Foremind vs Focus Y
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Foremind
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Foremind brings AI chat, notes, tasks, timeline planning, and web clipping into one external prefrontal cortex — so you can turn scattered thoughts into clear next actions. With Foremind, you can: • Keep long-running conversations in your main thread, or open 24-hour temporary topics and merge only what matters into your history • Plan across Today, Projects, Timeline, and Priority views to reduce the cost of constant task switching • Organize long-term knowledge with Markdown notes, mind maps, and a knowledge graph • Post quick updates and keep chatting with different AI personas in a lightweight social feed • Save web pages, then keep the source, tags, and cleaned content together • Bring capture, planning, discussion, action, and reflection into one connected system Foremind is especially helpful for people who: • Get distracted easily or feel like they always have too many tabs open in their head • Want one place for ideas, tasks, and long-term memory • Want AI to do more than answer questions — and actually help them sort through their thoughts Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://note.theonly.ltd/privacy-policy-en
Focus Y
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Focus Y is a companion that helps you concentrate. Put a focus timer, light planning, and quick notes in your pocket — a refined black-and-white design, native to iOS. Quiet the world and settle into the flow of this moment. • Focus dial — drag to set your duration, tap once to begin uninterrupted deep work. • Landscape flip clock — lay your phone on its side and it becomes a mechanical split-flap desk clock, with a soft breathing edge light to slow your breath. • Lock Screen Live Activity — your countdown shows on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, so you can put the phone down and still see your progress. • Leave Guard — switch away to scroll something else mid-session and it logs a distraction automatically. The phone is the biggest distraction of all. • Light planning — switch between a list and the Eisenhower matrix; long-press to adjust priority and schedule. • Notes & calendar — jot ideas down; your focus records and planned tasks gather into one clear calendar. • Sync with Mac — paired with Focus Y for Mac, your records, plans, and notes sync automatically over iCloud, and a pixel companion keeps you company on the desktop. Quiet the world. Focus on the flow of this moment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focus Y at none against Foremind's 4. Focus Y also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days). Foremind's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Foremind sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Focus Y asks for nothing beyond the download.
Foremind ships an update every 11 days, Focus Y every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Foremind | Focus Y |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 敬一 马 | 虹屹 霍 |
In-app purchases
Foremind
- Basic Membership (Monthly)3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Plus Membership (Monthly)3 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Basic Membership (Annual)3 Days trial$79.991 Year
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- Plus Membership (Annual)3 Days trial$129.991 Year
Focus Y
No in-app purchases









