Workflowy vs FocusMirror
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workflowy
Capture ideas, manage tasks, and organize your thoughts with an infinitely nestable system. This app offers AI assistance for summarization and brainstorming, along with collaborative features and robust search capabilities. It syncs across devices and works offline, making it a powerful tool for personal and team productivity.
- Infinitely nested lists
- AI summarization and brainstorming
- Kanban boards for task management
- Real-time collaboration and sharing
- Global search and filtering
- Offline access and cross-device sync
- Tagging and mentions
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Workflowy is a simple, distraction-free app for capturing notes, managing tasks, and organizing your thinking. Infinitely nestable, surprisingly powerful - it helps you manage all the information in your life. With Workflowy you can: • Capture notes and ideas in an instant • Organize complex thinking with infinite nesting • Ask AI to summarize, rewrite, or brainstorm with your notes • Plan and manage tasks with kanban boards • #Tag and @assign items to stay on top of things • Link items across lists - edit once, update everywhere • Share and collaborate in real-time • Upload photos, files, and embed videos • Search and filter your entire Workflowy in seconds Workflowy syncs across all your devices and auto-saves everything. No more missing notes or lost files. Trusted by teams and thinkers at: Atlassian, Slack, The New York Times, and thousands of entrepreneurs, writers, engineers, scientists, and students worldwide. Feature highlights: • Infinitely nested lists • Workflowy AI (chat with notes, AI nodes, quick actions) • Calendar • Kanban boards • Mirrors (live synced copies) • #Tags and @mentions • Date organization with /date shortcuts • Global text search and filtering • Simple sharing and permissions • Works offline • Syncs with desktop and web • One-swipe task completion • File uploads and image attachments • Highlight text and color tags • Item starring • YouTube and X embeds • MFA (Multi-factor authentication) • Expand and collapse lists • Mobile keyboard shortcuts Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/
FocusMirror
This app provides a calm and honest reflection on how your phone usage impacts your attention. It helps you set focus sessions, understand your daily digital habits without judgment, and establish quiet periods for specific apps. You can also share progress summaries for accountability.
- Focus sessions with goals and reminders
- Gentle daily reflection on phone usage
- App quiet rules during focus
- Accountability partner progress sharing
- Mac app integration
- Privacy-focused data summarization
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FocusMirror is a calm, honest mirror for your attention. It shows how your phone helped or pulled you away — and gives you one useful next step. • Start a focus session with a goal, a length, and check-in reminders. • See a gentle, observational daily reflection — never shaming, never a score. • Set simple rules for which apps you want quiet during focus. • Share progress with a partner for accountability — summaries only, never your app history. • Pairs with FocusMirror on your Mac: your desktop shows what you did, your phone shows what pulled you away. Privacy first, by design: • We summarize activity as aggregates — app and category time only. • We never read your messages, capture your screen, or see your content. • You control what's tracked and what's shared. Delete everything in one tap. FocusMirror helps you understand your attention — and still feel in control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FocusMirror at none against Workflowy's 2. Workflowy's advantage is ratings volume (8.2K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and ads 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. Workflowy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. FocusMirror asks for nothing beyond the download.
FocusMirror holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workflowy has 8.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Workflowy | FocusMirror |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (8.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FunRoutine INC | James Mbualungu |
Customer experience
Workflowy
FocusMirror
Bugs and requests
Workflowy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cursor sometimes gets stuck
- Syncing issues between web and mobile versions
- Inability to delete items consistently
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to attach files and documents
- Improve mobile app experience
- Implement better notification and reminder system
- Add more formatting options (e.g., font styles, colors)
FocusMirror
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Workflowy
- Workflowy Pro - Monthly$8.991 Month
- Workflowy Pro - Yearly$79.991 Year
FocusMirror
No in-app purchases









