Duck Focus vs Protect PIC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Duck Focus
This app helps improve focus and time management through a simple countdown timer. It provides data visualization to track focus time distribution and encourages self-discipline to combat procrastination and increase efficiency.
- Simple focused countdown timer
- Data visualization of focus time distribution
- Develops self-discipline
- Improves procrastination
- Professional time management tool
- Focus on quality and reject redundancy
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Duck focus is a simple, beautiful, professional time management app that "improves the quality and efficiency of your time use," develops self-discipline, and "improves procrastination." When do I need duck focus? 1. Despite your efforts, you don't feel like you're making progress 2. You can neither study nor work effectively 3. You are easily distracted and want to significantly improve your latency 4. After a year, you feel like your life hasn't changed and important things haven't moved 5. You're not disciplined enough 6. Wanting everything in your life to be better 7. There are a lot of things you want to do, but you're not taking action or you're doing them slowly. Duck focus Core features 1. Very simple and useful focused countdown. No fancy designs, no complicated tasks, everything for better concentration 2. Pay attention to the data. You can easily understand the distribution of different types of focus times. The data graph still maintains our simple and practical design ideas. Display only the most important data information, focus on quality, and reject redundancy. 3. Choose different types of perspectives from different environments and pay deep attention to the present
Protect PIC
Secure your private photos, videos, and notes with PIN protection, fingerprint authentication, and military-grade encryption. This app acts as a secret vault to safeguard your personal data and even captures intruder photos.
- Private photo vault
- Private video vault
- Secure notes
- PIN protection
- Fingerprint authentication
- Intruder photo capture
- Data recovery
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The Best Protect Photo, Video & Note App for iPhone and iPad! With Protect PIC: Gallery & Note, you can protect your privacy, secure your secret picture vault, and save phone space. This app secures personal photos and videos, note by locking them down in a photo vault with safe PIN protection, fingerprint authentication, and military-grade encryption. It’s the best place to protect photos & videos. Features of Protect PIC: Gallery & Note: • Private Pictures: Easily private photos from your gallery to the secret vault with gallery lock vault. • Private Videos: You can private videos and movies in various formats. You can also play video using another video player app in your phone without unlock the file. • Capture photo of the intruder: Private photo app will automatically capture the screen and notify you when someone attempts to access albums that you have set to private. • Recover: Allows you to restore photos and videos that you have moved to the trash. Private photo helps you to protect your personal important data. We focus on making simple to use, secure apps and services that improve your digital life. Try it now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Protect PIC at 4.5 against Duck Focus's 2.7. Protect PIC also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (17% vs 0%). Duck Focus's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Protect PIC holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Protect PIC has 76 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Duck Focus's written reviews are positive against 17% of Protect PIC's.
Duck Focus ships an update monthly, Protect PIC every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | Duck Focus | Protect PIC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (10 ratings) | 4.5 (76 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 76 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Swallow Shuai Technology Development Co., Ltd. | AvnTech Inc. |
Customer experience
Duck Focus
Protect PIC
In-app purchases
Duck Focus
No in-app purchases
Protect PIC
No in-app purchases
Questions
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