Focus vs Thrive

One app. One price. Zero distractions. Focus is a simple attention training app with 3 science-backed exercises designed to strengthen your ability to concentrate. Pay once — no subscriptions, no ads, no in-app purchases. Ever. WHAT YOU GET Focus Lock — Sustain attention on a single target while distractions try to pull you away. Train the ability to stay locked in. Inhibition Test — Respond quickly to targets while resisting the urge to react to distractors. Build impulse control and selective attention. Rhythm Tap — Maintain a steady rhythm by tapping in time. Practice sustained concentration and internal timing. Each exercise is grounded in cognitive science research on attention, inhibition, and working memory. WHY FOCUS WORKS Most focus apps are just timers. Focus actually trains the cognitive skills behind attention: · Selective attention — filtering out what doesn't matter · Sustained attention — staying on task without drifting · Inhibitory control — resisting impulses and distractions Sessions take 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Short enough to fit anywhere in your day. Challenging enough to actually improve your focus over time. BUILT FOR DAILY PRACTICE · Streak tracking keeps you consistent · Adjustable difficulty grows with you · Clean, minimal design — zero distractions · Accessibility-first: VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, high contrast ONE PRICE. NO TRICKS. Focus is a one-time purchase. You pay once and get everything. No free tier with annoying upsells. No subscription to cancel. No ads. Just the full app, forever. DESIGNED FOR · Students who need better study focus · Professionals who struggle with distractions at work · Anyone who feels their attention span has gotten shorter · People looking for a simple, no-nonsense brain training tool Focus is intentionally simple. Three exercises. Daily practice. Real improvement. Download once. Own forever. Start training your focus today.

The most important subject you'll ever study is yourself. Thrive is a private self-discovery practice designed to surface what you've been carrying without quite putting into words. Ten questions per session. One at a time. A personalized synthesis at the end. No advice, no fixes, and no one else listening. Just the kind of deep conversation you don't usually get to have, in a space quiet enough to answer them honestly. Most apps tell you what to do. Thrive asks you what you actually think. — THREE TERRAINS — • Past — Trace the patterns, bonds, and stories that shaped how you move through the world today. • Present — Sit with what's alive in you right now: thoughts, feelings, values, what you're resisting. • Future — Name who you're becoming, what you actually want, and what it will ask of you. — 38 LENSES ON YOUR INTERIOR — Thrive is organized into 38 distinct "modes" — each a different lens for looking at yourself, rooted in a real psychological or philosophical tradition. Open the one that fits today; the others are waiting. PAST — what shaped you • Your Hidden Self (Jungian shadow work) • Your Core Beliefs (schema therapy) • Your Relational Self (attachment theory) • Your Younger Self (IFS / inner child) • Your Honored Losses (grief work) • Your Forged Self (kintsugi / wabi-sabi) • Your Family Patterns, Your Story, Your Resilience, and more. PRESENT — what's alive in you now • Your Emotional World (DBT / affect labeling) • Your Thought Loops (CBT) • Your Thought Distance (ACT defusion) • Your Inner Parts (IFS) • Your Kinder Voice (self-compassion) • Your Values (Stoic philosophy) • Your Observing Self (Advaita Vedanta) • Your Natural Flow (Taoist wu wei) • Your Flourishing (Aristotelian eudaimonia), and more. FUTURE — what you're moving toward • Your Real Why (motivational interviewing) • Your Future Self (future-self research) • Your Purpose (ikigai) • Your Legacy (existential therapy) • Your Worst Case (Stoic premeditatio) • Your New Identity (identity-based change) • Your Commitments, Your Energy, Your Circle, and more. — PRIVATE BY DESIGN — What you're willing to say changes completely when you know no one else is listening. Thrive is built around that fact. • Conversations are never stored on our servers. • Sessions clear from your device automatically. • No sign-up required to begin — anonymous account by default. • Optional Face ID / fingerprint lock on the app itself. • Voice input is processed by your phone's built-in speech recognition; we never receive the audio. Bring the version of yourself no one else gets to meet. That's the one worth getting to know. — BUILT ON 2,500 YEARS OF KNOWING YOURSELF — Thrive draws from the traditions that have actually helped humans live well — Stoicism, Taoism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Jungian depth psychology, IFS, CBT, ACT, DBT, schema therapy, narrative therapy, logotherapy, and more. The frameworks are real; the questions come from them. Thrive simply makes the practice easy to return to. — FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DONE WITH SHALLOW — Thrive is for you if you've outgrown affirmations and surface-level mood trackers. If you journal but want better questions. If you're between therapy sessions and want somewhere to take a thought. If you're curious about shadow work, parts work, Stoic reflection, or the examined life — and want a structured place to actually do it. A single session is a conversation. A thousand sessions are a transformation. — WHAT'S INCLUDED — • A free trial, then monthly or annual subscription. • 30 guided sessions every month, across all 38 modes. • Goals that quietly carry forward between sessions. • A reading library of short essays, beautifully typeset for slow attention. • Optional gentle notification reminders. — WHEN TO OPEN THRIVE — • When a thought won't leave you alone. • When trying to get clarity on your life. • On the days you'd usually scroll instead.