Comparison

Focus vs Darock Browser

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

Head to head
About

Focus

Enhance your browsing with a customizable video player, powerful ad blocker, and advanced reading tools. Enjoy hands-free page turning, web translation, and script support for a personalized online experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable video player
  • Userscript support (JavaScript, Tampermonkey)
  • Advanced reading mode
  • Hands-free auto page turning
  • Powerful ad blocking
  • Web translation
  • Bookmark syncing
Features
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【Video Mode】 Customizable player supporting floating video, playback speed control, picture-in-picture, DLNA and AirPlay casting, and one-click screen lock. 【Userscripts】 Supports both JavaScript and Tampermonkey 5.3.0 syntax. After years of user feedback, Focus has greatly improved compatibility with various scripts, ensuring more scripts run smoothly on Focus. 【Reading Mode】 The best reading mode on iOS, supporting automatic preloading of the next page, font size, line height, margin adjustments, and webpage theme selection. Supports text filtering and regular expression rule filtering. 【Auto Page Turning】 Hands-free page turning for novels, comics, or forums. Supports search engines like Baidu, Google, Bing, and Yandex. Try it out now! 【Redirect Blocker】 Can block malicious app redirects within webpages. 【Custom Homepage】 Add your favorite websites to the homepage and set a personalized browser homepage. 【Web Translation】 Super fast translation, making it easy to understand any webpage and breaking down language barriers. 【Ad Blocking】 Powerful ad-blocking feature supporting AdBlock Plus and AdGuard syntax. Includes ad tagging, webpage blacklists, and custom ad rules. 【Bookmark Sync】 Import bookmarks from Safari, Chrome, and Alook into Focus and export Focus bookmarks to those browsers, ensuring seamless bookmark syncing. 【URL Scheme】 Open URLs via Shortcuts: FocusBrowser://search?url=search term or link. 【Other Features】 Supports iPad, iCloud bookmark sync, dark mode, incognito mode, ad marking mode, fingerprint/FaceID login, feedback, and full-screen mode. 【Privacy & Security】 Focus respects your privacy. Incognito mode doesn’t save browsing history, cache, or cookies.

About

Darock Browser

This powerful browser for Apple Watch offers multi-tab browsing, media inspection, and automatic ad blocking. It allows webpage summarization, quick access widgets, and cloud syncing across devices. Enjoy offline viewing and seamless Handoff integration.

Highlights
  • Multi-tab browsing
  • Media inspection and preview
  • Automatic ad blocking
  • Webpage summarization
  • Quick access widgets
  • Cloud sync across devices
  • Offline archive viewing
Features
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The Most Powerful Browser on Apple Watch Take a Sneak Peak at Unique Features Darock Browser supports multi-tab browsing, bringing efficiency to the next level. Darock Browser also supports inspecting medias including videos, images, and audios in the webpage, also preview and store them. Fancy world on your wrist. Automatic AD blocking—say goodbye to annoying ads. Summarize webpage in a tap with Darock Intelligence, no need to take a closer look. Add bookmark and quick-search widgets to your watch face, webpage appears in a tap. Multiple layouts switchable for webpage view and browsing menu, simple or advance, you decide. Darock Cloud syncs history between multiple devices. Switching device? Smooth! Share browsing webpages between your Apple Watch and other Apple devices via Handoff, insensitive interactions all ready. More Highlights: • Distinguish links, no need to enter https:// prefix; • Full-keyboard on non-fullscreen watches; • Support archives that can view offline; • Support using Cookies; • Support page-by-page history recording; • Support multiple search engines; • Support customizing search engine; • Support adding bookmarks, easy & quick access; • Report issues in instant. App uses Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Focus at 4.7 against Darock Browser's 4.3. Focus also leads on ratings volume (4.9K vs 20) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Darock Browser's advantage is review sentiment (69% vs 54%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Focus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Darock Browser sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 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, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus has 4.9K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Focus's written reviews are positive against 69% of Darock Browser's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus ships an update every 3 weeks, Darock Browser every 11 days. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Focus versus Darock Browser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusDarock Browser
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4.9K ratings) — better4.3 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews68.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.9K — better20
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB48 MB
Age rating17+17+
Developer庆彬 邓浩源 陈

Customer experience

Focus

All ratings4,932 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral9.0%
Negative37.2%

Darock Browser

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral15.6%
Negative15.6%

Bugs and requests

Focus

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incompatibility with certain websites
  • Inconsistent script performance
  • Inability to export bookmarks

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add mute tab button
  • Implement desktop mode
  • Improve video playback controls
  • Restore video download feature

Darock Browser

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Focus

One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$4.99
3 purchases

Darock Browser

Subscriptions1
  • Private Relay3 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time2
  • Darock Browser Pro$2.99
  • Darock Vision$3.99

Questions

Is Focus free?
Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Darock Browser free?
Darock Browser is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus or Darock Browser?
Focus is rated higher. Focus averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4.9K ratings, while Darock Browser averages 4.3 from 20 ratings.
Do Focus or Darock Browser have ads?
Neither Focus nor Darock Browser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus or Darock Browser?
Focus ships an update every 3 weeks, and Darock Browser every 11 days. Most recently, Focus was updated on September 23, 2026 and Darock Browser on September 23, 2026.

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