Comparison

Focus on Today² vs DoThread

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

Head to head
About

Focus on Today²

This time-management tool helps you track your focus and plan tasks to master your time. It's designed for students and anyone looking to improve their focus on high-value activities and track progress.

Highlights
  • Time tracking for daily tasks
  • Unlimited to-do planning
  • Exquisite timer
  • Timeline support
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, annual reports
  • Flip focus support
Features
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Time is precious, focus is more precious. Your achievements lies on what you are focusing. Focus on Today² App helps you to track time, and develop the habit of focusing on things. Focus on Today² is a time-management tool that focuses on the moment, designed for students or anyone who want to master time, by focus tracking and planning tasks. If you are struggling on high-value tasks, like preparing for all kinds of exams, or learning new skills or knowledge to improve yourself, use Focus on Today² to keep focusing and track your progress and achievements! By tracking and reviewing things in our lives, we can focus on the important, and collect dots of life time. Daily scenario - Homework - Important exams - Hobbies - Jogging, Fitness - Travels, event organization - Routines - Housework, accompanying kids - Other activity you want to track and focus on Main function - Time tracking for todos of today - Unlimited to-do planning - Exquisite timer - Timeline support - Flip focus support - Altering any existing time record - Daily summary, experience record - Complete daily, weekly, monthly, and annual time reports Terms of use(Apple Standard Edition): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

DoThread

This app offers a flexible journaling experience to track moods, habits, and life events. Organize your thoughts with custom threads, gain insights through analytics, and stay consistent with daily reminders. Your data is private and syncs across devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable threads for notes, moods, and metrics
  • Fast capture with text, photos, and mood logging
  • Number tracking with custom units
  • Location and weather data integration (opt-in)
  • Apple Shortcuts and Siri integration
  • Powerful analytics and trend visualization
  • Daily reminders for consistency
  • iCloud and WebDAV sync
Features
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A journal that keeps up with you. Write an entry, tap a mood, tick off the swim, log the weight — DoThread holds all of it in threads you shape yourself. Free to start. No account, no one else's servers. WRITE PROPERLY Markdown where you want it: headings, lists, quotes, bold. Up to four photos in a single entry. Place and weather attach themselves, if you let them. LOG IN ONE TAP Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets record a mood or a check-in without opening the app. Put the Control Centre control on your Action Button and it is a single press. Ask Siri, or build it into a Shortcut. AN ENDLESS PAGE Canvas threads drop the timeline entirely: an endless page you write anywhere on, in handwriting-style fonts if you like. Photos, stickers and sticky notes drag, resize and rotate. Give the page a colour and a texture, and export all of it as one PDF. SIX KINDS OF THREAD Journals, mood trackers, daily check-ins, number trackers, checklists and freeform canvases. Pin the ones you live in to the top. Each with its own colour, its own moods if the standard ones don't fit, and Face ID on the private ones. SEE WHAT YOU'D MISS Two months of moods on one calendar. A streak you can watch grow. Numbers charted week by week. Search every word you have ever written, across every thread at once. YOURS, PROPERLY Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud, or to your own server over WebDAV if you would rather. Export to Markdown, or take a full backup you can restore. Nothing is locked in. DOTHREAD PRO One subscription unlocks everything: canvas threads, unlimited threads of every type, widgets, four photos per entry, analytics, custom moods, Face ID protection and WebDAV. A daily reminder, if you want one. Dark mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver throughout. Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. --- For technical assistance, reach our team at contact@chelodo.com Privacy Policy: https://chelodo.com/apps/dothread/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://chelodo.com/apps/dothread/terms

Screenshots

Focus on Today²4 screens
DoThread4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: DoThread at 4.8 against Focus on Today²'s 4.2. DoThread also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Focus on Today² sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and DoThread sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DoThread holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Focus on Today²'s written reviews are positive against 100% of DoThread's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus on Today² ships an update every 6 weeks, DoThread every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Focus on Today² versus DoThread: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus on Today²DoThread
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer立纲 吴Chelodo

Customer experience

Focus on Today²

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.4%

DoThread

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Focus on Today²

Subscriptions2
  • PRO Month Subscription$0.991 Month
  • PRO Year Subscription$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • PRO Permanent$9.99
2 purchases

DoThread

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Focus on Today² free?
Focus on Today² is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DoThread free?
DoThread is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus on Today² or DoThread?
DoThread is rated higher. Focus on Today² averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while DoThread averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Focus on Today² or DoThread have ads?
Neither Focus on Today² nor DoThread shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus on Today² or DoThread?
Focus on Today² ships an update every 6 weeks, and DoThread every 5 days. Most recently, Focus on Today² was updated on October 23, 2026 and DoThread on October 28, 2026.

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