uFocus vs Storyse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Storyse
This AI-powered tool helps you summarize your achievements and track your personal growth. Input your accomplishments via microphone and receive AI-generated summaries of your strengths and progression. Archive and edit your entries to maintain a comprehensive record of your journey.
- AI accomplishment summarization
- Voice input for accomplishments
- Strengths identification
- Progression and growth tracking
- Accomplishment archiving and editing
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Storyse is an AI accomplishment summarizer that lets you summarize your accomplishments with AI, and input your accomplishments with microphone. Summarization methods: - Summary: Get a one sentence summary of your strengths - Story: See your progression and growth - Strengths: See your core strengths, you can also do a focus by keyword Archive: See your accomplishments and edit them Note: There is a 30 minute cooldown for AI use, but you can see your most recent update
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Storyse at free against uFocus's paid. Storyse also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). uFocus's advantage is ratings volume (36 vs 1) and device support (5 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Storyse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: uFocus has 36 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | uFocus | Storyse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (36 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicolas Kick | Nova Organization LLC |
In-app purchases
uFocus
No in-app purchases
Storyse
No in-app purchases









