Comparison

Roam Focus vs Roast Monkey

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

Head to head
About

Roam Focus

This app gamifies focus sessions by turning them into map-based journeys. Users can set a duration and activity, then track their progress and time spent while exploring a route. It offers session summaries, long-term pattern tracking, and achievements to encourage consistent focus.

Highlights
  • Map-based focus journeys
  • Customizable session lengths
  • Route progress tracking
  • Session summaries and history
  • Achievement and trophy system
  • Switchable visual themes
Features
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Roam Focus combines focus timing with map-based exploration. Choose your current location or set a custom start point, pick a session length, and begin a focused journey with walking, cycling, driving, and more. During each session, you can check elapsed time, route progress, and weather in a clear interface designed to reduce interruption. After every session, the app saves a summary with duration, distance, completion rate, and route overview for easy review. You can also track long-term patterns in history and unlock trophies and milestones over time. Chinese and English are supported, with switchable visual themes for a consistent daily focus routine.

About

Roast Monkey

This app uses a humorous, tough-love approach to help you build and break habits. Track your progress with a reactive monkey character, unlock achievements, and engage in friendly competition or accountability with friends. It's designed for those who need a strong nudge to achieve their goals.

Highlights
  • Customizable savagery levels for feedback
  • Reactive monkey character with 12 moods
  • Track habit building and breaking
  • Streak milestones and badge unlocks
  • Fame and Shame leaderboards
  • Shame a friend feature
  • Private by default, no account needed
Features
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Most habit trackers are too nice. Roast Monkey isn't. Meet Roko — the monkey who tracks your daily habits, builds your streaks, and absolutely drags you when you skip a day. Build habits. Break habits. And get the brutally funny feedback that finally turns 'tomorrow' into 'today.' WHY ROAST MONKEY HITS DIFFERENT • ROASTS THAT SCALE — three savagery levels (Mild → Medium → Send Help), so you set how hard Roko comes for you. • ROKO'S 12 MOODS — cool, angry, flexing, shocked, asleep, and more. Your monkey reacts to every win, miss, and excuse. • BUILD OR BREAK — track workouts, reading, hydration, meditation, walks, sleep, journaling, screen time, productivity. Or break smoking, doomscrolling, junk food, and late-night brain rot. • STREAK MILESTONES — unlock badges at 3, 7, 21, 30, 66, 100, and 365 days. Receipt-grade pride. • SHAME & FAME LEADERBOARDS — climb the Fame board with long streaks. Or land on Shame. Either way, your group chat will know. • SHAME A FRIEND — send a custom shame card when your bestie ghosts the gym. Best feature, no notes. • PRIVATE BY DEFAULT — no accounts, no cloud, no data harvesting. Your habits stay on your phone. WHO IT'S FOR • The 'I'll start Monday' crowd • Group chats that need accountability with vibes • Friends of 75 Hard, Atomic Habits, and 21-day challenges who need one more nudge • Anyone who can take a joke and wants to take their life seriously WHAT YOU CAN TRACK Workouts, runs, reading, journaling, meditation, hydration, sleep, screen time, diet, productivity, walking — or anything you type in. Set goals from 1 week to 66 days ('Stick It'). WHY IT WORKS Habit science says streaks plus identity equals behavior change. Roast Monkey adds the third ingredient: stakes that don't feel like homework. The roasts make missing memorable. The streaks make hitting addictive. Roko makes the whole thing feel like a friend who actually cares — by giving you zero slack. FREE TO START Build unlimited habits. Set streaks. Get roasted. All free. Premium unlocks deeper savagery and more (coming soon). Download Roast Monkey. Get your life together. Or don't — Roko's already got the receipts. https://www.vertexstudios.online/terms https://www.vertexstudios.online/privacy/roast-monkey

Screenshots

Roam Focus4 screens
Roast Monkey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Roam Focus at none against Roast Monkey's 3. Roast Monkey's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, ads 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. Roast Monkey sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Roam Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Roam Focus versus Roast Monkey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoam FocusRoast Monkey
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB40 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer程 梁VERTEX STUDIOS LTD

In-app purchases

None

Roam Focus

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Roast Monkey

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription Roast Monkey$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$39.99

Questions

Is Roam Focus free?
Roam Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roast Monkey free?
Roast Monkey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Roam Focus or Roast Monkey have ads?
Neither Roam Focus nor Roast Monkey shows ads.

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