Comparison

Duck Focus vs Protect PIC

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Private photo vault
  • Private video vault
  • Secure notes
  • PIN protection
  • Fingerprint authentication
  • Intruder photo capture
  • Data recovery
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Duck Focus4 screens
Protect PIC4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Duck Focus ships an update monthly, Protect PIC every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Duck Focus versus Protect PIC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDuck FocusProtect PIC
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (10 ratings)4.5 (76 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews16.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1076 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB78 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSwallow Shuai Technology Development Co., Ltd.AvnTech Inc.

Customer experience

Duck Focus

All ratings10 ratings
Positive30.0%
Neutral30.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Protect PIC

All ratings76 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

Duck Focus

No in-app purchases

None

Protect PIC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Duck Focus free?
Duck Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Protect PIC free?
Protect PIC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Duck Focus or Protect PIC?
Protect PIC is rated higher. Duck Focus averages 2.7 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Protect PIC averages 4.5 from 76 ratings.
Do Duck Focus or Protect PIC have ads?
Protect PIC shows ads; Duck Focus does not.
Which is updated more often, Duck Focus or Protect PIC?
Duck Focus ships an update monthly, and Protect PIC every 5 days. Most recently, Duck Focus was updated on November 4, 2026 and Protect PIC on November 4, 2026.

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