Maxthon Browser vs Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maxthon Browser
A mobile web browser designed for a streamlined and personalized experience. It offers a fresh interface, enhanced features like customizable favorites, and tools for privacy and eye comfort.
- New UI design
- Re-planned homepage layout
- Optimized feature layout
- Enhanced favorites with text and images
- Personalized data treasure chest
- Incognito mode
- Night mode
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The world changes every day but our beliefs remain the same. We firmly believe that good interaction is less while good product is neither more nor less, and good experience always comes from the heart. A fresh new Maxthon Browser for iPhone will become the treasure chest for you on mobile Internet. We made great efforts in this revision in a visual sense to get rid of complicated design. According to a large amount of users' feedback, we perfectly combined design and practical features to build a browser that suits you like no one does. Named “The Best Browser” by famous North American and European agencies many times : Download82 2017 Software 5-Star Award DEAL crunch 2017 Editor’s Choice About.com Most Popular Browser Award Share Networks Full-Stars Recommendation Award ...... All Awards can be checked here: http://www.maxthon.com/awards New Features: 【Video Enhancement】Support video speed adjustment, floating pop-up video and background video playback for a better viewing experience. 【Userscript Support】Tampermonkey userscript engine available to customize web pages and unlock more possibilities. 【Webpage Read Aloud】Text-to-speech for web content, free your eyes and listen to articles on the go. 【New design】Global UI interaction、fresh new design style; 【New Homepage】Re-planned page layout from traditional two-stage to three-stage, easily to view. 【New Layout】Optimized on overall features level, which highlighted the often used main features according to users feedback, greatly improved the convenience of operations. 【New Favorites】Breaking the traditional Favorites structure that can only save URL, re-identifying the favorites feature that can conclude pictures and text content. 【Personal Customized】 The new Maxthon Browser will not only be your information access platform, but rather your personal customized treasure chest for data that comes with a powerful edition of notes, password management, and numerous extensions. Others feature: 【Incognito mode】Browsing on the incognito mode will never record your cache, Cookie, history, and download record. 【Night mode】Make adjustments to brightness to reduce the damage to the eyes when browsing at night. More Info: Report Bug: http://www.maxthon.com/mx/bug/post/ Help Center: http://www.maxthon.com/mx5/help/question/ Contact us:contact@maxthon.com Website: http://www.maxthon.com/ Maxthon Community: http://www.maxthon.com/ Facebook:www.facebook.com/maxthon Twitter:www.twitter.com/Maxthon YouTube:www.youtube.com/MaxthonCloudBrowser LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/company/maxthon-international-limited
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.
- Customizable video player
- Userscript support (JavaScript, Tampermonkey)
- Advanced reading mode
- Hands-free auto page turning
- Powerful ad blocking
- Web translation
- Bookmark syncing
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Maxthon Browser at none against Focus's 1. Maxthon Browser also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 54%). Focus's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (4.9K vs 701). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Focus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Maxthon Browser asks for nothing beyond the download.
Focus holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus has 4.9K ratings behind it against 701, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Maxthon Browser's written reviews are positive against 54% of Focus's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Maxthon Browser ships an update every 2 weeks, Focus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maxthon Browser | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (701 ratings) | 4.7 (4.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.5% of reviews — better | 53.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 701 | 4.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Maxthon Technology Limited | 庆彬 邓 |
Customer experience
Maxthon Browser
Focus
User reviews
Maxthon Browser
From 701 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient browsing
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 🔒 Secure and private browsing
- 💡 Useful features like cloud sync and note-taking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 👎 Cluttered and confusing UI after updates
- 🚫 Forced login/account creation
Focus
From 4.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast download speeds
- 👍 Useful features
- 💡 Powerful script support
- 🔒 Effective ad-blocking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and reloading issues
- 🔋 Draining battery life
- ⛔ Removal of download functionality
Bugs and requests
Maxthon Browser
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezing and unresponsiveness
- Bookmark and history sync issues
- Incompatibility with older devices
- Problems with file downloads and attachments
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved tab management
- Ability to customize homepage and bookmarks
- Better video/audio playback support
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
In-app purchases
Maxthon Browser
No in-app purchases
Focus
- Pro Lifetime$4.99









