Comparison

Focus Protocol vs LuDo

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

Head to head
About

Focus Protocol

Features
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Silence the noise. Enter the protocol. FocusProtocol is not just a timer. It is a system designed to induce and sustain the flow state. By combining military-grade app blocking with psycho-acoustic audio engineering, FocusProtocol removes willpower from the equation. Zero distractions Engage the Shield to lock down distracting apps and websites instantly. Built on Apple’s native Screen Time API to create a breach-proof environment. Leaving the protocol requires a conscious decision to fail. Neural audio Enter deep work with our proprietary pink noise engine. Unlike white noise, pink noise reduces brain-wave complexity, promoting stable attention while masking interruptions without fatigue. Global pulse You are not alone. View the live active protocols counter and work alongside thousands in real time. Synchronize your energy with a global rhythm of productivity. Rituals and rewards Dopamine is a tool. Use it deliberately. Completion rituals reinforce your success loop and lock in momentum. OLED-optimized Designed for night owls and early risers. A true-black interface reduces eye strain and preserves battery during long sessions. FocusProtocol Control the environment. Enter flow. Execute.

About

LuDo

Plan your week with a clear, seven-day view. Add tasks, drag and drop them between days, and easily reschedule unfinished items. This app offers a private, device-based experience with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Seven-day weekly view
  • Drag-and-drop task management
  • Inbox for unscheduled tasks
  • Automatic weekly reset
  • Task archiving and rescheduling
  • Multiple contexts (Personal, Work)
  • Widgets for quick access
Features
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LuDo is the best way to plan the week you're in. Open it and your whole week is right there — seven days, stacked on one screen. Tap a day, add what you need to do, and get on with it. No setup. No accounts. No learning curve. Just your current week, at a glance. HOW IT WORKS Seven days, always visible, plus an inbox at the top for anything you haven't slotted into a day yet. Tap to complete. Swipe to edit or delete. Drag tasks between days — or back to the inbox — however your week shifts. A hand-drawn scribble crosses things off, like a paper notebook. AN HONEST WEEK At the end of every week, LuDo resets cleanly. Completed tasks are quietly archived. Unfinished ones don't vanish or turn red with guilt — they flow to the top of next week's inbox, ready to reschedule or let go. Nothing is ever silently lost. You decide what carries over. Own your week — the done and the undone. BUILT FOR A GLANCE The whole point: see your week in one look and know where you stand. No digging through menus, no notifications you didn't ask for, no dashboards to maintain. Designed to be opened, read, and closed — then actually used. PLAN NEXT WEEK, ON SUNDAY From Sunday, the Sunday card opens next week's board: your pending tasks are already there, ready to place onto the days they belong to. Add what's coming, come back to it all Sunday — Monday arrives already sorted. You can also add a task without opening the app: Siri, Spotlight, the Action Button or the widget. MORE, ONLY WHEN YOU NEED IT Keep Personal, Work and more as separate contexts — the same week, seen from different sides. Swipe the WEEK band to switch; each context keeps its own color and its own honest spillover. Set tasks to repeat every week for the things that always come back. Give a task a reminder — its day, an hour, done. Open a task to keep notes and checklists behind its title. On iPad, the week spreads into columns, with your contexts side by side. And glance at your week without opening the app, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — free for everyone. A WEEK FOR TWO Share one context with one other person — a partner, a flatmate, a teammate. You both see and edit the same tasks, each from your own iCloud account; nothing to set up beyond an invitation link, and ending the share leaves each of you a complete copy. It runs on Apple's iCloud, never on servers of ours — there are none. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your tasks live on your devices. No accounts. No external servers. No analytics or tracking of any kind. Your data is yours. SYNCED ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your tasks, contexts and settings sync privately between your iPhone and iPad through iCloud — Apple's own infrastructure, never our servers. Sign in to iCloud and it's on. Prefer to stay on one device? A single switch in Settings turns sync off and keeps everything already there. Free for everyone. FREE TO TRY — YOURS WITH ONE PAYMENT Download LuDo for free and plan your week: the seven days, the honest spillover, the color themes and the widgets are all free. The free version keeps up to three tasks per day — enough for a real week. One simple payment (never a subscription) unlocks unlimited tasks, contexts, weekly repeating tasks, reminders and shared contexts — forever, including every future update. We will never add subscriptions, and we will never charge for the core of what the app is. Follow us on Instagram: @ludoweekly

Screenshots

Focus Protocol3 screens
LuDo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LuDo at Free against Focus Protocol's $0.99. LuDo also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). Focus Protocol's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

LuDo is free to download; Focus Protocol costs $0.99 up front. LuDo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Focus Protocol asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Protocol ships an update every 6 weeks, LuDo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Focus Protocol versus LuDo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus ProtocolLuDo
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlice-Georgiana TURCANUAlejandro Alvarez Wilmanski

In-app purchases

None

Focus Protocol

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

LuDo

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$3.99

Questions

Is Focus Protocol free?
Focus Protocol costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LuDo free?
LuDo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus Protocol or LuDo have ads?
Neither Focus Protocol nor LuDo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Protocol or LuDo?
Focus Protocol ships an update every 6 weeks, and LuDo every 4 days. Most recently, Focus Protocol was updated on October 15, 2026 and LuDo on September 23, 2026.

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