Comparison

刻度专注 vs Flip Focus

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

Head to head
About

刻度专注

Features
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刻度是一款专注启动应用,用一只可拖动的时间轮盘,帮你为当下留出一段真正属于自己的时间。 不必先列任务,也不用复杂设置。转动轮盘选择时长,选一个目标与喜欢的声景,便可以开始专注。无论是工作、学习、阅读、创作,还是想暂时从嘈杂中抽离,刻度都陪你安静进入状态。 Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Flip Focus

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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. Every minute you stay face down earns focus points, and your dashboard tracks your daily streak, personal bests, total focused time and success rate. Tap any session to turn it into a share card for your friends. Because the timer cannot be gamed, every number is real. 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 — 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://getflipfocus.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://getflipfocus.com/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

刻度专注4 screens
Flip Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: 刻度专注 at every 6 days against Flip Focus's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. 刻度专注 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

刻度专注 ships an update every 6 days, Flip Focus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
刻度专注 versus Flip Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter刻度专注Flip Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer伟 黄Augustine Ezeh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

刻度专注

One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership$2.99
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 刻度专注 free?
刻度专注 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 刻度专注 or Flip Focus have ads?
Neither 刻度专注 nor Flip Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 刻度专注 or Flip Focus?
刻度专注 ships an update every 6 days, and Flip Focus every 2 weeks. Most recently, 刻度专注 was updated on October 24, 2026 and Flip Focus on October 25, 2026.

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