Hyper Focus Plus vs Sit Still
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hyper Focus Plus
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Hyper Focus Plus helps you stay focused, reduce distractions, and build deep work habits. Designed for students, developers, creators, and professionals, Hyper Focus Plus combines a powerful Pomodoro timer with immersive ambient sounds to help you enter a productive flow state. Whether you're studying, coding, writing, or working remotely, Hyper Focus Plus keeps your sessions organized and synchronized across your devices — even offline. Features • Pomodoro focus timer • Ambient sounds for deep concentration • Offline sync across devices • Clean and distraction-free interface • Custom focus and break durations • Background audio playback • Productivity statistics and session tracking • Designed for work, study, reading, and meditation Built for Deep Work Hyper Focus Plus is optimized to help you: Improve concentration Reduce procrastination Build consistent work routines Stay in flow longer Use calming ambient audio such as rain, café, forest, white noise, and more to create your ideal focus environment. Sync Anywhere Your sessions and settings stay available across devices with seamless offline synchronization. Focus anywhere. Anytime.
Sit Still
This app helps you focus by blocking distracting applications and providing a calming timer experience. Earn rewards to unlock cozy rooms and accessories for your virtual cat companion. Track your screen time and set daily goals to improve your productivity.
- App blocking modes (Open, Whitelist, Strict)
- Customizable timer (Countdown, Open-ended, Pomodoro)
- Virtual cat companion with unlockable accessories
- Collection of illustrated rooms with unique soundscapes
- Screen time tracking and analysis
- Task list syncing with Reminders
- Widgets and wallpapers
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Sit Still is a focus timer and app blocker that gives you somewhere to be. Most focus apps punish you, Sit Still keeps you company. A cat sleeps in a painted room while you work, and the reward for sitting still is a collection you build. Blocking is real, and as firm as you want it to be. The rooms are the heart of it: watercolour illustrations painted like the pages of a childhood picture book, meant to feel cozy and nostalgic — to stir a memory of being small and safe somewhere — each with its own soundscape. APP BLOCKING FEATURES Three app blocking modes for a focus session: Open, Whitelist and Strict. App blocking rules put away the apps that keep distracting you throughout the day: on a schedule of your own, held to a daily limit, or right away with a quick block. You can also set a bedtime lock on a night schedule you choose. Before you switch off a lock that is running, take a moment with the cat — or turn on hard mode, and it holds until it ends. With the deletion lock on, no app can be deleted during a hard-mode block, so Sit Still can't be removed to end it early. YOUR SCREEN TIME, IN THE SHIELD TAB See where your time went, day by day and week by week: your most-used apps, each with its own chart, the categories your hours went to, and what a lifetime at this pace adds up to. Set a daily goal and the cat keeps an eye on your day. WALLPAPERS AND WIDGETS Any room you have can be saved to your Photos as a wallpaper, drawn at the full resolution of your phone or iPad, with your cat in the corner or without it. There are widgets too: the room you are sitting in with your focus stats under it, the collection with a different room every hour, a calendar of the month with your cat beside it, and your streak on the Lock Screen and in StandBy. A TIMER WITH THREE SHAPES Countdown, open-ended, or pomodoro. The pomodoro starts at the classic 25 / 5 / 15, and all three lengths are yours to change. A session carries on with the screen locked, and shows itself on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. A COLLECTION OF ROOMS A permanent collection of rooms, from a bookshop loft in Porto to a stilt house on the Mekong Delta, and two new rooms on the first of every month that leave with it. Every room has its own illustration and its own ambience loop, levelled against all the others so changing rooms is never a lurch. On iPad and iPhone Duo, every room opens out into a wide painting, upright or sideways. A CAT, AND THINGS FOR IT TO WEAR Six companions, hand-drawn and animated. Focusing earns whiskers, and whiskers buy cat accessories and the monthly rooms. Pet the cat and it notices. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, AND WHAT YOU DID A task list that stays in sync with your phone's own Reminders. A record of every session — hours, streaks, and the note you left about what you were working on. Sit Still Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in Settings › your Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://alteraapps.com/sit-still/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hyper Focus Plus at none against Sit Still's 2. Hyper Focus Plus also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Sit Still's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. Sit Still sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Hyper Focus Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hyper Focus Plus ships an update every 4 weeks, Sit Still every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hyper Focus Plus | Sit Still |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nguyen Thanh Sang | Johannes Butzke |
In-app purchases
Hyper Focus Plus
No in-app purchases
Sit Still
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$34.991 Year









