X vs Flip Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
X
This app helps you manage your time effectively by setting long-term and short-term goals. It utilizes OKR and the time management quadrant theory to organize tasks and track progress, making your life more structured and efficient.
- OKR goal setting
- Time management quadrant theory
- Task planning and tracking
- Calendar view
- Progress charts
- Life journey log
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X-生活·时间管理作为一款专业的功能强大的时间管理类APP,依据以下两大理论基础: OKR:目标管理方法,它由英特尔公司于1999年创立,目前已被许多知名公司如Google、LinkedIn、Zynga等广泛应用于实践。旨在帮助组织更有效地实现其战略目标。核心思想是明确目标(Objectives)和关键结果(Key Results)。目标是一定时间内希望达到的明确、可衡量的目标值。而关键结果则是实现这些目标所需的关键步骤或指标。 时间管理四象限理论:由著名管理学家史蒂芬·科维(Stephen R. Covey)提出的一个时间管理理论。这个理论把工作按照重要和紧急两个不同的程度进行了划分。分别为:重要而且紧急,重要但不紧急,紧急但不重要,既不紧急也不重要。 该APP适用于多种场景,如工作、学习、运动健身、读书等,可以满足不同用户的需求。帮助我们更好地规划时间,提高工作效率,让生活更有条理。 作为一款专业和实用的时间管理工具,通过设定日常工作生活中的各种目标,并记录每个目标的点滴达成情况。 但是不同于一般的时间管理软件将时间划分为小时或者分钟级的碎片并进行安排,这种时间管理方式不但繁琐而且本身也浪费不少时间。 X-生活·时间管理让您通过各种长期短期目标设定,然后像打卡一样完成各种小碎步成果,积跬步,至千里。 让你的生活高效而又能适当的放松,实在是最符合如今的工作生活方式,是您居家旅行、工作生活必备效率工具。 毕业多年,一直对自己比较苛求,工作中追求高效,生活中追求品质和小确幸,经历过小厂和一线大厂,资深技术VP。希望大家能喜欢这款简洁的工具软件,无比期待你们能达成希望的所有目标。 【主要功能】 待办事项: 按时间顺序提供过往3天、今日、本周、本月、本年度的计划事项展示,其中本月、本年度为分类统计,其他分别展示详细的计划事项。各个分类事项分别展示了,目标值、达成值、完成度、重要紧急程度等信息。 新增计划: 新增模块包含,处理、计划和事项三部分。处理页可以针对计划进行处理,填写达成情况。计划页面新增新的计划。事项页面新增事项记录项。 计划项目包含文字、图片、重要程度和周期任务等信息。每个计划可以开启提醒,提醒规则按照计划类型分别设置,在设置页面对于分类进行编辑可以修改提醒规则。 日历功能: 按日期展示每天的工作事项,也可以按天添加当前选中日期计划任务。 图表展示: 图表提供按照计划任务类别展示工作计划及达成情况趋势图。 历程功能: 类似朋友圈展示工作计划,让您的生活轨迹随着时间开满花朵。 【X-生活·时间管理订阅服务说明】 - 订阅周期:提供1年期(自动续费)和永久服务至产品服务下架。 - 具体价格参考X-生活App内部付费页面。 - 付款:通过用户的iTunes账户扣款,用户确认购买后付款。 - 取消订阅:1年期服务可以在设置 - Apple ID - 订阅服务中取消订阅。永久服务产品,一次性付费无法取消。 - 续订:苹果iTunes账户会在到期前24小时内扣费,扣费成功后订阅周期顺延一个周期。永久服务产品无需续订,只要产品存续期间皆可使用。 【隐私政策】: http://www.frely.cn/xlife/xlife-privacy.html 【用户使用条款】: http://www.frely.cn/xlife/user-policy.html 【联系我】: 邮箱:42186467@qq.com
Flip Focus
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Flip your phone face down. The timer starts. Lift it, and the timer stops. Flip Focus is a deep work timer for people who are tired of promising themselves they'll concentrate. There is no honour system here and no button to press when you get distracted. The session is physically bound to your phone: face down on the desk, you are working. In your hand, you are not. WHY THIS ONE HOLDS UP Every other focus timer runs happily in your pocket while you scroll something else. This one cannot. Flip Focus reads your phone's motion sensors and only accumulates time while the phone is actually face down. You cannot quietly cheat a session, which is precisely why the hours in your history mean something. START IN ONE MOVE Choose a session and flip. That is the entire ritual. No setup to work through every time you sit down, no timer to remember to start, no excuse to open the phone "just to begin". BLOCK EVERY DISTRACTING APP While a session runs, Flip Focus uses Screen Time to put your distracting apps behind a lock screen. It works as an allowlist rather than a blocklist: everything is blocked except what you deliberately permit, so a newly installed app cannot slip through a gap you forgot to close. AUTO-PAUSE KEEPS YOU HONEST Pick the phone up mid-session and the timer pauses itself and tells you to put it back down. Your streak is not broken by the pause; it is broken by pretending the pause never happened. Flip Focus simply refuses to pretend. QUITTING TAKES A MOMENT Ending a session early is still possible, it just isn't two taps any more. You copy out a short passage that makes the case for staying, then hold a button for a few seconds. Neither step is hard, and the way out is always there when you genuinely need it. It simply stops being something you can do without thinking. Most urges to quit don't survive the minute it takes. SESSIONS THAT MATCH REAL WORK Start from ready-made blocks for deep work, quick focus, study and creative work, or build your own with the length, name and colour that suit how you actually work. Long, uninterrupted blocks for hard problems. Short ones for clearing the deck. SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT After every session, mark how it went. Every minute you stay face down earns focus points, and your dashboard tracks your daily streak, personal bests, total focused time and success rate. Tap any session to turn it into a share card for your friends. Because the timer cannot be gamed, every number is real. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY A Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen so you can check the time remaining without unlocking anything. Haptics confirm the start and finish of a block. The app is quiet, quick and does not ask for your attention while you are trying to give it to something else. WHO IT IS FOR Engineers, writers, designers, founders, analysts, researchers, students — anyone whose output depends on long stretches of uninterrupted attention, and whose phone is the single largest threat to getting them. If you have tried focus apps before and drifted away from them, the reason is usually the same: they asked you to be disciplined about the tool itself. Flip Focus asks for one physical action, once, at the start. The desk does the rest. Flip the phone. Do the work. Privacy Policy: https://getflipfocus.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://getflipfocus.com/terms-of-service/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: X at every 6 days against Flip Focus's every 2 weeks. X also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. X sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year and Flip Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
X ships an update every 6 days, Flip Focus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X | Flip Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 小青 李 | Augustine Ezeh |
In-app purchases
X
- X-生活专业版服务$2.991 Year
- X-生活·时间管理专业版$4.99
Flip Focus
- Monthly Premium3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Premium3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$59.99









