Focus Home vs Quiet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Home
This app transforms your phone's home screen into a calm, text-first interface designed to reduce mindless scrolling. Set daily intentions, create custom profiles for different contexts, and add friction to distracting apps to help you be more present and productive.
- Text-first launcher interface
- Single daily intention setting
- Customizable launcher profiles
- Distraction blocking with delays
- Focus session timers
- Progress tracking dashboard
- Lock-screen widgets
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Your phone should serve your day, not steal it. Focus Home replaces the chaos of your home screen with a calm, text-first launcher built to slow down the moments that lead to mindless scrolling. Set a single daily intention that follows you across the launcher, dashboard, and lock screen widget — a quiet reminder of what actually matters before you open another feed. Whether you want to be more present with family, focus deeper at work, or simply spend less time staring at glass, Focus Home turns your phone into a tool for living instead of a slot machine for your attention. Build custom launcher profiles for work, home, faith, or study, and let them switch automatically based on your schedule. Mark the apps that pull you off track as distracting and Focus Home adds friction before they open: a customizable delay timer, reflection prompts like "Why are you opening this?", and optional daily launch limits or time budgets you actually keep. Start a Focus Session (25, 45, 60, or 90 minutes) when you need to lock in, add lock-screen widgets to launch your essentials with a single tap, and watch your progress in a built-in dashboard tracking focus score, pickups, avoided launches, and distracting opens — so you can see your habits change. Upgrade to Focus Home Premium for $1.99/month to unlock the full experience: unlimited launcher profiles, custom daily intentions, custom reflection prompts, advanced analytics, lock-screen widgets, automation, iCloud sync, and a beautiful set of premium themes including Warm Paper, Midnight, Forest, Sunset, Ocean, Ink, Rose, and Sage. Whether you stay on the free tier or go premium, every feature is built around one promise: fewer pickups, fewer regretted opens, and more of the life you actually want to be living. Download Focus Home and take your attention back today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Quiet
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Quiet blocks apps so you can focus. Start a timed session and pick which apps stay available. Everything else stays blocked until the timer ends. What you get with a purchase • Allow-list sessions: choose what stays open • A simpler phone without buying new hardware • Optional website blocking in browsers you allow • Exit locks from gentle to hard • Live Activity, widgets, and a countdown while you work How it works 1. Choose the apps you still need 2. Set a duration or schedule 3. Start. Distracting apps stay blocked until time is up. Quiet is free to download. An in-app purchase or subscription is required to start sessions and block apps. No account required. Session data stays on your device. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Quiet at 17.0 against Focus Home's 26.0. 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
Both are free to download. Focus Home sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Quiet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Focus Home | Quiet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WILLIAM BARRY AGNEW | Nuno Lopes |
In-app purchases
Focus Home
- Focus Home Premium$1.991 Month
Quiet
- Dumb Phone Pro Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Lifetime Deal$12.99









