Comparison

Focus Timer & Detox vs Reckon

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

Head to head
About

Focus Timer & Detox

Features
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Those who truly change are quiet. They don't announce it. They don't compare. They simply build. Ghosty is not just a tool for getting things done. In an age of information overload, it's a space to go ghost — to become invisible to the noise and the eyes of others — and face your goals alone. Building daily routines, moving quietly toward what matters. This is not mere productivity. It is self-expression. Ghosty was built for those who design their own lives, dive deep, and live in a state of quiet obsession. ■ Mint Green That Shifts Your Mind The moment you open the app, a vivid mint green accent catches your eye and triggers the switch into deep focus. An immersive design, stripped of everything unnecessary. ■ A Linear UI That Clears Your Thinking Goals, progress, and daily routines — arranged in a clean, vertical flow with nothing wasted. No hesitation in your eye or your hand. Only what you need to face right now rises clearly into view. ■ The System That Sustains Immersion Full Phone Lockdown (Blackout) During a session, access to social media and video apps is physically blocked. No willpower required — the environment simply doesn't allow it. Visualize Your Investment Toward Goals Before each session, link your goal (Mission) to what you'll do (Action). Time doesn't just count down — you feel it accumulating as investment. Self-Control Over Dopamine After each session, rate your focus quality on a five-point scale. Reading earns a positive score. Mindless scrolling earns a negative one. Self-control becomes a skill. Proof of Your Journey (Apple Calendar Integration) Every session is automatically logged to your calendar. Alongside your journaling, it quietly documents the ground you've covered. ■ Why We Built This We believe there has never been a greater need to disconnect from the noise and listen to your own inner voice. The name Ghosty is a nod to "ghost mode" — a concept from self-development culture that means temporarily cutting ties with the outside world to go all-in on personal growth. Not just optimization. A way to make the everyday beautiful. This space is for those with their own unshakeable aesthetic. Not to show anyone. Not to compete with anyone. No social features. No rankings. Core features are free and open to all users. About the Pro Plan Unlimited Action creation, full history insight analysis, iCloud backup, and more — the Pro Plan unlocks the complete system. Your first 14 days are free. It's just you and your goals. Be a Ghost. Stay Focused. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Reckon

This app helps you track your decisions, predictions, and reasoning to improve your judgment over time. It provides insights into your decision-making patterns and allows you to revisit past choices. Gain a clearer understanding of your confidence levels versus actual outcomes.

Highlights
  • Record predictions and reasoning
  • Track confidence vs. outcomes
  • Surface decision-making patterns
  • Log outcomes and satisfaction
  • Capture mid-decision check-ins
  • Browse and filter resolved decisions
  • Organize decisions by review date
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A record of how you decide, more than a decision journal or decision tracker. Most decisions feel resolved the moment you make them. Reckon keeps the prediction, the confidence, and the reasoning. Over time you can see how your judgment holds up. CALIBRATION, FINALLY SOMETHING YOU CAN SEE Every decision in Reckon starts with what you think will happen and how sure you are. Over months, that turns into a record you can read: confidence over time, predicted vs. observed, the difference between the calls you make well and the ones you only think you do. INSIGHTS THAT LIVE IN THE LONG TERM After fifty decisions, the patterns appear. After a hundred, they're hard to ignore. Reckon surfaces them: where confidence overshoots outcomes, where it undershoots, which domains your judgment is sharp in, and which ones still need work. RESOLUTION, THEN A SECOND LOOK When a decision resolves, you log what happened, whether the call was correct, and how satisfied you are with it. Thirty to sixty days later, Reckon asks again: would you make this call again? The two answers are rarely the same. CHECK-INS FOR THE MIDDLE OF A DECISION Between making a call and finding out how it went, things change. Check-ins capture new information — tagged positive or negative — and update your confidence. The middle of a decision is where the information arrives, and Reckon keeps it in the record. RESOLVED DECISIONS, AT A GLANCE Browse the calls you've made. Filter by domain, by satisfaction, by whether your follow-up still agrees with you. The library you wish you'd been keeping for years. ONE LIST, BY REVIEW DATE Every open decision, organized by when you said you'd come back to it. No notifications competing for your attention. Only the calls awaiting your next look. A TIMELINE PER DECISION Each decision has its own confidence chart: check-ins as points, tagged shifts as annotations. Watch the moment your thinking changed, and what changed it. BREAKDOWNS BY DOMAIN Career, finances, health, personal. Each domain has its own calibration curve. See them separately, then compare. Reckon is iPhone and iPad, one-time purchase. Buy it once and it's on every device you sign in with. Your data syncs over iCloud. Nothing of yours sits on a server we run. No subscription. No account. Less journaling, more calibration.

Screenshots

Focus Timer & Detox4 screens
Reckon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Focus Timer & Detox at Free against Reckon's $3.99. Focus Timer & Detox also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). Reckon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). On 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

Focus Timer & Detox is free to download; Reckon costs $3.99 up front. Focus Timer & Detox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Reckon asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Timer & Detox ships an update every 2 days, Reckon weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Focus Timer & Detox versus Reckon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus Timer & DetoxReckon
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank—#189 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPIN STUDIORoland Leth

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Focus Timer & Detox

Subscriptions2
  • Ghosty Pro Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Ghosty Pro yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
None

Reckon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Timer & Detox free?
Focus Timer & Detox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reckon free?
Reckon costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus Timer & Detox or Reckon have ads?
Neither Focus Timer & Detox nor Reckon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Timer & Detox or Reckon?
Focus Timer & Detox ships an update every 2 days, and Reckon weekly. Most recently, Focus Timer & Detox was updated on November 9, 2026 and Reckon on November 5, 2026.

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