Comparison

Screen Time Control vs Focus

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

Head to head
About

Screen Time Control

Regain control of your time and attention by blocking distracting apps. This tool helps you concentrate on important tasks with flexible blocking options, gamified achievements, and detailed progress tracking. Achieve a more intentional and fulfilling life by reducing unnecessary screen time.

Highlights
  • Flexible app blocking options
  • Daily session limits
  • App usage limits
  • Scheduled blocking
  • Gamification and achievements
  • Detailed progress tracking
  • Customizable interface
Features
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Pure Focus – Stay Focused, Live Fully In a world full of digital distractions, staying focused has never been more challenging. Constant notifications, social media feeds, and endless doomscrolling often derail productivity. Pure Focus is designed to help you regain control over your time and attention by blocking distracting apps, allowing you to concentrate on what truly matters. Whether you’re studying, working, or simply want to reduce unnecessary screen time, the app provides a simple and effective solution to live a more intentional and fulfilling life. Main features: ► Flexible App Blocking Options • Quick Session: Start focusing instantly with just one tap. Perfect for spontaneous work bursts. • Daily Session Limits: Set a specific number of focus sessions per day to build consistent productivity habits. • App Usage Limit: Define daily usage limits for selected apps. Once reached, the apps are blocked, ensuring you stay on track. • Scheduled Blocking: Plan your focus time by scheduling app blocks during essential tasks, meetings, or study periods. ► Gamification and Achievements Stay motivated with our built-in achievement system. Earn rewards for hitting focus milestones, maintaining streaks, and cutting down screen time. Turning focus into a game keeps you engaged and committed. ► Detailed Progress Tracking and Statistics Monitor your habits and progress with comprehensive statistics. View session counts, streaks, and time saved on the home screen. Detailed reports provide insights into your focus patterns over time, helping you improve daily. ►Customization and User-Friendly Interface Tailor Pure Focus to your needs with extensive customization options. Choose which apps to block, adjust time limits, and personalize session durations—all through a clean, intuitive interface that’s easy to navigate. This isn’t just an app blocker; it’s a complete solution for reclaiming your time and boosting productivity. With flexible blocking modes, motivating achievements, and insightful progress tracking, staying focused becomes simple and rewarding. Download Pure Focus today and take the first step toward a more focused, distraction-free life. Contact Us: info@apppurefocus.com Terms of Use: https://telegra.ph/Terms-of-Use-02-25-3 Privacy Policy: https://telegra.ph/Privacy-Policy-02-25-64

About

Focus

This app helps you overcome urges and distractions by teaching you to ride them out. It offers guided sessions, app blocking, and night modes to improve focus and build healthy habits. Track your progress with streaks and levels, all while ensuring your privacy.

Highlights
  • Urge management sessions
  • App blocking
  • Guided Lock Screen sessions
  • Night block modes (flexible & strict)
  • Sleep tracking
  • Streaks and levels
  • Privacy-focused (no account/server)
Features
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Focus doesn't lock you in. It teaches you to ride out the urge. An urge rises, peaks and falls in 60-90 seconds. Almost nobody makes it to the fall. Focus is built so you do. **Pause** Before you open an app you picked, Focus makes you wait a few seconds. Or solve three sums. It doesn't forbid it: it gives you time to notice you were opening it without meaning to. Works with Focus closed, and counts the times you let it go. Sessions with real friction One block or Pomodoro. Leaving the app gets noticed, giving up costs you (hold to give up, longer every time), and if the task needs other apps you say so before, not after. With app blocking, the apps you pick stay covered for the whole session. I have the urge Phone, scrolling, smoking, vaping, sugar, shopping, or anything you write in. When it hits, 60 guided seconds straight from your Lock Screen or the Action Button, without opening anything. Every urge has its own counter of days without giving in. Night block At your bedtime, iOS covers your apps until you get up, even with Focus closed. Flexible is free: if you really need it, hold on through a guided minute and get 5 minutes. Strict comes with Pro: not even you can turn it off. Sleep Phone out of bed at night, phone-free when you wake up. Focus reminds you when it's time and asks you in the morning how it went. A streak of clean nights. Streaks, levels and a 7-day challenge Every clean day lights up your streak. Ten levels, from Scattered to Lock in: the orb on your home screen glows with your level. Widgets, a Dynamic Island countdown you can extend from the Lock Screen, and a card to share. Real privacy No account, no server, no analytics. Everything stays on your iPhone. Urges behind Face ID, plus discreet mode: shake your phone and your urges get renamed “Habit 17” so you can show people the app. Free: Pause for one app, one session a day, urges, progress, widgets, the flexible night block and privacy. Focus Pro: Pause for every app with a schedule and the sums mode, unlimited sessions, real app blocking, the strict night block, Sleep, all background sounds and up to 5 saved sessions. Focus is for anyone who wants to do one thing and can't stop doing another. You don't have to be better today. Just don't give in. Focus Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial. Prices vary by country and are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase or when the trial ends. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in your account settings. Privacy: https://focus-app.xyz/privacy-en.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Screen Time Control4 screens
Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Screen Time Control at 47 against Focus's 1. Focus's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Screen Time Control sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Focus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Screen Time Control has 47 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Screen Time Control ships an update every 3 weeks, Focus weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Screen Time Control versus Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreen Time ControlFocus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (47 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB13 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDmitry VanyushkinPeru Bikandi Zabala

Customer experience

Screen Time Control

All ratings46 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Focus

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Screen Time Control

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan (1 Month)3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan (1 Year)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plan$34.99
2 purchases

Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Focus Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Focus Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Screen Time Control free?
Screen Time Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus free?
Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Screen Time Control or Focus?
Focus is rated higher. Screen Time Control averages 4.7 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while Focus averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Screen Time Control or Focus have ads?
Neither Screen Time Control nor Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Screen Time Control or Focus?
Screen Time Control ships an update every 3 weeks, and Focus weekly. Most recently, Screen Time Control was updated on November 4, 2026 and Focus on November 6, 2026.

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