Comparison

Jolt vs Focusify

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

Head to head
About

Jolt

This app helps you reduce screen time and build healthier phone habits by blocking distracting apps and setting usage limits. It offers personalized insights, focus sessions, and challenges to keep you motivated and in control of your device.

Highlights
  • Block distracting apps and websites
  • Set daily duration and open limits for apps
  • Focus sessions with optional breaks
  • Customizable schedules and prebuilt templates
  • Deep Focus Mode with non-bypassable timers
  • Personalized habit insights and progress tracking
  • Join global challenges and earn rewards
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You know exactly what you should be doing right now. So does your phone - and it's betting you'll check it anyway. Jolt is built for people who are done losing that bet. —— KNOW IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY IMPROVING Attention Forecast - New Before your day starts, Jolt tells you how it's likely to go. One predictive score built from last night's sleep, your 28-day usage trend, your streak, and your blocking discipline. Attention Score: One number. Every day. Your Focus, Sleep, and Discipline combined. It rises when all three do - it won't let one good habit carry the weight of two bad ones. Watch it over 7, 14, 30 days. The direction it moves is the most honest feedback you'll get. Discipline Score: The gap between the limits you set and the limits you actually held. Not whether you blocked Instagram - whether you stayed blocked when it counted. Most people are surprised by this number. That's the point. Focus Score: Most people think they're focused. The Focus Score measures whether they actually were - how much deep work you completed, how many sessions you finished without quitting, how little you touched your phone mid-session. The score doesn't round up. Sleep Score: Your last pickup before bed. Your first reach in the morning. How many times you interrupted your own sleep. Tracked, scored, shown back to you every day. —— SET LIMITS THAT ACTUALLY HOLD Duration Limit: Daily time cap on any app - 30 minutes on Instagram, 20 on YouTube. When it hits, it locks. No snooze, no exceptions. Open Limit: Cap how many times you open an app each day. Three opens on Twitter. Five on Reddit. Once you've hit the number, it's done. Blocking Modes: Easy: a breathing pause before the app opens. Medium: rapid taps or a timed challenge - your brain earns the unlock. Hard: nothing gets through. Hard Mode: Set it once. Can't edit, delete, or override it until the next day. Your morning self makes the rules. Your evening self lives with them. —— FOCUS SESSIONS Focus Flights - New: You don't start a timer anymore. You book a flight. Pick a destination reachable in your focus window. Choose your seat: First Class seals the cabin - no early exit. Business puts a challenge between you and the door. Economy lets you tap out. Board, take off, block your apps. Land and it logs as a completed flight. Quit early and it goes down as a crash - distance credited for how far you got. Every flight lives in your Flight Wallet. Focus Sessions Block every distracting app for a set window - deep work, exam session, meeting hour. 20+ templates or build your own. Everything else disappears until you're done. Quick Sessions: One tap. Immediate block. Zero setup. Focus right now, not after configuring anything. —— CLOSE EVERY LOOPHOLE Sleep Schedule: Set your bedtime and wake-up time. Every distracting app locks automatically. You choose which essentials stay on - everything else is off until morning, with full tracking of every pickup. Accountability Partner: A real person who sees your screen time and must approve every override. Not an algorithm. A human who will actually push back. GPS Blocking: Set your office, library, or gym. The moment you arrive, Jolt activates. The environment does what willpower can't. Good Apps First: Use your journal, reading app, or workout tracker first. Once you do, the distracting apps unlock. Focus becomes the price of entry. Block 18+ One toggle. Every adult site and app - off. Shield Customisation - New: The screen that blocks you now looks how you want it. Choose a persona or build your own: custom text, colors, and icon. Turn on Randomized Experience, and it changes every time a block fires. —— PRIVACY FIRST: All blocking runs locally via Apple's Screen Time API. No personal data leaves your device. Download free. Block your first app in 30 seconds. Support: hello@thejoltapp.com Terms: thejoltapp.com/terms & https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: thejoltapp.com/privacy

About

Focusify

This app combines habit tracking, task management, and goal setting with gamification elements to make self-improvement engaging. Earn points, unlock achievements, and track progress with detailed statistics, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Gamified habit and task completion
  • Daily and weekly habit tracking
  • Full-featured task manager
  • Integrated monthly calendar
  • Notes and daily journal
  • Detailed progress statistics
  • Unlockable achievements
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Focusify: Habits, Tasks & Goals Focusify is the all-in-one productivity app that makes self-improvement actually fun. Whether you're building better habits, staying on top of your tasks, or chasing long-term goals, Focusify keeps you organized, motivated, and rewarded every step of the way, all while respecting your privacy by never collecting your data. Productivity Meets Gamification Earn XP for every habit you complete and every task you check off. Level up, unlock achievements, and build streaks that keep you coming back day after day. Focusify turns your daily routine into a game you'll want to win. Habit Tracking Build lasting habits with daily, weekday, weekly, and monthly tracking, streak counters, and milestone rewards. Choose from pre-built habit packs like Morning Routine, Fitness, and Mental Health, or create your own with custom colors and emojis. Hit 7, 30, 100, or 365-day streaks and watch your XP soar. Task Management Stay on top of everything with a full-featured task manager. Set priorities, due dates, and tags. Filter and sort your list your way, and never miss a deadline with overdue warnings and smart reminders. Your Apple Reminders sync automatically, so everything lives in one place. Calendar & Countdown Events View your schedule at a glance with a clean monthly calendar. Add and manage events, import directly from Apple Calendar, and mark any event as a Countdown to see a live days-remaining badge right on your Today screen. Swipe to navigate months and days with ease. Home Screen Widgets Keep Focusify on your home screen with four widgets: Habits, Tasks, Calendar, and Countdown. The Countdown widget lets you pin a specific event so you always know exactly how many days away it is. Notes & Journal Capture thoughts, ideas, and reflections with freeform notes and a built-in daily journal. The redesigned journal editor is clean and full-screen, inspired by Apple Journal. On iOS 17.2 and later, tap the sparkles button to pull in suggestions from your day, workouts, locations, and more. Recaps & Insights Track your progress over time with detailed stats. View weekly, monthly, yearly, or all-time recaps of your habit completion rates, tasks finished, mood trends, journal entries, and XP earned, so you always know how far you've come. Mood Tracking Log how you're feeling each day directly from the calendar tab. See your mood history over time and connect how you feel to what you've been doing. Achievements Unlock 25 unique achievements across Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, and Legendary tiers. From completing your first habit to maintaining a 365-day streak, every milestone is worth celebrating. Smart Reminders Never forget a habit or miss a deadline. Set custom reminders for any habit or task and let Focusify keep you on track without the mental load. Why Focusify? Most productivity apps feel like a chore. Focusify feels like progress. It's built for people who want to show up for themselves every day, and actually enjoy doing it. Download Focusify today and start building the life you want, one XP at a time.

Screenshots

Jolt4 screens
Focusify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Focusify at 5.0 against Jolt's 4.3. Focusify also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 29) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Jolt's advantage is ratings volume (106 vs 3) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Jolt sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Focusify asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focusify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jolt has 106 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Jolt's written reviews are positive against 100% of Focusify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jolt ships an update every 2 weeks, Focusify every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Jolt versus Focusify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJoltFocusify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (106 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings106 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperASAKIRA CONSULTANTS LLPAiden Jacobs

Customer experience

Jolt

All ratings104 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative14.4%
Written reviews157 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative14.0%

Focusify

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

27 purchases

Jolt

Subscriptions23
  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pro Plan | Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
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  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial2 variants$7.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial2 variants$11.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Monthly - T3 D03 Days trial$13.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Monthly$15.001 Month
  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T3 D23 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly3 Days trial$45.001 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T3 D13 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - NY503 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - NY253 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - 753 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly3 Days trial$51.001 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T1 D23 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly$60.001 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T2 D03 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T1 D13 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time4
  • Hard Mode Sos$3.00
  • Pro Plan | Lifetime$39.99
  • Pro Plan | Lifetime$79.99
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  • Pro Plan | Lifetime$199.99
None

Focusify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jolt free?
Jolt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focusify free?
Focusify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Jolt or Focusify?
Focusify is rated higher. Jolt averages 4.3 out of 5 from 106 ratings, while Focusify averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Jolt or Focusify have ads?
Neither Jolt nor Focusify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jolt or Focusify?
Jolt ships an update every 2 weeks, and Focusify every 3 weeks. Most recently, Jolt was updated on October 24, 2026 and Focusify on October 24, 2026.

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