RightNow Focus vs CatFocus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RightNow Focus
This app provides a focused approach to task management by presenting only one task at a time based on your available time. It helps users overcome decision paralysis and the guilt associated with long to-do lists. Features include daily summaries, timed task loops, and starter routines.
- One task presented at a time
- Time-based task selection
- Daily morning and evening summaries
- Starter routines for various needs
- No scrolling or long lists
- Offline data storage
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You don't need another to-do list. You need someone to tell you what to do right now. Every productivity app eventually becomes the same thing: a long list you scroll, feel guilty about, and close. The problem was never the list — deciding what to do is the hardest part, and lists make YOU do the deciding at the worst possible moment. RightNow flips it. Tell it how much time you have — 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes — and it hands you exactly one card. Do it, or skip it. That's the whole app. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add your habits and tasks as cards 2. Pick the time you actually have 3. Get one card — the right one for right now 4. Tap Done. Feel it. Repeat. No browsing. No ranking. No scroll of shame. YOUR DAY HAS A SHAPE • Morning Brief — your first open of the day shows yesterday in one line, names today's focus, and gives you one button to start it • The loop — pick a time, get a card, all day long • Wrap Day — close the evening with your day's story: what you did, your 7-day trail, and one piece of coaching for tomorrow SMART ABOUT TIME • Morning cards deal in the morning, evening cards wait for evening • A 5-minute window gets a real 5-minute card — never a 2-hour project in disguise • Skipped something? It cycles back fairly. Hid it for today? It stays gone until tomorrow. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Starter Routines — five curated packs (Fitness, Sleep, Parenting, Personal Growth, Beauty) so you're never staring at a blank app • Routines — run your own ordered sequences, card by card • Someday — park ideas you're not ready for; they never nag and never get lost • History — completed tasks are kept, and restorable YOURS, PRIVATELY Everything lives on your phone. No account, no cloud, no feed, no ads. Your data never leaves your device. Try RightNow free for 7 days. If it earns its place, one purchase unlocks it forever — no subscription, ever. Stop managing your list. Start doing what's on it.
CatFocus
This app helps individuals with time blindness visualize their day. It offers five activity modes to log time spent, allowing users to see where their hours go and adjust their habits naturally without relying on willpower.
- Visualize daily time usage
- Five activity modes (Focus, Cruise, Meditation, Exercise, Drift)
- Daily animal rescue gamification
- Daily intention and anti-intention setting
- Calendar and timeline review
- No data collection or third-party tracking
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WHERE DID YOUR TIME GO? If you’ve ever felt like “I did nothing, yet the whole day is gone” - this app is made for you. This app, CatFocus, was built by a developer with ADHD. I’ve tried countless Pomodoro timers and productivity apps on the market. None of them worked for me. A 25-minute countdown? My brain can’t even stay focused for 10 minutes. To-do lists? I write them down and then forget they exist. Eventually, I realized something: The problem isn’t a lack of discipline - it’s that I literally can’t feel time passing. It’s what people call time blindness. So I built CatFocus. The idea is simple: Don’t force your brain to focus - just let it see time. – HOW IT WORKS Every day, a small animal has been captured. All you need to do is stay engaged for 4-6 hours, and you can rescue it. You don’t need to stay in a constant focus mode. Because unless you’re in a hyperfocus state, an ADHD brain simply can’t sustain long periods of attention. So I designed five modes: Focus Cruise Meditation Exercise Drift These cover almost everything you do while awake. Switch freely. Log casually. At the end of the day, open the timeline and you’ll clearly see where your 24 hours actually went. For someone who has never understood where time disappears to, this can be surprisingly powerful. – WHAT YOU GET A new animal to rescue every day. Each one has its own personality, hidden details, and a small story. Five activity modes. Not just a focus timer. You can log meditation, exercise, meetings, or even zoning out. Every block of time has a label, so you won’t have those “What did I do for 3 hours?” moments anymore. Daily intention and anti-intention. What do you want to become today? What do you want to avoid becoming today? This system helps you recalibrate your direction. Calendar and timeline. Every day is recorded and easy to review. – WHY IT’S DIFFERENT Most productivity tools assume you can already feel time. They just give you a timer. But ADHD is not about needing a timer. It’s about not having an internal sense of time at all. CatFocus doesn’t force discipline. It simply lays your time out in front of you. You drifted for 2 hours. You focused for 4 hours. You meditated for 20 minutes. When time becomes visible, you naturally start adjusting without relying on willpower. – PRICING CatFocus is free to use, with all core features included. A one-time purchase unlocks more animals and permanent desktop sync and tracking. No subscriptions. No ads. – PRIVACY CatFocus does not collect any of your data. No servers. No third-party tracking. No ad SDKs. Your focus belongs to you. – CONTACT Email: cccozzy@hotmail.com Xiaohongshu: @林熠燃
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RightNow Focus at none against CatFocus's 7. RightNow Focus also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. CatFocus sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. RightNow Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RightNow Focus against 5.0 for CatFocus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | RightNow Focus | CatFocus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Bradley | 晨晨 林 |
Customer experience
RightNow Focus
CatFocus
In-app purchases
RightNow Focus
No in-app purchases
CatFocus
- Unlock David$1.99
- 解锁牛马$1.99
- Unlock Liam$1.99
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- Unlock Ryan$1.99
- Unlock All In One$5.99
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