Doc Vault vs Task Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Doc Vault
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Doc Vault keeps your documents, photos, videos and music together on your iPhone, and nowhere else. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Your files never leave your device. LOCKED TO YOU ⢠App Lock with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode ⢠Your screen stays hidden in the app switcher while the vault is locked ⢠Deleted something by mistake? Recently Deleted keeps it for 30 days OPENS EVERYTHING ⢠PDFs, with search inside the document ⢠Photos, videos and music, plus Word, Excel and PowerPoint previews ⢠More than 30 text and code formats ⢠A player with a queue, shuffle, repeat, Lock Screen controls and Picture in Picture FINDS ANYTHING Search by name or by the words inside your files. Doc Vault reads the text in PDFs, scans and photos on your iPhone, so nothing is uploaded to do it. ORGANIZED YOUR WAY ⢠Folders inside folders, each with its own color and icon ⢠Grid or list, with sorting and filters ⢠Move, copy, duplicate, zip and share many files at once ⢠Share into Doc Vault from any app, or save out to Files EDIT WITHOUT LEAVING ⢠Crop, straighten, rotate and flip photos ⢠Trim videos and audio ⢠Edit text and Markdown BUILT-IN TOOLS ⢠Scan documents to a PDF or images ⢠Wi-Fi Transfer: move files to and from your computer in its browser, with no cable and no app ⢠Image to PDF, Extract Audio and Convert Media (HEIC to JPG, MOV to MP4 and more) ⢠Compress Video, and find large files and duplicates to free up space IN YOUR LANGUAGE ⢠Multi-language and RTL support ⢠Light and dark mode, with three color themes ⢠iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN Doc Vault has no servers, no accounts, no ads and no analytics. Everything happens on your device.
Task Focus
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You know what you have to do. Your phone pulls you away anyway. Task Focus pauses the apps that distract you until your one task is finished. Write down the one thing, pick what to pause, and start. Open a paused app in the middle of it, and you see your task instead of the feed. There is no countdown on the screen. Time counts up, and a focus ends when you say it is finished ā not when a timer decides you failed. The one limit is a safety net you set yourself, between one and eight hours, that hands your apps back if you never get round to tapping "I'm done". WHAT IT DOES ⢠Pauses the apps you choose, using Screen Time. Feeds, timelines, the endless pull-to-refresh ā closed until you are done. ⢠Turns a paused app into a reminder: open one, and it shows the task you are finishing and when the app comes back. ⢠Pauses on a schedule ā weekday mornings, every evening ā without you starting anything. ⢠Works with iOS Focus: add Task Focus as a Focus filter, and a Focus like Work or Study pauses the apps you chose. ⢠Puts the one thing on your Lock Screen and in a widget, so it is always one glance away and never out of sight. ⢠Gives everything back the moment you tap "I'm done". One toggle in Settings takes it back too, any time. ⢠Keeps what you finished, so a week adds up to something. NOTHING HERE IS A TARGET No streaks to break. No score to keep up. No badge for a good week and no guilt for a quiet one. The history is a record, not a report card. FREE, AND PRO Pausing apps is free and always will be. Task Focus Pro is everything the app remembers afterwards: ⢠Every session you finish, kept for good ā free keeps this week ⢠What your focus actually adds up to ⢠A profile for each kind of focus, so the right apps pause for the right work ⢠More than one schedule, and a line of your own on the screen over a paused app Pro opens on its own for seven days, the first time you finish a focus. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. When the seven days are up, history goes back to the last week, insights to this week, and profiles to one ā nothing is deleted, and pausing apps carries on free as always. Schedules you have made keep running; adding another takes Pro. One payment. No renewal. Nothing to cancel. YOURS TO TAKE WITH YOU Your history follows you between your own devices through your iCloud account, and exports as a file you keep ā whatever you use next. The app counts only what happens, anonymously ā that a focus was finished, say ā and you can switch that off in Settings. What you focus on, and what you choose to pause, stay on your device and in your own private iCloud database. We cannot read either one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doc Vault at none against Task Focus's 1. Doc Vault also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Task Focus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Doc Vault asks for nothing beyond the download.
Doc Vault ships an update monthly, Task Focus fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doc Vault | Task Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ahmed Althobaiti | Sascha Thiele |
In-app purchases
Doc Vault
No in-app purchases
Task Focus
- Task Focus Pro$9.99









