Comparison

Focus Dial vs CrossPlan

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

Head to head
About

Focus Dial

This app helps you improve focus with a simple, innovative timer. Track progress over time with customizable categories and interactive widgets. Sync data across devices with iCloud support.

Highlights
  • Innovative focus dial for time adjustment
  • Timer counts up towards goal
  • Track focus across weeks, months, years
  • Interactive Home Screen widgets
  • 10 customizable categories with colors/icons
  • iCloud backup and sync
Features
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Focus Dial is here to improve your ability to focus on the tasks and hobbies you care about! SIMPLE: 
Quickly adjust your goal time before each session using the innovative focus dial! POSITIVE: Timer counts up towards your goal. Focus on what you are doing and feel good about what you have done. Progress over perfection! POWERFUL: Track your focus across weeks, months, and years. Challenge yourself to become more intentional with your time and how you spend it. See your progress at a glance on your Home Screen with powerful and interactive widgets and live activities. CUSTOMIZABLE: Use up to 10 customizable categories with your favorite colors and icons for the tasks and hobbies you focus on. Automatically follow your devices dark or light theme, or specify which one you want to use in Focus Dial. SUPPORTS ICLOUD: Back up your data and sync across multiple iPhones and iPads. Start dialing in your focus today!

About

CrossPlan

Features
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CrossPlan is an offline content week planner for creators. Plan posts across the channels you own, drag to reschedule, get a reminder at post time, and mark posted. It does not auto-publish and does not call platform APIs. Key features - Weekly calendar with drag-and-drop rescheduling - Idea bank that promotes ideas into scheduled posts - Slot Collision: same-channel double-posts, format pile-ups, and tight cadence - Brief tab with a local Content Ops Score and ranked next moves - Channels, pillars, campaigns, snippets, and week templates - Repost sequences and CSV/PDF export - Local reminders only when you enable them CrossPlan is local-first. It does not require an account, does not include third-party analytics SDKs, and does not send your records to a developer server.

Screenshots

Focus Dial4 screens
CrossPlan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CrossPlan at weekly against Focus Dial's every 3 weeks. 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

Focus Dial costs $3.99 and CrossPlan $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Dial ships an update every 3 weeks, CrossPlan weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Focus Dial versus CrossPlan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus DialCrossPlan
Price$3.99$3.99
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Wave CreativeRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

Focus Dial

No in-app purchases

None

CrossPlan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Dial free?
Focus Dial costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CrossPlan free?
CrossPlan costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus Dial or CrossPlan have ads?
Neither Focus Dial nor CrossPlan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Dial or CrossPlan?
Focus Dial ships an update every 3 weeks, and CrossPlan weekly. Most recently, Focus Dial was updated on September 25, 2026 and CrossPlan on October 7, 2026.

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