Funnel vs focusedOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Funnel
Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.
- Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
- Send notes and photos to PKM apps
- Capture sketches and calendar events
- Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
- Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
- Built-in document scanner
- Song capture via Shazam integration
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
focusedOS
This app helps you manage digital distractions and boost productivity across your devices. Create custom environments to adjust device behavior for work, study, or breaks, with powerful blocking and ambient sound features.
- Supercharge productivity with one tap
- Create custom work/study environments
- Block distracting apps and websites
- Play ambient sounds for concentration
- Automate environments with Shortcuts
- Sync environments between iPhone and Mac
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Welcome to focusedOS, a super-utility that transforms your devices for productivity. focusedOS helps you manage digital distractions across your devices during a busy work day. Create environments that adjust how your device behaves if you need to work, study, or take a short mental break, and enable it with one tap. Key features: • Supercharge Productivity with one tap Simply flick the switch when you need to get stuff done. • Adjust your device for work - with Environments Adjust your iPhone to suit how you want to work. With focusedOS for Mac you can temporarily change macOS behavior, such as; dimming inactive apps to reduce visual clutter, restricting how many apps can be displayed on-screen, hiding the wallpaper, and more. • Powerful Blocking Easily block access to distracting apps & websites. • Play Ambient Sounds Fade out noisy surroundings with a selection of high-quality ambient sounds that improve concentration. Listen to the sound of light rain falling around you, the cosiness of a campfire, make it feel like you're working from a cafe, or experiment with binaural sounds. • Automate your Environment with Shortcuts (with focusedOS for Mac) Automatically run shortcuts in response to starting or stopping an environment, such as turning on Do Not Disturb. • Link Your Devices Seamlessly sync environments in real-time between iPhone and Mac. Download focusedOS today and supercharge your productivity. View our Privacy & Terms at: https://focusedOS.com/privacy-policy https://focusedOS.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: focusedOS at every 2 days against Funnel's every 6 weeks. focusedOS also leads on iOS requirement (16.1 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and focusedOS sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Funnel holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 32 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Funnel's written reviews are positive against 78% of focusedOS's.
Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, focusedOS every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Funnel | focusedOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (47 ratings) — better | 4.4 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NoteSight Labs ApS | Michael Tigas |
Customer experience
Funnel
focusedOS
In-app purchases
Funnel
- Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
- Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
- Lifetime$49.99
focusedOS
- focusedOS Pro (1 month)$3.991 Month
- focusedOS Pro (1 month)$5.991 Month
- focusedOS Pro (1 month)$7.991 Month
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- focusedOS Pro (1 year)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- focusedOS Pro (1 year)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- focusedOS Pro (1 year)7 Days trial$39.991 Year









