Comparison

PuppyFocus vs Linva

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

Head to head
About

PuppyFocus

This app offers a unique Pomodoro timer experience with a virtual puppy companion that grows and interacts with you. Earn rewards to decorate its home and utilize focus modes to minimize distractions and track your progress.

Highlights
  • Virtual puppy companion with animated interactions
  • Reward system for decorating puppy's home
  • Strict and Whitelist modes to block distracting apps
  • Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly focus statistics
  • Customizable puppy name and home decorations
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Trying to study or work, but keep reaching for your phone? Still scrolling when it is time to sleep? Let PuppyFocus help you protect your attention during the day and gently put your phone down at night. PuppyFocus brings focus timers, app blocking, scheduled sleep blocking, and cozy puppy companionship into one iOS app. Complete a valid focus session to earn rewards, collect toys, rugs, beds, and more, and turn your pup's room into a warmer home with every focused minute. Now available in five languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. 【New in 1.3.2: Focus Timeline】 Focus Timeline: Review your focus history by day, two days, or week. Sessions are color-coded by task tags so you can see exactly where your time went. Manually log sessions you completed without the timer. Overnight and overlapping records are displayed clearly. Free for all users — no Pro required. 【Why PuppyFocus?】 Two ways to focus: Use the countdown timer for Pomodoro sessions, exam prep, and fixed-length tasks, or the stopwatch for reading, writing, and creative work. Break settings, focus rounds, interval reminders, and automatic cycles are also available. Block distracting apps: Strict Mode blocks other apps and websites during a session, while Whitelist Mode keeps only what you need, helping you stop mindless scrolling. A puppy that stays with you: Give your pup a name and enjoy different animations and messages while resting, focusing, succeeding, failing, or taking a break. Every session feels a little less difficult to start. Earn rewards for focusing: Complete valid sessions to earn Kibble, while Pro members can also collect Bones. Discover more than 90 toys, rugs, bowls, toy boxes, beds, and other room items. Sleep Blocking for better nights (Pro): Set the days and hours you want to wind down, and PuppyFocus will automatically limit distracting apps and websites. Choose Strict Mode or Whitelist Mode, with multiple whitelist presets for different routines. If you need your phone unexpectedly, your pup will ask you to pause and reflect first. Unlock 15 achievement trophies: Celebrate focus streaks, total focus time, completed sessions, room collections, and feature exploration. Your pup can even wear an unlocked trophy. See your progress over time: Review focus time, completed sessions, rewards, and tag distribution by day, week, month, or year with clear trends and calendar heatmaps. Keep progress close: Check the timer from the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island, use the landscape desk clock, receive background notifications, and sync focus records, rewards, and room setup across your Apple devices with iCloud. Focus → earn rewards → decorate your pup's home → unlock trophies → wind down on time. PuppyFocus makes focusing and resting feel lighter, warmer, and worth repeating.

About

Linva

Learn languages through immersive, AI-powered lessons. Generate lessons from any text, practice pronunciation with real-time feedback, and engage in AI-driven conversations. Track progress and build vocabulary with a comprehensive approach.

Highlights
  • AI-generated lessons from any text
  • Native-quality text-to-speech audio
  • Bilingual reading with synced phonetics
  • Real-time pronunciation scoring
  • Shadowing with pitch waveform analysis
  • AI conversation practice
  • Dictation and vocabulary building
Features
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Linva turns the language you want to learn into something you live in. Type or paste any text and Linva instantly translates it and voices it with natural, native-quality audio — a ready-made bilingual lesson in seconds. Read along sentence by sentence with the target language, your own language and IPA phonetics aligned together. Switch to immersive reading, or shadow the audio while a real-time pitch waveform shows how closely you match a native speaker. When you finish, get a pronunciation score down to the word and the individual sound, so you know exactly what to improve. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Generate a lesson from any text with AI translation + text-to-speech • Import your own audio — or a video — and Linva transcribes and translates it • Read bilingual text with synced audio and phonetics; tap any word for its in-context meaning • Shadow with a live waveform and loop any sentence • Score your pronunciation at the word and phoneme level • Dictation practice: hear the audio or see your language, then write the target word by word — streaks, sparks and sound effects keep you hooked • Watch videos and study perfectly synced subtitles • Chat with an AI to actually use what you just learned • Take a placement test to find your level • Keep a library of recordings, track your progress, and listen in the background even when locked Linva is built on comprehensible input: you acquire a language fastest by understanding real content slightly above your level — listening, reading and speaking until it becomes natural. Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with the interface in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French and Spanish. Start your immersion today. EULA:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

PuppyFocus4 screens
Linva4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Linva at every 2 days against PuppyFocus's fortnightly. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. PuppyFocus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Linva sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PuppyFocus against 5.0 for Linva. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PuppyFocus ships an update fortnightly, Linva every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PuppyFocus versus Linva: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuppyFocusLinva
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size447 MB40 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer晟润 管贵博 董

Customer experience

PuppyFocus

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Linva

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PuppyFocus

Subscriptions2
  • PuppyFocus Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • PuppyFocus Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • PuppyFocus Pro$1.99
  • Lifetime Pro$39.99
2 purchases

Linva

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial2 variants$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is PuppyFocus free?
PuppyFocus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Linva free?
Linva is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PuppyFocus or Linva?
PuppyFocus and Linva are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do PuppyFocus or Linva have ads?
Neither PuppyFocus nor Linva shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PuppyFocus or Linva?
PuppyFocus ships an update fortnightly, and Linva every 2 days. Most recently, PuppyFocus was updated on October 20, 2026 and Linva on October 6, 2026.

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