Comparison

FocusCard vs Drop [Stacking ToDo]

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

Head to head
About

FocusCard

This app displays your chosen task prominently on your screen and Lock Screen to help you concentrate. It integrates with your existing iOS Reminders and provides a simple way to mark tasks as complete or pause your session.

Highlights
  • Displays single task prominently
  • Integrates with iOS Reminders
  • Lock Screen Live Activity
  • Screen stays awake during focus
  • Mark complete with undo
  • Customizable reminder lists
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You sit down to do one thing — twenty minutes later you're three apps deep wondering why. FocusCard puts that one task, huge, on your screen and Lock Screen, until you mark it done. You'll still drift. The way back is one tap. Built for deep work, ADHD focus, and anyone who's ever taped a sticky note to their laptop. HOW IT WORKS • Pick one task from your iOS Reminders. • Tap it. The screen turns black, the title fills it. • The same task lives on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while you work. • Tap "Mark Complete" when done. Tap anywhere else to pause. FEATURES • Reads from iOS Reminders. No extra task list to maintain. • Grouped by Reminders list, color-coded. • Lock Screen Live Activity with the active task title. • Screen stays awake during focus sessions, so you can prop your phone up. • Swipe left or long-press to mark done, with undo. • Settings lets you choose which Reminders lists show up. • Long-press any reminder to deep-link to it in the Reminders app. WHY THIS WORKS FocusCard isn't a Pomodoro timer or a habit tracker. It's a digital index card, propped where the thing you most want to ignore lives. The research: • Attention residue (Leroy, 2009): switching tasks leaves cognitive sludge. A single visible focus reduces it. • The Zeigarnik effect: unfinished tasks loop in your mind until you externalize them. • Cognitive offloading (Risko & Gilbert, 2016): writing a task down frees working memory. PRIVACY FocusCard does not collect any data. No accounts. No analytics. No third parties. The whole app runs on your device. BUILT BY ONE PERSON For a year I had a stack of 3×5 index cards on my desk. Every morning I'd write the one thing I most needed to do, in big letters, and prop it next to my laptop. The cards worked. They kept going missing. So I built FocusCard. Same idea, on the device I always have with me. — Dewang Mistry

About

Drop [Stacking ToDo]

Features
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Focus on what you’ve achieved. A simple ToDo app that turns your completed tasks into a visual reward. Every time you finish a task, an object drops and stacks up right on your screen, giving you a satisfying, tactile sense of accomplishment. Your ToDo List as Tags: Active tasks are displayed as clean "tags" right on your home screen. One-Tap Completion: Just tap a tag to mark a task as done! Physics-Based Fun: Completed tasks drop naturally using realistic physics, stacking up beautifully at the bottom of your screen. Visualize Your Success: A large counter in the background keeps track of your total achievements at a glance.

Screenshots

FocusCard4 screens
Drop [Stacking ToDo]1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FocusCard at 17.0 against Drop [Stacking ToDo]'s 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
FocusCard versus Drop [Stacking ToDo]: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusCardDrop [Stacking ToDo]
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDewang MistryYUTO KUWABARA

In-app purchases

None

FocusCard

No in-app purchases

None

Drop [Stacking ToDo]

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FocusCard free?
FocusCard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drop [Stacking ToDo] free?
Drop [Stacking ToDo] is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FocusCard or Drop [Stacking ToDo] have ads?
Neither FocusCard nor Drop [Stacking ToDo] shows ads.

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