Comparison

Foculix vs Holidaily

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

Head to head
About

Foculix

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Foculix is a focus timer that combines customizable Pomodoro sessions with ambient sounds for work, study, and reading. Build a focus-and-break rhythm or freely track an open-ended task without a complicated setup. POMODORO TIMER • Adjust the focus, short break, and long break durations and the number of sessions • Check the remaining time at a glance with simple controls • Hear a notification sound when each session ends COUNT-UP TIMER • Track reading, research, creative work, and other open-ended activities • Receive optional notifications at your chosen interval AMBIENT SOUNDS FOR FOCUS Choose from ocean waves, rain, summer cicadas, morning birds, campfire, brown noise, and white noise. Each soundscape includes a matching background image. You can also use the timer with notification sounds only. FOCUS HISTORY • Add a title to both Pomodoro and count-up sessions • Automatically record the date and duration of each session • Review daily focus-time totals • Edit titles or delete individual entries • Export all history as a CSV file FOCUS REPORT • See your total focus time and the number of days you focused this week • Review daily focus time in a bar chart • Set a weekly focus-time goal at your own pace • Track your progress as a percentage and see how much focus time remains to reach your goal MAKE IT YOURS • Set ambient and notification volumes separately • Choose light, dark, or system theme • Configure screen dimming and screen-lock prevention during a timer USING FOCULIX ON IPHONE AND IPAD The timer runs while the app remains open in the foreground. Returning to the Home Screen or switching to another app pauses the timer.

About

Holidaily

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Tell Holidaily how many vacation days you get this year, and it works out exactly where to spend them for the longest possible breaks. Public holidays fall where they fall. A few well-placed vacation days turn them into much longer time off — but finding the best combination across a whole year is genuinely hard by hand. Enter your budget. Holidaily checks every public holiday in your region, finds the cheapest way to bridge each one into a continuous run, and picks the combination that buys you the most time off within the days you actually have. You get a real plan: the exact days to request, the breaks they unlock, and an honest count of what is left over. Nothing is padded to make the number look bigger. Then put the plan to work. Your booked days and the breaks around them are marked on the month calendar — ready to add to your calendar app, export as an .ics file, or print as a wall calendar or year planner PDF. Plan your time off - Enter the vacation days you have and get the best combination for the whole year, not one holiday at a time - Browse every bridge day opportunity of the year and see what each one costs - See what your plan buys: "22 of 25 days planned", "58 days off across 6 breaks", "3 days left to plan yourself" See it and share it - Month calendar with holidays, weekends, your booked days and your breaks colour-coded - Add your plan to your calendar app, or share it as an .ics file - Print a month wall calendar, a year overview, a year planner or a named holiday list as PDF - Choose whether to include your planned time off in the printout Built around your year - Public holidays for every country and region, for any year - Set your own working week — handy if your weekend isn't Saturday and Sunday - Fully offline: no account, no sign-up, no network, nothing leaves your device - Full VoiceOver support and Dynamic Type up to the largest accessibility sizes Questions, feedback, or suggestions? Feel free to email us at Holidaily@heckel.tech, we would love to hear from you!

Screenshots

Foculix4 screens
Holidaily4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Holidaily at none against Foculix's shown. Foculix's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Foculix versus Holidaily: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFoculixHolidaily
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEXCEEDSYSTEMTobias Heckel

In-app purchases

None

Foculix

No in-app purchases

None

Holidaily

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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