Comparison

Sanctuary vs Oasa

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

Head to head
About

Sanctuary

Features
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Focusing hasn't been this cute since... ever. Struggling to put down your phone? Meet The Sanctuary, the focus timer that turns your productivity sessions into a mission to save the wild. -> How It Works Choose your tasks: Set a timer for work, study, or reading. Stay Focused: While you work, you are attracting new species to your sanctuary. Build Your Collection: Discover rare animals (Pandas, Birds, Foxes) and watch your sanctuary grow. -> Key Features Gamified Focus Logic: The best way to beat phone addiction is to make focusing fun. Cute Animal Collection: Dozens of beautifully animated 3D animals to discover and release. Strict Mode: Lock your focus to ensure you get your deep work done. Detailed Stats: Track your daily, weekly, and monthly focus hours. Wholesome Vibes: A cozy, relaxing 3D environment that changes as you progress. Perfect for students, ADHD minds, and anyone who wants to make their time count. Download The Sanctuary and start your collection today! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://the-sanctuary-three.vercel.app/terms

About

Oasa

Features
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Oasa is a calm, mindful productivity app for people who want to focus on what matters — without the guilt, badges, and red overdue counters of traditional to-do lists. WORK FRAMED AS A GARDEN, NOT A CHORE LIST Instead of folders and lists, you have Oases — gentle workspaces for projects, ideas, and life areas. Each task is a Seed you plant. Each focus session is time you spend Tending. And every action quietly grows your private Zen Garden — a living visual of your accumulated effort that never shrinks, never resets, never punishes. THREE WAYS TO PLAN, ONE FOR EVERY MOOD • Simple — a clean prioritized list when you just want to capture and do. • 80/20 — surface the Vital Seeds that matter most by ranking impact against effort. • Hyperfocus — sort tasks into Deep Work, Shallow, Distraction, and Let Go quadrants so you spend your best hours on real work. FEATURES • Plant Oases for every project, with optional due dates and reminders • Add Seeds with notes, due dates, priority, impact/effort, or focus quadrants • Break Seeds into Sprouts (subtasks) and tick them off in flow • Tend mode — built-in focus timer (15, 25, 45, 60 minutes or custom) • Today Pulse — an editorial daily snapshot of what's open, overdue, and golden • Bento Lenses — switch between Today, Loose, Matrix, and Focus views on Home • Insights — calm weekly, monthly, and quarterly analytics • Garden — eight progress stages, from barren pot to paradise • Gentle notifications and reminders that respect your attention • Apple Sign-In, Google Sign-In, and email accounts • Full light and dark mode • Available in 11 languages DESIGNED FOR CALM, NOT URGENCY Oasa rejects the patterns that make productivity apps stressful. Your Garden only grows. There are no streaks to break, no red overdue badges, no guilt loops. Colors are warm and editorial — sage green, sand, antique gold — motion is slow and meditative, and every destructive action asks twice. PERFECT FOR • Knowledge workers, creatives, founders, and freelancers who feel overwhelmed • Students balancing coursework, projects, and life • Anyone tired of clinical task apps who wants something kinder PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your tasks belong to you. Oasa stores credentials in the device secure store and keeps the data it touches minimal. License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://oasa.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://oasa.app/privacy

Screenshots

Sanctuary4 screens
Oasa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Oasa at none against Sanctuary's 3. Oasa also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sanctuary's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Sanctuary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.39 per month. Oasa asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sanctuary ships an update every 5 days, Oasa monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Sanctuary versus Oasa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSanctuaryOasa
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSharian DabreCIX-Solutions

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sanctuary

Subscriptions2
  • Montly Pro$3.391 Month
  • Yearly Pro$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$33.00
None

Oasa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sanctuary free?
Sanctuary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Oasa free?
Oasa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sanctuary or Oasa have ads?
Sanctuary shows ads; Oasa does not.
Which is updated more often, Sanctuary or Oasa?
Sanctuary ships an update every 5 days, and Oasa monthly. Most recently, Sanctuary was updated on October 6, 2026 and Oasa on October 7, 2026.

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