Comparison

Decision Receipt vs BrewFocus

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

Head to head
About

Decision Receipt

Features
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Every decision deserves a receipt. Buy it or skip it? Stay or leave? Accept the offer or wait? Keep going or stop? In the moment, a choice can feel obvious. A few weeks later, all you remember is: “Why did I think that was a good idea?” Decision Receipt helps you create a clear record for your future self. Before you decide, write down the reasons, risks, expected benefits, and your confidence level. Set a review date. When the outcome becomes clearer, come back and ask: Was it worth it? What did I get right? What was just impulse talking? Decision Receipt does not make decisions for you. It does not promise perfect choices. It helps you keep the evidence behind your thinking, so future-you has something better than a blurry memory. Use Decision Receipt for: • Expensive purchases you might regret later • Job changes, offers, resignations, or career moves • Moving homes, changing cities, or shifting your lifestyle • Starting, pausing, or ending a project • Reconsidering a relationship decision • Any choice you do not want to make only from temporary emotion What you can do: • Create decision receipts with context, reasons, risks, and benefits • Set review dates: 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, or custom • Use optional local reminders when it is time to review • Mark outcomes as worked, mixed, or regretted • Add reflection notes after the result becomes clearer • Organize by purchase, career, home, relationship, project, and more • Search and filter past decisions • Track basic stats: due reviews, monthly records, reviewed decisions, and review rate • Start faster with built-in templates Why it helps: • Adds a pause before impulse decisions • Turns mental noise into a simple checklist • Helps you review the real reasons, not the edited memory • Makes repeated decision patterns easier to notice • Keeps the process lightweight: one decision card is enough to start Optional Lifetime Membership unlocks more tools for long-term reflection: • More complete advanced decision templates • Deeper checklists for purchases, career, moving, relationships, and projects • Advanced review stats and decision insights • More structure for understanding your long-term judgment patterns The free version includes the core decision recording and manual review experience. Lifetime Membership is an optional one-time unlock for users who want deeper templates and more advanced reflection tools. Privacy and notes: Your decision records are stored locally on your device. If you enable reminders, the app uses system notifications only to remind you about review dates you set. Decision Receipt does not provide medical, legal, investment, or therapy advice, and it does not decide for you. It is a simple tool with one useful job: help you leave a receipt for the choices your future self will want to understand. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lijunchenapp.com/DecisionReceipt-PrivacyPolicy.html

About

BrewFocus

This app simulates a cafe environment to help you focus. Choose your virtual drink to set a focus session duration and enjoy ambient sounds and changing views to boost productivity.

Highlights
  • Cafe ambience simulation
  • Customizable focus session timer
  • Ambient soundscapes
  • Dynamic visual scenes
  • Focus history and stats
  • Multiple seating views
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You pack your laptop and walk to a café — not because you need coffee, but because you can't focus at home. The hum, the clatter, the stranger typing across the room. Somehow, that's where the work happens. BrewFocus is that café — open whenever you need it. HOW IT WORKS Open the door. Order your drink — and your drink is your focus session. Espresso for a quick sprint. Pour over for the long haul. Grind the beans, take a seat by the window, and start. Then just work. The café hums around you. Your coffee slowly empties. When the cup runs out, you're done. THE RITUAL • Stepping inside — a quiet café by the sea, and the camera moves in • Ordering a drink — espresso runs 25 minutes, hand drip runs 3 hours • Grinding the beans — the sound that tells your brain it's time • Choosing a seat — window table, stool across the room, a spot at the bar. Every seat, a different view • Watching the coffee go down — the time you have left isn't a number, it's in the cup WHY IT WORKS Your brain doesn't need more willpower. It needs the right environment. A moderate hum of café noise can boost creative thinking — the "Café Effect." BrewFocus rebuilds it: the ambience, the light, the view out the window. You're not staring at a countdown. You're sitting in a café, getting things done. WHAT'S INSIDE • A living café — waves outside the window, trees swaying in the woods. Not a still image, but a scene that actually moves • A view that changes with your seat — sit by the window and you face the sea; sit at the bar and you face the counter • A cup that empties — you watch time pass instead of counting it • Coffee order receipts — a record of every session • Ambient sound — café noise, rain, waves, forest, fireplace, lo-fi A café is a "third place" — not home, not the office. Somewhere you go to get into your own head. Now you can go there anytime. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS • Subscription plans: BrewFocus Premium — Yearly (auto-renews yearly) / Monthly (auto-renews monthly) • Price: $19.99 per year or $3.99 per month (prices may vary by region) • A subscription unlocks all ambient sounds and focus music, plus full focus history and stats. • Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • To cancel, go to iPhone Settings → your Apple Account → Subscriptions and select "BrewFocus Premium". Terms of Use (EULA): https://shocking-clover-8f4.notion.site/Focus-Coffin-Terms-of-Service-39cb4564dcb7815fa361e2a36f399ee1 Privacy Policy: https://shocking-clover-8f4.notion.site/Focus-Coffin-Privacy-Policy-39cb4564dcb7819abdc9cc20db9bed48

Screenshots

Decision Receipt3 screens
BrewFocus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BrewFocus at weekly against Decision Receipt's every 5 weeks. 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. Decision Receipt sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BrewFocus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Decision Receipt ships an update every 5 weeks, BrewFocus weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Decision Receipt versus BrewFocus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecision ReceiptBrewFocus
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB703 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer俊辰 黎HYUNG SOON CHOI

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Decision Receipt

One-time1
  • Lifetime Membership$2.99
3 purchases

BrewFocus

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Decision Receipt free?
Decision Receipt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BrewFocus free?
BrewFocus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Decision Receipt or BrewFocus have ads?
Neither Decision Receipt nor BrewFocus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Decision Receipt or BrewFocus?
Decision Receipt ships an update every 5 weeks, and BrewFocus weekly. Most recently, Decision Receipt was updated on October 31, 2026 and BrewFocus on November 1, 2026.

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