Onboard vs CineFocus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Onboard
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Onboard โ Gamify Your Focus, Master Your Time Turn your focus time into virtual travel experience. Stay productive, beat procrastination, and level up your work sessions โ one journey at a time. Feeling distracted? Struggling to stay on task? Onboard transforms your work and study time into immersive journeys by train. Every session takes you further, helping you focus deeply while making progress visible and fun. FEATURES: 1. Gamified Focus Sessions: Each session is a train trip โ the more you focus, the farther you travel. 2. Custom Timer Options: Select your focus duration and destination โ stay engaged for short or long sessions. 3. Advanced Statistics and Trends Track your focus trends, see your focus grow. 4. Assign Tags for your Journeys Journeys can be assigned to multiple tags, stay organised for your task 5. Random journeys Get unlimited random journeys whenever you like, just pick your focus time and start. Focusing has never been easier. 6. Ambient Sounds & Visuals: Rainy day or snowy trip? We got it all! Immerse yourself in calming travel sounds and beautiful journey animations. 7. Journey History: Track your past journeys, tags pattern, focus streaks and much more โ build a habit of deep work. ## Perfect for: Students, professionals, creatives, or just people trying to focus. Try this if you have difficulty in focusing, it calms your mind and make time and progress visible. Perfect for anyone wanting to beat distractions and enjoy productive flow. ##Onboard PRO Unlock: - Unlimited customisation of your starting station - Access to premium ambient sounds (more coming soon) - Enjoy unlimited journeys, unlimited retry of random journeys - Advanced statistics and trends - Unlock exclusive features for life (Lifetime option available) #Subscribe to Onboard PRO for $6.99/month, $19.99/year (auto renewal) or Onboard PRO Lifetime for $29.99 Terms of Use: https://codeshaft.app/onboard/terms Privacy Policy: https://codeshaft.app/onboard/privacy
CineFocus
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CineFocus turns deep work into a cinema ritual. Pick a session, take your seat, tear the ticket โ and stay until the credits roll. A focus timer and app blocker for people who want a ritual, not another Pomodoro. Every session is a showing. Every completed session is a memory. Over time, your focus becomes your favorite habit. A FOCUS RITUAL UNLIKE ANY OTHER Choose your session length, pick your seat, select your focus type, and tear the movie ticket to begin. It's deep work, reimagined as cinema โ a Pomodoro alternative that doesn't feel like a productivity spreadsheet. IMMERSIVE FOCUS ENVIRONMENTS Sit in a quiet theater. Park at the drive-in under the stars. Each environment is designed to pull you into flow state and keep distractions at the door. BLOCK THE NOISE Lock out social apps, games, and anything else that steals your attention. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Reddit โ silenced until the credits roll. Powered by Apple Screen Time. BUILT FOR HOW YOU FOCUS Deep Work โ long, uninterrupted blocks for your hardest tasks Study โ exam prep, reading, note-taking, test cramming Meditation โ quiet, intentional sessions Reading โ finish that book, one showing at a time Creative Flow โ writing, designing, making Exercise โ time-boxed movement TRACK YOUR SHOWINGS See your weekly runtime, daily streak, session count, and genre breakdown. Every session adds up. Every streak tells a story. Perfect for building a deep work habit that actually sticks. WIDGETS, LOCK SCREEN & STANDBY Glance at your current session from your Lock Screen, Home Screen, Dynamic Island, or StandBy. Live Activities keep your focus always in view. MADE FOR Students pulling all-nighters. Writers and designers chasing flow. Remote workers drowning in Slack. Readers reclaiming an hour with a book. Anyone with ADHD who needs a ritual, not a reminder. WHY CINEFOCUS IS DIFFERENT Other focus timers feel like chores. CineFocus feels like a ritual you look forward to. The ticket, the seat, the screen โ small details that make deep focus something you actually want to do. No gamified guilt. No dying trees. No airport check-ins. Just you, in the best seat in the house. Turn your phone into a cinema. Turn your focus into a feature film. Get your ticket. Take your seat. The show starts when you do. Love CineFocus? Leave a review โ it helps other focused people find us. - Subscription Plans: "CineFocus Premium (Annual Auto-Renewal)", "CineFocus Premium (Monthly Auto-Renewal)" - Subscription Type: Auto-renewable subscription - Subscription Price: $23.99 per year (annual auto-renewal) / $3.99 per month (monthly auto-renewal) - Cancel Subscription: To cancel your subscription, go to your iPhone Settings โ Apple Account โ Subscriptions, and select "CineFocus Premium" to cancel. If you do not cancel at least 24 hours before the subscription period ends, the subscription will automatically renew. - The Apple ID associated with the auto-renewable subscription will be charged in your App Store account 24 hours before each billing period ends to extend the subscription. Terms of Service (including subscription policies): https://cinefocus.netlify.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://cinefocus.netlify.app/privacy
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Verdict
Onboard and CineFocus are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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Both are free to download. Onboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and CineFocus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Onboard | CineFocus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 โ better | 17.6 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chyi Xiang Ong | Akarys Turganbekuly |
In-app purchases
Onboard
- Onboard Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
- Onboard Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
- Onboard Lifetime$29.99
CineFocus
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Lifetime Plan$19.99
- Lifetime Plan$34.99









