Comparison

FocusTogether vs Flash Log

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

Head to head
About

FocusTogether

Features
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Focus like never before with the beautifully designed productivity timer. FocusTogether is your ultimate productivity companion designed to help you stay focused, build healthy habits, and achieve your goals. Whether you're a student studying for exams, a professional tackling work tasks, or someone managing ADHD, this app helps you get more done. WHY FOCUSTOGETHER? → Gamified Productivity – Earn XP, level up, and unlock achievements → Streak System – Build habits with daily streak tracking → Daily Challenges – Fresh challenges every day to keep you motivated → Beautiful Design – Clean, distraction-free interface → Detailed Statistics – Track your progress with beautiful charts → Customizable – Adjust timer settings to fit your workflow POWERFUL POMODORO TIMER • Flexible focus sessions • Customizable work and break intervals • Auto-start breaks after focus sessions • Beautiful circular progress ring • Inspirational quotes to keep you motivated STREAK SYSTEM & MOTIVATION Build lasting habits with our powerful streak system: • Daily streak tracking to keep you accountable • Set personalized daily focus goals • Streak freeze protection to save your progress • Watch your flame grow as your streak increases! XP & LEVELING SYSTEM Turn productivity into a game: • Earn XP for every focus session completed • Level up and track your progress • Bonus XP for maintaining streaks • See your level grow as you improve DAILY & WEEKLY CHALLENGES Stay motivated with fresh challenges: • New daily challenges every day • Weekly challenges for bigger rewards • Easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels • Earn bonus XP for completing challenges ACHIEVEMENTS & MILESTONES Celebrate your progress: • Unlock achievements for focus milestones • Track your total sessions and hours focused • Earn badges for building streaks • View your progress toward the next achievement DETAILED STATISTICS Understand your productivity patterns: • Daily, weekly, and monthly focus tracking • Beautiful charts showing your progress • Track your total focus time • Monitor daily goal completion BEAUTIFUL THEMES Personalize your experience with 7 stunning themes: • Indigo Night (Default) • Ocean Blue • Forest Green • Sunset Orange • Rose Pink • Purple Dream • Light Mode SMART NOTIFICATIONS Stay on track: • Session completion alerts • Break reminders • Customizable notification sounds • Haptic feedback WHO IS FOCUSTOGETHER FOR? Students – Perfect exam timer and study companion Professionals – Stay productive at work ADHD/ADD – Structured sessions help maintain focus Readers – Track reading sessions Creatives – Focus on your craft Anyone – Building better productivity habits

About

Flash Log

This app helps you focus on completing your daily tasks with a clean interface that hides completed items. It offers optional time estimates and tracking, with features like Lock Screen and Apple Watch integration for seamless task management.

Highlights
  • Focus on single tasks
  • Automatic completion hiding
  • Optional time estimates
  • Lock Screen and Apple Watch integration
  • Recurring task management
  • Voice input and Siri integration
  • Data export
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Flash Log is an app for handling your to-dos simply, so you can move the one in front of you forward. Today's screen shows only today. Write it down, start it, check it off — that's all there is to learn. Finished to-dos tuck themselves away, so the screen always stays quiet. ■ Simple to start - Write down today's to-dos and check them off. That alone is a complete way to use the app. - Completed items hide automatically, so you always see only what's ahead. - Next morning, you choose which of yesterday's leftovers to carry over. Nothing piles up on its own. ■ Focus on doing - Start a to-do and it opens in a full-screen focus view — just you and the one thing. - "Just these today" — pick the few things that really matter today and show only those. - While it's running, it also shows on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, and on Apple Watch, where you can pause or complete it. - The time you spend is recorded automatically. Your effort leaves a trace. When you finish, you can leave a star rating and a short note as a reflection (optional, of course). ■ Think in time (only if you want to) - Give a to-do a time estimate and the day shows its total — you'll know "today is full" before it happens. - Estimates (gray) and actuals (blue) sit side by side, so you gradually learn what your "30 minutes" really is. - Estimates are always optional. Everything works beautifully without them. ■ Look back on your day (only if you want to) - At the end of the day, see what you did in the order you did it. Add things you did that weren't planned. - Send unfinished things to another day, the Inbox, or a smaller next step — or simply let them go. - Read each day's actual time and notes across a week or a month. ■ Your style, your method - Capture ideas into the Inbox, then drag them onto a day when you decide. (For GTD fans) - Drag to-dos onto a timeline in calendar view. (For timeboxing fans) - Comparing estimates with actuals will feel familiar to TaskChute practitioners. - Use any method fully, partially — or none at all. A plain to-do list is a perfectly good way to use Flash Log. ■ Recurring to-dos that don't pile up - Daily and weekly to-dos appear each day as a dimmed "tentative" preview. - Tap the ones you'll actually do — only those become real. Skipped days never stack up. ■ An everyday tool - Add to-dos by voice. Works with Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight search. - Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities, and an Apple Watch app. - Reminders for start and expected end times, search across every day, and your calendar events overlaid on the timeline. - Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with optional iCloud sync — you decide. - On iPhone Duo, Flash Log uses the whole screen, closed or open. Open it up and the day list and Inbox sit side by side. ■ Easy to trust - Free. No ads. No account. - Your data stays on your device; sync only uses your own iCloud, only if you turn it on. - Add-by-voice speech recognition runs entirely on your device; your voice never leaves it. - Export your data as plain text anytime. No lock-in. Not for managing your to-dos — for finishing them. Flash Log tries to be a tool that never gets in the way of your pace.

Screenshots

FocusTogether4 screens
Flash Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Flash Log at none against FocusTogether's shown. FocusTogether's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FocusTogether versus Flash Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusTogetherFlash Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB17 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperElias MeissnerShinichi Nanbu

In-app purchases

None

FocusTogether

No in-app purchases

None

Flash Log

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FocusTogether free?
FocusTogether is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flash Log free?
Flash Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FocusTogether or Flash Log have ads?
FocusTogether shows ads; Flash Log does not.

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