Comparison

Focus Hack vs Threadline

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

Threadline

A private journal for tracking relationships, conversations, and important moments. Create profiles, log dates, and save details to prepare for future interactions. Analyze patterns without judgment.

Highlights
  • Private profiles and timelines
  • Date and conversation logging
  • Customizable reflection prompts
  • Private brief for upcoming dates
  • Local statistics and pattern analysis
  • Relationship Mode
  • Data export and deletion controls
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Threadline is a private relationship journal for remembering the people, dates, conversations, and moments that matter to you. Create a personal profile for someone you’re getting to know. Keep a timeline of dates and conversations. Save places, time spent together, milestones, expenses in the currencies you choose, and the details you want to remember next time. REFLECT YOUR WAY Choose from thoughtful prompts or create your own metrics. Record how you felt, whether communication felt easy, what gave you energy, or anything else that matters to you. Threadline keeps each metric separate. It does not rank people or tell you who is “best.” PREPARE WITH A PRIVATE BRIEF Before your next date, quickly revisit the last interaction, pinned details, open questions, current relationship stage, and recent rhythm. Your brief is built locally from information you chose to save. NOTICE PATTERNS, NOT VERDICTS Explore clear, local statistics about interaction rhythm, time together, personal reflections, tags, stages, and spending by currency. Every insight shows its date range and sample size. There are no compatibility verdicts, diagnoses, or relationship decisions. BUILT FOR PRIVACY • No account or public profile • Journal data stays on this device unless you choose to export it • App Lock with Face ID or Touch ID • Privacy cover when the app leaves the foreground • Sensitive private text encrypted on device • No third-party advertising or behavioral tracking SDKs FLEXIBLE FROM DATING TO RELATIONSHIP Use custom stages, tags, milestones, and reminders while dating. When a relationship becomes your focus, switch to Relationship Mode without losing the history that brought you there. CORE FEATURES • Private profiles and timelines • Fast Quick Log for dates and conversations • Custom stages, milestones, tags, and reflections • Time, place, duration, and multi-currency expenses • Private Brief before the next interaction • Local charts and transparent statistics • Relationship Mode and local reminders • Readable data export and deletion controls • Password-encrypted backup, verification, and replace-only restore Threadline is a private journal and personal organization tool. It is not a dating, matching, messaging, surveillance, medical, or therapy service. Some features require Threadline Pro. Available plans and prices are shown in the app before purchase. Annual subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. A one-time Lifetime option is also available. Readable JSON/CSV exports are plaintext. Password-encrypted backups can be verified and restored; restore replaces the destination journal and is not automatic sync. Photo attachments are not included. Restoring an App Store purchase restores Pro access only, not journal content. Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/threadline/privacy Terms of Use: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/threadline/terms Support: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/threadline

Screenshots

Focus Hack4 screens
Threadline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focus Hack at none against Threadline's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Threadline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Focus Hack asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focus Hack against 5.0 for Threadline. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Focus Hack versus Threadline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus HackThreadline
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan Kiapour慧慧 高

In-app purchases

None

Focus Hack

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Threadline

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Annual$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is Focus Hack free?
Focus Hack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Threadline free?
Threadline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus Hack or Threadline?
Focus Hack and Threadline are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Focus Hack or Threadline have ads?
Neither Focus Hack nor Threadline shows ads.

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