Comparison

Gaveki vs Vana

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

Head to head
About

Gaveki

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Gaveki is a focus app built for ADHD brains. It is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. Talk to a licensed healthcare professional about ADHD evaluation, treatment, or medication. Use Gaveki alongside the care of a doctor or therapist, not instead of it. If you are in crisis, contact a local emergency service or a crisis line right away. Gaveki helps you pick one next move when your brain feels stuck. Drop everything you need to do into a brain dump. Pick a mood. Get one clear plan for your day. Start a focus session and let the app block your most distracting websites until time is up. WHAT GAVEKI DOES Brain dump — Drop tasks in fast, no folders, no labels, no setup. Your list waits when you cannot. Plan my day — Pick a mood. The app reads your tasks and gives you a short, doable plan. Not 20 tasks. Just 3. Focus shield — Start a timer. The app blocks websites you tend to get lost in. The block lifts when the timer ends. Body doubling — Co-work with other Gaveki users on video. Camera on or off. Just having someone there helps. Voice coach — Pick a coach personality. Get spoken nudges and check-ins while you work. Break it down — Stare at a task that feels too big? Tap it. The app turns it into smaller steps. Calendar with pre-alarms — Schedule a task. Get a heads-up before it starts, not just at the time. Medication reminders — Set times to remember your meds. The reminders are simple. Your doctor handles your prescription. Peak energy window — Tell the app when you tend to focus best. It points you there first. Weekly progress — A short Sunday read-out of what you got done last week. Pattern, not judgment. PRO PLAN The free plan covers brain dump, focus shield, and basic timers. Pro unlocks AI planning, voice coach, body doubling, AI task breakdown, peak energy window, and weekly progress reports. Pro is $15 a month. Cancel any time. WHO GAVEKI IS FOR Adults with ADHD, suspected ADHD, or anyone whose brain has a hard time starting. Students. Remote workers. Parents. Founders. Anyone who has stared at a task list and felt frozen. WHO GAVEKI IS NOT FOR This is not therapy. This is not a doctor. This is not a treatment. If you need help with mental health, please reach out to a professional. Crisis lines and care providers in your area can help in ways an app cannot. PRIVACY Your tasks and notes stay yours. We do not sell your data. SUPPORT Email hello@gaveki.com with questions, bugs, or feature ideas. We read every message.

About

Vana

This app provides a shared focus timer experience, creating a virtual library atmosphere to enhance productivity. Users can join sessions with animal companions representing real people, fostering a sense of accountability without direct interaction. Earn in-app rewards for focused time to customize your virtual space.

Highlights
  • Shared focus timer sessions
  • Virtual animal companions
  • Body doubling effect
  • Earnable in-app currency
  • Customizable virtual garden
  • Lock screen Live Activity
Features
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Vana is a focus timer with other people in it, and a gentle app blocker when you want one. It is free, and you can start without making an account. Press Begin and your animal companion settles into a small grove beside everyone else who is focusing right now. Nobody talks. Nobody scrolls. The light drifts from morning to dusk while you work. Think of the last time you got real work done in a library. You stayed in your seat because the people around you were staying in theirs. People with ADHD call this body doubling. Vana is that library, open at whatever hour you need it. HOW A SESSION WORKS Grove sessions run 30 or 60 minutes, and your timer is your own, so you can arrive in the middle of someone else's hour and still finish on yours. A grove holds eight people at most. Tap any companion to see how long that person has been focusing. There is no chat. You can send a wordless bubble, or a heart to someone who sat through the hour with you. Every animal in the ring belongs to a real person. Vana will never pad a quiet room with bots, so on a slow night your grove may be just you and your egg. THE GATE If you like, close the gate when a session begins: the apps you choose wait outside until it ends. If you came looking for an app blocker, this is that, but gentler. You are never locon opens the gate, and every focused minute still counts. The gate never closes on its own. It uses Apple's Screen Time on your device, and Vana never sees which apps you choose. WHAT THE HOURS TURN INTO Your first full grove session always ends with an egge grove session leaves one too. Eggs hold a newcompanion, something to wear or place, or more honey, so no hatch is ever wasted. There are nine species, and every animal comes out one of a kind, with its own coat and temperament. Honey is earned by focusing and cannot be bought. Spend it on cozy things to wear, cushions to meditate on, and decor for a garden of your own. The garden is a golden hilltop above the clouds, and you can focus up there alone, 5 to 90 minutes, whenever the grove feels like too much. The rarest pieces in the shop never come from eggs, so anything unusual on a companion was worked for. THE LANTERN Thirty minutes of focus lights that day's lantern. You get one grace day, your longest run is always remembered, and nothing here will ever tell you that you failed. Leaving a session early still counts every focused minute. No plant dies if you stop. Sign in with Apple whenever you like and your companions come with you to a new phone. A Live Activity keeps your session on the lock screen, and a home-screen widget carries your lantern streak. Vana sits beside your work and asks nothing of you except the time you already meant to spend.

Screenshots

Gaveki4 screens
Vana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vana at none against Gaveki's 1. Gaveki's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gaveki sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per month. Vana asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Gaveki versus Vana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGavekiVana
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB26 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAffection Health Care LLCRudra Saha

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gaveki

Subscriptions1
  • Gaveki Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
None

Vana

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gaveki free?
Gaveki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vana free?
Vana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gaveki or Vana have ads?
Neither Gaveki nor Vana shows ads.

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