Comparison

Task Focus vs HeyFoco

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

Head to head
About

Task Focus

This productivity partner helps power users manage goals, projects, and priorities with clarity and speed. It offers daily task targets, versatile calendar views, and Kanban boards for visualizing progress. Organize tasks by color-coded projects, locations, or tags, and break down complex tasks into subtasks.

Highlights
  • Daily task targets and intelligent workload organization
  • Distraction-free daily and overdue task views
  • Monthly, weekly, and daily calendar views
  • Kanban boards for project visualization
  • Color-coded projects and location-based notifications
  • Tag filtering and repeating tasks
  • Subtasks for breaking down complex tasks
  • Share extension, widgets, and App Intents integration
Features
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Task Focus keeps your tasks, projects, and priorities in one place. Plan your day, see what needs attention, and get on with the work without spending all day organizing it. Set Goals & Stay on Track: Define what success looks like. Enter your daily task targets, and Task Focus organizes your workload intelligently to help you hit them consistently. Plan with Precision: - Today & Planning: Start each day with a distraction-free view of today's and overdue tasks. Plan ahead with versatile calendar views—monthly, weekly, or daily—to keep your goals in sight. - Kanban Boards: Visualize projects, areas, tags, or locations in Kanban boards for instant clarity on progress. Organise with Ease: - Areas & Projects: Use color-coded projects to visually differentiate areas of your life, making time management straightforward and effective. - Locations: Activate location-based notifications, ensuring you receive task alerts precisely when you arrive or leave relevant places. Enhanced Task Management: - Tags: Easily filter tasks with a contextual tag filter bar for quick access to what's important. - Repeating Tasks: Automate task repetition on the next available day or at regular intervals, keeping you on track effortlessly. - Sub Tasks: Break complex tasks into manageable steps by assigning subtasks. Integrate Seamlessly: - Share Extension: Add tasks directly from any app using the share sheet feature. - Widgets: Stay on top of your tasks with desktop widgets, offering quick access and easy task management right from your home screen. - App Intents: Incorporate Task Focus into your workflows using the Shortcuts app for task addition and scheduling. Stay Connected: - Calendar Events: Integrate your calendar, displaying events alongside tasks for a comprehensive daily view. - Reminders: Import your Reminders directly into Task Focus to have everything in one place. - iCloud Sync: Enjoy seamless syncing across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud, ensuring your tasks are always current. Exclusive Features with Task Focus Pro: Task Focus Pro renews automatically as a paid subscription unless canceled 24 hours before renewal. Payment is charged to your iTunes Account at purchase confirmation. Renewal charges occur within 24-hours before the end of the current period. Cancel any time via iTunes settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends to avoid charges. Cancellation takes effect after the current subscription ends, downgrading you to the free service. Any unused free trial time is forfeited if a premium subscription is purchased during this period. Privacy Policy: https://voidstern.net/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://voidstern.net/terms-of-use

About

HeyFoco

Features
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Foco is where your tasks arrive on their own. Speak and it becomes a task. Connect your tools and what needs you shows up by itself. An AI copilot briefs you every morning on what actually matters. CAPTURE BY VOICE, THREE WAYS Dictate one task in natural language: "call Anna tomorrow at 3pm #work" becomes a scheduled task with the right date and tag. Switch to Burst mode and dictate a whole list in one go; Foco splits it into tasks you review and save. Or turn on Listen mode in a meeting: Foco records, transcribes live and keeps the audio, so nothing said gets lost. CONNECT YOUR PLATFORMS Link Notion, Linear, GitHub, Jira, Asana or Canva and Foco turns what needs you into tasks, on its own. No more copying things over: work assigned to you in other tools lands directly in your list, and you can even plug in your own custom MCP server. Forward any email to your personal Foco address and it becomes a task too. SEE ONLY WHAT MATTERS Your day at a glance, a calendar to plan the week (with your Google and Outlook events alongside) and powerful filters by tag, project, date or assignee. Saved views let you switch contexts in one tap. AN AI COPILOT THAT WORKS FOR YOU Every morning, a briefing with what deserves your attention. Big goals broken into actionable steps. Rambling voice notes turned into organized tasks. And a quiet eye on what is slipping. BUILT FOR TEAMS TOO Share projects, assign tasks and always know who is doing what. Simple enough for a shopping list, capable enough for a team sprint. TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING Start from ready-made templates for trips, launches, routines, events and more, or turn any project into your own reusable template. FAST, PRIVATE, EVERYWHERE Foco syncs across iPhone, Mac and the web, and works offline first: your tasks are always with you, connection or not. Your data is yours. PLANS Foco is free to use, forever. The Foco plan adds calendar power features, collaboration and assignees. Foco Plus includes everything, plus the AI copilot, the connections and email capture. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled anytime in your App Store settings. Privacy policy: https://www.heyfoco.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.heyfoco.com/terms

Screenshots

Task Focus4 screens
HeyFoco4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HeyFoco at every 3 days against Task Focus's every 2 weeks. HeyFoco also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Task Focus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and HeyFoco sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Task Focus ships an update every 2 weeks, HeyFoco every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Task Focus versus HeyFoco: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTask FocusHeyFoco
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLukas BurgstallerMarco Hurtado

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Task Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Task Focus Pro$1.991 Month
  • Task Focus Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
4 purchases

HeyFoco

Subscriptions4
  • Foco$4.001 Month
  • Foco Plus$20.001 Month
  • Foco$40.001 Year
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  • Foco Plus$200.001 Year

Questions

Is Task Focus free?
Task Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HeyFoco free?
HeyFoco is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Task Focus or HeyFoco have ads?
Neither Task Focus nor HeyFoco shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Task Focus or HeyFoco?
Task Focus ships an update every 2 weeks, and HeyFoco every 3 days. Most recently, Task Focus was updated on October 27, 2026 and HeyFoco on October 25, 2026.

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