Comparison

focusedOS vs ScreenLocation

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

Head to head
About

focusedOS

This app helps you manage digital distractions and boost productivity across your devices. Create custom environments to adjust device behavior for work, study, or breaks, with powerful blocking and ambient sound features.

Highlights
  • Supercharge productivity with one tap
  • Create custom work/study environments
  • Block distracting apps and websites
  • Play ambient sounds for concentration
  • Automate environments with Shortcuts
  • Sync environments between iPhone and Mac
Features
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Welcome to focusedOS, a super-utility that transforms your devices for productivity. focusedOS helps you manage digital distractions across your devices during a busy work day. Create environments that adjust how your device behaves if you need to work, study, or take a short mental break, and enable it with one tap. Key features: • Supercharge Productivity with one tap Simply flick the switch when you need to get stuff done. • Adjust your device for work - with Environments Adjust your iPhone to suit how you want to work. With focusedOS for Mac you can temporarily change macOS behavior, such as; dimming inactive apps to reduce visual clutter, restricting how many apps can be displayed on-screen, hiding the wallpaper, and more. • Powerful Blocking Easily block access to distracting apps & websites. • Play Ambient Sounds Fade out noisy surroundings with a selection of high-quality ambient sounds that improve concentration. Listen to the sound of light rain falling around you, the cosiness of a campfire, make it feel like you're working from a cafe, or experiment with binaural sounds. • Automate your Environment with Shortcuts (with focusedOS for Mac) Automatically run shortcuts in response to starting or stopping an environment, such as turning on Do Not Disturb. • Link Your Devices Seamlessly sync environments in real-time between iPhone and Mac. Download focusedOS today and supercharge your productivity. View our Privacy & Terms at: https://focusedOS.com/privacy-policy https://focusedOS.com/terms

About

ScreenLocation

Features
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Block the apps you lose time to, at the places you lose it. ScreenLocation notices the places you go, names them using Apple's own map data, and lets you shut distracting apps off while you are there. Block social media at your desk. Block games at the gym. They come back on their own the moment you leave. You never tag a location, name a place, or confirm anything. SET A LIMIT - Pick a place, pick the apps, done - Those apps are blocked while you are there and released when you leave - Turn a limit off for an afternoon without deleting it - Limits follow the place, not a schedule you have to maintain SEE WHERE IT GOES - Screen time attributed to each place you visit - Ranked, so you can see which places actually cost you - Every day charted by place, over any date range - Every place gets a street address, whether or not a business was identified HOW THE NAMING WORKS Home and Work are worked out purely from your own pattern - where your phone spends its nights, and where it spends weekday working hours. Anywhere else, the app asks Apple's map data what business sits at that spot. If nothing is listed, it uses the street name. It will not guess. If two shops sit side by side and a visit cannot tell them apart, it shows the address and offers you the choice. PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no analytics, no ads, no third parties. The only network use is a single map lookup when a brand-new place is first detected, so that it can be given a name. FREE TRIAL, THEN ONE PAYMENT Everything is unlocked for 7 days. After that, tracking and the limits you have already set keep working. Adding new limits and the Trends tab need a one-time $1.99 purchase - kept for good, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. No subscription. WHAT IT NEEDS - "Always" location access, so places can be detected while the app is closed. It uses Apple's low-power visit monitoring, not continuous GPS tracking. - Screen Time access, Apple's own permission for setting app limits and reading usage. A NOTE ON ACCURACY iOS does not give third-party apps a live running total of usage, so per-place minutes are estimated from usage thresholds and will not add up exactly to the figure in Settings. Time spent travelling between places is deliberately left out rather than assigned to whichever place happened to be nearest. Apple's own exact daily total is shown inside the app so you can always compare.

Screenshots

focusedOS4 screens
ScreenLocation4 screens

Verdict

The call

focusedOS and ScreenLocation are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. focusedOS sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ScreenLocation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
focusedOS versus ScreenLocation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfocusedOSScreenLocation
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (32 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, MaciPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael TigasAndrew Meyers

In-app purchases

6 purchases

focusedOS

Subscriptions6
  • focusedOS Pro (1 month)$3.991 Month
  • focusedOS Pro (1 month)$5.991 Month
  • focusedOS Pro (1 month)$7.991 Month
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  • focusedOS Pro (1 year)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • focusedOS Pro (1 year)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • focusedOS Pro (1 year)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

ScreenLocation

One-time1
  • Trends$1.99

Questions

Is focusedOS free?
focusedOS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScreenLocation free?
ScreenLocation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do focusedOS or ScreenLocation have ads?
Neither focusedOS nor ScreenLocation shows ads.

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