Exocus vs Home Logbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Exocus
This app transforms focus sessions into a gamified experience, visualizing your concentration as a planet's evolution. Earn rewards, unlock new designs, and overcome procrastination with engaging, pixel-art visuals and a unique reward system.
- Gamified focus timer
- Planet evolution visualization
- Pixel art design
- Stage-based incentives
- Unlockable planet designs
- Hardcore Mode for increased stakes
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Exocus is a pixel-art, gamified focus timer app. Here, your focus is no longer boring, repetitive, or meaningless because every moment of your focus will transform your very own planet. Do you struggle with staying motivated when you commit to doing something valuable in the long run, like learning new words, practicing an instrument, working out, or mastering a new language? Initially, you're full of enthusiasm, but soon, your passion wanes. Memorizing words becomes a chore, the instrument is neglected, workouts turn into a burden, and progress in the new language stalls... You start doubting yourself: “Maybe I just don’t have what it takes to stick with long-term commitments.” That’s not true! Let us explain the real reasons. ● Lack of Immediate Rewards: You understand the long-term value of these tasks, but how much does this half-hour of focus matter right now? ● Repetition Leads to Boredom: When the initial novelty wears off, the repetitive nature of the task can make you feel bored and tired. ● Overly Negative Focus: Focusing on what you haven't accomplished rather than acknowledging what you have done can lead to negative self-evaluation and loss of motivation. Let Exocus Help You! ====== Exocus Solutions ====== Exocus is a gamified focus timer that visualizes your concentration as a planet's evolution, helping you achieve long-term, pain-free focus. ● Emotional Design and Sense of Meaning After each focus session, you’ll see the story of what happened to your planet during that time. Even five minutes of focus equals 38.53 million years of evolution for your planet, so your focus is crucial. Want to raise the stakes? You can enable “Hardcore Mode,” where failing to focus might cause your planet to be destroyed! ● Stage-Based Incentives Short-term Incentives: After each focus session, the planet’s landscape changes and tells you its story. Medium-term Incentives: After several hours of focus, the planet undergoes more significant transformations, like forming magma, oceans, and land. Long-term Incentives: After around ten hours of focus, the planet completes its evolution. You can then add it to your star system, with each project corresponding to a star system, showcasing your long-term accumulation in that project. ● Continuous Freshness We offer hundreds of unique planet designs, satisfying your curiosity and desire to collect with constant surprises. See a planet's full appearance only after evolving it through focused efforts. Earn Stardust coins by focusing to unlock new planet seeds, motivating continuous concentration. ====== What Makes Exocus Special? ====== ● Meticulously Crafted Design Exocus uses a unique pixel art style, maintaining simplicity while incorporating delightful little Easter eggs for you to discover. We believe the beauty of Exocus can bring joy, which will ultimately translate into more focused time. ● Fun Game Elements Exocus embraces gamified design in a bold yet restrained and professional manner. We hope the game elements help you enjoy focusing, and we also care deeply about your ability to truly focus. We’ve eliminated anything that could distract you because we genuinely want to focus on achieving long-term goals with you. ● Flexible Focus Modes Exocus supports countdown timers, stopwatch mode, and the Pomodoro technique. In the Pomodoro technique, you can flexibly set focus and break durations and specify longer breaks after several focus cycles. ● Convenient Project Management Each project corresponds to a planet. You can track different categories of focus time with projects and quickly switch between projects on the home screen by swiping left or right. ● Personalized Statistics Based on your focus data, we provide personalized charts to help you understand your focus patterns and stay motivated to maintain consistent focus. Terms of Use: https://byland.work/exocus/terms-en.html Support: exocus@byland.work
Home Logbook
Easily track home repairs, maintenance tasks, and warranties. Log any job, assign contractors, and receive smart reminders to keep your home in top condition. Generate PDF reports for insurance or tax purposes.
- Log repairs and tasks
- Track contractor information
- Manage warranty expirations
- Set smart reminders
- Organize by room/system
- Generate PDF reports
- Home Health Score dashboard
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Home Logbook is a simple way to stay on top of your home's maintenance, repairs, reminders, warranties, contractors, costs, and important records. Your home has a history. Start recording it. Maintenance adds up quickly. A furnace filter due in three months. A roof warranty expiring next year. A contractor you used last winter. A repair you want to remember. Home Logbook keeps it all organized in one place, so you can spend less time trying to remember and more time taking care of your home. TRACK HOME MAINTENANCE Create tasks for anything your home needs. Add a due date, room, cost, contractor, warranty information, photos, documents, and reminders. Keep a clear history of what needs to be done and what has already been completed. From routine maintenance and seasonal upkeep to unexpected repairs, renovations, and inspections, Home Logbook helps you keep everything on track. SYNC WITH ICLOUD Keep your home information available across your Apple devices with iCloud sync. Your tasks, rooms, contractors, attachments, and maintenance history can stay in sync, giving you an up-to-date view of your home wherever you use Home Logbook. ORGANIZE EVERY ROOM Organize maintenance by room or home system. Track your kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, garage, exterior, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, solar system, and more. Each room gives you an easy way to see its tasks, completed history, and upcoming maintenance. NEVER LOSE TRACK OF WARRANTIES Add warranty information to maintenance tasks and keep expiration dates organized. Home Logbook helps you remember important warranty deadlines so you can find the information when you need it. KEEP CONTRACTORS ORGANIZED Assign contractors to maintenance tasks and keep their information connected to the work they've done. Contact contractors directly from the app, and keep a history of contractor-related work and spending so you can understand where your home maintenance budget goes. SMART REMINDERS Set reminders for your maintenance tasks and choose when you want to be reminded. For recurring maintenance, Home Logbook can automatically schedule the next occurrence when you complete a repeating task. Keep annual servicing, seasonal maintenance, inspections, and other recurring tasks moving without having to recreate them. SEE YOUR HOME HEALTH Your Home Health Score gives you a quick view of your maintenance progress based on overdue and completed tasks. Use your dashboard to see what needs attention and keep your home from falling behind. REPORTS FOR YOUR HOME RECORDS Generate maintenance reports for a selected year and share them from the app. Keep a useful record of your home's maintenance history for your own records, insurance documentation, preparing for a home sale, or other situations where a clear maintenance history can be helpful. BUILT FOR REAL HOMEOWNERS Home Logbook is designed to make home maintenance easier, not turn it into another complicated project-management system. Add a task. Set a reminder. Complete the work. Keep the history. That's it. PREMIUM The free plan includes up to 10 maintenance tasks per home, giving you a chance to explore Home Logbook before upgrading. Premium unlocks additional capabilities including unlimited tasks, PDF reports, contractor analytics, and other advanced home-management features. Choose from: • Monthly Premium • Annual Premium • Lifetime Premium The annual Premium plan includes a 3-day free trial for eligible users before the subscription begins. The annual plan is $24.99/year, compared with $2.99/month for the monthly plan. Lifetime Premium is available for a one-time purchase of $39.99. AVAILABLE IN 5 LANGUAGES Home Logbook is available in: • English • French • Spanish • Portuguese • Japanese Start building a maintenance record for your home today. Terms of Use: https://khsalman.github.io/homelogbook/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Exocus at 158 against Home Logbook's 2. Exocus also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Home Logbook's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Exocus sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Home Logbook sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Exocus against 5.0 for Home Logbook. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exocus has 158 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Exocus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Home Logbook's.
Exocus ships an update every 3 weeks, Home Logbook weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Exocus | Home Logbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (158 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Byland Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | Khawaja Salman Nadeem |
Customer experience
Exocus
Home Logbook
In-app purchases
Exocus
- Newcomer Pack$0.29
- Cosmoney x 5$0.99
- Cosmoney x 30$4.99
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- Cosmoney x 100$13.99
- Exopass$15.99
- Exopass + Cosmoney x 200$34.99
- Exopass$34.99
Home Logbook
- Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$19.99









