Comparison

Focus Pet vs Nurrow

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

Head to head
About

Focus Pet

This app combines a focus timer with a virtual pet to help you stay productive. Earn coins during focus sessions to grow and customize your pet, and build a world for it. It offers various focus modes, ambient sounds, and motivational tools.

Highlights
  • Focus timer with Pomodoro, deep work, and stopwatch modes
  • Virtual pet growth and customization
  • Habitat and room design for pets
  • Streaks, goals, and progress tracking
  • Ambient focus sounds
  • Coin rewards for focus sessions
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Focus for 25 minutes. Come back to a pet that grew because you did. Focus Pet Study Timer turns study sessions into progress you can see. Start a Pomodoro, put the phone down, and every focused minute earns coins, XP and a streak worth protecting. A POMODORO TIMER THAT STICKS • Pomodoro (25/5), free timer or stopwatch • Your own focus and break lengths • Tag every session by what you're working on • Link a session to a task and tick it off the moment you finish • Daily goals, reminders and a full screen with nothing to tap • Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island STUDY WITH FRIENDS, IN REAL TIME Focus Rooms let you work next to people instead of alone. • Start or join a room of up to 4 people • Shared sessions with synced Pomodoro rounds and breaks • Everyone's pets sit together in the same habitat • Bonus coins when you finish together • Invite by link or straight from your friends list A PET THAT NOTICES • A growing cast of pets to unlock, each with its own animations • Raise one from baby to young to adult • Rare color variants and a shop full of accessories • Focus and it's happy. Disappear for days and it isn't. BUILD A PLACE WORTH COMING BACK TO • Habitats from a cozy room to a space station • Backgrounds and furniture for every mood • Drag anything anywhere, flip it, resize it • Better habitats pay bigger coin and XP bonuses on every session THE REST OF YOUR DAY • Calendar with tasks, repeats and reminders • Habit tracker with streaks and milestones • Journal with mood tracking and daily prompts • Meditation and breathing exercises for the gaps in between PROOF YOU'RE IMPROVING • Focus time by day and week • Your peak hours, best days and completion rate • Records for your longest session and best day • Achievements, streaks and streak freezes for the day life gets in the way SOUNDS THAT SHUT THE WORLD OUT Rain, forest, cafe, lo-fi and more pick one and let the room disappear. FOCUS PET PREMIUM • No ads • Bonus coins every day and after long sessions • Exclusive pets, backgrounds and ambient sounds • A full-year focus heatmap, monthly summaries and mood insights • Your complete session history, not just the last few • Unlimited pauses mid-session WHO IT'S FOR Students and exam prep, remote workers, developers, designers, writers and researchers — anyone working in Pomodoro rounds, time blocks or deep work sessions. Syncs to the cloud, in light or dark mode. Download Focus Pet Study Timer and turn every focused minute into something you can see. Terms of Use: https://www.mooderbaylabs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.mooderbaylabs.com/privacy-policy

About

Nurrow

Features
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Nurrow is a focus timer with a pet that grows when you do. Pick a length, 25 minutes, an hour, whatever fits, and hit start. Your pet settles in beside you while you work. When the session ends, you've earned shards: the currency you spend on eggs that hatch into new pets to keep, name, and collect. It isn't a punishment system. Skip a few days and your pet gets a little glum, but it perks back up the next time you sit down. It's there to make starting feel less like work and more like showing up for something that's waiting on you. WHY IT WORKS Most focus apps stack timers on top of guilt. Nurrow flips it: the reward is small, frequent, and tied to something that feels alive. You're not chasing a streak for its own sake; you're trying to hatch the next egg and see what's inside. FEATURES • Focus and Chill modes, pick the pressure that fits your day • Customizable timer for Pomodoro, deep work, or study sprints • Hatch eggs and grow a collection of 100 pets, common ones hatch fast, rare ones take real focus time • Pet Home, a cozy room to visit and decorate while your pet roams on its own • Share your hatch reveals as a card with friends • Six cozy habitats to choose and unlock • Journal your sessions and track real focus hours • Ambient sounds: rain, café, nature, lo-fi • Local notifications only, no account, no login, no tracking OFFLINE BY DEFAULT No account. No email. Your data lives on your phone. Terms of Use: https://nurrow.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://nurrow.app/privacy

Screenshots

Focus Pet4 screens
Nurrow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Nurrow at none against Focus Pet's shown. Focus Pet's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Focus Pet sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Nurrow 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

Focus Pet ships an update every 3 days, Nurrow every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Focus Pet versus Nurrow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus PetNurrow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOrhun Arda KayaAaron Wakely

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Focus Pet

Subscriptions2
  • Focus Premium$3.991 Month
  • All premium. Save 58% vs monthly.$24.991 Year
One-time3
  • Focus Pet - Study Timer$0.99
  • Focus Coins 1200$1.99
  • Focus Coins 3000$3.99
3 purchases

Nurrow

Subscriptions2
  • Caretaker$3.991 Month
  • The Deep-Guardian Pass$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Forever Forager$49.99

Questions

Is Focus Pet free?
Focus Pet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nurrow free?
Nurrow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus Pet or Nurrow have ads?
Focus Pet shows ads; Nurrow does not.
Which is updated more often, Focus Pet or Nurrow?
Focus Pet ships an update every 3 days, and Nurrow every 2 months. Most recently, Focus Pet was updated on October 10, 2026 and Nurrow on October 28, 2026.

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