Fabily vs FocusPace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Fabily
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There is a look a child gets when they are lost inside a Story. Fabily is about the moment just after, when they realise the Story is about them. Personalised Stories where your child is the hero, written to build their confidence and their love of reading. WHY WE MADE IT Fabily started with a boy who did not like reading. He was dyslexic, and books felt like they had been made for other people. Then a teacher wrote him a story where he was the hero, and reading stopped being something he was asked to do. Traditional stories are wonderful and always will be. They are simply not about your child. NO PHOTOS, EVER Your child's Hero is built from choices the two of you make together, never from a photograph. Choosing the hair, the eyes, the skin and the rest is half the fun, and it is the moment a child takes ownership of the Story before a single word is written. MY WORLD STORIES Some Fabily Stories are pure adventure. Others take a real situation your child is about to face, a first day, a dentist, a new sibling, and let them walk through it first, as themselves, before the day arrives. IT TAKES A FEW MINUTES Building a Hero takes about a minute, and it is usually the part children ask to do again. Then choose the kind of adventure, and a virtue at its heart if you would like the Story to carry one. Fifteen are available. Courage before a hard day. Kindness after one. A child can watch themselves being brave and recognise it as something they are capable of. Every Story joins a library that travels with you, so the one your child loved in March is still there in September, ready on the drive to the shops. WHAT IS IN A STORY You choose the reading level, so the words meet your child exactly where they are. As their reading grows, the levels grow with them. You choose the art style too, which is a good part of why a child will read four Stories in a row and find every one of them new. Audio Stories are there for the evenings when your voice has run out, and for children who read best when they can follow along. Each full Story ends with a note written for your child and a few gentle ways to keep talking once the last page is turned. FOR FAMILIES, TEACHERS AND THERAPISTS Parents use Fabily to turn reading time into something their child asks for rather than something they negotiate. Educators and therapists use it for social narratives, and to let a child rehearse being brave well before the moment arrives when they have to be. MADE IN ADELAIDE Fabily is made by a small Australian team who care a great deal about what children read and where their information goes. Your library is private to your family. We do not sell your data, we do not track your child, and we never will. Every Story is generated fresh, which is how it can belong to your child and to nobody else. Start with a free Story, and watch what happens when a child finds their own name on the page. Fabily offers optional auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fabily.ai/privacy
FocusPace
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Learning shouldn't feel like fighting your own brain. FocusPace is a simple study app that helps you plan your time, remember what you learn and actually understand it โ not just cram it. Start a focus timer when you sit down to study. It's a normal Pomodoro timer, but it keeps running even if you switch apps, lock your phone or get interrupted so you always know exactly where you left off. When it's time to review, FocusPace turns your notes into flashcards for you, no typing every card by hand. The app also notices how well you're learning each topic & adjusts what it asks you: easier questions while you're still getting the basics, harder ones once you've got them down. If you think better with pictures, lay your ideas out as a mind map. Drag things around, color-code branches and turn a messy topic into something you can actually see. Got something wrong on a card or a practice test? Log it. FocusPace keeps track of what trips you up, so review time goes to the stuff that actually needs it. Once a week, you get a short, honest summary of how your studying really went, based on your own learning, not generic advice. Found an article or a PDF while you were studying? Save it to your Library and pull the useful bits straight into your notes later. FocusPace also adapts to how deep you want to go. Keep it simple if you just want a timer & some flashcards or turn on more detail if you like seeing the full picture. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.focuspaceapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Fabily at 15.1 against FocusPace's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Fabily sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $5.95 per month and FocusPace sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fabily ships an update every 3 weeks, FocusPace every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Fabily | FocusPace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tyron Wheeler | Ashwini Boruah |
In-app purchases
Fabily
- Storybook Hero$5.951 Month
- Epic Explorers$11.951 Month
- Legendary Creators$17.951 Month
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- Storybook Hero Yearly$59.001 Year
- Epic Explorers Yearly$119.001 Year
- Legendary Creators Yearly$179.001 Year
- 1x Audio Story$0.99
- 1x Story Credit$2.95
- Story Credit$3.95
FocusPace
- FocusPace Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- FocusPace Premium14 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Sprint$4.99
- Momentum$5.99
- Marathon$14.99
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