Time Blocking+ vs Focal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Time Blocking+
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Time Blocking! Reclaim your focus and schedule Use time blocking to cut through daily distractions and reclaim your schedule. Keep your data private, build better habits, and seamlessly stay in sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Features: ⢠Intuitive, dynamic time blocking ⢠Powerful focus monitoring ⢠Track goal milestones ⢠Daily smart insights ⢠Personalize with full-color themes ⢠Secure with FaceID or passcode lock ⢠Sync with Apple Calendar Intuitive Planning: Visualize your entire day with a dynamic timeline that naturally makes sense of your tasks and meetings. Milestone Tracking: Stay motivated by setting clear goals and breaking overwhelming projects into achievable, focused time blocks. Smart Insights & Advanced Metrics: Track your Focus Time and Task Completion Rates at a single glance. View daily and weekly trends to truly understand where your time goes, helping you optimize your schedule. Calendar Integration: Automatically sync your schedule directly to and from the Apple Calendar app, bringing your whole life into one unified timeline. Complete Customization: Personalize your app experience with accent colors, stunning full-color themes, and a dynamic, modular dashboard. Privacy & Security First: Secure your schedule entirely behind FaceID, TouchID, or Passcode. With built-in private iCloud syncing, your data is securely stored and never leaves your devices. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Focal
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See the time you have left. Focal is a visual timer: it turns a countdown into something you can look at: a colored disk that shrinks as your time runs out ā the same idea as the timer on a classroom wall, in your pocket, on your lock screen, and on your desk while the phone charges. ONE THING AT A TIME A routine in Focal is a chain of short steps, each with its own length. Focal shows you the step you are on and nothing else, then moves to the next one by itself. Morning launch, shutdown, cleaning sprint, a study block ā start with ten ready-made routines or build your own. TIME YOU CAN SEE, EVERYWHERE ⢠Full-screen timer in three shapes: disk, bar, or pie ⢠Live Activity and Dynamic Island ā the countdown keeps running on your lock screen ⢠Home and Lock Screen widgets for your next routine ⢠Put the phone on its side while charging and StandBy becomes a desk timer ⢠Start from Siri, the Action Button, or Control Center BUILT FOR THE WAY ATTENTION ACTUALLY WORKS ⢠Designed around ADHD time blindness ā for when "five more minutes" quietly becomes an hour ⢠Gentle haptics at the halfway mark and in the final minute ⢠When time is up the clock keeps counting, and Focal taps you on the shoulder at five and fifteen minutes ā the alarm for when you fall into something too deep ⢠Add a minute without losing your place ⢠Eight themes, including high-contrast and a quiet monochrome one NO INTERNET NEEDED. No account. No cloud. Nothing you make ever leaves your phone ā the timer works in airplane mode, because it never needed the internet. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Time Blocking+ at 3 against Focal's 1. Focal's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Time Blocking+ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Focal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Time Blocking+ ships an update every 8 days, Focal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Blocking+ | Focal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 18.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Melissa Chan | Ho Van Dai |
In-app purchases
Time Blocking+
- Time Blocking Monthly$2.991 Month
- Time Blocking Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Time Blocking Lifetime$24.99
Focal
- Focal Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Focal Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Focal Pro Lifetime$29.99









