Lock In vs Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lock In
This app helps you eliminate distractions and build focus for improved productivity and personal growth. It offers app blocking, AI-powered insights, and progress tracking to help you achieve your goals and master new skills.
- App blocking during focus sessions
- AI-powered productivity insights
- Minimalist focus timer
- Project organization
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Habit building support
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Are you tired of distractions holding you back from your best work? Want to achieve your goals, master new skills, and make real progress every day? Lock In is your all-in-one solution for focused productivity, habit building, and personal growth. Inspired by the principles of deep work, Lock In helps you create an environment where you can truly concentrate, eliminate distractions, and unlock your full potential. Whether you're studying for an exam, writing a book, learning a new skill, or building your next big project, Lock In keeps you on track and motivated. What Makes Lock In Different? • App Blocking: Automatically blocks distracting apps during your focus sessions. No more willpower battles with social media, games, or entertainment apps. Create a truly distraction-free environment that lets you dive deep into your most important work. • AI Insights: Get personalized productivity analysis and actionable recommendations, powered by AI. Discover your best focus times, identify patterns, and receive tips tailored to your work style. • Minimalist Focus Timer: Jump into distraction-free sessions with a clean, intuitive timer designed to keep you in the zone. Pause or stop when you need, but always stay aware of your focused time. • Project Organization: Create projects for everything you want to accomplish—study sessions, creative work, skill-building, and more. Organize your efforts and keep each goal within reach. • Progress Tracking & Insights: Visualize your growth with powerful statistics. See your focused minutes and hours add up over days, weeks, and months. Celebrate your streaks and milestones. • Motivating Benefits: Achieve more in less time, master new skills faster, boost your creativity, and reduce mental fatigue. Lock In helps you build habits that last. Why Choose Lock In? • Increase Productivity: Accomplish meaningful work by eliminating distractions and shallow tasks. • Master Skills: Accelerate your learning with consistent, focused practice. • Boost Creativity: Give your mind the space to explore deep, complex ideas. • Reduce Mental Fatigue: Minimize context switching and decision fatigue to preserve your energy. • Build Lasting Habits: Track your progress and stay motivated to keep improving every day. Lock In is perfect for: • Students, creators, writers, and professionals • Anyone looking to build better habits and achieve meaningful goals • People who value focus, growth, and intentional living SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Consider Lock In Unlimited and enjoy full access to all features and content. If you choose a Lock In Unlimited subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. From iTunes Account settings you can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your iTunes Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your trial ends, the remaining free trial period will be forfeited when your purchase is confirmed. Privacy Policy: https://lockin.so/privacy Terms and Conditions: https://lockin.so/terms
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.
- Urge management sessions
- App blocking
- Guided Lock Screen sessions
- Night block modes (flexible & strict)
- Sleep tracking
- Streaks and levels
- Privacy-focused (no account/server)
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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. 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: one session a day, urges, progress, widgets, the flexible night block and privacy. Focus Pro: 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Lock In at 8 against Focus's 1. On price, rating, 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. Lock In sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lock In against 5.0 for Focus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lock In has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lock In | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yan Smaliak | Peru Bikandi Zabala |
Customer experience
Lock In
Focus
In-app purchases
Lock In
- Weekly$3.997 Days
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Monthly$6.991 Month
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- Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Annual$19.991 Year
- Annual$29.991 Year
- Annual$49.991 Year
- Annual1 Year trial$49.991 Year
Focus
- Mensual14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Anual14 Days trial$24.991 Year









