Comparison

Dying Soon vs Focus Home

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

Head to head
About

Dying Soon

Features
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Spend less time scrolling and make room for the things you care about. Dying Soon combines an app blocker with a life grid and thoughtful reminders. Choose distracting apps, set a schedule, or start a 30-minute focus session. When you need a pause, temporary unlocks let you choose 5, 15 or 30 minutes. FOCUS ON YOUR DAY • Choose apps to block with Apple's Screen Time controls. • Set a recurring schedule for work, bedtime or another routine. • Start a 30-minute Block Now session with one tap. • Keep one scheduled rule and unlimited Block Now sessions for free. SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE Explore your life grid in years, months or weeks. The countdown uses the birthday and lifespan setting you choose. It is a reflection tool, not a medical assessment or a prediction of when you will die. A MOMENT TO REFLECT Discover quotes as you keep distracting apps closed. Daily notifications are optional: choose zero to ten reminders. Use the app without notifications if you prefer. DYING SOON PRO Pro adds unlimited scheduled rules, so work, bedtime and weekends can each have their own routine. Choose a one-time Lifetime purchase or an auto-renewable Monthly subscription in the app. Existing purchases can be restored from Settings or the Pro screen. Prices are shown in your local currency before purchase. Monthly subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. A Lifetime purchase is a single payment. No app account is required. Your birthday, life-grid settings and Screen Time selections stay on your device. Apple and RevenueCat process purchase information and anonymous paywall-interaction data for purchases and analytics. Privacy Policy: https://justcompress.online/apps/dying-soon/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Focus Home

This app transforms your phone's home screen into a calm, text-first interface designed to reduce mindless scrolling. Set daily intentions, create custom profiles for different contexts, and add friction to distracting apps to help you be more present and productive.

Highlights
  • Text-first launcher interface
  • Single daily intention setting
  • Customizable launcher profiles
  • Distraction blocking with delays
  • Focus session timers
  • Progress tracking dashboard
  • Lock-screen widgets
Features
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Your phone should serve your day, not steal it. Focus Home replaces the chaos of your home screen with a calm, text-first launcher built to slow down the moments that lead to mindless scrolling. Set a single daily intention that follows you across the launcher, dashboard, and lock screen widget — a quiet reminder of what actually matters before you open another feed. Whether you want to be more present with family, focus deeper at work, or simply spend less time staring at glass, Focus Home turns your phone into a tool for living instead of a slot machine for your attention. Build custom launcher profiles for work, home, faith, or study, and let them switch automatically based on your schedule. Mark the apps that pull you off track as distracting and Focus Home adds friction before they open: a customizable delay timer, reflection prompts like "Why are you opening this?", and optional daily launch limits or time budgets you actually keep. Start a Focus Session (25, 45, 60, or 90 minutes) when you need to lock in, add lock-screen widgets to launch your essentials with a single tap, and watch your progress in a built-in dashboard tracking focus score, pickups, avoided launches, and distracting opens — so you can see your habits change. Upgrade to Focus Home Premium for $1.99/month to unlock the full experience: unlimited launcher profiles, custom daily intentions, custom reflection prompts, advanced analytics, lock-screen widgets, automation, iCloud sync, and a beautiful set of premium themes including Warm Paper, Midnight, Forest, Sunset, Ocean, Ink, Rose, and Sage. Whether you stay on the free tier or go premium, every feature is built around one promise: fewer pickups, fewer regretted opens, and more of the life you actually want to be living. Download Focus Home and take your attention back today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dying Soon3 screens
Focus Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus Home at daily against Dying Soon's weekly. Dying Soon's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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. Dying Soon sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Focus Home sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dying Soon ships an update weekly, Focus Home daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Dying Soon versus Focus Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDying SoonFocus Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer嘉莉 梁WILLIAM BARRY AGNEW

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dying Soon

Subscriptions2
  • Dying Soon Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Dying Soon Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$14.99
1 purchases

Focus Home

Subscriptions1
  • Focus Home Premium$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Dying Soon free?
Dying Soon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Home free?
Focus Home is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dying Soon or Focus Home have ads?
Neither Dying Soon nor Focus Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dying Soon or Focus Home?
Dying Soon ships an update weekly, and Focus Home daily. Most recently, Dying Soon was updated on October 31, 2026 and Focus Home on October 31, 2026.

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