Comparison

Stupid Notes vs Hardest Focus App

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

Head to head
About

Stupid Notes

Features
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Stupid Notes for Clever People Stupid Notes is a minimalist note-taking app that focuses on what matters.  No fancy formatting, just plain text and checklists. - Create multiple notepads to organize your thoughts - Move or copy notes between notepads  - Stupid search helps you find exactly what you're looking for within your notepads. This app is designed for people who want a straightforward tool without unnecessary features or distractions.  Open it, type your thoughts, and get on with your day. Perfect for shopping lists, quick ideas, daily tasks, or anything else you need to write down and find later. Upgrade to Stupid Pro to create unlimited Notepads. If you subscribe to Stupid Pro, payment will be charged to your Apple account and your account will be charged for renewal at the end of the current period. Auto-renewal can be turned off by going to settings in the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stupidnotes.com/privacy

About

Hardest Focus App

This app acts as a personal defense system against digital distractions. It enforces focus by requiring physical disengagement with your phone, punishing failure with progress erasure and loud alarms. It's designed for those seeking a rigorous approach to discipline.

Highlights
  • Physical phone disengagement triggers focus
  • Progress erasure upon distraction
  • Loud alarm and parental disappointment simulation
  • Double back tap gesture to initiate focus
  • Allows answering calls during focus sessions
  • Subscription-based access
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Your phone is a graveyard of to-do lists with tasks from 2022 and your dreams in a forgotten notes app you didn’t care to open again. You're a collector of good intentions you'll abandon by lunchtime. You've been coddled by an industry that profits from your failure by selling you toys instead of real tools. Enough. This is not a cute focus app. this is your personal defense system against a multi-trillion dollar industry designed to steal every second of your attention. THE PROTOCOL IS NOT OPTIONAL: It doesn’t have a start button because your life has already started, and you're wasting it. Focus starts only when you physically disengage with the devil of distraction (phone) itself, in whatever form your pathetic lack of self-discipline requires: - Face down on a desk, ghosting it like it’s your crazy ex. - In your pocket, because we don’t let the demons out. - Or Just locked. The act of disengagement is the trigger. No Buttons. No Coddling, Just Real Focus. And the consequence is just as real. The moment your twitchy little dopamine-starved hand picks up the phone, a 5-second warning siren begins. It will scream a sound so loud it will break you, while your parents express their disappointment in their own life choices. Fail to put it back, and it will erase your progress with cold indifference to your feelings. It punishes failure to build discipline. When you're deeply possessed by the algorithm, you may summon the focus gods by tapping twice on your phone's back (We hijacked your iPhone's Double Back Tap gesture), and the focus gods will instantly open pocket and lock you out of the phone and start focus. It's a panic button for your own pathetic impulses. Hardest focus app is the digital exorcist you never knew you needed. And because we're not complete monsters, during focus, if your phone is locked and your mom calls, you can still answer and tell her you're still pathetic, The pact is broken only when you unlock the device. THIS IS NOT A FREE APP. This is the hardest focus app and requires a subscription purchase. The price of your distraction is your entire future. Also the price of this app is a filter designed to keep out the tourists and the excuse-makers. If you still think that's expensive, I mean is your focus even worth protecting..? You may hate this app. Your dopamine receptors may hate this app. Your excuses will want to write angry 1-star reviews about this app. But this will be the most honest and most effective focus app for those who haven’t sold their soul yet, or you can always go back to pretending : ) Enough Excuses. All your cute focus apps lied to you, let me father you properly. Yours Honestly, The Hardest Focus App. FAQ - https://hardestfocusapp.com/faq Terms of Use - https://hardestfocusapp.com/terms Privacy Policy - https://hardestfocusapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Stupid Notes4 screens
Hardest Focus App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Stupid Notes at none against Hardest Focus App's shown. Stupid Notes also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Hardest Focus App's advantage is iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Stupid Notes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year and Hardest Focus App sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stupid Notes ships an update every 4 days, Hardest Focus App every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on February 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stupid Notes versus Hardest Focus App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStupid NotesHardest Focus App
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Subscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB38 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDavid PflueglDhikshith Reddy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Stupid Notes

Subscriptions1
  • Stupid Notes Pro$6.991 Year
4 purchases

Hardest Focus App

Subscriptions4
  • Pocket Unlimited$12.007 Days
  • Pocket Unlimited$30.001 Month
  • Pocket Unlimited3 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Pocket Unlimited$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Stupid Notes free?
Stupid Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hardest Focus App free?
Hardest Focus App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stupid Notes or Hardest Focus App have ads?
Hardest Focus App shows ads; Stupid Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, Stupid Notes or Hardest Focus App?
Stupid Notes ships an update every 4 days, and Hardest Focus App every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stupid Notes was updated on February 23, 2026 and Hardest Focus App on June 1, 2026.

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