Mind the Focus vs TCWP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mind the Focus
This app helps you stay focused by automatically activating desired focus modes based on your calendar events. You can customize activation times, mute irrelevant events, and ignore specific calendars to ensure you're always in the right mindset for your commitments.
- Calendar synchronization
- Automatic focus activation
- Customizable focus timing
- Mute irrelevant events
- Ignore specific calendars
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Feel awkward after missing important parts during a work meeting? Regret prioritizing your phone over your friends while out? Stay focused effortlessly based on your calendar with Mind the Focus! Mind the Focus synchronizes with your calendar, prompting you just at the right time to activate the desired focus for your next event. To stay focused, the app allows you to: • Decide the focus you want to have for your next event • Customize the time at which a focus is (de)activated before and after your events • Mute events that you do not require a focus for • Ignore calendars that are not relevant to you With Mind the Focus, you will never find yourself at an event without the right focus! Start focusing on what matters to you now!
TCWP
This scheduling tool offers a unique way to manage your events with a voice-reading function. Listen to your schedule manually, at set times, or through quick actions, making it easy to stay organized on the go.
- Add, change, and delete events
- Voice reading of event lists
- Scheduled event readout
- Quick action event readout
- Customizable week start
- 54 color themes
- iCloud backup and recovery
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TCWP - Talking Calendar With Parrot is primarily a scheduling tool. You can add/change/delete events. We provide a differentiated schedule management experience by adding a special event reading function. We offer event reading in three ways: 1. Read events manually 2. Read events according to schedule 3. Read events through quick actions During busy commute times, you can listen to the schedule read by TCWP while getting ready for work. You can listen to today's schedule through earphones on the subway to work. You can use the schedule readout function through an alarm at a set time. main function 1. Add/Change/Delete Event 2. Read events list by voice 3. Read today’s schedule at a set time 4. Read today’s schedule through quick actions 5. Set the start of the week (Sunday, Monday, Saturday) 6. Set a event font size 7. Supports 54 color themes 8. Forced 24-hour format setting function 9. Set event defaults (default calendar, default alarm value, all-day alarm time) 10. Event Reading settings (earphones only, excluding past events, reading schedule) 11. Backup/Recovery - Calendar database backup and recovery via iCloud 12. Use a local original database Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/cwppp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mind the Focus at 3.3 against TCWP's 1.0. Mind the Focus also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 0%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). TCWP's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Mind the Focus costs $4.99 and TCWP $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mind the Focus holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Mind the Focus's written reviews are positive against 0% of TCWP's.
Mind the Focus ships an update fortnightly, TCWP every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mind the Focus | TCWP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Fuerst | JIN SOOK PARK |
Customer experience
Mind the Focus
TCWP
In-app purchases
Mind the Focus
No in-app purchases
TCWP
No in-app purchases
