Comparison

Mind the Focus vs Remindfully

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Calendar synchronization
  • Automatic focus activation
  • Customizable focus timing
  • Mute irrelevant events
  • Ignore specific calendars
Features
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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!

About

Remindfully

This app consolidates your Apple Reminders into a single daily digest, reducing notification overload. It intelligently handles urgent tasks and missed recurring reminders, while keeping your existing workflow intact.

Highlights
  • Daily digest notification
  • Time-based interrupts
  • High-priority interrupts
  • Completion sync with Apple Reminders
  • Smart handling of missed reminders
  • Lock-screen card (Pro)
  • Per-list interrupt rules (Pro)
Features
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You already capture reminders the easy way — a quick "Hey Siri," a tap on your Watch, a line typed into Apple's Reminders. The problem isn't capturing them. It's the wall of notifications that follows. Remindfully sits quietly on top of Apple Reminders and changes one thing: how they reach you. Instead of a buzz for every item, you get one calm digest each morning — everything due today, in a single glance. The things that genuinely can't wait still interrupt, at the moment they matter. Everything else simply waits in the digest, where it belongs. Your reminders never move. Remindfully reads from Apple Reminders and writes your changes straight back, so Siri, your Watch, and the Reminders app all keep working exactly as before. Nothing to migrate. Nothing to rebuild. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - One daily digest — a single summary notification each morning instead of a steady drip all day. - The important stuff still gets through — reminders set for a specific time can interrupt at that time, and anything you mark High Priority always breaks through, even when everything else is staying quiet. - Smarter about missed reminders than you'd expect — miss a daily reminder and Remindfully quietly rolls it to today. But miss a weekly or monthly one, and it stays clearly flagged, so a missed bill never disappears for three weeks. - Fix things without switching apps — create a reminder, correct a mistyped title or a wrong date, set or change a repeat, or delete something, all from inside Remindfully. Everything syncs straight to Apple Reminders. - A calm lock-screen card — see today's progress and what's next at a glance, check things off right from the lock screen, and glance at it on your Apple Watch. (Pro) - Per-list rules — let one list always interrupt while the rest stay in the digest. (Pro) FREE FOREVER - The daily digest, time-based interrupts, high-priority interrupts, completion sync, editing, and the full reminder mirror are free — no time limit. REMINDFULLY PRO — $4.99, ONE TIME - Unlock the lock-screen card and per-list interrupt rules with a single purchase. No subscription. Buy it once, keep it. - Remindfully requires access to Apple Reminders to read your items and mark them complete. It does not collect or transmit your reminders anywhere — everything stays on your device and in your own iCloud.

Screenshots

Mind the Focus4 screens
Remindfully4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Remindfully at Free against Mind the Focus's $4.99. Remindfully also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Mind the Focus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads and iOS requirement 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

Remindfully is free to download; Mind the Focus costs $4.99 up front. Remindfully sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mind the Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Remindfully holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mind the Focus ships an update fortnightly, Remindfully every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Mind the Focus versus Remindfully: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMind the FocusRemindfully
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#189 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel FuerstFogarty Holdings LLC

Customer experience

Mind the Focus

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative62.5%

Remindfully

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mind the Focus

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Remindfully

One-time1
  • Remindfully Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Mind the Focus free?
Mind the Focus costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Remindfully free?
Remindfully is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mind the Focus or Remindfully?
Remindfully is rated higher. Mind the Focus averages 3.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Remindfully averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Mind the Focus or Remindfully have ads?
Neither Mind the Focus nor Remindfully shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mind the Focus or Remindfully?
Mind the Focus ships an update fortnightly, and Remindfully every 3 days. Most recently, Mind the Focus was updated on October 27, 2026 and Remindfully on October 13, 2026.

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