Focushaus vs PingRoom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focushaus
This app uses a Bauhaus-inspired design to provide a Pomodoro timer for focused work sessions. It offers live activities, streak widgets, and motivational achievements to help users stay productive and track their progress across various devices.
- Bauhaus-inspired design
- Pomodoro timer with customizable sessions
- Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Streak widgets for Home and Lock Screens
- Motivational achievements and stats
- Multi-device support including iPhone Duo and iPad
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Focus with bold design, not distractions. Focushaus is a Pomodoro timer inspired by the Bauhaus: strong colors, clean geometry, and huge, easy-to-read numbers. Work in focused 25-minute sessions, take short breaks between them, and enjoy a longer break after every four. It's the proven way to get more done with less mental fatigue. YOUR TIMER, EVERYWHERE • Live Activities show the countdown on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, and in StandBy. • In StandBy, the timer goes full screen with huge Bauhaus numbers you can read from across the room. • Start your next session or break, or reset the timer, right from the Lock Screen. • Cycle dots show where you are in your set of four. • Glance at the timer on Apple Watch in the Smart Stack. • The timer keeps running even if iOS closes the app in the background. STREAK WIDGETS • Focus Streak widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy. • See your current streak, today's sessions, and the last 7 days at a glance. • Start a focus session with one tap from the medium widget. BUILT FOR iPHONE DUO AND EVERY SCREEN • Unfold your iPhone Duo to see your timer and stats side by side. • Stand it up half-folded like a tent, and the numbers turn so you can read them from your desk. • Lock it in the tent pose and StandBy turns it into a full-screen focus clock. • A full-screen timer on iPhone and iPad, in any orientation on iPad. STAY MOTIVATED • More than 50 achievements for streaks, milestones, full cycles, early mornings, late nights, weekends, seasons, and comebacks. • Daily streaks that keep you coming back. • Stats that show your focus time day by day and week by week. THOUGHTFUL DETAILS • Gentle notifications when a session or break ends. • Old "session finished" alerts clear themselves once you start again. • Haptic feedback for a satisfying, tactile feel. • Light and dark appearance. HOW IT WORKS 1. Start a 25-minute focus session. 2. Work until the timer ends. 3. Take a short break. 4. After four sessions, enjoy a long break. Whether you're studying, writing, coding, or tackling any task that needs real attention, Focushaus gives your day a simple, beautiful rhythm.
PingRoom
Facilitate quick communication and updates between individuals, groups, and even AI. Share status, ask questions with multiple-choice answers, and confirm actions with a single tap. Save common messages for instant sending.
- Quick Pings with text, emoji, sound, color, links
- Questions with 2-4 answer options
- Confirmation requests
- Live status and progress updates
- Room organization with folders and templates
- App and AI integrations
- Widget and Siri support
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PingRoom: Short-form communication. One Tap, Everyone Knows Quick updates, questions and answers between people, apps and AI. Save the things you say every day as Quick Pings, ready to send with a tap. “Home safe.” “Dinner’s ready.” “Can someone cover this shift?” Create a room, invite your people and send a Ping when they need to know. GET AN ANSWER Ask a Question with two to four options. Members can answer from the Lock Screen or the room. The first response decides, and everyone sees the result. Request confirmation from one person or everyone, in private or public rooms. See who confirms or dismisses; dismissals are saved separately and do not count as confirmations. Choose urgent push notifications when timing matters. MAKE EVERYDAY UPDATES QUICK Save Quick Pings with text, emoji, sound, color and links, or just an emoji. Attach a place, or ask for a link or location when tapped. Pro adds photo and file inputs, plus four pages for up to 16 Quick Pings per room. Browse and preview Community Presets, add a set of Quick Pings to a room, or share your own. Reuse recently sent links, questions and checklists. Attach a checklist to a Ping and tick off completed items. Open a Ping to read its full message. Choose whether Pings use color in Accessibility settings. Use private, public or Personal rooms. Organize rooms in folders, start with templates, and share a folder with one link so others can preview and join its rooms. Explore without signing in. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES Share status, steps, progress, metrics, countdowns, decisions and matchups. Preview updates before sharing, then follow them in the room, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. FIND ROOMS NEARBY Find public rooms on the map and browse their updates before joining. Public room owners can add a place to help people find them. Find people you share rooms with in My People, and browse public rooms in Discover. See medals earned for in-app milestones on your profile. Search for rooms by name or @handle. ON YOUR APPLE DEVICES Send and receive Pings, answer Questions and confirm Pings on Apple Watch. Use Quick Pings in the interactive Smart Stack widget. Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets or a Control Center control. Connect Siri, Shortcuts, NFC tags and personal automations. YOUR PERSONAL ROOM Share your Personal Room link or QR so people can reach you without your phone number. Choose who can Ping you and add private notes to connections. Pro adds insights and custom QR designs. CONNECT APPS AND AI Let apps and AI agents Ping you, ask a Question or request a decision, then continue after your answer. Choose which rooms they can access, view their activity and revoke access when needed. FREE TO START Create up to five rooms and join up to 20 for free. PingRoom Pro adds unlimited rooms and joins, location triggers and scheduled reminders, incoming and outgoing webhooks, photo and file attachments, extra Quick Ping pages, password-protected rooms, external-channel forwarding, full retained history, Personal Room insights and custom QR designs. PingRoom Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current billing period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://pingroom.io/terms Privacy: https://pingroom.io/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PingRoom at Free against Focushaus's $2.99. PingRoom also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). Focushaus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#184 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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
PingRoom is free to download; Focushaus costs $2.99 up front. PingRoom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Focushaus asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focushaus against 5.0 for PingRoom. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PingRoom has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Focushaus ships an update monthly, PingRoom every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focushaus | PingRoom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Best chart rank | #184 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 251 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Waldemar Osmala | Mindzone Technologies L.L.C |
Customer experience
Focushaus
PingRoom
In-app purchases
Focushaus
No in-app purchases
PingRoom
- PingRoom Pro — Monthly$9.991 Month
- PingRoom Pro — Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year









