Focus Race vs Ghost Reader Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Race
This app gamifies focus sessions into an interstellar journey. Earn fuel by staying focused, explore new worlds by completing missions, and compete on leaderboards. It turns discipline into progress with cosmic milestones and streaks.
- Gamified focus sessions
- Interstellar mission theme
- Earn fuel by staying focused
- Explore new worlds
- Climb leaderboards
- Track focus streaks
- Unlock cosmic milestones
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Focus Race transforms your focus time into an interstellar mission. Each session you start becomes a launch — the longer you stay focused, the farther your rocket travels through space. Earn fuel by resisting distractions, complete missions to explore new worlds, and climb the leaderboard against other focused minds. Designed for deep work, study, and creative flow, Focus Race uses game mechanics to turn discipline into progress. Track your focus streaks, unlock cosmic milestones, and make productivity feel like exploration. No timers that nag. No ads. Just your focus — visualized as a journey through the stars. Terms of Use (EULA): https://focusrace.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://focusrace.com/privacy
Ghost Reader Live
This app transforms documents and web content into spoken audio using on-device voices. Listen privately while following along with highlighted text, with options to adjust speed, navigate, and use lock-screen controls. A free tier offers limited daily listening, with premium options for unlimited access.
- On-device TTS narration
- Focus mode with highlighting and auto-scroll
- Adjustable listening speed (0.5x to 2x)
- Document navigation and resume playback
- Lock-screen and headphone controls
- Sleep timer and MP3 export
- Privacy-focused, no account required
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Turn reading into listening — privately. Ghost Reader narrates PDFs, EPUBs, web articles, Markdown, and plain-text files with natural on-device voices. Import a document or paste a link, then listen while following the text in Focus mode. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY WITH YOU Narration is generated on your iPhone. Your documents, extracted text, and audio are not sent to our servers. No account is required. MADE FOR LISTENING • Follow along with sentence highlighting and auto-scroll • Pick a voice and adjust listening speed from 0.5× to 2× • Navigate to any part of a document and resume where you stopped • Use lock-screen and headphone play/pause controls when narration is ready • Set a sleep timer or export narration as an MP3 FREE TO START Enjoy 30 minutes of narration each day for free. Upgrade through the App Store for unlimited listening with Monthly or Lifetime Access. Requires iPhone 12 or newer. Privacy Policy: https://bighippolabs.com/page-ghostreader/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://bighippolabs.com/page-ghostreader/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ghost Reader Live at fortnightly against Focus Race's every 2 months. Focus Race's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Focus Race sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Ghost Reader Live sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focus Race against 5.0 for Ghost Reader Live. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Focus Race ships an update every 2 months, Ghost Reader Live fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Race | Ghost Reader Live |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 343 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pulsar Shift LLC | Jan Ancajas |
Customer experience
Focus Race
Ghost Reader Live
In-app purchases
Focus Race
- Focus Race Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Focus Race Pro - Annually7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Fuel Starter Pack$2.99
- Fuel Pilot Pack$9.99
- Fuel Commander Pack$24.99
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- Fuel Galaxy Pack$49.99
Ghost Reader Live
- Ghost Reader$1.991 Month
- Lifetime Access$19.99









