designed to help you build and reinforce good habits for a better future, with a focus on simplicity and psychological principles.

Highlights
  • Create and reinforce good habits
  • Develop daily routines
  • Simple and effective design
  • Free to use
  • No registration or data tracking
  • Based on human psychology
Features
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Our mission: "Create a simple and effective habit tracker that everyone can use for free." Habi will help you create, reinforce and develop good habits for a better tomorrow. *** Why Habi? *** • Habi is simple and effective. Even your child can use it. • Habi is free. No registration, ads, or personal data tracking. • Habi grows with you. Build your streak to unlock more habits and weekly skips. • Habi connects. Share your daily status with friends and check progress together. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Focus

This app helps you overcome urges and distractions by teaching you to ride them out. It offers guided sessions, app blocking, and night modes to improve focus and build healthy habits. Track your progress with streaks and levels, all while ensuring your privacy.

Highlights
  • Urge management sessions
  • App blocking
  • Guided Lock Screen sessions
  • Night block modes (flexible & strict)
  • Sleep tracking
  • Streaks and levels
  • Privacy-focused (no account/server)
Features
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Focus doesn't lock you in. It teaches you to ride out the urge. An urge rises, peaks and falls in 60-90 seconds. Almost nobody makes it to the fall. Focus is built so you do. Sessions with real friction One block or Pomodoro. Leaving the app gets noticed, giving up costs you (hold to give up, longer every time), and if the task needs other apps you say so before, not after. With app blocking, the apps you pick stay covered for the whole session. I have the urge Phone, scrolling, smoking, vaping, sugar, shopping, or anything you write in. When it hits, 60 guided seconds straight from your Lock Screen or the Action Button, without opening anything. Every urge has its own counter of days without giving in. Night block At your bedtime, iOS covers your apps until you get up, even with Focus closed. Flexible is free: if you really need it, hold on through a guided minute and get 5 minutes. Strict comes with Pro: not even you can turn it off. Sleep Phone out of bed at night, phone-free when you wake up. Focus reminds you when it's time and asks you in the morning how it went. A streak of clean nights. Streaks, levels and a 7-day challenge Every clean day lights up your streak. Ten levels, from Scattered to Lock in: the orb on your home screen glows with your level. Widgets, a Dynamic Island countdown you can extend from the Lock Screen, and a card to share. Real privacy No account, no server, no analytics. Everything stays on your iPhone. Urges behind Face ID, plus discreet mode: shake your phone and your urges get renamed “Habit 17” so you can show people the app. Free: one session a day, urges, progress, widgets, the flexible night block and privacy. Focus Pro: unlimited sessions, real app blocking, the strict night block, Sleep, all background sounds and up to 5 saved sessions. Focus is for anyone who wants to do one thing and can't stop doing another. You don't have to be better today. Just don't give in. Focus Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial. Prices vary by country and are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase or when the trial ends. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in your account settings. Privacy: https://focus-app.xyz/privacy-en.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Habi4 screens
Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Focus at 5.0 against Habi's 4.5. Focus also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). Habi's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Habi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Focus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Habi ships an update every 6 weeks, Focus every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Habi versus Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHabiFocus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB13 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDmytro ObertynskyiPeru Bikandi Zabala

Customer experience

Habi

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%

Focus

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Habi

Subscriptions1
  • Supporter Monthly$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime unlimited$4.99
2 purchases

Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Mensual14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Anual14 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Habi free?
Habi 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, Habi or Focus?
Focus is rated higher. Habi averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Focus averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Habi or Focus have ads?
Neither Habi nor Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Habi or Focus?
Habi ships an update every 6 weeks, and Focus every 5 days. Most recently, Habi was updated on October 22, 2026 and Focus on October 21, 2026.

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