Comparison

Lumen FocusTick vs Flip Focus

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

Head to head
About

Lumen FocusTick

Features
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Focus better with an offline-first timer. Lumen FocusTick helps you stay in flow with ambient sounds, clean statistics, and Live Activity. Key features โ€ข One-tap focus timer (Pomodoro / custom durations) โ€ข Ambient sounds to reduce distractions โ€ข Streaks, heatmap, and trend charts โ€ข Live Activity / Dynamic Island progress โ€ข iCloud sync (CloudKit private database) โ€ข Privacy Policy: https://page.lumenlabs.top/focustick/privacy โ€ข Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Flip Focus

Features
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Flip your phone face down. The timer starts. Lift it, and the timer stops. Flip Focus is a deep work timer for people who are tired of promising themselves they'll concentrate. There is no honour system here and no button to press when you get distracted. The session is physically bound to your phone: face down on the desk, you are working. In your hand, you are not. WHY THIS ONE HOLDS UP Every other focus timer runs happily in your pocket while you scroll something else. This one cannot. Flip Focus reads your phone's motion sensors and only accumulates time while the phone is actually face down. You cannot quietly cheat a session, which is precisely why the hours in your history mean something. START IN ONE MOVE Choose a session and flip. That is the entire ritual. No setup to work through every time you sit down, no timer to remember to start, no excuse to open the phone "just to begin". BLOCK EVERY DISTRACTING APP While a session runs, Flip Focus uses Screen Time to put your distracting apps behind a lock screen. It works as an allowlist rather than a blocklist: everything is blocked except what you deliberately permit, so a newly installed app cannot slip through a gap you forgot to close. AUTO-PAUSE KEEPS YOU HONEST Pick the phone up mid-session and the timer pauses itself and tells you to put it back down. Your streak is not broken by the pause; it is broken by pretending the pause never happened. Flip Focus simply refuses to pretend. QUITTING TAKES A MOMENT Ending a session early is still possible, it just isn't two taps any more. You copy out a short passage that makes the case for staying, then hold a button for a few seconds. Neither step is hard, and the way out is always there when you genuinely need it. It simply stops being something you can do without thinking. Most urges to quit don't survive the minute it takes. SESSIONS THAT MATCH REAL WORK Start from ready-made blocks for deep work, quick focus, study and creative work, or build your own with the length, name and colour that suit how you actually work. Long, uninterrupted blocks for hard problems. Short ones for clearing the deck. SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT After every session, mark how it went. Your dashboard tracks total sessions, total focused time and your success rate, with your recent sessions and outcomes laid out plainly. Because the timer cannot be gamed, the trend line is the real one. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY A Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen so you can check the time remaining without unlocking anything. Haptics confirm the start and finish of a block. The app is quiet, quick and does not ask for your attention while you are trying to give it to something else. WHO IT IS FOR Engineers, writers, designers, founders, analysts, researchers, students โ€” anyone whose output depends on long stretches of uninterrupted attention, and whose phone is the single largest threat to getting them. If you have tried focus apps before and drifted away from them, the reason is usually the same: they asked you to be disciplined about the tool itself. Flip Focus asks for one physical action, once, at the start. The desk does the rest. Flip the phone. Do the work. Privacy Policy: https://flipfocus.cosmosmindlabs.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://flipfocus.cosmosmindlabs.com/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Lumen FocusTick4 screens
Flip Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

Lumen FocusTick and Flip Focus are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Lumen FocusTick sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Flip Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Lumen FocusTick versus Flip Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLumen FocusTickFlip Focus
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size12 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๆฌฃๆ€ก ้‚“Augustine Ezeh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Lumen FocusTick

Subscriptions2
  • FocusTick Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • FocusTick Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year
3 purchases

Flip Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium3 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99

Questions

Is Lumen FocusTick free?
Lumen FocusTick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flip Focus free?
Flip Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lumen FocusTick or Flip Focus have ads?
Neither Lumen FocusTick nor Flip Focus shows ads.

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