Comparison

Goldfish Focus vs Studva

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

Head to head
About

Goldfish Focus

Record study sessions as satisfying timelapses to visualize your effort. Track study hours, build streaks, and share progress with a community of students for accountability. Visualize your academic journey with clean analytics.

Highlights
  • Study session timelapses
  • Track study hours and habits
  • Build and maintain streaks
  • Community sharing and accountability
  • Academic journey profile
  • Progress visualization
Features
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Study smarter. Show your work. Goldfish turns study sessions into timelapses. Short, satisfying videos that capture the hours you put in. Record yourself working, build a streak, and share your sessions with a community of students who are putting in the same effort. Think of it like Strava, but for your GPA. Track what actually matters: Watch your study hours, streaks, and habits build over time with clean analytics that tell you exactly where your time goes. Make progress visible: A timelapse of an hours-long study session becomes a 30-second video. Post it. Let people see the work, not just the results. Study with people who get it: Follow friends and classmates who are grinding through the same stuff you are. Goldfish is built for students who want accountability without the noise. Your data, your story: Build a profile that reflects your academic journey: your major, your goals, your habits.

About

Studva

Transform focus hours into measurable, shareable achievements. This app turns study or work sessions into verified activities, complete with leaderboards and community support. Track progress, block distractions, and discover your peak productivity times.

Highlights
  • Verified focus sessions with start/end photos
  • Distraction blocking by pausing apps
  • Personalized productivity coaching
  • Social feed with friend interactions
  • Location-based leaderboards
  • Exportable session data (CSV)
Features
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Studva is the Strava of deep work: turn your focus hours into wins you share. Whether you're preparing for an exam, pushing a side project forward or working remotely: staying focused alone is hard. Studva turns every work session into a measured, verified, social activity - just like a workout. HOW IT WORKS 1. Arrive - settle in wherever you work: library, campus, café, office. 2. Start - snap your start photo, then start the timer. It becomes half of your before/after. 3. Focus - stay locked in, the app counts distractions. 4. Share - post your before/after with your stats baked in: proof of what you got done. Friends cheer you on with a Focus and you climb the leaderboards together. VERIFIED SESSIONS In an approved place, GPS confirms you were there at the start and the end: your session gets the Verified badge. Place leaderboards only count verified sessions. YOUR TIMER, ALWAYS IN SIGHT Your time keeps running on your lock screen - and in the Dynamic Island on iPhones that have one. Pause or finish your session without even reopening the app. BLOCK WHAT DISTRACTS YOU (iPhone) Pick the apps to pause during your sessions: they stay out of reach until the timer ends. Studva never sees which ones you chose - the selection stays on your phone. YOUR PRODUCTIVITY COACH Every week, Studva analyzes your sessions and tells you when and where you perform best: your peak time slot, your home base, your trends. Everything is computed on your phone. LEVELS AND SHOP Every minute of work earns you XP. Level up and spend it in the shop: animated stickers, frames, banners and timers, right down to your lock screen. A COMMUNITY THAT PUSHES YOU - A feed of your friends: cheer with a Focus, comment, chat in private messages - Clubs: your class, your team or your friends, with built-in chat - Weekly league with friends, challenges and trophies to unlock - Streaks: stack up the days and keep your run alive OVER 500,000 PLACES ON THE MAP Libraries, campuses and study spots worldwide. Every place has its own leaderboard: become the reference of your spot. YOUR STATS, YOUR PROGRESS Time per subject or project, personal records, weekly goals, exam and deadline countdowns, CSV export. PRIVACY FIRST - Your location is only used to verify your session - never a GPS trace, never a real-time position visible to others - Your private places: only you can see where they are - Friends only by default - Data hosted in Europe, except the notification identifier (Expo, United States), never sold - Deleting your account immediately erases your profile, your sessions with their photos, and your messages Ready to make focus a sport? Download Studva and start your first session.

Screenshots

Goldfish Focus4 screens
Studva4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Goldfish Focus at 21 against Studva's 1. Studva's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Goldfish Focus against 5.0 for Studva. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Goldfish Focus has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Goldfish Focus ships an update weekly, Studva every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Goldfish Focus versus Studva: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoldfish FocusStudva
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (21 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.516.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB85 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTRISTAN CROSS CHOIGeant Luka

Customer experience

Goldfish Focus

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Studva

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Goldfish Focus

No in-app purchases

None

Studva

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Goldfish Focus free?
Goldfish Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Studva free?
Studva is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Goldfish Focus or Studva?
Goldfish Focus and Studva are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 21 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Goldfish Focus or Studva have ads?
Neither Goldfish Focus nor Studva shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Goldfish Focus or Studva?
Goldfish Focus ships an update weekly, and Studva every 10 days. Most recently, Goldfish Focus was updated on October 31, 2026 and Studva on October 29, 2026.

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