Comparison

Paint Gallery vs Focus

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

Head to head
About

Paint Gallery

Unleash your creativity with a free and fun painting application. This app offers a wide range of tools, including pencils, brushes, text, and shape drawing, along with the ability to import and export your artwork.

Highlights
  • Pencil tool
  • Various brushes
  • Color fill
  • Text tool
  • Draw shapes
  • Import/export drawings
  • Create photo galleries
Features
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Free Fun Paint App with exciting features and easy to use interface. Enjoy the old school painting with: Pencil Various brushes Smudge Color fill tool Text Tool Draw shapes (lines, rectangles, circles and more) Import & export drawings to and from photo library Create photo galleries Share on facebook and twitter And much more… Stay tuned for exciting updates.

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. **Pause** Before you open an app you picked, Focus makes you wait a few seconds. Or solve three sums. It doesn't forbid it: it gives you time to notice you were opening it without meaning to. Works with Focus closed, and counts the times you let it go. 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: Pause for one app, one session a day, urges, progress, widgets, the flexible night block and privacy. Focus Pro: Pause for every app with a schedule and the sums mode, 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

Paint Gallery4 screens
Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Focus at none against Paint Gallery's shown. Focus also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Paint Gallery's advantage is ratings volume (69 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Paint Gallery sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paint Gallery has 69 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paint Gallery ships an update every 2 months, Focus weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Paint Gallery versus Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaint GalleryFocus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (69 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings69 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB13 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBilal Javed BhuttaPeru Bikandi Zabala

Customer experience

Paint Gallery

All ratings68 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral4.4%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews668 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral8.8%
Negative5.5%

Focus

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

Bugs and requests

Paint Gallery

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Paintings sometimes do not display properly after painting
  • Crashes when trying to use certain tools or features

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add a physical trash can to retrieve deleted drawings
  • Implement a copy/paste and rotate/resize feature for added elements
  • Include a layer system for more advanced editing

Focus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Paint Gallery

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
2 purchases

Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Focus Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Focus Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Paint Gallery free?
Paint Gallery 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, Paint Gallery or Focus?
Focus is rated higher. Paint Gallery averages 4.7 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Focus averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Paint Gallery or Focus have ads?
Paint Gallery shows ads; Focus does not.
Which is updated more often, Paint Gallery or Focus?
Paint Gallery ships an update every 2 months, and Focus weekly. Most recently, Paint Gallery was updated on November 1, 2026 and Focus on November 6, 2026.

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