Focus Labs vs Focus Lab Blocker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Labs
This app helps you visualize your study efforts by recording optional timelapses of your focus sessions. Track your progress, build consistency with streaks and badges, and connect with friends to share your achievements.
- Focus timer with customizable session lengths
- Optional timelapse recording of study sessions
- Personal history of completed sessions
- Streak tracking and achievement badges
- Social features to follow friends and share progress
- Privacy controls for session sharing
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Make your hard work visible. Focus Labs helps you start studying, capture your effort, and see your progress build. Set a focus timer, record an optional timelapse, and create a history of the sessions you showed up for. Whether you’re preparing for an exam, practicing a skill, or working through an assignment, give your next session a clear start. FOCUS YOUR WAY Choose your session length and get started. Use the timer on its own or turn on your camera to capture a timelapse. Optional Pomodoro-style breaks help structure your study time. SEE THE WORK YOU PUT IN Turn a long session into a short video you can look back on. Save your sessions in your personal history and watch your focused hours add up. BUILD YOUR CONSISTENCY Track your streak, review your activity, and earn badges as you reach milestones. Every session adds to your record of showing up. KEEP GOING WITH FRIENDS Follow classmates and study partners, share completed sessions, and encourage each other with reactions. Everyone studies on their own schedule—there’s no live call to join. CHOOSE WHAT YOU SHARE Sessions are private by default. Keep your progress for yourself or share a session with your followers. Timelapse recording is optional, with privacy blur available when you use it. Start a session. See your effort. Keep showing up.
Focus Lab Blocker
This app introduces a moment of friction before accessing distracting applications, requiring users to complete a small ritual to earn entry. It offers various unlock methods and a virtual pet that thrives on self-control, encouraging users to reduce screen time.
- Customizable unlock rituals (breathe, timer, intention, math, exercise, photo, NFC, PIN)
- Virtual pet that grows with self-control
- Daily app open/time budget
- On-device processing for privacy
- No account or sign-up required
- Ad-free experience
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Focus Lab Blocker puts a moment of friction between you and the apps that pull at you — so opening them becomes a choice, not a reflex. Most blockers are just a wall with an "off" switch. Focus Lab Blocker is different: when you hit a blocked app, you have to earn your way in with a small ritual. By the time you're done, the urge has usually passed. CHOOSE YOUR FRICTION Every app gets its own unlock ritual: • Breathe — a few slow breaths before you go in • Cooldown — wait out a short timer • Intention — type why you need this app right now • Math — solve a few quick problems • Sweat — pushups, squats, or jumping jacks, counted live by the camera • Photo quest — go photograph grass, a book, the sink… something real • NFC tag — tap a physical tag you left in another room • Guardian PIN — a trusted person sets a PIN you don't know • Daily budget — a fixed number of opens, or minutes, per day A COMPANION THAT LIVES OFF YOUR WILLPOWER Adopt a pet that hatches from an egg and lives off your self-control. Every urge that hits a shield dings one of its meters — and every urge you resist earns the care item that heals it. No urges means a healthy pet and nothing to do: it never nags you into opening the app. But let its meters sit empty and it gets sick, and eventually leaves. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU • No account, no sign-up. • No ads. • Nothing leaves your phone. Photo and exercise checks run entirely on-device with Apple's Vision framework. No servers, because there's no network. Focus Lab Blocker uses Apple's Screen Time to enforce blocking, so it's as reliable as iOS itself. Reclaim the ten seconds before the scroll. That's usually all it takes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus Labs at every 2 days against Focus Lab Blocker's every 3 weeks. Focus Labs also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focus Labs against 5.0 for Focus Lab Blocker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Focus Labs ships an update every 2 days, Focus Lab Blocker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Labs | Focus Lab Blocker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akash Shah | Szu-Yu Wang |
Customer experience
Focus Labs
Focus Lab Blocker
In-app purchases
Focus Labs
No in-app purchases
Focus Lab Blocker
No in-app purchases









