Comparison

Uncharted Year vs Focus Hack

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

Head to head
About

Uncharted Year

Reflect on your life visually without pressure or performance metrics. Log meaningful moments to create a living map of your year, representing different life areas as evolving landscapes.

Highlights
  • Log meaningful moments across life areas
  • See your year as a living visual map
  • Weekly summaries without scores
  • Gentle insights based on attention
  • Calm reflection, not productivity pressure
  • Privacy respected, data is yours
Features
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Your year is not a checklist. It is a landscape. This app offers a calm, visual way to reflect on your life over time, without habits, streaks, pressure, or performance. Instead of tracking what you should do, you gently log moments that felt meaningful. Slowly, a living map of your year emerges. Each area of life is represented as an island. Attention brings clarity and richness. Neglect fades quietly into fog. Nothing breaks. Nothing fails. The map simply responds. There are no goals to chase and no metrics to optimize. You are not asked to improve yourself. You are invited to notice. Log moments when they happen, a conversation, a focused hour, a quiet insight, a creative spark. Over weeks, patterns begin to form. Some areas grow steadily. Others pause. Both are natural. Weekly reflections help you understand what shaped your time, without judging how productive you were. A gentle “path” view shows whether your direction feels clear or scattered, not as feedback, but as context. This app is designed for people who: • Feel overwhelmed by habit trackers • Want reflection without self-pressure • Prefer awareness over optimization • Value calm, intentional design • Want to remember their year, not measure it There are no streaks to maintain. No reminders to guilt you. No numbers demanding attention. Everything unfolds at your pace. Over time, your year becomes an archipelago, a quiet record of what you returned to, what you nurtured, and what you let rest. Features: • Log meaningful moments across life areas • See your year as a living visual map • Weekly summaries without scores or grades • Gentle insights based on attention, not output • Designed for calm reflection, not productivity pressure Privacy is respected. Your data is yours. This is not a habit app. This is not a productivity tool. This is a space to notice your life as it unfolds. Many apps ask you to define success upfront. This one does not. You don’t need to decide what matters most before you begin. You don’t need to set goals, habits, or rules. You simply start where you are. Each moment you log is small by design. A sentence is enough. Sometimes even less. The act of noticing matters more than the wording. Over time, these moments form a quiet record of your year, not as a timeline, but as a landscape. Some weeks feel steady. Others feel unclear. The app reflects this honestly, without pushing you toward conclusions. Fog is not failure. Pauses are not regressions. Attention moves naturally, and the map adapts with it. This makes the app especially useful during transitions, new jobs, changing priorities, creative phases, recovery periods, or times when traditional productivity systems feel too rigid or demanding. The visual language is intentional. Soft colors, natural forms, and spacious layouts are meant to slow you down rather than stimulate you. You are never rushed to act. You are invited to observe. There is no “perfect” map to reach. No ideal balance to maintain. Some islands may stay quiet for months. Others may become unexpectedly rich. Both tell a story worth seeing. Weekly and yearly views help you step back and recognize patterns you might otherwise miss, where your energy returned, where it drifted, and where clarity slowly emerged. This app works best when used gently. Once a day. Once a week. Or only when something feels worth remembering. Consistency is not required for meaning to appear. If you’ve ever felt that tracking your life turned into managing yourself, this app offers an alternative. A slower one. A quieter one. One that trusts your attention more than your discipline. Your year does not need to be fixed. It only needs to be seen. Privacy Policy: https://unchartedyear.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Focus Hack

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A new way to focus! Just start the focus timer and the hacking upload will alert you when your focus time is over. Be careful though, as one touch of your phone will corrupt the hacking signals and cancel the upload.

Screenshots

Uncharted Year4 screens
Focus Hack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Uncharted Year at 15.1 against Focus Hack's 18.6. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Uncharted Year versus Focus Hack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUncharted YearFocus Hack
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCIX-SolutionsRyan Kiapour

In-app purchases

None

Uncharted Year

No in-app purchases

None

Focus Hack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Uncharted Year free?
Uncharted Year is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focus Hack free?
Focus Hack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Uncharted Year or Focus Hack have ads?
Neither Uncharted Year nor Focus Hack shows ads.

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