Comparison

Nora AI Assistant vs Focus Y

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

Head to head
About

Nora AI Assistant

Features
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Nora is an AI assistant designed to help you capture, organize, and act on the context of your life. You can use Nora to write down thoughts, summarize conversations, remember important details, create reminders, manage follow-ups, and connect information across your day. Nora helps turn scattered notes, voice recordings, meetings, messages, files, and tasks into clear next steps. With Nora, you can: • Capture thoughts and voice notes quickly • Turn conversations into structured summaries • Create reminders and recurring routines • Keep track of tasks, decisions, and follow-ups • Connect with tools like calendar, email, files, and messaging apps • Ask questions about your own notes and context • Organize personal and work information in one place Nora is built for people who want an assistant that understands context, reduces mental clutter, and helps them stay on top of what matters. Some features may require optional permissions such as microphone access, notifications, calendar access, contacts, reminders, files, photos, or location. These permissions are only used to provide the features you choose to enable. Nora is not a medical, legal, financial, or emergency service. It is designed to support productivity, memory, organization, and personal assistance.

About

Focus Y

Features
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Focus Y is a companion that helps you concentrate. Put a focus timer, light planning, and quick notes in your pocket — a refined black-and-white design, native to iOS. Quiet the world and settle into the flow of this moment. • Focus dial — drag to set your duration, tap once to begin uninterrupted deep work. • Landscape flip clock — lay your phone on its side and it becomes a mechanical split-flap desk clock, with a soft breathing edge light to slow your breath. • Lock Screen Live Activity — your countdown shows on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, so you can put the phone down and still see your progress. • Leave Guard — switch away to scroll something else mid-session and it logs a distraction automatically. The phone is the biggest distraction of all. • Light planning — switch between a list and the Eisenhower matrix; long-press to adjust priority and schedule. • Notes & calendar — jot ideas down; your focus records and planned tasks gather into one clear calendar. • Sync with Mac — paired with Focus Y for Mac, your records, plans, and notes sync automatically over iCloud, and a pixel companion keeps you company on the desktop. Quiet the world. Focus on the flow of this moment.

Screenshots

Nora AI Assistant4 screens
Focus Y4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus Y at every 3 days against Nora AI Assistant's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nora AI Assistant ships an update weekly, Focus Y every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Nora AI Assistant versus Focus Y: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNora AI AssistantFocus Y
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHenrique Barone虹屹 霍

In-app purchases

None

Nora AI Assistant

No in-app purchases

None

Focus Y

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nora AI Assistant free?
Nora AI Assistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focus Y free?
Focus Y is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nora AI Assistant or Focus Y have ads?
Neither Nora AI Assistant nor Focus Y shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nora AI Assistant or Focus Y?
Nora AI Assistant ships an update weekly, and Focus Y every 3 days. Most recently, Nora AI Assistant was updated on October 31, 2026 and Focus Y on October 31, 2026.

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