Comparison

uFocus vs Pic Colors

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

Head to head
About

uFocus

A distraction-free writing app designed for creative expression. It supports plain text files, offers advanced Markdown and Fountain syntax for various writing needs, and provides tools to enhance focus and productivity.

Highlights
  • Unobtrusive interface
  • Text statistics
  • MultiMarkdown support
  • Fountain screenplay support
  • Highlighting options
  • Typewriter scrolling
  • Customizable themes
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uFocus is a distraction-free writing environment that supports plain text files and allows you to keep them organized inside libraries. It allows everyone to express their creativity in the most simple way. • Unobtrusive interface: the navigation bar disappears while writing. • Swipe to show the sidebar. Here you can link your favorite libraries and quickly access your documents. • Show text statistics including character and word count and reading time. • MultiMarkdown: easily add headings, quotes, ordered and unordered lists, links, images, italics, bold, footnotes, citations, glossaries and acronyms. You can then export your documents to HTML or PDF. With CriticMarkup and Live Edit Mode you can easily mark removals, additions and substitutions, add highlghts and comments, and accept or reject them. • Fountain: create screenplays with the Markdown-inspired markup syntax and print or export them as PDF with industry-standard formatting. • Highlighting: you can stay even more focused by fading out all the text but the current sentence or paragraph. • Typewriter scrolling: automatically scrolls the text when you get on a new line. • Sound mode: experience the ultimate feeling of a typewriter. • No deletions mode: disable deletions and replacements if your greatest temptation is always to edit your text instead of writing. • Fullscreen: focus on your words and hide everything else. • Choose between three different editor widths, four font sizes and a light, dark, sepia or amber theme, or create your own theme. • Print single files or entire directory hierarchies. If you have any requests, suggestions or bug reports, you're welcome to visit the website through the Support link.

About

Pic Colors

Features
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Pic Colors grabs colors from your screen and helps you manage palettes like a pro. Open a photo or use your camera to pick colors and build a palette. Edit colors, select hues from color harmonies, and share. Add unlimited palettes and colors. Need precise color selection? Adjust magnifier's zoom. For reliable color matching, use the unique Color Dot to see when the magnifier picks the exact color you want. Pic Colors has: • adjustable magnifier zoom to select a single pixel or an average of many pixels • flashlight control for better live camera color selection • choice of 5 color modes: RGB, hex, CMYK, HSB (HSV), or RGB% • 10 popular color harmonies: Complement, Split Complement, Analagous, Triadic, Tetradic, Tetraadic Alternate, Square, Hexadic, Saturation, or Shades and Tints • easy to manage palettes and colors — name and duplicate palettes, copy colors between palettes or to clipboard, add colors from harmony color suggestions, drag to reorder, and share as a PDF Your experience matters to us and we hope you find this app helpful in your work with color. Let us know how the app is working for you!

Screenshots

uFocus4 screens
Pic Colors4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: uFocus at Free against Pic Colors's $0.99. uFocus also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 46 months) and device support (5 vs 2). On 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

uFocus is free to download; Pic Colors costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

uFocus ships an update monthly, Pic Colors every 46 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
uFocus versus Pic Colors: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteruFocusPic Colors
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 46 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicolas KickNNN Software

In-app purchases

None

uFocus

No in-app purchases

None

Pic Colors

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is uFocus free?
uFocus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pic Colors free?
Pic Colors costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do uFocus or Pic Colors have ads?
Neither uFocus nor Pic Colors shows ads.
Which is updated more often, uFocus or Pic Colors?
uFocus ships an update monthly, and Pic Colors every 46 months. Most recently, uFocus was updated on October 8, 2026 and Pic Colors on October 20, 2026.

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