Comparison

Mind the Focus vs Mailendar

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

Mailendar

Features
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Mailendar turns emails, paper letters, and flyers into calendar events. The app puts that power in your pocket. SNAP A LETTER, GET AN EVENT This is the app at its best. Point the camera at the invitation from school or the flyer on the fridge, or pick a photo from your library, and we read it, pull out the date, time, and place, and file the event in the calendar you choose. No typing, no copying. (Mailendar Plus) CONFIRM EVENTS WITH ONE TAP Not every email is crystal clear, so when we are less than certain about an event we found, we ask you first. The app is where you answer. New events and updates wait in the Review tab with the original message shown next to what we filled in. Check it, tap Approve, and it goes live in your calendar. You get a push notification the moment something needs your eyes. ALL YOUR CALENDARS IN ONE PLACE A compact view of your family, work, school, and hobby calendars and their upcoming events. Edit or delete events, share a calendar as a read-only feed, or invite a co-owner who can add and update events too. WORKS WITH THE CALENDAR YOU ALREADY USE Mailendar is not another calendar to check. Every calendar is a live feed you subscribe to once from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or any ICS app, and it keeps itself current. Create your free account at mailendar.app. FREE AND PLUS Free includes one calendar and 25 emails per month. Mailendar Plus adds scanning letters and flyers, unlimited calendars and emails, events from PDFs and screenshots, and co-owner invites. A Mailendar account is required to sign in.

Screenshots

Mind the Focus4 screens
Mailendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mailendar at Free against Mind the Focus's $4.99. Mailendar also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Mind the Focus's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Mailendar is free to download; Mind the Focus costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mind the Focus ships an update fortnightly, Mailendar every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mind the Focus versus Mailendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMind the FocusMailendar
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel FuerstXyzero AB

In-app purchases

None

Mind the Focus

No in-app purchases

None

Mailendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mind the Focus free?
Mind the Focus costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mailendar free?
Mailendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mind the Focus or Mailendar have ads?
Neither Mind the Focus nor Mailendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mind the Focus or Mailendar?
Mind the Focus ships an update fortnightly, and Mailendar every 4 days. Most recently, Mind the Focus was updated on October 25, 2026 and Mailendar on October 10, 2026.

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