Comparison

Focus vs CoHear

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

CoHear

This app records, transcribes, and summarizes important conversations. It identifies speakers and extracts key decisions and action items, saving users time on manual note-taking. Ideal for professionals and anyone needing to capture details from meetings, calls, or appointments.

Highlights
  • AI-powered transcription
  • Speaker identification
  • Automatic summaries
  • Key decision extraction
  • Action item identification
  • Import audio/video files
  • Encrypted storage
Features
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CoHear – Your AI Note Taking App for Every Important Conversation! Whether you're a busy professional, entrepreneur, salesperson, recruiter, consultant, or keeping track of important conversations with your doctor, CoHear helps you capture every detail without interrupting the moment. Stay fully present while CoHear records, transcribes, and transforms conversations into organized notes with summaries, key decisions, and action items. Perfect for meetings, client calls, interviews, medical appointments, brainstorming sessions, conferences, and everyday conversations. Stay Present. CoHear Takes the Notes Stop worrying about missing a detail. Simply tap Record, import an audio or video file, or capture a conversation on the go. CoHear automatically transcribes speech to text with high accuracy, identifies different speakers, and preserves the entire conversation—so you can focus on listening instead of typing. What you can do: -Record meetings, interviews, doctor visits, coffee chats & personal notes. -Import existing audio and video files for transcription. -Get AI notes for recordings & audios -Accurate AI transcription with speaker recognition. Smart Notes, Not Just Transcripts A transcript tells you what was said. CoHear tells you what matters. Instead of reading pages of transcripts, get structured AI-generated notes in minutes. Every summary includes: -Key discussion points -Important decisions -Action items -Task owners -Next steps Whether it's a client meeting, sales call, interview, or project discussion, CoHear helps you find what matters instantly. Built for the Way You Work CoHear understands different professions and meeting scenarios. Ideal for: Business professionals managing daily meetings Entrepreneurs and small business owners Sales teams tracking customer conversations Recruiters conducting interviews Product, HR, Operations, and Customer Success teams Patients keeping track of medical advice and treatment plans From team stand-ups and customer meetings to conference sessions and doctor's appointments, CoHear helps you stay organized wherever important conversations happen. Keep everyone aligned without extra work -Turn conversations into polished notes everyone can understand. -Generate presentation-ready summaries -Share notes with teammates, clients, or friends in one tap Save Hours Every Week Skip the manual note-taking and hours of reviewing recordings. CoHear automatically transforms long conversations into concise, actionable notes, helping you remember every detail and follow up with confidence. Private by Design Your recordings and notes are protected with encrypted storage and secure data transmission. You stay in control of your data and can manage or delete your recordings whenever you want. AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTIONS CoHear offers the following monthly auto-renewable subscriptions: Meeting Plus: US$14.99/month Meeting Pro: US$29.99/month Creator Plus: US$28.99/month Creator Pro: US$49.99/month Plans include monthly recording minutes, file imports, and AI Inspiration for AI features such as presentations and infographics. Subscription allowances reset at the start of each billing period and do not carry over. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account when you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account's Subscriptions settings. Prices may vary by country or region; the price shown on the App Store purchase screen is the final price. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.cohear.work/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://www.cohear.work/terms.html Need help? ai@cohear.work

Screenshots

Focus4 screens
CoHear4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CoHear at 100% against Focus's 54%. CoHear also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Focus's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (4.9K vs 11). On price, 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 CoHear sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CoHear holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus has 4.9K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Focus's written reviews are positive against 100% of CoHear's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus ships an update every 3 weeks, CoHear every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Focus versus CoHear: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusCoHear
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4.9K ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.9K — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB60 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer庆彬 邓TechCreate Connect Limited

Customer experience

Focus

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

CoHear

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

CoHear

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Focus

One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$4.99
2 purchases

CoHear

Subscriptions1
  • Meeting Plus7 Days trial$14.991 Month
One-time1
  • Boost Pack$15.99

Questions

Is Focus free?
Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CoHear free?
CoHear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus or CoHear?
CoHear is rated higher. Focus averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4.9K ratings, while CoHear averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Focus or CoHear have ads?
Neither Focus nor CoHear shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus or CoHear?
Focus ships an update every 3 weeks, and CoHear every 2 days. Most recently, Focus was updated on October 1, 2026 and CoHear on September 29, 2026.

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