Cat Flow vs Focus Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cat Flow
This app uses a cat-themed interface to help users improve focus and build disciplined habits. It offers a companion-style focus mode where virtual cats protect your time, and immersive scenified spaces for concentration. Detailed data review helps track progress and unlock new cats and scenes.
- Companion-style focus with virtual cats
- Scenified spaces for immersive focus
- Customizable times, scenes, and themes
- Multidimensional focus data review
- Unlockable cats and scenes
- Gravity sensor for focus session triggers
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Do you love adorable cats? Want better focus and less reliance on your phone? Let CatBox cats accompany you, training your concentration and building disciplined habits, growing with you along the way! CatBox Flow is the second app in the official CatBox series. It's a cat-themed focus and meditation app that hopes to have cute cats by your side to help manage your time. In a scenified space, put down your phone and focus on what matters most. Companion-style Focus, where the cats stay with you and protect your time! Companion-style focus: • Take back control of your time while focusing. • Cats will stay with you and protect your time. • After 30 seconds, the gravity sensor will trigger a stop setting to help the cat guard your time. • Various cats are available for subscription and individual purchase! Scenified space: • Immersive, scene-based spaces with cats to focus on what matters. • Customize different times, scenes, and themes to build personal habits. • A wide range of scenes are available for subscription or individual purchase. Multidimensional data review: • Detailed focus data with the cats by your side to review. • Unlocking cats and scenes lets different cats protect different data for you. Master, put down your phone now and let the cats accompany you in focusing! Future Features: Deep focus mode Cat training system Privacy Policy & Terms of Use: https://nicolecat.com/cat/privacy.html https://nicolecat.com/cat/terms.html Contact Us If you're having fun, feel free to contact us anytime: support@nicolecat.com
Focus Timer
A cozy, hand-drawn focus timer designed for December. Work in focused intervals, take breaks for hot drinks, and personalize a unique poster. It offers flexibility with session timing and a focus on guilt-free productivity.
- Flexible work intervals
- Customizable poster decoration
- Adjustable session timing
- Daily calendar view
- Live Activity and Dynamic Island support
- No ads or account required
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A cozy, hand-drawn focus timer for December. Work in warm stretches, break for cocoa, and decorate a poster that nobody else has. FROM THE DESK OF S. CLAUS The Workshop, North Pole Dear busy human, Every year I deliver to the whole world in a single night. One deadline. Zero extensions. Not one missed rooftop since 1823. People ask how. Here is the Workshop way: —— THE WORKSHOP METHOD —— 1. Pick one thing. (One. Even I load the sleigh one gift at a time.) 2. Work for a warm stretch of minutes. The bauble keeps the time. 3. Take a cocoa break. You've earned it. 4. Repeat. Rest longer when your body asks — I don't schedule your long breaks for you. Nobody should. —— WHAT YOU WON'T FIND IN YOUR STOCKING —— No ads. No account. No streaks. No leaderboards. No guilt. Nothing tracked across other apps, ever. The usage data that helps me fix things is anonymous, and there is a switch for it in Settings. —— WHAT YOU WILL FIND —— • A timer that doesn't stop you mid-flow. Finish your thought; the extra minutes count too. • A list you can actually fix. Forgot to press start? Fix it afterwards. Corrected. Forgiven. • Half sessions count. Half a cookie is still a cookie. • A hand-drawn poster you rearrange yourself — swap the tree for the snow globe, the stocking for the gingerbread man. It is your workshop. • A calendar of your own days, so you can see the month you actually worked. • Live Activity, Dynamic Island, and one quiet chime. Work warmly. Rest honestly. Then close the app and go enjoy the season. You made the list. Now go and finish it. Warm regards, S. Claus (The reindeer says hello.) Sleigh the Day is unlocked with a one-time purchase or a monthly subscription. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ardaakdere.github.io/sleigh-the-day-privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Focus Timer at 5.0 against Cat Flow's 4.0. On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Cat Flow sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Focus Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Cat Flow | Focus Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicole Cat | ARDA AKDERE |
In-app purchases
Cat Flow
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$11.991 Year
- Simba$1.99
- Lucky$1.99
- Coco$1.99
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- Loki$1.99
- Forest$2.99
- Sky$2.99
- Moonnight$2.99
- Jingle$2.99
Focus Timer
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Forever$19.99









