Comparison

Snapwell vs Focus Gnome

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

Head to head
About

Snapwell

Organize your visual inspiration with an AI-powered media library. Automatically tag and search screenshots, photos, and videos by their content, mood, or objects. Create dedicated collections for design, home improvement, or creative projects.

Highlights
  • AI-powered content analysis and tagging
  • Search by visual content, not just filenames
  • Organize media into custom 'Spaces'
  • Local-first storage and iCloud sync
  • Support for screenshots, photos, videos, and web images
  • Customizable AI prompts for tailored categorization
Features
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Snapwell is an AI-powered media library for collecting, organizing, and searching your visual inspiration. Drop in screenshots, photos, videos, and web images. Snapwell's AI analyzes everything automatically — tagging content, detecting patterns, and making your entire collection searchable by what's actually in each image. HOW IT WORKS • Import images and videos: Screenshots, photos, video, web images. Drag in, paste, or share from any app. • AI tags everything: Every image gets analyzed automatically. Add custom guidance to focus the AI on what matters to you. • Search by what you see: Describe an object, a layout, a mood. Snapwell finds the match — no manual tags or folders needed. BUILT FOR VISUAL THINKERS • UI Design — Collect UI patterns, login flows, component states, and animations. Build a searchable reference library of interface design. • Home Improvements — Gather interior design ideas, furniture inspiration, paint swatches, and room layouts. Organize by project. • Creative Inspiration — Curate art, typography, photography, fashion, and video references. Let AI find connections across your collection. FEATURES • Local-first storage — All your files, metadata, and preferences stay on your devices and your iCloud — not our servers. • AI-powered analysis — Categorize and tag using OpenAI, Claude, Google Gemini, or OpenRouter with your own API key. • Custom analysis prompts — Configure AI instructions per space for tailored categorization that fits your workflow. • Spaces — Organize media into focused collections with drag-and-drop. • Content search — Find images based on what AI detected in them, not filenames. • iCloud sync — Sync your library seamlessly between Mac and iPhone. • Video support — Import, organize, and analyze video alongside images. • Share Extension (iOS) — Send images and videos to Snapwell from any app. PRIVACY BY DESIGN No subscription. No account. Open source. Your library lives on your devices and your iCloud — not our servers. Snapwell has zero analytics, zero telemetry, and zero tracking. When you use AI analysis, requests go directly from your device to the provider you choose. You supply your own API key and can switch providers at any time. OPEN SOURCE Every line of code is on GitHub. Inspect exactly what the app does, contribute improvements, or build on top of it. REQUIREMENTS AI analysis requires an API key for at least one supported provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, or OpenRouter). The app works without AI too — you just won't get automatic tagging and search.

About

Focus Gnome

Features
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The gnome is already sitting. Wind the dial — it runs backwards on purpose, like a kitchen timer — take three settling breaths, and begin. While you work, he meditates. Remaining time is a golden wedge that quietly shrinks; no ticking numbers to squint at. Lay the phone face down and he sinks deeper, the sounds soften, and the room gets calmer. Every sitting leaves a firefly drifting in the grove. Ending early still counts — a dimmer firefly, never a dead tree, never a broken streak, never a scolding. However long you stay counts. Nothing here is lost, and nothing is taken away. WHAT'S INSIDE • A hand-wound visual dial: 5 minutes to 2 hours, a soft click for every detent • Three settling breaths before the clock starts (skippable, and it remembers) • Face-down deepening — putting the phone away is the point, so the app rewards it • The grove: every sitting you've ever finished, drifting behind him • Name your sittings ("Thesis · 45m") and keep an honest ledger • Hand-made ambient soundscapes: hearth, rain, forest night • A choosable clock: storybook or blocky, in three inks • One notification, ever: when your sitting ends NO CATCHES No ads. No account. No subscription. No streaks you can lose. Everything stays on your phone. We built Focus Gnome for everyone who has ever been scolded by a productivity app. This is the timer that doesn't punish you for being human.

Screenshots

Snapwell4 screens
Focus Gnome4 screens

Verdict

The call

Snapwell and Focus Gnome are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snapwell ships an update every 2 weeks, Focus Gnome every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Snapwell versus Focus Gnome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnapwellFocus Gnome
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGustavs CirulisMATTHEW MALHAM

In-app purchases

None

Snapwell

No in-app purchases

None

Focus Gnome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snapwell free?
Snapwell is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focus Gnome free?
Focus Gnome is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snapwell or Focus Gnome have ads?
Neither Snapwell nor Focus Gnome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snapwell or Focus Gnome?
Snapwell ships an update every 2 weeks, and Focus Gnome every 10 days. Most recently, Snapwell was updated on October 24, 2026 and Focus Gnome on October 10, 2026.

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