PocketLife Calendar vs Focus Gnome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PocketLife Calendar
Organize your life with a stylish and intuitive calendar app. It offers powerful customization, seamless syncing with popular services, and natural language event creation. Share events, set reminders, and personalize your calendar views.
- Calendar sharing with friends and family
- Fast sync with Google, Outlook, iCal, Yahoo, iCloud
- Create events using natural language
- Multiple calendar views (List, Day, Week, Agenda, Year, Month)
- Customizable recurring events
- FaceID & TouchID protection
- Notification Center Widget
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Searching for the perfect calendar app? DOWNLOAD POCKETLIFE TODAY FOR FREE PocketLife has been specifically designed to be stylish, intuitive and super-easy to set up and use. Powerful, functional and completely customisable, so you can truly make it your calendar. With a ton of useful modern features, you will find PocketLife an essential tool for organizing your life. PocketLife will quickly become your most used and indispensable app. * Easily SHARE CALENDARS with your FRIENDS & FAMILY. * Google, Outlook, iCal, Yahoo, iCloud - Fast Sync. * Create Events using Natural Language. * Universal app: iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, iPad Pro. * Events & Reminders. * List, Day, Week, Agenda, Year and Month views. * Display multiple calendars. * Custom Recurring events. * Apple Watch * Notification Center Widget * AirDrop & AirPrint support. * Customisable Pictures for calendar months display. * Import your own images from your photos. * Intuitive gestures to change display. * FaceID & TouchID Protection. * Create image of month view to use as your phones wallpaper. * Set any day to start of week. * Personalize the colors, fonts and pictures of your display. * Send Email of your events. * Send .ics iCalendar files of your events. -- YOUR LIFE IN YOUR POCKET -- _______________________________________ PLEASE NOTE: - To Stop Old Events Being Removed: You need to go into the Calendars section in the main device Settings app and then set 'Sync' to 'All Events'. - THIS IS NOT A FREE APP. DOWNLOAD THE LITE VERSION FOR FREE TO SEE IF YOU LIKE IT BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PURCHASE. THE LITE VERSION IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL EXCEPT THAT IT CONTAINS ADVERTS AND RESTRICTS THE NUMBER OF EVENTS THAT CAN BE CREATED AND ADDED TO YOUR CALENDARS. A SMALL IN-APP UPGRADE CAN BE PURCHASED TO REMOVE THE RESTRICTIONS AND ADVERTS. THE COMPLETE CURRENT AND NEXT YEAR'S CALENDARS ARE THEN INCLUDED WITH THE INITIAL FULL VERSION UPGRADE PURCHASE. SUBSEQUENT CALENDAR YEARS ARE AVAILABLE AS A SMALL IN-APP PURCHASE. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE DISPLAYED THE COST IN YOUR LOCAL CURRENCY, BEFORE BEING ASKED TO CONFIRM ANY IN-APP PURCHASE. To allow our users to further customise their app to meet their specific needs and interests, there is also a separate Add-on available called the ‘Calendar Store’ provided by SchedJoules. It contains a large selection of great holiday, sport fixtures, weather & lifestyle calendars. These calendars can be set up so they are displayed alongside your other personal calendar events. You can purchase access to the ’Calendar Store’ Add-on for 1 year with a yearly auto-renewable subscription. You get full and ongoing access to the ‘Calendar Store’, including live updates. The 1 year subscription to the ‘Calendar Store’ Add-on starts at $1.99 (Prices may vary by location) and begins with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase after the 1 month free trial. Subscriptions to the Add-on automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. You can manage your subscription and turn off the auto-renew for the 'Calendar Store' Add-on at any time from your iTunes Account Settings. Full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy are available at www.ovalkey.com/terms-of-service and www.ovalkey.com/privacy-policy respectively.
Focus Gnome
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The gnome is already sitting. Wind the dial — it runs backwards on purpose, like a kitchen timer — take three settling breaths, and begin. While you work, he meditates. Remaining time is a golden wedge that quietly shrinks; no ticking numbers to squint at. Lay the phone face down and he sinks deeper, the sounds soften, and the room gets calmer. Every sitting leaves a firefly drifting in the grove. Ending early still counts — a dimmer firefly, never a dead tree, never a broken streak, never a scolding. However long you stay counts. Nothing here is lost, and nothing is taken away. WHAT'S INSIDE • A hand-wound visual dial: 5 minutes to 2 hours, a soft click for every detent • Three settling breaths before the clock starts (skippable, and it remembers) • Face-down deepening — putting the phone away is the point, so the app rewards it • The grove: every sitting you've ever finished, drifting behind him • Name your sittings ("Thesis · 45m") and keep an honest ledger • Hand-made ambient soundscapes: hearth, rain, forest night • A choosable clock: storybook or blocky, in three inks • One notification, ever: when your sitting ends NO CATCHES No ads. No account. No subscription. No streaks you can lose. Everything stays on your phone. We built Focus Gnome for everyone who has ever been scolded by a productivity app. This is the timer that doesn't punish you for being human.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focus Gnome at none against PocketLife Calendar's 13. Focus Gnome also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, 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. PocketLife Calendar sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Focus Gnome asks for nothing beyond the download.
PocketLife Calendar ships an update every 5 weeks, Focus Gnome every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PocketLife Calendar | Focus Gnome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (42K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 42K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OvalKey Ltd. | MATTHEW MALHAM |
Bugs and requests
PocketLife Calendar
Reported bugs
3 issues- Duplicate events being created
- Past event data being deleted
- Inconsistent time zone conversions
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to attach photos to events
- More color options
- Improved time zone handling
- Option to display event age/birthdays
- Ability to print/export calendar data
Focus Gnome
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PocketLife Calendar
- Calendar Store Add-On1 Month trial$1.991 Year
- Premium Unlimited Access1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- Holidays United States$0.99
- AR Calendar Add-on$1.99
- PocketLife Upgrade$4.99
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- PocketLife 2020 Calendar$4.99
- PocketLife 2021 Calendar$4.99
- PocketLife 2022 Calendar$4.99
- PocketLife 2023 Calendar$4.99
- PocketLife 2024 Calendar$4.99
- PocketLife 2025 Calendar$4.99
- PocketLife 2027 Calendar$6.99
- PocketLife 2026 Calendar$6.99
Focus Gnome
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is PocketLife Calendar free?
Is Focus Gnome free?
Do PocketLife Calendar or Focus Gnome have ads?
Which is updated more often, PocketLife Calendar or Focus Gnome?
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