Comparison

Vooli vs Vana

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

Head to head
About

Vooli

Features
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Anti-Burnout List Making. Three lists. Designed to close. Vooli is a calm productivity app for adults who want to focus on what really matters. Plan as far ahead as you want. Today shows up to three tasks per list, so the day you are looking at is always focused enough to finish. Vooli doesn't gamify your life. We give you a ceiling and trust you to choose what fits under it. WHY VOOLI Other apps sell you on unlimited tasks and infinite views. Vooli sets the visual cap. The list is designed to close. Unlike other apps that want to feed you distractions, Vooli gives you more focus at every turn. Use Dock Mode to turn your phone into a dedicated and glanceable focus device. THREE LISTS Myself, Work, Family, or whatever you name them. Pick 1, 2, or 3 tasks per list. Hit the cap, work through your lists, and you're done for the day. Everything else waits in your Queue for later today. DOCK MODE Launch dock mode from the dock button, and Vooli turns your phone into a glanceable companion to your life. The screen stays awake, dims to ambient, and the world goes quiet. A dedicated focus device, without buying a brand new piece of hardware. Swipe between screens you choose and silence the distractions. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE Paste a list, share from another app, or add from the home-screen widget. ARC Routines fire on time and can be used in Dock mode. Habits are easy to check in and move on with your day. PATTERNS Insights that earn your respect. See your dock time, how your tasks break down by list, and your habit streaks. No leaderboards, no fire emojis. Free to use. No ads, ever. We don't gamify your life. We give you a ceiling and trust you to choose what fits under it.

About

Vana

This app provides a shared focus timer experience, creating a virtual library atmosphere to enhance productivity. Users can join sessions with animal companions representing real people, fostering a sense of accountability without direct interaction. Earn in-app rewards for focused time to customize your virtual space.

Highlights
  • Shared focus timer sessions
  • Virtual animal companions
  • Body doubling effect
  • Earnable in-app currency
  • Customizable virtual garden
  • Lock screen Live Activity
Features
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Vana is a focus timer with other people in it, and a gentle app blocker when you want one. It is free, and you can start without making an account. Press Begin and your animal companion settles into a small grove beside everyone else who is focusing right now. Nobody talks. Nobody scrolls. The light drifts from morning to dusk while you work. Think of the last time you got real work done in a library. You stayed in your seat because the people around you were staying in theirs. People with ADHD call this body doubling. Vana is that library, open at whatever hour you need it. HOW A SESSION WORKS Grove sessions run 30 or 60 minutes, and your timer is your own, so you can arrive in the middle of someone else's hour and still finish on yours. A grove holds eight people at most. Tap any companion to see how long that person has been focusing. There is no chat. You can send a wordless bubble, or a heart to someone who sat through the hour with you. Every animal in the ring belongs to a real person. Vana will never pad a quiet room with bots, so on a slow night your grove may be just you and your egg. THE GATE If you like, close the gate when a session begins: the apps you choose wait outside until it ends. If you came looking for an app blocker, this is that, but gentler. You are never locon opens the gate, and every focused minute still counts. The gate never closes on its own. It uses Apple's Screen Time on your device, and Vana never sees which apps you choose. WHAT THE HOURS TURN INTO Your first full grove session always ends with an egge grove session leaves one too. Eggs hold a newcompanion, something to wear or place, or more honey, so no hatch is ever wasted. There are nine species, and every animal comes out one of a kind, with its own coat and temperament. Honey is earned by focusing and cannot be bought. Spend it on cozy things to wear, cushions to meditate on, and decor for a garden of your own. The garden is a golden hilltop above the clouds, and you can focus up there alone, 5 to 90 minutes, whenever the grove feels like too much. The rarest pieces in the shop never come from eggs, so anything unusual on a companion was worked for. THE LANTERN Thirty minutes of focus lights that day's lantern. You get one grace day, your longest run is always remembered, and nothing here will ever tell you that you failed. Leaving a session early still counts every focused minute. No plant dies if you stop. Sign in with Apple whenever you like and your companions come with you to a new phone. A Live Activity keeps your session on the lock screen, and a home-screen widget carries your lantern streak. Vana sits beside your work and asks nothing of you except the time you already meant to spend.

Screenshots

Vooli4 screens
Vana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vana at none against Vooli's 1. On price, ads, 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. Vooli sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vana asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Vooli versus Vana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVooliVana
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVOOLI LLCRudra Saha

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Vooli

One-time1
  • Vooli Pro$19.99
None

Vana

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vooli free?
Vooli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vana free?
Vana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vooli or Vana have ads?
Neither Vooli nor Vana shows ads.

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