Orbital Focus vs Colophon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orbital Focus
This app transforms focus sessions into space missions, with longer focus times leading to higher orbits. It features customizable missions, a living 3D Earth visualization, and gamified progress tracking. Optional app blocking and ambient soundscapes enhance concentration.
- Themed focus sessions with space mission progression
- Living 3D Earth visualization with real-time data
- Gamified progress tracking with ranks and rewards
- Optional app blocking for distraction-free work
- Ambient focus music and soundscapes
- Live Activities and Apple Watch companion app
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Your attention is the most powerful engine you own. Orbital Focus turns every focus session into a rocket launch — pick a destination, strap in, and the only way to arrive is to stay on task. The longer you focus, the higher you fly. A 15-minute warm-up is a suborbital hop. 25 minutes is one clean orbit of Earth. A focused hour parks you in geostationary orbit, 35,786 km up. Push past 90 minutes and you leave Earth orbit entirely. Every minute is real thrust. HOW A MISSION WORKS • Pick a destination — a 15-minute Suborbital Hop, 25-minute Low Earth Orbit, a 45-minute rendezvous with Station Aurora, a full hour in High Earth Orbit, or a 90-minute Deep Space run to lunar distance. Each is a fixed block of focus. • Name your payload (the thing you're actually doing) and choose a crew role — Work, Study, Read, Create, Code, Write, Train, Plan, Chores, or Relax. • Feel the countdown. A cinematic haptic launch ritual — ignition rumble, Max-Q, stage separation — marks the real milestones of your session. • Fly a living 3D Earth. Watch your spacecraft climb its true trajectory over a hand-rendered planet with daylight, city lights, and every flight you've ever flown. • Coast phases = built-in breaks. Long missions split into burn segments with short coasts between them — pomodoro, in orbital mechanics. Fully configurable, or fly one unbroken burn. THE HANGAR Every focused minute earns Δv. Spend it across a fleet of real rockets — from the workhorse Falcon 9 to the mighty Falcon Heavy — and upgrade engines, tanks, and avionics. Launch from seven real-world pads: Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg, Baikonur, Kourou, Tanegashima, Wenchang, and Starbase. Premium also unlocks an exotic collection of legendary sci-fi capital ships, for pilots who want to fly something out of a movie. A LOYALTY PROGRAM FOR YOUR ATTENTION Climb six ranks, Cadet to Mission Commander, by logging real focus time. Ranks unlock new destinations and craft. Your lifetime distance is measured in light-seconds — and it only ever goes up. LAUNCH LOCKDOWN Optional app blocking powered by Apple's Screen Time. While a mission is in flight, your chosen distracting apps are shielded. Leave early and you don't crash — re-entries and pad scrubs still bank partial credit. Orbital Focus never punishes you for being human. THE CUPOLA Look out the window. Stream real satellite imagery of the world passing beneath your spacecraft — a live view from orbit, in flight. FOCUS MUSIC Download ambient flight-deck soundscapes on demand and cache them for offline sessions. Deep Space pilots can also pick a station skin — five orbital outposts to fly past. MISSION REPLAYS Scrub through recreated historic launches — Sputnik 1, Vostok 1, Crew Dragon Demo-2, the Space Shuttle and more — and watch them fly out on the same living globe. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. An Apple Watch companion that flies on your wrist. Home Screen and Control Center widgets. Share your mission to a TV or the big screen. STREAKS, ACHIEVEMENTS, LOGBOOK Daily launch streaks, 16 achievements, and a full flight logbook with charts of where your hours actually go. ORBITAL FOCUS PREMIUM (optional) The core app is free, forever. Premium adds the live Cupola view, Advanced Insights and your full Flight Log, exclusive craft and destinations, and alternate app icons. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or unlock it once for life. Your focus minutes always bank — free or Premium. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads in the app. We never sell your data. Every mission record lives on your device, and Screen Time data never leaves your phone. Built for students, makers, writers, engineers, and anyone with ADHD-adjacent attention who needs the session to feel like it matters. Wheels stop. Mission complete. Fly again tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Colophon
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Colophon is a private read-later app for people who want to keep articles, feeds, PDFs and EPUBs in one calm library. Save pages from Safari or any app, subscribe to RSS feeds, import books and PDFs, then read with clean typography, progress tracking and device-wide search. Colophon keeps your highlights, margin notes, handwritten ink and reading history attached to the piece you saved. Built for focused reading: - Save URLs, RSS/Atom feeds, EPUBs, PDFs and local HTML - Import Instapaper CSV or HTML exports with Colophon Pro - Read in an adaptive iPhone and iPad interface - Highlight passages, add margin notes and search your saved library - Draw with Apple Pencil on articles, books and PDFs - Resume visual reading or read-aloud listening where you left off - Review saved highlights and handwritten notes over time - Use widgets for quick access to your reading - Export rich Markdown to an Obsidian vault - Sync supported data with iCloud when enabled - Connect an optional Miniflux account for two-way feed sync Private by design: - No tracking - No account required - No collected data in the app privacy manifest - On-device AI features, when available, run on your device for summaries, key points, tags and article Q&A Colophon is designed as a quiet desk for serious reading: capture what matters, mark it up, and let your library become searchable knowledge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Orbital Focus at 4 against Colophon's 2. Orbital Focus also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Orbital Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Colophon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Orbital Focus | Colophon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Red Honey LLC | SIRWAN AFIFI |
In-app purchases
Orbital Focus
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- LifetimeFree
Colophon
- Colophon Pro$9.99









