Comparison

Focus Pattern vs Glowm

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

Head to head
About

Focus Pattern

Features
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Focus Pattern helps you choose a short sensory pattern when you feel scattered, tense, overloaded, or stuck. Pick a visual atmosphere, layer gentle sound, and follow a simple pattern to breathe, settle, and continue with steadier attention. Use Focus Pattern for: • settling your attention before work or study • taking a short reset between tasks • grounding during overloaded moments • pairing visual motion with soft sound textures • creating a calmer focus atmosphere Focus Pattern includes ambient sessions, breathing patterns, grounding practices, humming, soft breath guidance, visual atmospheres, sound textures, and haptic cues. Focus Pattern is a wellness tool, not medical care. Stop any session that feels uncomfortable. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://focuspattern.com/privacy

About

Glowm

Create personalized soundscapes by blending white noise, nature sounds, city ambiences, and music. The app visually reacts to your audio mix, transforming into a colorful orb. Designed for sleep and focus, it offers quick mixes and a built-in night light.

Highlights
  • Personalized soundscape mixer
  • Visual color orb that reacts to sound
  • 60+ sounds across six collections
  • Artist soundscapes for remixing
  • Designed for sleep and focus
  • Built-in night light feature
  • No ads, no account, no tracking
Features
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Glowm is your personal soundscape mixer. Blend white noise, nature sounds, city noises, chill beats, and real artist soundscapes into a mix that's entirely yours, then watch the whole app bloom with the colors of your sound. A LIVING GLASS ORB Your mix, visualized. Every sound has a signature color, and the orb (and the entire app) shifts to match your blend. Silence rests in deep purple; sound blooms everything into color. MIX AND BLEND FREELY • 60+ sounds across six collections • Color noise: white, pink, brown, blue, violet, and green • Nature & life: rain, thunder, creeks, crickets, and an owl waking up • City life: coffee shops, wet streets, and NYC nights • Chill beats: lo-fi loops cut to the same bar, so stacked beats stay locked together • Binaural beats: Delta, Theta, and Alpha tones (best with headphones) • Soundscapes: ethereal beds of choir, lunar pads, and starlight ARTIST SOUNDSCAPES Real artists, released as stems you can remix. Fade the layers of one composition in and out; everything stays locked to the pulse. MADE FOR SLEEP AND FOCUS • Runs all night, with Lock Screen and AirPods controls • One-tap quick mixes: Sleep, Focus, Chill, Meditate, and more • Save favorites and bring them back in a tap • A built-in night light: pull down and the orb fills the screen QUIET BY DESIGN No ads. No account. No tracking. A generous free library, sound packs at $1.99 each, and Glowm Unlimited ($3.99/month or $19.99/year) for everything, including every sound we ever add. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glowm.io/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Focus Pattern4 screens
Glowm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Focus Pattern at 16.0 against Glowm's 18.0. 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. Focus Pattern sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Glowm sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Focus Pattern versus Glowm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus PatternGlowm
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThinking Systems LLCADAM HAROLD MOORE

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Focus Pattern

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$9.99
7 purchases

Glowm

Subscriptions2
  • English$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Chill Beats Collection$1.99
  • Binaural Beats Collection$1.99
  • Soundscapes$1.99
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  • Ideaman$1.99
  • Tarkington2 variants$1.99

Questions

Is Focus Pattern free?
Focus Pattern is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glowm free?
Glowm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus Pattern or Glowm have ads?
Neither Focus Pattern nor Glowm shows ads.

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