Comparison

FocusFlow vs Couples Screen Time

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

Head to head
About

FocusFlow

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FocusFlow is a calm, private focus timer for iPhone. A timer, your tasks, and your progress, in one app that stays out of your way. Start a session in one tap and let the rest of the world wait. THE TIMER - A clean focus timer with fourteen ambient backgrounds and ten themes - Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep the count where you can glance, never stare - Wall-clock accurate, so a finished hour is a real hour, backgrounded or not - Presets you can schedule and start with a single tap YOUR TASKS - Reminders, recurring routines, and alert offsets that nudge you before you drift - Turn any task into a preset and start it straight from the timer YOUR PROGRESS - A streak that grows, experience across fifty levels, and a focus score - Badges for the milestones worth remembering FLOW AI (PRO) - A personal focus coach that reads your rhythm and helps you plan your day PRIVATE BY DESIGN - The free app works fully offline, with no account - Turn on private cross-device sync with Pro and a sign-in - Your hours stay yours, never sold and never studied FREE AND PRO FocusFlow is free forever. Pro adds Flow AI, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, private cross-device sync, all themes and backgrounds, and more. Pro is $4.99 per month, $39.99 per year, or $99.99 once for lifetime. The 3-day free trial applies to the monthly and yearly plans. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with no trial. Made in Toronto by Soft Computers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://focusflowbepresent.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://focusflowbepresent.com/privacy

About

Couples Screen Time

This app helps couples manage screen time and tasks together. By sharing a screen time pool and to-do lists, users earn minutes back by completing tasks, keeping a shared flame alive. It encourages accountability and shared goals for digital well-being.

Highlights
  • Shared screen time pool
  • Shared to-do lists
  • Earn screen time by completing tasks
  • Visual flame indicator
  • App locking when time is up
  • Individual and couple modes
Features
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Screen time for couples. Cut it together. Burn is a screen time app for couples. Invite your partner, share one pool of screen time, and share whichever to-do lists you like. Finish tasks to earn logs and feed them to Burn, a little flame you keep lit together. Doomscroll the pool dry and both of your distracting apps lock. No willpower required. Just someone in your corner, and a flame worth keeping lit. BURN DUO: SHARE IT WITH YOUR PARTNER (FREE) • One shared screen time pool, with a daily goal either of you can change • Share any to-do list: groceries, chores, date night plans. Everything else stays private • Either of you ticks a shared task off, it's done for both • One log pile: tasks either of you finishes refuel you both • See your partner's day: how much they burned, and where it went by the app groups they name • Get a heads-up when your partner adds or finishes a shared task • One flame, one streak. It breaks the moment either of you burns the last minute • Own Burn+? Your partner gets it too while you're in a Duo • Syncs through your own iCloud. No Burn account, no sign-in HOW IT WORKS • Start each day with a screen time budget • Scrolling the apps you pick burns through it, minute by minute • Hit zero and those apps lock • Finish tasks to earn logs • Feed logs to Burn: every log buys 10 more minutes Rather go solo? Burn works just as well on your own. GET STUFF DONE • Give every task its own log reward, so big jobs pay more • Daily, weekday, or custom repeating tasks for your habits • Plan Today, Tomorrow, and the days ahead • Sort tasks into color-coded categories, private or shared • Shake to undo if you tap too soon A FLAME WORTH KEEPING LIT • Burn reacts to your day: happy when you're on track, worried when time runs low, out cold when it's gone • Tap, pet, and drag logs in to feed him • Dozes off at night with a sleepy face • Keep Burn lit all day to build your streak YOU'RE IN CONTROL • Choose exactly which apps and categories burn fuel • Everything else stays open • Set your own daily budget • No account, no sign-in, no ads. BURN+ (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) • 13 flame colors, each with a matching app icon • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including a task list you can check off without opening the app • Live Activity: watch your fuel count down in the Dynamic Island • Low fuel warnings before your apps lock • Screen Time Insights: see which apps ate your time, by day, week, and month Burn uses Apple's Screen Time to track and limit only the apps you choose. What you do in them never leaves your device. In a Duo, your partner sees only your totals, the app groups you name and your shared lists, synced through your iCloud.

Screenshots

FocusFlow4 screens
Couples Screen Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FocusFlow at every 6 days against Couples Screen Time'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. FocusFlow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Couples Screen Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusFlow ships an update every 6 days, Couples Screen Time every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FocusFlow versus Couples Screen Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusFlowCouples Screen Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRajan NagarVincent Nguyen

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FocusFlow

Subscriptions2
  • FocusFlow Pro Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • FocusFlow Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • FocusFlow Pro Lifetime$99.99
1 purchases

Couples Screen Time

One-time1
  • Burn+$9.99

Questions

Is FocusFlow free?
FocusFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Couples Screen Time free?
Couples Screen Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusFlow or Couples Screen Time have ads?
Neither FocusFlow nor Couples Screen Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusFlow or Couples Screen Time?
FocusFlow ships an update every 6 days, and Couples Screen Time every 2 weeks. Most recently, FocusFlow was updated on October 30, 2026 and Couples Screen Time on November 5, 2026.

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