FocusKit vs BigBro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FocusKit
This app uses a Pomodoro timer with unique features like front camera detection to ensure you stay focused. It can lock distracting apps and offers customizable focus sessions and detailed statistics to help you achieve your daily goals.
- Front camera focus detection
- App blocking during sessions
- Customizable focus and break lengths
- Task-specific timers
- Detailed focus statistics
- Daily goal and streak tracking
- Lock screen countdown
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FocusKit is a Pomodoro study timer that keeps you honest. Step away from your desk and the session pauses. Start a session and every app except the ones you allow stays locked until it ends. STEP AWAY? THE TIMER PAUSES The front camera checks that you're still there. If it can't see you for 10 seconds (you choose 5–30), the session pauses and waits for you. Faces are detected on your device — nothing is recorded or uploaded, and you can turn it off anytime. STRICT MODE: BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS While a session runs, every app except the ones you allow stays behind a Screen Time shield. FocusKit never sees which apps you use. POMODORO, YOUR WAY Classic 25-minute Pomodoros or long deep-work blocks: set focus from 5 to 60 minutes and give each task its own length. With Pro, tune short breaks, long breaks and cycles too. A FOCUS TIMER FOR EVERY TASK Give each task a color, an icon, a focus length and a weekly goal, then pick it before you start. See exactly where your hours go. STATS THAT KEEP YOU GOING Day and week views with time by task. Pro adds month and year views, insights, a year heatmap and your full session history. Share your stats in one tap. DAILY GOAL & FOCUS STREAK Set a daily goal from 15 minutes to 8 hours and keep your streak alive. Every focused minute earns coins — spend them on streak shields for the days life gets in the way. FOCUS SOUNDS Thunder and white noise, plus rain, fire and coffee shop with Pro — seamless loops that start with every session. Pro lets you layer them. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A Live Activity shows the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with pause and stop. Home Screen widgets and StandBy keep today's progress in view. BUILT FOR • Students preparing for exams and finals • ADHD brains that drift • Deep work, writing and coding • Anyone trying to put the phone down FOCUSKIT PRO Unlimited tasks (the free plan includes 3), month and year stats with insights, custom breaks and cycles, every widget, every sound and mixing, and iCloud backup & restore. Weekly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. No account needed. Daily reminders are optional. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your account settings. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/focuskit-terms/home Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/focuskitprivacypolicy/home
BigBro
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BigBro blocks the apps and websites you choose while you focus, using Apple's Screen Time. BLOCK APPS AND WEBSITES • Pick apps, app categories and websites to block during a focus session. • A built-in list of entertainment sites, plus your own. • Adult websites can stay blocked all the time, not only during focus. • Save focus types with their own block lists and lengths. THREE DIFFICULTY LEVELS • Gentle: end a session whenever you want. Your supervisor is notified. • Hardcore: ending early means holding through a three-door ritual. • Supervisor lock: ending early needs your supervisor's approval. SUPERVISORS • Invite someone by email. They don't need the app. • They get an email when you end a session early, ask to unlock, or stop checking in for a long time. STUDY ROOMS • Take a seat in a 3D classroom and focus with other people on a shared timer. • Rooms in cities around the world, or a private room with a code for friends. • Reactions, and chat during breaks. Messages can be reported and people blocked. STREAKS AND PROGRESS • Each finished session counts toward your streak, with milestones from 3 days to a year. • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show time left. Apple Watch shows your streak and the current session. Also available for Mac at bigbro.libreadam.com. The two stay in sync when you sign in. Requires iOS 16 or later and Screen Time permission.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BigBro at none against FocusKit's 4. BigBro also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. FocusKit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. BigBro asks for nothing beyond the download.
FocusKit ships an update fortnightly, BigBro every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocusKit | BigBro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Abbosjon Mamadaliyev | Fengwen Lyu |
In-app purchases
FocusKit
- Weekly Plan$1.997 Days
- Annual Plan$12.991 Year
- FocusKit - Lifetime$4.99
- Lifetime Access$24.99
BigBro
No in-app purchases









