Focus Tower vs Quiet Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Tower
This app helps you build productive habits and overcome distractions using the Pomodoro technique. Plan tasks, set focus timers, and build virtual towers to visualize your progress. Earn rewards and unlock new themes to stay motivated and get more done.
- Pomodoro technique timer
- Task planning
- Gamified tower building
- Unlockable themes and rewards
- Distraction blocking
- Progress statistics
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Most focus timers hand you a number at the end of the week. This one hands you a city. Set the timer and put the phone down. Every finished session lays another floor on your tower. Put a roof on it and the whole tower moves into a city you build — where it stands for good and pays you rent every day. BUILT ON THE POMODORO TECHNIQUE Work in one focused block, rest, repeat. Twenty-five minutes on, a short break, a longer one after four — the rhythm people have used since the 1980s, except here each block leaves a floor behind. BUILT FOR ATTENTION THAT WANDERS Starting is the hard part, so the app makes starting small: one block, 25 minutes, a reward you can see at the end of it. The shield takes the temptation off the table instead of asking you to out-argue it, and a session survives a locked screen — so a wobble costs you nothing. If you have ADHD, that is usually the combination that finally sticks. Focus comes from the rhythm, not from willpower. BLOCK WHAT PULLS YOU AWAY — FREE, ALWAYS • Shut selected apps for the length of a session, using Apple's own Screen Time • Keeps working with the screen locked and outside the app • No limit on how many, no paywall on blocking — ever THE TIMER • Pomodoro presets (10 / 25 / 45 min) or any length you like • Automatic cycles: focus → break → focus, a long break after four • Name the session — every floor remembers what you built it for • Lock your screen and the session keeps running. Nothing is lost. • Your floor rises on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island WHAT YOU KEEP • 6 towers to unlock, each with its own world and music • 6 lands to settle, 12 plots to a city • Finished towers pay daily rent in coins • 32 achievements, from your first floor to a city on every land • Daily streaks with streak protection • Towers, cities and history sync through your own iCloud PROOF YOU DID THE WORK • Export every session as a CSV spreadsheet — date, task, minutes, coins • Or as a printable PDF table, with your totals across the top • Export your city as a picture and show someone what a month of focus looks like • Your tower and streak on a home screen widget, your session on the Lock Screen Useful for a thesis log, for billable hours, or simply for proving to yourself that the week happened. FAIR AND PRIVATE • Free. One-time purchases only — no subscription • No ads. No accounts. No trackers. • We collect nothing. Your sessions stay on your device and in your iCloud. Put the phone down. Build something.
Quiet Orbit
This app uses a gamified approach to help you focus, with a timer that progresses your spaceship through different planets for every minute you concentrate. It also includes an optional app blocker to minimize distractions during your focus sessions.
- Gamified focus timer with spaceship progression
- Optional app and website blocker
- Unlockable planets, objects, and ship customizations
- Detailed focus session history and patterns
- Customizable ship paints and designs
- Protected breaks and reminders
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A calm focus timer with an app blocker. Every minute you focus moves your ship toward the next planet. Pick 15 to 90 minutes, in steps of five. Choose which apps stay out. Hold the button to start. BLOCK WHAT PULLS YOU AWAY Choose the apps and websites to keep out for the length of a session. Quiet Orbit uses Apple's Screen Time system, so only what you choose is blocked, and only while a session runs. The block lifts on its own timer, so access comes back at the end whatever happens to the app in between. Blocking is optional, and the timer works the same with it off. PROGRESS THAT LASTS Eleven destinations, from Earth orbit out to Pluto. Every focused minute counts toward the next one, whether you sit down daily or once a week. Come back after a month away and the route is exactly where you left it. End a session early and the minutes you focused are kept. 238 THINGS TO FIND Finished sessions turn up things to keep: objects brought aboard, records from the places you reach, and the sound of eleven worlds. Each one has its own name and story. Put your favorites on show in the ship, with two of them beside you in the cockpit every time you fly. Thirty badges mark the milestones. YOUR SHIP, YOUR COLORS Focused time earns new paints, engine lights and ships. Every world you finish adds its colors, your ship picks up others in flight, and badges bring more. Paint the hull, wings and trim the way you like, while new ships take shape one session at a time. SEE YOUR PATTERNS An honest record of the work: focused time over the past week, the hours of the day you finish most often, and your longest sessions. WHAT'S INCLUDED Earth orbit and the Moon, every session length, app blocking, protected breaks, reminders, your streak, every badge, your ship with the paints and ships you earn, and your history come with the app. Quiet Orbit Premium adds the other nine worlds and their sounds, two more ships, seven gradient paints, places to dock your ship and a name of your own for it, the view from outside while you focus, unlimited saved setups, private notes, every widget, and trends across weeks and months. Quiet Orbit protects one stretch of attention at a time. Your progress stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and the apps you choose to block stay inside Apple's Screen Time, and only there. iPhone only. Requires iOS 18 or later. Made by Zeus Apps B.V. in the Netherlands. QUIET ORBIT PREMIUM Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. A subscription renews itself unless you turn that off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://quietorbit.org/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quiet Orbit at 100% against Focus Tower's 50%. Quiet Orbit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). Focus Tower's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, 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. Quiet Orbit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Focus Tower asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quiet Orbit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Focus Tower's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quiet Orbit's.
Focus Tower ships an update weekly, Quiet Orbit daily. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Tower | Quiet Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michal Cilindz | Zeus Apps B.V. |
Customer experience
Focus Tower
Quiet Orbit
In-app purchases
Focus Tower
No in-app purchases
Quiet Orbit
- Quiet Orbit Premium$2.991 Month
- Quiet Orbit Premium7 Days trial$14.001 Year
- Quiet Orbit Premium Lifetime$39.99









