Strive Planner vs Focus by FireVue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strive Planner
This app helps you connect your daily tasks and events to your overarching goals. It focuses on the 'why' behind your productivity, ensuring your actions align with your aspirations.
- Goal connection to daily events
- Weekly planning
- Task management
- Productivity focus on 'why'
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What exactly do most calendar, task list, and productivity apps get wrong? They either focus on the *when* or the *how*, but they never focus on the *why* Strive fixes that. With Strive, you're able to connect the goals you work on to the events in your day. Enjoy! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Focus by FireVue
This app helps you stay organized by managing daily, weekly, and monthly goals, to-dos, and events. It features a simple calendar with reminders and notifications, and allows you to store contacts, notes, and birthdays with photos.
- Daily, weekly, and monthly goal creation
- To-do list management
- Quick Actions for task completion
- Event planning with recurring reminders
- Contact and notes storage
- Birthday tracking with photo option
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Thanks for trying out the very first version of our app. We built it to make staying organized and keeping track of what matters a little easier. - Create daily, weekly, and monthly goals, manage to-dos, and use Quick Actions to finish tasks quickly. - Plan events with a simple calendar, recurring reminders, and helpful notifications. - Keep contacts, notes, and birthdays together, with the option to add photos. We’re just getting started and would love your feedback as we keep improving. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Strive Planner at 96% against Focus by FireVue's 50%. Strive Planner also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (60 vs 3). Focus by FireVue's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Strive Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Focus by FireVue sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Strive Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive Planner has 60 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Strive Planner's written reviews are positive against 50% of Focus by FireVue's.
Strive Planner ships an update every 9 days, Focus by FireVue weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strive Planner | Focus by FireVue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (60 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Weiss Solutions LLC | FireVue |
Customer experience
Strive Planner
Focus by FireVue
In-app purchases
Strive Planner
- Monthly$6.991 Month
- Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$64.99
Focus by FireVue
- Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
- Semi-Annual Subscription$29.996 Months
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Questions
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