Comparison

Focura vs Vana

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

Head to head
About

Focura

This app helps you measure and train your attention during work sessions. It offers preset focus durations, distraction tracking, and insights into your focus patterns. All your data is kept private on your device.

Highlights
  • Preset focus session durations
  • Distraction logging and categorization
  • Weekly focus score tracking
  • Session replay for review
  • Zero distraction streak monitoring
  • Session tagging by environment
Features
Read full description

Focus Trainer is your personal attention training engine. Built exclusively for iOS, it helps you measure and train your focus during work sessions. KEY FEATURES: • Deep Sessions: 60/90/120 minute preset durations for focused work • Intentional Start: Set your intention before each • Friction Pause: 3-second hold to pause (prevents accidental • Session Summary: Track completion, distractions, and add • Distraction Log: Categorize and track what breaks your • Weekly Focus Score: Measure your progress (0-100 • Dead Time Insight: See total time lost to • Session Replay: Review your best distraction-free • Zero Distraction Streak: Track consecutive clean days ENVIRONMENT TAGS: Tag your sessions by location - Home, Office, or Cafe - to understand where you focus best. DISTRACTION Track Phone, Social Media, Email, Conversations, Noise, Hunger, Fatigue, and more. WHY FOCURA? Unlike planners or habit trackers, Focura focuses purely on training your attention muscle. Every session is a rep for your brain. DATA PRIVACY: All your data stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud sync, no tracking. Start building your focus muscle today with Focura.

About

Vana

This app provides a shared focus timer experience, creating a virtual library atmosphere to enhance productivity. Users can join sessions with animal companions representing real people, fostering a sense of accountability without direct interaction. Earn in-app rewards for focused time to customize your virtual space.

Highlights
  • Shared focus timer sessions
  • Virtual animal companions
  • Body doubling effect
  • Earnable in-app currency
  • Customizable virtual garden
  • Lock screen Live Activity
Features
Read full description

Vana is a focus timer with other people in it, and a gentle app blocker when you want one. It is free, and you can start without making an account. Press Begin and your animal companion settles into a small grove beside everyone else who is focusing right now. Nobody talks. Nobody scrolls. The light drifts from morning to dusk while you work. Think of the last time you got real work done in a library. You stayed in your seat because the people around you were staying in theirs. People with ADHD call this body doubling. Vana is that library, open at whatever hour you need it. HOW A SESSION WORKS Grove sessions run 30 or 60 minutes, and your timer is your own, so you can arrive in the middle of someone else's hour and still finish on yours. A grove holds eight people at most. Tap any companion to see how long that person has been focusing. There is no chat. You can send a wordless bubble, or a heart to someone who sat through the hour with you. Every animal in the ring belongs to a real person. Vana will never pad a quiet room with bots, so on a slow night your grove may be just you and your egg. THE GATE If you like, close the gate when a session begins: the apps you choose wait outside until it ends. If you came looking for an app blocker, this is that, but gentler. You are never locon opens the gate, and every focused minute still counts. The gate never closes on its own. It uses Apple's Screen Time on your device, and Vana never sees which apps you choose. WHAT THE HOURS TURN INTO Your first full grove session always ends with an egge grove session leaves one too. Eggs hold a newcompanion, something to wear or place, or more honey, so no hatch is ever wasted. There are nine species, and every animal comes out one of a kind, with its own coat and temperament. Honey is earned by focusing and cannot be bought. Spend it on cozy things to wear, cushions to meditate on, and decor for a garden of your own. The garden is a golden hilltop above the clouds, and you can focus up there alone, 5 to 90 minutes, whenever the grove feels like too much. The rarest pieces in the shop never come from eggs, so anything unusual on a companion was worked for. THE LANTERN Thirty minutes of focus lights that day's lantern. You get one grace day, your longest run is always remembered, and nothing here will ever tell you that you failed. Leaving a session early still counts every focused minute. No plant dies if you stop. Sign in with Apple whenever you like and your companions come with you to a new phone. A Live Activity keeps your session on the lock screen, and a home-screen widget carries your lantern streak. Vana sits beside your work and asks nothing of you except the time you already meant to spend.

Screenshots

Focura4 screens
Vana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Vana at 5.0 against Focura's 1.0. Focura's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vana holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Focura versus Vana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocuraVana
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFirat KocogluRudra Saha

Customer experience

Focura

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Vana

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Focura

No in-app purchases

None

Vana

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focura free?
Focura is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vana free?
Vana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Focura or Vana?
Vana is rated higher. Focura averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Vana averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Focura or Vana have ads?
Neither Focura nor Vana shows ads.

Other comparisons