Shopi vs Focus Noodles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shopi
This app intelligently organizes your shopping lists based on your habits and preferences. Share lists with family and friends, and receive notifications about shopping trips. It offers unique features like automatic screen locking and a focus solely on grocery organization.
- Learns item order and preferences
- Share lists with friends and family
- Notifications for shopping trips
- Automatic screen locking (Pocket Lock)
- Clean and beautiful iOS design
- Focused solely on shopping lists
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Shopi is a unique shopping list app for iPhone. Shopi learns as you use it, remembering your favourite items and preferred order when shopping. Shopi doesn’t need you to fuss about customising it to fit your needs, just use it and let Shopi work it out. Shopi lists can be shared with your friends and family, and Shopi will notify them when and where you’re shopping. What makes Shopi different? * You give the orders Shopi doesn’t ask you to fuss about micro-managing items, aisles and categories. Instead, it figures out the way you like your list to be arranged, and sticks with it. Put items in the order you want once: Shopi will learn your ordering system and use it. * Shopi is for team players When you go shopping, Shopi will notify others who you share a shopping list with. This gives them an opportunity to add or edit items, and informs them that the shopping is being taken care of. Items added by others sort into your preferred order. Shopi uses the iPhone’s GPS to detect when you leave so everyone knows when you’re finished. * Pocket Lock makes shopping simpler Shopi uses the iPhone’s proximity sensor to disable the screen when it’s in your pocket or bag. Simply put your phone away while you reach for an item and it will automatically lock, and unlock when you take it out. * Shopping lists are not to-do lists Shopi is focused solely on shopping. It makes no attempt to be a general list-making or todo app. * Designed to be pleasing Shopi is a beautiful, clean iOS app. It features graphic styling by Matt Kelsh, the designer behind the beautiful visuals in Pocket Casts, and Pocket Weather Australia (http://www.shiftyjelly.com/apps). More information at http://sapient-pair.com/ == SUBSCRIPTION == Shopi is free to download. It comes with a 30 day complimentary subscription, after which it becomes Ad-supported, with the option to purchase additional subscription time if you wish to remain Ad-free and support Shopi directly.
Focus Noodles
This app helps you stay focused on tasks by using a fun timer that penalizes phone usage. Earn rewards and enjoy fairytale cards after successful focus sessions. It aims to combat phone addiction and boost productivity.
- Phone screen down timer
- Distraction alerts (vibrate, flash, noise)
- Reward system for focus sessions
- Fairytale cards for relaxation
- Combats phone addiction
- HealthKit integration
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"Focus Noodles" is a creative focus app. 2022 Apple Design Award finalist. Focus is the key to a perfect bowl of noodles. Place your phone screen down and start the timer. Focus on the task at hand and resist the temptation to touch your phone, or it will vibrate, flash, and make noises to remind you to put it down! When the timer goes off, your noodles will be perfectly cooked, and you will have accomplished a meaningful focus session. As a reward, you'll receive a "mind-expanding" fairytale card to relieve the tension after your focused session and prepare you for the next one. Your phone is like a Pandora's Box that once opened, can be difficult to close. You never know which tap will steal your attention next. Focus Noodles hopes to help you put down your phone in a humorous and enjoyable way, to fight phone addiction, and to regain the most valuable resource of our time. Where there is focus, there is productivity. Join us now and focus on cooking a bowl of noodles with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide! App credentials: · Apple Design Awards 2022 Finalist. · "Best of March 2020 " in China. · AppStore Editors‘ Choice. (HealthKit integration available to sync focus time to "Mindfulness Training") ideaTiny creates fun apps. fb@ideatiny.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shopi at Free against Focus Noodles's $3.99. Shopi also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). Focus Noodles's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On update cadence, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Shopi is free to download; Focus Noodles costs $3.99 up front. Shopi sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Focus Noodles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus Noodles holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus Noodles has 207 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Shopi's written reviews are positive against 80% of Focus Noodles's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shopi | Focus Noodles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) | 4.7 (207 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 207 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 201 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sapient Pair Pty Ltd | ideaTiny Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Shopi
Focus Noodles
In-app purchases
Shopi
- 3 Month Subscription$1.99
- 12 Month Subscription$4.99
Focus Noodles
- Story Cards$0.99









