Comparison

PLANKT vs Focal

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

Head to head
About

PLANKT

This app provides personalized workout programs and tracks your progress, nutrition, and habits with coach guidance. It offers exercise videos, habit tracking, goal setting, and community support to help you achieve your health and fitness objectives. Connect wearables for comprehensive data tracking.

Highlights
  • Access training plans and track workouts
  • Follow exercise and workout videos
  • Track meals and food choices
  • Monitor daily habits
  • Set and track health goals
  • Join digital communities for motivation
  • Connect wearable devices and health apps
Features
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With the PLANKT App, you will have access to workout programs designed specifically to help you reach your fitness and health goals! You can follow & track your workouts, your nutrition, your lifestyle habits, measurements and results–all with the help of your coach. FEATURES: - Access training plans and track workouts - Follow along to exercise and workout videos - Track your meals and make better food choices - Stay on top of your daily habits - Set health and fitness goals and track progress towards your goals - Gain milestone badges for achieving new personal bests and maintaining habit streaks - Be part of digital communities to meet people with similar health goals and stay motivated - Track body measurements and take progress photos - Get push notification reminders for scheduled workouts and activities - Connect your Apple Watch to track workouts, steps, habits, and more right from your wrist - Connect to other wearable devices and apps like the Apple Health App, Garmin, Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, and Withings devices to track workouts, sleep, nutrition, and body stats and composition Download the app today!

About

Focal

This app helps you break free from mindless scrolling by offering curated app shortcuts for productive activities like reading, fitness, and meditation. It also includes app blocking features and a social feed to track and share your progress with others.

Highlights
  • Curated app launcher for productive activities
  • App blocking with Focus sessions
  • Progress logging with streaks and levels
  • Social feed for sharing accomplishments
  • Daily attention tally
  • Customizable app library
Features
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You're not addicted. You're just on autopilot. Every time you pick up your phone to "just check something," you lose 30 minutes to a scroll you didn't choose. It's not a willpower problem — it's a default problem. Focal fixes the default. How it works: When the scroll urge hits, open Focal instead. Choose from curated apps you actually want to spend time on — music, books, podcasts, fitness, journaling, meditation, and more. Then log what you did and watch your progress stack up. That's it. No lectures. No shame timers. Just better options, every time. Replace the Scroll Focal's app launcher gives you instant access to the things you keep saying you'll "get to." Music, reading, workouts, meditation — one tap and you're there instead of doom-scrolling. Block What Doesn't Serve You Set up Quick Focus sessions or scheduled blocks to keep distracting apps out of reach. Focal uses iOS Screen Time to put a real barrier between you and your scroll — with a gentle nudge to come back to what matters. See Proof You're Changing Every swap, every log, every session builds your streak and raises your level. Watch yourself go from Beginner to Legend — with real data showing how you're spending your attention differently. The Field — Your New Feed What if your feed was full of people reading, working out, and leveling up instead of performing? The Field is Focal's social space where users share what they did instead of scrolling. Cheer each other on. Get inspired. Feel the FOMO for productivity. What you get: - One-tap access to better apps when the urge hits - App blocking with Focus sessions and scheduled blocks - Progress logging with streaks, levels, and stats - The Field — a social feed built on real accomplishments - Daily attention tally so you can see where your time actually goes - Custom app library across 8 categories Built by someone who gets it. Focal was created by a social media creator who knows exactly how the scroll works — and why it's so hard to stop. This isn't an app built by people who don't use their phones. It's built by someone who used hers too much and decided to build something better. Download Focal. Replace the scroll.

Screenshots

PLANKT4 screens
Focal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Focal at every 5 days against PLANKT's every 5 weeks. PLANKT's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PLANKT against 5.0 for Focal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PLANKT ships an update every 5 weeks, Focal every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PLANKT versus Focal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPLANKTFocal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size203 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlankt Inc.The F Word

Customer experience

PLANKT

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Focal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PLANKT

No in-app purchases

None

Focal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PLANKT free?
PLANKT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focal free?
Focal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PLANKT or Focal?
PLANKT and Focal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do PLANKT or Focal have ads?
Neither PLANKT nor Focal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PLANKT or Focal?
PLANKT ships an update every 5 weeks, and Focal every 5 days. Most recently, PLANKT was updated on October 2, 2026 and Focal on October 15, 2026.

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