Focus vs Swyn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Focus
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FOCUSΒ·ON is your personal companion for focus, relaxation and meditation. The app combines professional focus sounds, a versatile metronome, binaural beats and stunning real-time visualizations β all in an elegant, dark interface. FOCUS SOUNDS - White, Pink, Brown and Red noise β scientifically proven sounds for masking ambient distractions - 6 ambient sounds: Rain, Creek, Leaves, CafΓ©, Fire, Wind β each with multiple variants - Solfeggio frequencies (432 Hz, 528 Hz, 963 Hz) for meditation and beautiful Chladni visualizations - Import your own sounds from files or Apple Music library - Freely mix all sounds with individual volume control METRONOME & BREATHING EXERCISES - Precise metronome from 20β300 BPM - Beat matrix for complex rhythm patterns - 6 science-backed breathing techniques: Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Coherent Breathing, Triangle Breathing, Deep Calm, Cyclic Sighing - Visual breathing guide with animated phase indicator - Save and load your own patterns BINAURAL BEATS - Two modes: Detune (blends with active sound) and Carrier Wave (standalone tone) - Delta to Gamma frequency ranges (1β40 Hz) - Auto-carrier adapts automatically to the active sound - Headphones recommended for full effect 8 AUDIO VISUALIZATIONS - Spectrum Analyzer (circular & horizontal) - Waveform (retro oscilloscope with CRT effect) - Chladni patterns β physics simulation with 30,000 sand particles on selectable plate shapes (rectangle, circle, triangle, oval) - Lissajous figures (stereo oscilloscope) - 3D Terrain Spectrogram with 6 color palettes - Kaleidoscope - Flame simulation - Black Hole with raymarching and accretion disk MORE FEATURES - Theremin β touchless instrument via motion sensors - 5-band Equalizer - Mini Player with Quick Controls - Lock Screen & Control Center integration - Dynamic Island Live Activity - Background playback - Fully offline β no internet connection required - No ads, no tracking, no data collection FOCUSΒ·ON works best with headphones β especially for binaural beats and stereo visualizations.
Swyn
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Other breathing apps set the pace and expect you to keep up. Swyn goes the other way. Your in-breath is yours, however long it happens to last, and Swyn takes it from there. Hold anywhere on the screen. Swyn opens under your finger and keeps opening for as long as you hold. Nothing to reach, nothing to count. Lift your finger and Swyn sits through the pause that follows, then draws the out-breath back down at the length you picked. Only the out-breath is automatic, and that is deliberate. Watching the clock on a long one is what makes it hard to hold. Swyn does the watching. It is built to be looked at, too. Swyn warms as you breathe in and cools as you breathe out, wisps drift off as it goes, and its face softens the longer you stay. The day and night appearances are drawn separately rather than one dimmed into the other. Haptics run underneath all of it, so you can close your eyes and still follow the breath. DAILY MOMENTS Three optional cues: Start gently in the morning, Reset in the middle of things, Wind down at night. Switch on any of them, or none. Set your times by dragging across a full day that shifts from morning light to night as you move, or type them in exactly. Every day, or weekdays only. Swyn will not chase you. A moment you miss stays missed. Nothing gets rescheduled, no catch-up turns up later, and Swyn never remarks on how long it has been. They are silent, ordinary notifications, scheduled on your iPhone and nowhere else. MAKE IT YOURS β’ Out-breath length, from an even 1:1 to a long 1:3 β’ Day and night appearance, or follow your iPhone β’ Haptics, breath countdown, natural or fixed-length sessions ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app is a real app, not a remote. It works with your iPhone locked, in another room, or off. Hold the screen to breathe in, or switch on Turn your wrist and start a breath by lowering your arm. The whole breath arrives as haptics, so you never have to raise your wrist to see it. QUIET BY DESIGN No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Swyn collects nothing. Nothing you do in it leaves your device. Swyn is made for general wellbeing. It is not medical advice, and does not diagnose or treat any condition.
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Verdict
Focus and Swyn are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Focus | Swyn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch β better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 β better | 18.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ugur Cetin | Yadav Ramburn |
In-app purchases
Focus
No in-app purchases
Swyn
No in-app purchases









