Focus Timer vs Ritual
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Timer
This app helps build deep work habits by blocking distractions and gamifying productivity. It offers custom focus sessions, app blocking, and progress tracking to keep you accountable and in the zone.
- Monochrome and minimal design
- Customizable focus session lengths
- Distracting app blocking
- Gamified motivation with rewards
- Accountability mode with sound alerts
- Progress tracking and trend analysis
- Live Activity and Dynamic Island integration
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Focus Timer helps you build deep work habits by locking distractions, gamifying productivity, and keeping you accountable. Whether you're studying, working, or creating, this app ensures you stay in the zone and get things done. Key Features • Monochrome Design - The design is designed without colors and minimal on purpose, to avoid distractions. • Set Custom Focus Sessions – Choose how long to focus, from minutes to hours. • Lock Distracting Apps – Block access to social media and other distractions while the timer runs. • Gamified Motivation – Keep streaks, earn rewards, and challenge yourself to stay consistent. • Accountability Mode – If you stop early, you will have to andure an annoying sound as a reminder to stay focused! • Track Your Progress – View past sessions, analyze productivity trends, and improve focus over time. • Light & Dark Mode - Minimal Design to avoid distractions • Live Activity & Dynamic Island – View your session countdown right from your lock screen or Dynamic Island when app is in background. Download now and take control of your focus! UNLOCK PREMIUM FEATURES Focus Timer Pro is available with a weekly or annual subscription. If you choose to purchase Focus Timer Pro, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24hrs before the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to the ‘Manage Subscription’ page after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of service: https://focustimer.pro/terms Privacy policy: https://focustimer.pro/privacypolicy Website: https://focustimer.pro
Ritual
This app helps you regain control over your phone usage by blocking distracting apps during scheduled focus periods. It offers a deliberate window where chosen applications simply won't open, eliminating the need for willpower and preventing post-session regret.
- Block any app
- Schedule focus windows
- Manual focus sessions
- Sealed ritual option
- Track usage patterns
- Private streaks
- Home Screen widget
- Live Activity integration
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You opened Instagram for "just a second." Twenty minutes later, you don't even remember what you came for. Screen Time tells you about the scroll the next morning. Ritual stops it before it starts. Ritual is a focus app for people tired of fighting their phone. Set a ritual — a deliberate window where the apps that pull you away simply don't open. No willpower required. No shame after the fact. Just a clean intention, and the time to live it. — WHY RITUAL — The system Screen Time gives you the stats. Ritual gives you the actual block. • "Ignore Limit for 15 Minutes" is a one-tap escape on the system blocker. There is no such button in Ritual. • System limits drop after a phone restart. Ritual holds. • Sealed sessions add a 60-second breath exit. Ritual is designed so the moment of impulse can pass before the lock can. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — • Block any app. TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit, mail, games, news. Pick freely from the system app list. • Schedule windows. "9–5 weekdays, no social. After 9 pm, no work." Set it once, the schedule runs forever. • Manual ritual. One tap, lock for 30 / 60 / 90 minutes — or any duration you set. • Seal the ritual. Opt into a 60-second breath exit. The ritual doesn't fail when you flinch. • See your patterns. Which apps cost the most hours, which days you held the line, which hour your willpower breaks. • Streaks that aren't a game. Your longest lock, your weekly trend, the month that turned the corner. Private. For you. • Home Screen widget. Today's lock at a glance — countdown when locked, your next ritual when idle. • Live Activity. The lock lives on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while it's running. • Apple Watch. The countdown on your wrist, in case the phone is the thing you're trying not to look at. • iCloud sync. Schedules, history, and progress follow you to every device on your Apple ID. — THE 14-DAY FREE TRIAL — A focus app should never ambush you with a charge. You get 14 days, fully free. Your card is charged on day 14, never before. Cancel any time from Settings, one tap. We even put the cancellation link inside the app. — RITUAL PRO — Annual with a 14-day free trial, or one-time Lifetime. Both unlock everything: unlimited rituals, sealed sessions, full history, week and month insights, and every future Pro feature. Lifetime is for people who already know — yours across every iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch on your iCloud. — WHAT RITUAL IS NOT — • Not a guilt trip. The shame mirror trick stops working in three days. • Not a streak game. Your streak is private; you're not playing it for an audience. • Not a productivity hack. Productivity is a side effect of presence, not the point. — PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS — Ritual uses Apple's Family Controls framework to enforce your blocks. Everything runs on-device. We do not see which apps you block, when you lock, or how long you stay. There are no ads, no data sold, no profiles built. Read the privacy policy — it's two pages, written in plain English. — A RITUAL YOU CAN KEEP — Most blockers feel like a fight. Ritual feels like a decision you already made — to stop arguing with your phone twenty times a day, and get back the part of your life that used to belong to you. Block apps. Reclaim hours. Begin the ritual.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ritual at 5.0 against Focus Timer's 3.0. Focus Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Focus Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Ritual sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ritual holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Focus Timer ships an update weekly, Ritual every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and July 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Timer | Ritual |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neurondigital Ltd | Soyeon Noh |
Customer experience
Focus Timer
Ritual
In-app purchases
Focus Timer
- Focus Timer Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
- Focus Timer Premium Yearly$12.991 Year
Ritual
- Ritual Pro14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Ritual Pro Lifetime$59.99







