Comparison

Focus Blinks vs Fluid Friction

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

Head to head
About

Focus Blinks

This app helps you conquer procrastination and master your time using the Pomodoro Technique. It offers customizable timers, detailed analytics to track your progress, and a minimalist, ad-free interface designed for deep work and study.

Highlights
  • Customizable Pomodoro timers
  • Calming alert sounds
  • Auto-starting timers
  • Focus history tracking
  • Daily, weekly, monthly progress charts
  • Minimalist, ad-free interface
  • Light and dark themes
Features
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Tired of distractions derailing your day? Reclaim your focus, conquer procrastination, and master your time with Focus Blinks. In a world built to steal your attention, our app uses the proven Pomodoro Technique to help you achieve deep work and find your flow. But Focus Blinks is more than just a timer. It's your personal productivity analyst, providing the data you need to understand and improve how you work, one focused session at a time. WHY YOU'LL LOVE FOCUS BLINKS: The Classic Pomodoro Timer, Perfected * Fully customizable timers for focus sessions, short breaks, and long breaks. * Choose from a selection of clean, calming alert sounds. * Auto-starting timers keep you in a seamless workflow without interruption. Powerful Statistics & Analytics * Don't just work—work smarter. Track your focus history with beautiful, easy-to-read charts. * Visualize your daily, weekly, and monthly progress to stay motivated. * Identify your most productive patterns and build a powerful work habit. Minimalist & Distraction-Free * Enjoy a gorgeous, 100% ad-free interface designed to keep you in the zone. * Customize your experience with both light and dark themes. * * A simple, intuitive design that gets out of your way. PERFECT FOR: * Students preparing for exams and writing papers. * Professionals looking to optimize productivity. * Writers & Creatives looking to enter a state of flow. * Anyone with ADHD seeking a structured tool to aid concentration. * And anyone ready to build a better relationship with their work! Stop letting your to-do list control you. It's time to build a better work habit. Download FocusBlinks today and rediscover what you can achieve!

About

Fluid Friction

This app introduces deliberate friction to prevent mindless scrolling on social media and other distracting apps. It offers customizable shields, timed sessions, and NFC tag integration to help users regain control over their screen time and improve focus.

Highlights
  • Deliberate friction for scrolling
  • App and website blocking
  • Timed sessions with cooldowns
  • NFC tag integration for unlocking
  • Focus timer and Pomodoro sessions
  • Calm Score and progress tracking
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Mindless scrolling stops working with Fluid Friction. Open Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, X, Snapchat, Facebook or LinkedIn inside Fluid Friction, or add any website you choose, and the feed pushes back. Fluid rises from the edge of the screen against your thumb. Drag through it until a bubble forms and rises off the screen. Only then does the next post arrive. Cross the threshold on purpose, or set the phone down. It doesn't shame you. It just makes you mean it. WHY IT WORKS Infinite feeds run on autopilot. Fluid Friction slips one deliberate moment between you and the scroll, so doomscrolling becomes a decision instead of a reflex. No workout to film, no quiz to pass, no habit checklist to clear first: the friction lives inside the scroll itself. Dial it from gentle to intense, set scroll limits per app, and let YouTube friction fire on Shorts only. CALM SHIELDS FOR YOUR OTHER APPS Block any native app, or a website, with Screen Time. Instead of a wall of shame you get a calm, warm screen, a clear count of the opens you chose to keep, a cooldown between opens, and a breathing, math or passphrase moment before you go in. Timed sessions count down right in the Dynamic Island and the shield returns when time is up. One toggle also blocks adult websites. Strict when you ask for it, dignified always. KEEP THE CHATS, SKIP THE RABBIT HOLE Hide Reels, Shorts, Stories, Explore and For You while messages keep working. Open apps to a calmer landing page, follow only the people you chose, hide recommendations and comments on YouTube, or go grayscale across every feed. Multiple accounts with separate sessions, YouTube background play and picture in picture are all built in, so the calmer way is also the comfortable way. TAP & SCAN Turn any NFC tag you already own into a physical key: a sticker, a card, even a transit pass. Tap to lock your distracting apps, tap to release them, or require a scan to unlock a shield. No extra hardware to buy; a QR code or a barcode in your kitchen works too. WAKE UP WITHOUT THE FEED An alarm that ends with a scan, not a scroll. Dismiss it with your tag or a barcode across the room, answer a quick wake challenge, and let a morning block hold the feeds until you are up. Wind down at night, track your wake streak, and earn 25 honest milestones. Snooze stays off unless you turn it on. On iOS 26 the alarm rings like the built-in clock; on earlier versions it alerts through notifications. SEE YOURSELF CLEARLY A Calm Score and Brainy, your small clay companion, reflect how your scrolling actually went. Real Screen Time numbers, weekly recaps, and tailored suggestions you can apply with one tap, like a schedule for the hour that always gets you. FOCUS WHEN IT COUNTS Focus timer, Pomodoro sessions, and a Focus Bank that turns focused minutes into earned, deliberate breaks. Breaks keep the feeds blocked by default, and the countdown lives in the Dynamic Island. MAKE IT YOURS 91 bubble themes, from aurora to plasma, with mystery unlocks and matching app icons. A quiet rank ladder climbs from Copper to Champion as you show up for yourself, and it never punishes a missed day. Home screen widgets too, including a minimalist launcher that routes tempting apps through the wave. PRIVATE AND FAIR No ads. No tracking. Your usage stays on your device. Every tool is free: the friction, the shields, the alarm, the insights. Fluid Pro, if you ever want it, unlocks themes and comfort extras like dark mode, with a 7 day free trial. MADE BY TWIN BROTHERS We're Manfred and Gustav. We built Fluid Friction because we needed it ourselves, and we kept the parts that matter calm, honest and respectful of your attention. No nagging, no guilt trips, no tricks. The wave is rising. Scroll like you mean it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fluidfriction.app/ios/privacy Terms of Service: https://fluidfriction.app/ios/terms

Screenshots

Focus Blinks4 screens
Fluid Friction4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Focus Blinks at 5.0 against Fluid Friction's 4.3. Focus Blinks also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Fluid Friction's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Fluid Friction sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Focus Blinks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus Blinks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluid Friction has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Focus Blinks's written reviews are positive against 75% of Fluid Friction's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Focus Blinks versus Fluid Friction: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus BlinksFluid Friction
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings111 — better
Update frequency—Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB55 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperCrazinnCode Lab, LLCGustav Mtenji Bergdal Mjengwa

Customer experience

Focus Blinks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fluid Friction

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Focus Blinks

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Fluid Friction

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Focus Blinks free?
Focus Blinks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fluid Friction free?
Fluid Friction is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus Blinks or Fluid Friction?
Focus Blinks is rated higher. Focus Blinks averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Fluid Friction averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do Focus Blinks or Fluid Friction have ads?
Neither Focus Blinks nor Fluid Friction shows ads.

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