Comparison

Notted vs FocusVille

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

Head to head
About

Notted

Features
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Notted is a visual task management app designed to make planning simple, creative, and collaborative. Organize tasks with interactive sticky notes with memes, share boards, assign notes to weekdays, and collaborate in real time. Manage daily tasks with reminders and motivational quotes, set monthly and yearly goals, and track schedules through a smart calendar. Share images and stay organized with cloud sync. Plan smarter, stay motivated, and achieve more with Notted.

About

FocusVille

This app gamifies focus sessions by letting you build a cozy pixel-art village. Earn resources by completing timed work or study sessions, and watch your village grow as a record of your concentration. It also includes an app blocker to minimize distractions.

Highlights
  • Gamified Pomodoro timer
  • Pixel-art village building
  • Resource collection for focus sessions
  • App blocker functionality
  • Focus statistics tracking
  • Offline and private operation
Features
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FocusVille is a Pomodoro timer that turns your focus time into a cozy pixel-art village. Start a focus session, put your phone down, and your villager gets to work chopping wood, mining stone and digging clay. Finish the session and the resources are yours. Leave early and the day's work is lost. A study timer, work timer, app blocker and village-building game in one, made for students, remote workers, people with ADHD and anyone who wants to stop procrastination and cut screen time. No ads. No account. No pop-ups. Just a timer, a village and your concentration. POMODORO TIMER & STUDY TIMER • Every length: presets from 15 to 90 minutes and your own lengths up to 180 minutes • One screen to start: pick a building, pick a length, tap begin • See exactly what you will earn before the session starts • The Pomodoro technique made visual: every finished session is a piece of your village BUILD A VILLAGE WHILE YOU FOCUS • Earn wood, stone and clay for every completed session • Upgrade the Timber Hut, the Quarry and the Clay Pit • Watch a lone campfire in the woods grow into a thriving village • Invite 16 campfire companions: a cat, an owl, a fox, a bard and more • Your village is a record of every hour you stayed off your phone REAL STAKES, FRIENDLY RULES • Quit a session early and you lose that session's loot and a little energy, nothing more • No guilt, no dead trees, no punishment for a bad day • Short sessions work too: 15 minutes is a real start when starting is the hard part • Day streaks reward showing up again, not perfection BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS • Keep the apps that pull you away out of reach while the timer runs • Fewer interruptions, less doom scrolling, lower screen time • Privacy first: FocusVille never sees what you block FOCUS STATS • Focused time today, this week and this month, your streak and your records • Focus insights into your best hours, days and session length • A simple record of your focus habit, without nagging notifications MADE FOR • Students: exams, homework, revision and reading with the Pomodoro technique • Remote and deep work: time blocking, flow, time management • ADHD focus: simple, visual, kind. A timer that works with your brain, not against it • Writers, developers, designers and anyone building a concentration habit FOCUSVILLE PLUS FocusVille is free to download. To focus and build your village you need FocusVille Plus: monthly with a 7-day free trial, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Plus is the whole app: • Unlimited sessions of every length, every day • Every level and all 16 campfire companions • The app blocker • Focus insights: your best hours, strongest weekdays, ideal session length, when you tend to give up, a twelve-week trend and your whole year as one heatmap Bought FocusVille back when it was a paid app? You keep everything, without paying again. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://focusville.web.app/privacy PRIVACY & OFFLINE • No ads, no account, no data sold • Your focus data stays on your phone: sessions and village are never uploaded • Only anonymous usage statistics, no personal profiles • The timer works offline, no connection needed • Dark, cozy pixel art and a calm soundscape FocusVille is built by one solo developer, not a studio. No ad budget, no growth team. If it helps you focus, a rating is the single biggest thing that helps other people find it. Missing something? Wish for a feature right in the app settings. Pomodoro timer. Study timer. App blocker. Habit builder. Build a village every time you focus. Download FocusVille and stay focused today.

Screenshots

Notted4 screens
FocusVille4 screens

Verdict

The call

Notted and FocusVille 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 Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notted ships an update every 10 days, FocusVille every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Notted versus FocusVille: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNottedFocusVille
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPleroxy EstablishmentCaspar Baumeister

In-app purchases

None

Notted

No in-app purchases

None

FocusVille

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notted free?
Notted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FocusVille free?
FocusVille is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notted or FocusVille have ads?
Neither Notted nor FocusVille shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Notted or FocusVille?
Notted ships an update every 10 days, and FocusVille every 2 weeks. Most recently, Notted was updated on October 14, 2026 and FocusVille on October 14, 2026.

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