Comparison

Focus Tower vs Quiet Orbit

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Pomodoro technique timer
  • Task planning
  • Gamified tower building
  • Unlockable themes and rewards
  • Distraction blocking
  • Progress statistics
Features
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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.

About

Quiet Orbit

Enhance focus with a Pomodoro timer and app blocker. Earn rewards and explore new worlds as your virtual spaceship travels through space. Collaborate with friends for shared focus sessions.

Highlights
  • Customizable focus timer (15-90 minutes)
  • App and website blocking
  • Gamified progress with space exploration
  • Focus sessions with friends
  • Collectible in-app items and ship customization
  • Progress tracking and patterns
Features
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A calm focus timer with an app blocker, and a spaceship of your own. Every minute you focus flies it toward the next planet, and now friends can fly beside you. Pick 15 to 90 minutes, in steps of five. Choose which apps stay out. Hold the button to start. NEW: THREE MORE WORLDS Ceres in the asteroid belt, Europa at Jupiter and Charon at Pluto, each with its own things to find and its own sound. Premium now opens every world from the day you join, and each month one Premium world is open to everyone, for that month only. FOCUS WITH FRIENDS Invite up to three friends to a session. You all start at the same minute, wherever you are, and your ships fly side by side. Take the break together, then land together. Some things only ships flying together bring back. Hosting and joining are free. 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 Fourteen destinations, from Earth orbit out to Pluto and its moon Charon. 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. Finish every destination and the map closes every ring, with your hours and every world you flew. 323 THINGS TO FIND Finished sessions turn up things to keep: objects brought aboard, records from the places you reach, and the sound of fourteen worlds, plus 42 things only a crew of friends brings back. Each one has its own name and story. Decorate your ship with your favorites, with two of them beside you in the cockpit every time you fly. 33 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, badges bring more, and a few come only from flying with friends. 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: a log of each week, 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, a Premium world to visit each month, every session length, app blocking, protected breaks, sessions with friends, reminders, your streak, every badge, your ship with the paints and ships you earn, the view of your ship from behind while you focus (with your friends' ships when you fly together), and your history come with the app. Quiet Orbit Premium adds the other twelve worlds and their sounds, open from the day you join, five more cameras for watching your ship fly, among them one that circles it and one it flies past, two more ships, seven gradient paints, places to dock your ship and a name of your own for it, 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/

Screenshots

Focus Tower4 screens
Quiet Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

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 (every 2 days vs weekly). Focus Tower's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Quiet Orbit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Focus Tower asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quiet Orbit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Focus Tower's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quiet Orbit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Tower ships an update weekly, Quiet Orbit every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Focus Tower versus Quiet Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus TowerQuiet Orbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichal CilindzZeus Apps B.V.

Customer experience

Focus Tower

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Quiet Orbit

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Focus Tower

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Quiet Orbit

Subscriptions2
  • Quiet Orbit Premium$2.991 Month
  • Quiet Orbit Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Quiet Orbit Premium Lifetime$22.49
  • Quiet Orbit Premium Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Focus Tower free?
Focus Tower is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quiet Orbit free?
Quiet Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus Tower or Quiet Orbit?
Quiet Orbit is rated higher. Focus Tower averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Quiet Orbit averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Focus Tower or Quiet Orbit have ads?
Neither Focus Tower nor Quiet Orbit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Tower or Quiet Orbit?
Focus Tower ships an update weekly, and Quiet Orbit every 2 days. Most recently, Focus Tower was updated on November 3, 2026 and Quiet Orbit on November 6, 2026.

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