Comparison

Focus Hack vs Memento V

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

Head to head
About

Focus Hack

This app uses a gamified approach to help users stay focused. It features a timer that alerts you when your focus session is complete, but touching your phone during the session will corrupt the progress.

Highlights
  • Focus timer
  • Gamified focus sessions
  • Phone interaction penalty
  • Customizable alerts
  • Progress tracking
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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.

About

Memento V

Features
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Memento shows you your entire life on a single screen. Every small square is one week. The ones behind you are filled. The ones ahead are empty. That's it. That's the whole picture — your past, your present, and everything still to come, laid out in a grid you can hold in your hand. It sounds simple. It isn't. YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS Inspired by Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks," Memento translates one of the most powerful ideas about human time into a tool you can carry with you. Enter your date of birth and a life expectancy, and Memento builds your personal grid instantly — every week of your life, from the first to the last, accounted for. THE PEOPLE WHO MATTER MOST Time is not just about what you do — it's about who you're with. Add the people you love to Memento: a parent, a child, a best friend, a partner. Enter their age and how often you realistically see them each year. Memento calculates how many meetings you likely have left with that person. WHY IT CHANGES THINGS Reading that time is finite is one thing. Seeing it is another. When you look at your grid and count the squares you have left — really count them — something shifts. Priorities become clearer. Distractions feel lighter. The question "how do I want to spend my time?" stops being abstract. Memento is not a productivity app. It does not give you tasks, habits, or streaks. It gives you perspective. What you do with that perspective is entirely up to you. WHO YOU SPEND IT WITH Time is not just about what you do — it's about who you're with when you do it. Memento lets you attach people to periods of your life, so the grid reflects not just your timeline but the relationships that have shaped it. DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU FEEL SOMETHING Every design decision in Memento was made in service of one thing: emotional clarity. The grid is clean, quiet, and unhurried. There are no notifications pushing you to open the app. No streaks guilt-tripping you into engagement. You open it when you need to be reminded of something true, and then you close it and go live. FEATURES: · Full life grid based on your date of birth and chosen life expectancy · Filled and empty weeks shown at a glance · Add notes and memories to any past week · Mark meaningful people and relationships across your timeline · Clean, distraction-free interface · Private and local — no account, no cloud, no data collection · Dark and light mode A NOTE ON PRIVACY Your birth date and life memories are deeply personal. Memento stores everything locally on your device. Nothing is sent to any server. No account is required. No data is collected. Ever. ON THE IDEA ITSELF Tim Urban's essay "Your Life in Weeks" has been read by millions of people because it does something rare — it makes an abstract truth feel real. Memento exists to extend that moment. Not as a morbid exercise, but as an honest one. You have a finite number of weeks. Most of them are genuinely yours to shape. That's not a reason for anxiety. It's a reason to pay attention. Open Memento. Count your weeks. Then go make them count.

Screenshots

Focus Hack4 screens
Memento V4 screens

Verdict

The call

Focus Hack and Memento V are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Focus Hack versus Memento V: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus HackMemento V
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan KiapourDaniyal Taskali

In-app purchases

None

Focus Hack

No in-app purchases

None

Memento V

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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