Comparison

// TODO vs Task Focus

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

Head to head
About

// TODO

Manage your tasks effectively with a straightforward to-do list application. It helps you limit the number of tasks you undertake and ensures they are completed promptly. The focus is on simplicity to avoid confusion and encourage task completion.

Highlights
  • Task limitation
  • Prompt task completion
  • Simple interface
  • Focus on getting things done
Features
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Life gets busy. To-do lists get long. Tasks get forgotten. Stay on top of things with // TODO. - Limit the number of TODOs you let yourself have - Ensure your TODOs get completed promptly This is not a complicated app. Added complexity can add confusion. Write things down, get them done.

About

Task Focus

Features
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You know what you have to do. Your phone pulls you away anyway. Task Focus pauses the apps that distract you until your one task is finished. Write down the one thing, pick what to pause, and start. Open a paused app in the middle of it, and you see your task instead of the feed. There is no countdown on the screen. Time counts up, and a focus ends when you say it is finished — not when a timer decides you failed. The one limit is a safety net you set yourself, between one and eight hours, that hands your apps back if you never get round to tapping "I'm done". WHAT IT DOES • Pauses the apps you choose, using Screen Time. Feeds, timelines, the endless pull-to-refresh — closed until you are done. • Turns a paused app into a reminder: open one, and it shows the task you are finishing and when the app comes back. • Pauses on a schedule — weekday mornings, every evening — without you starting anything. • Works with iOS Focus: add Task Focus as a Focus filter, and a Focus like Work or Study pauses the apps you chose. • Puts the one thing on your Lock Screen and in a widget, so it is always one glance away and never out of sight. • Gives everything back the moment you tap "I'm done". One toggle in Settings takes it back too, any time. • Keeps what you finished, so a week adds up to something. NOTHING HERE IS A TARGET No streaks to break. No score to keep up. No badge for a good week and no guilt for a quiet one. The history is a record, not a report card. FREE, AND PRO Pausing apps is free and always will be. Task Focus Pro is everything the app remembers afterwards: • Every session you finish, kept for good — free keeps this week • What your focus actually adds up to • A profile for each kind of focus, so the right apps pause for the right work • More than one schedule, and a line of your own on the screen over a paused app Pro opens on its own for seven days, the first time you finish a focus. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. When the seven days are up, history goes back to the last week, insights to this week, and profiles to one — nothing is deleted, and pausing apps carries on free as always. Schedules you have made keep running; adding another takes Pro. One payment. No renewal. Nothing to cancel. YOURS TO TAKE WITH YOU Your history follows you between your own devices through your iCloud account, and exports as a file you keep — whatever you use next. The app counts only what happens, anonymously — that a focus was finished, say — and you can switch that off in Settings. What you focus on, and what you choose to pause, stay on your device and in your own private iCloud database. We cannot read either one.

Screenshots

// TODO3 screens
Task Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: // TODO at none against Task Focus's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Task Focus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. // TODO asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
// TODO versus Task Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter// TODOTask Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSam MacGintySascha Thiele

In-app purchases

None

// TODO

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Task Focus

One-time1
  • Task Focus Pro$9.99

Questions

Is // TODO free?
// TODO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Task Focus free?
Task Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do // TODO or Task Focus have ads?
Neither // TODO nor Task Focus shows ads.

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