Focus Sailor vs Flip Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Sailor
This app gamifies focus sessions by having a virtual sailor embark on a sea voyage. Completing focus periods rewards users with sea creatures and decorations for their ocean map, encouraging sustained concentration.
- Live Activity for progress tracking
- Deep Focus Mode to block distracting apps
- Customizable focus session duration
- Unlockable sea creatures and ships
- Leaderboards for friendly competition
- Ocean map decoration with collected treasures
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Presenting Focus Sailor, your cozy focus companion. When you Focus, your Sailor sets sail. Complete your focus voyage and collect magical sea creatures, playful dolphins, and even legendary baby sea monsters to decorate your personal ocean map! If you interrupt your voyage by touching your phone, your Sailor will get a little worried… don’t let the distractions steer you off course! Finish your focus session, and your Sailor will reward you with treasures to expand your ocean, unlock new ships, and discover mysterious sea regions. Perfect for anyone who struggles with long periods of concentration—students, professionals, or anyone who wants to stay on course Features: ◎ Live Activity: See your voyage progress even when your phone is locked. ◎ Deep Focus Mode: Block distracting apps while your Sailor navigates the seas. ◎ Custom Voyage Time: Choose how long your focus session lasts for maximum efficiency. ◎ Fun Sea Creatures & Ships: Unlock glowing fish, singing dolphins, and legendary sea monsters. ◎ Leaderboards with Friends: Weekly challenges to compete for the top focus sailor! ◎ Ocean Decorations: Collect treasures and decorate your ocean map. Focus Sailor helps you stay on course, resist distractions, and turn every focus session into a magical adventure at sea! Membership Service: Focus Sailor is free to download and use. To unlock all features, you need to upgrade to Super Sailor Membership. We offer three flexible Super Sailor options to enhance your experience: monthly, yearly, and lifetime. Super Sailor Monthly: $3.99 per month. You can cancel anytime. If not canceled, the subscription will automatically renew according to the billing cycle. Super Sailor Yearly: $23.99 per year. You can cancel anytime. If not canceled, the subscription will automatically renew according to the billing cycle. Super Sailor Lifetime: $33.99 one-time payment. Enjoy lifetime access to all membership privileges. Privacy Policy: https://repbeep.com/focus/privacy.html User Agreement: https://repbeep.com/focus/terms.html We comply with Apple’s standard user agreements: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Flip Focus
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Flip your phone face down. The timer starts. Lift it, and the timer stops. Flip Focus is a deep work timer for people who are tired of promising themselves they'll concentrate. There is no honour system here and no button to press when you get distracted. The session is physically bound to your phone: face down on the desk, you are working. In your hand, you are not. WHY THIS ONE HOLDS UP Every other focus timer runs happily in your pocket while you scroll something else. This one cannot. Flip Focus reads your phone's motion sensors and only accumulates time while the phone is actually face down. You cannot quietly cheat a session, which is precisely why the hours in your history mean something. START IN ONE MOVE Choose a session and flip. That is the entire ritual. No setup to work through every time you sit down, no timer to remember to start, no excuse to open the phone "just to begin". BLOCK EVERY DISTRACTING APP While a session runs, Flip Focus uses Screen Time to put your distracting apps behind a lock screen. It works as an allowlist rather than a blocklist: everything is blocked except what you deliberately permit, so a newly installed app cannot slip through a gap you forgot to close. AUTO-PAUSE KEEPS YOU HONEST Pick the phone up mid-session and the timer pauses itself and tells you to put it back down. Your streak is not broken by the pause; it is broken by pretending the pause never happened. Flip Focus simply refuses to pretend. QUITTING TAKES A MOMENT Ending a session early is still possible, it just isn't two taps any more. You copy out a short passage that makes the case for staying, then hold a button for a few seconds. Neither step is hard, and the way out is always there when you genuinely need it. It simply stops being something you can do without thinking. Most urges to quit don't survive the minute it takes. SESSIONS THAT MATCH REAL WORK Start from ready-made blocks for deep work, quick focus, study and creative work, or build your own with the length, name and colour that suit how you actually work. Long, uninterrupted blocks for hard problems. Short ones for clearing the deck. SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT After every session, mark how it went. Your dashboard tracks total sessions, total focused time and your success rate, with your recent sessions and outcomes laid out plainly. Because the timer cannot be gamed, the trend line is the real one. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY A Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen so you can check the time remaining without unlocking anything. Haptics confirm the start and finish of a block. The app is quiet, quick and does not ask for your attention while you are trying to give it to something else. WHO IT IS FOR Engineers, writers, designers, founders, analysts, researchers, students — anyone whose output depends on long stretches of uninterrupted attention, and whose phone is the single largest threat to getting them. If you have tried focus apps before and drifted away from them, the reason is usually the same: they asked you to be disciplined about the tool itself. Flip Focus asks for one physical action, once, at the start. The desk does the rest. Flip the phone. Do the work. Privacy Policy: https://flipfocus.cosmosmindlabs.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://flipfocus.cosmosmindlabs.com/terms-of-service
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Verdict
Focus Sailor and Flip Focus are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Focus Sailor sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Flip Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus Sailor ships an update every 11 days, Flip Focus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Sailor | Flip Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 210 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shed Stories Co., Ltd. | Augustine Ezeh |
In-app purchases
Focus Sailor
- Focus Sailor Monthly$3.991 Month
- Focus Sailor Yearly$23.991 Year
- Speedboat$1.99
- Compass$1.99
- Cruiser$3.99
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- Energy Drink$3.99
- Ocean Liner$7.99
- Focus Sailor Lifetime$33.99
Flip Focus
- Monthly Premium3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Premium3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$59.99
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