Comparison

PurrrrrFocus vs Paws & Beans

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

Head to head
About

PurrrrrFocus

Enhance your focus and build better habits with a calming, companion-driven productivity app. Track your time, earn rewards, and unlock new companions and themes in a serene, Zen-inspired environment. Ideal for study, work, and mindful daily routines.

Highlights
  • Calm visual environment
  • Interactive cat companion
  • Focus modes with app restrictions
  • Detailed focus statistics
  • Habit trend tracking
  • Unlockable companions and themes
Features
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Focus is not just productivity—it’s about creating calm, meaningful moments with a companion by your side. PurrrrrFocus is a focus timer and Pomodoro productivity app. It helps you stay focused, build better habits, and manage your time across study, work, rest, and daily life. Your Zen-inspired space and soft companion make every session a calm and enjoyable ritual. Each focus session is more than a timer. You track your focus, earn Treats, unlock companions, themes, and ambient sounds, and gradually grow a meaningful connection with your companion—turning everyday focus into a mindful, rewarding experience. >>> What makes PurrrrrFocus different? 【Personalized Focus Space】 • Calm Visual Environment: A calm, Eastern-inspired focus space designed to reduce visual noise and help you settle into deep focus. • Living Zen Scene: Soft Chinese-inspired visual themes shape the atmosphere of your session. • Gentle Motion & Sound: Your companion moves quietly through a serene garden-like space, paired with calming sounds like purring, temple ambience, and koto music. 【A Gentle Companion】 • Quiet Companionship: One selected companion stays with you during each focus session, offering a calm presence without distraction. • Emotional Motivation: If you end a session early, your companion gently reacts, encouraging you to try again next time. • Growth & Rewards: Earn Treats to unlock new companions, themes, and ambient sounds, and make each session more meaningful over time. • Courtyard Collection: Discover new items and surprises in the courtyard you share with your companion, and watch your little world grow over time. • Companion Profiles: Each companion has its own story, personality, appearance, and expressions to unlock as your Intimacy grows. You can also give your companion a name of your own. 【Focus Modes with Flexible Control】 • Relaxed Mode: Switch apps freely during focus sessions with no penalties. • Challenged Mode: App switching reduces Treats earned, helping you stay aware of distractions. • Whitelist Mode (iOS 16+): Only selected apps remain available during focus sessions, while others are restricted using iOS Screen Time. 【Focus Statistics & Insights】 • Focus Summary: Reflect on each session with a multi-dimensional summary of your time, task details, and earned rewards. Export and share beautiful summary cards to celebrate your progress and invite friends to focus together. • Habit Trends: Explore how your focus changes over time through daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly visual charts. • Focus Pattern: Understand how your focus is distributed across different task types and discover your most focused hours of the day. • Timeline: See your focus sessions with details on focus duration and interruptions, and add notes or reflections to any session. • Focus Stories: Look back on your focus journey through beautiful weekly and monthly recaps, bringing together your focus time, companions, and milestones. 【Other Features】 • Dual Timer Modes: Pomodoro timer & Count-Up timer • Live Activity & Dynamic Island support for real-time focus tracking • Always-On Screen during focus sessions for uninterrupted focus tracking • Quick Start from the idle screen to begin focus instantly • Task Customization: set task types, focus durations, break rules, and reminder intervals • Treats Store for redeeming companions, themes, and ambient sounds • Achievement Badges across 3 categories • Alternative App Icons • Companion notification sounds for focus reminders 【Privacy First】 PurrrrrFocus works fully offline with no account, no tracking, and no ads. All your focus data stays on your device, giving you a private and distraction-free space to focus. >>> Download PurrrrrFocus and turn everyday focus into a calmer, more meaningful ritual. Terms of use: https://louisbuilds.me/purrrrrfocus/terms-of-service-en.html Privacy Policy: https://louisbuilds.me/purrrrrfocus/privacy-policy-en.html

About

Paws & Beans

Features
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Some timers shout at you. This one pours you a coffee. Paws & Beans is a Pomodoro focus timer wrapped in a tiny pixel cafe. You order a brew, the timer starts, and your dog settles down beside you until it is done. No streaks lost to a missed day, no red badges, nobody telling you that you are behind. Just a warm room, a lo-fi station, and something small to look after. HOW IT WORKS Pick a brew and start working. Espresso is 15 minutes, Cappuccino 25, Nitro 50, or set your own. Prefer to work until you stop? Bottomless counts up instead of down. Finish a brew and you earn coffee beans; spend them on decor, new breeds and treats for the dog. A CAFE THAT KEEPS YOUR HOURS The room follows your clock and your weather. Morning light, afternoon sun, lamps after dark. If it is raining where you are, it rains outside the window too. Snow, storms and clear skies all find their way in. SOUND TO WORK TO Six house tracks written for the app, plus a shelf of hand-picked lo-fi radio stations. All free, all licence-paying, and no ads anywhere. A small mixer lets you balance the music against the room. YOUR DOG Taco keeps you company while you work, naps through the long sessions, and looks pleased with himself when you finish. Feed him treats you have earned. Change his breed. He is not a productivity metric; he is a dog. WHAT YOU KEEP A coffee journal of every session, one day per page 35 badges for turning up, not for grinding Eight postcards from the dog's days off Rooms and decor you buy with focus, not money PRO, IF YOU WANT IT Everything above is free. Pro adds extra rooms, a second dog, and a wardrobe, as a monthly or lifetime purchase. The timer, the music, the journal and the badges are not behind it and never will be. SIGN IN IS OPTIONAL Play without an account for as long as you like. Sign in with Apple and your cafe backs up, so a new phone gets your cafe back exactly as you left it. Made by one person. No ads, no tracking, no streak guilt. — Paws & Beans Pro is available as a monthly auto-renewing subscription (US$1.99 per month) or as Lifetime, a single one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The monthly subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Lifetime is charged once and never renews. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pawsandbeans.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://pawsandbeans.app/privacy

Screenshots

PurrrrrFocus4 screens
Paws & Beans4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Paws & Beans at every 4 days against PurrrrrFocus's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. PurrrrrFocus sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Paws & Beans sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PurrrrrFocus ships an update every 2 weeks, Paws & Beans every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
PurrrrrFocus versus Paws & Beans: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPurrrrrFocusPaws & Beans
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer聪 陈Pharos Company

In-app purchases

6 purchases

PurrrrrFocus

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time4
  • Koto$1.99
  • Plumeo$2.99
  • Hidden Temple$2.99
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  • Lifetime Access$14.99
2 purchases

Paws & Beans

Subscriptions1
  • Paws Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is PurrrrrFocus free?
PurrrrrFocus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paws & Beans free?
Paws & Beans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PurrrrrFocus or Paws & Beans have ads?
Neither PurrrrrFocus nor Paws & Beans shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PurrrrrFocus or Paws & Beans?
PurrrrrFocus ships an update every 2 weeks, and Paws & Beans every 4 days. Most recently, PurrrrrFocus was updated on October 30, 2026 and Paws & Beans on October 31, 2026.

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