Comparison

FocusPaws vs hydo

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

Head to head
About

FocusPaws

This app helps you stay focused on tasks by connecting you with friends and featuring cute animal companions. Track your progress visually and achieve your daily goals together, even when apart.

Highlights
  • Focus with friends remotely
  • Adorable animal companions
  • Select task and start timer
  • Track progress visually
  • Real-time friend status
Features
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Welcome to FocusPaw. Struggling to stay focused when working or studying alone? FocusPaw is a social focus timer app that helps you stay on track with the help of adorable animals and your friends. Experience the feeling of working together, even when you are miles apart, and start crushing your daily goals. [ Key Features ] Focus With Friends Feel like you are in the same room, even remotely. See your friends' real-time status and timers to stay motivated and hold each other accountable. Adorable Animal Companions Let our cute animal friends, from a studying squirrel to a working-out koala, accompany and cheer you on during your focus sessions. Pick a Task and Start Simply select your current activity, such as coding, working, working out, or studying, and start the timer to manage your routines effortlessly. Track Your Progress Your focused time is automatically recorded on your calendar, beautifully visualizing your monthly statistics and total hours. Feel a strong sense of accomplishment as you watch your progress stack up over time. Download FocusPaw today and start your productive journey with your new animal friends.

About

hydo

View your monthly calendar directly on your lock screen without unlocking your phone. Organize events by group with color-coding and easily share calendars with others using invite codes. Customize widget size and position, and sync with existing iCloud and Gmail calendars.

Highlights
  • Monthly calendar on lock screen
  • Group color-coding
  • Invite code sharing
  • Customizable widget size and position
  • Today's remaining events widget
  • Syncs with iCloud/Gmail calendars
  • Recurring event support
Features
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์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์ผœ๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ ์ผ์ •์ด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์กฑยทํšŒ์‚ฌยท์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ  ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ดˆ๋Œ€ ์ฝ”๋“œ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ยท ์›”๊ฐ„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์„ ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด์— โ€” ์ž ๊ธˆ ํ•ด์ œ๋„, ์•ฑ ์‹คํ–‰๋„ ํ•„์š” ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท ๊ทธ๋ฃน๋ณ„ ์ƒ‰ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„. ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ ์ž ์‹œ ๊บผ ๋‘ก๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท ์ดˆ๋Œ€ ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ถ™์—ฌ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉด ์ฐธ์—ฌ ๋. ๋งํฌ๋„ ์นœ๊ตฌ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์œ„์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ ํฌ๊ธฐ์™€ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋งž์ถ”๊ธฐ ยท ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋‚จ์€ ์ผ์ •์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ ยท ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ 3์ข… โ€” ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ผ์ •, ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ์›”๊ฐ„, ์›”๊ฐ„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ ์ค‘์— ๊ณ ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท iPhone์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ์บ˜๋ฆฐ๋”(iCloudยทGmail ๋“ฑ)์˜ ์ผ์ •์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ยท ๋งค์ผยท๋งค์ฃผยท๋งค์›”ยท๋งค๋…„(์Œ๋ ฅ ํฌํ•จ) ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์ผ์ • ยท Mac ์•ฑ โ€” ํฐ ์ฐฝ๊ณผ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด ๋ง‰๋Œ€์—์„œ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ผ์ •์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (hydo ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„) ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด ๊ฐฑ์‹ ์—๋Š” Apple ๋‹จ์ถ•์–ด ์ž๋™ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. iOS๊ฐ€ ์•ฑ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝํ™”๋ฉด ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฒซ ์‹คํ–‰ ๋•Œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์•ˆ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. iPhone ์•ฑ์€ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์—†์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Apple๋กœ ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ๋งŒ ์ง€์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [hydo ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„] Mac ์•ฑ์„ ์“ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๋™ ๊ฐฑ์‹  ๊ตฌ๋…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์›”๊ฐ„ยท์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘์— ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋ฉฐ, ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ตฌ๋…ํ•˜๋ฉด 7์ผ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์ฒดํ—˜์ด ์ œ๊ณต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ์ œ๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋งค ํ™•์ธ ์‹œ(๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์ฒดํ—˜์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ฒดํ—˜ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ์‹œ) Apple ๊ณ„์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์ตœ์†Œ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ „์— ํ•ด์ง€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋™ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋… ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ•ด์ง€๋Š” App Store ๊ณ„์ • ์„ค์ •์—์„œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์šฉ์•ฝ๊ด€: https://hyson.kr/hydo/terms ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฐฉ์นจ: https://hyson.kr/hydo/privacy

Screenshots

FocusPaws4 screens
hydo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FocusPaws at every 6 days against hydo's fortnightly. On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. FocusPaws sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and hydo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusPaws ships an update every 6 days, hydo fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
FocusPaws versus hydo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusPawshydo
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 6 days โ€” betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size233 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJinhee KimHyson Works

Customer experience

FocusPaws

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

hydo

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FocusPaws

One-time3
  • time 500$0.99
  • time 1200$1.69
  • time 2000$2.39
2 purchases

hydo

Subscriptions2
  • hydo ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ (์›”๊ฐ„)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • hydo ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ (์—ฐ๊ฐ„)7 Days trial$17.991 Year

Questions

Is FocusPaws free?
FocusPaws is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is hydo free?
hydo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusPaws or hydo have ads?
Neither FocusPaws nor hydo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusPaws or hydo?
FocusPaws ships an update every 6 days, and hydo fortnightly. Most recently, FocusPaws was updated on November 5, 2026 and hydo on November 6, 2026.

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