Comparison

Stay focused vs Lamplight

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

Head to head
About

Stay focused

Features
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About

Lamplight

Create a cozy, ambient workspace with virtual rooms featuring rain sounds and lo-fi music. Work alongside other users represented by their desk lamps, and personalize your space with interactive elements. Ideal for focused work sessions.

Highlights
  • Five unique ambient rooms
  • Virtual co-working with desk lamps
  • Personalizable desk elements
  • Optional gentle timer
  • Customizable ambient sounds
  • Low power mode for extended use
Features
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Lamplight is an ambient focus space: painted rooms with rain on the glass and original lo-fi playing, made for long stretches of work. You choose a room, your desk lamp comes on, and the other people working in that room appear as their lamps. Quiet company, a few strangers who are working too. • Five rooms, each a real place: a rainy café, a midnight apartment, a neon high-rise, a grand night library, and a Kyoto tatami room with a moss garden • Quiet companionship: other people appear only as lit desks and warm lamps • Your desk remembers you: a plant that grows with the hours you spend there, a book that turns its pages beside you, and a photo frame for something of yours • Sessions are optional: set a gentle timer if you want one, pomodoro-length or a longer deep block, or stay as long as you like • The sound is yours: every room brings its own rain, thunder, fire, or music, each on its own switch at the lamp. Or quiet ours and play your own. • Made for long sits: a low power mode keeps the room alive for hours without draining your battery Free. Sit down and work.

Screenshots

Stay focused3 screens
Lamplight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lamplight at none against Stay focused's shown. Lamplight also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stay focused versus Lamplight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStay focusedLamplight
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB117 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRed Kite 9 LtdAlishan Noorani

In-app purchases

None

Stay focused

No in-app purchases

None

Lamplight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stay focused free?
Stay focused is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lamplight free?
Lamplight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stay focused or Lamplight have ads?
Stay focused shows ads; Lamplight does not.

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