Orbital Focus vs Marine Engineer
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/
Marine Engineer
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Marine Engineer is a vessel management and engineering workspace for marine engineers and engine officers. Organise machinery, calculations, tank records, daily work, certificates and documents under separate vessel profiles. Keep essential records available offline at sea. KEY FEATURES Vessel Profiles and Machinery Keep each vessel's technical information and equipment records together. Record main engines, generators, boilers, pumps, separators, compressors, fresh water generators and auxiliary systems. Engineering Tools Use calculators for tank geometry, shaft power, engine performance, bolted joints, fluid systems, thermal calculations and unit conversions. Find metric tap-drill sizes, coarse and fine thread tables, and bolt clearance dimensions. Bunker Fuel Calculator Calculate fuel quantities from tank measurements with temperature and density corrections. Prepare blending and internal transfer calculations and save results under the relevant vessel. Tank Management Create calibrated tank profiles, calculate quantities from sounding or ullage, record IOPP tank details and track balances for supported ORB operations. Logbook, Maintenance and Notes Record daily work, maintenance, outstanding tasks and handover notes. Track generator running hours and service reminders. Edit or delete supported saved records and recalculate saved calculations. PDF Reports and Document Archive Export structured handover PDF reports. Organise manuals, vessel photographs, certificates and technical files by vessel. Certificate Tracking Record issue and expiry dates, review renewal status and enable expiry reminders. Marine Simulators Practise with Engine Room, Electrical Workshop, Fresh Water Generator and Oil Purifier simulators. Explore machinery operation, electrical circuits, fluid flow, valves and alarms. Simulator access depends on your plan or available trial. Traveler Pin Record visited ports with dates, vessel details and photos. Explore your voyage on 2D maps or a 3D globe and create image or video travel stories. OPTIONAL ORB PART I MODULE Prepare structured Oil Record Book Part I entries for: • Sludge collection, transfer and disposal • Bilge water transfers and discharge • 15 ppm equipment operations • Bunkering and incineration • Weekly inventory and equipment tests • Additional remarks Use registered tank details, review quantities for supported operations and check the preview before transferring information to the official Oil Record Book. FREE ACCESS AND OPTIONAL PURCHASES Manage one vessel free of charge. MarineEngineer Pro monthly, auto-renewing subscriptions provide capacity for up to 3, 5, 10 or 15 vessels, or unlimited vessels. All simulators are included in active 10-vessel, 15-vessel and unlimited-vessel plans. The 3- and 5-vessel plans do not include simulator access. ORB Part I is a separate, one-time lifetime purchase. It is not included in vessel subscriptions and does not include simulator access. Prices are displayed before purchase. Payment is charged to your App Store account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before renewal. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. IMPORTANT Marine Engineer supports calculations, learning and record preparation. It does not replace approved vessel documents, official record books or professional judgement. The responsible officer must review calculations, tank quantities and ORB entries against vessel documentation, company procedures and applicable regulations. Knowledge • Safety • Efficiency By your side, every watch. Privacy Policy: https://medpov.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Marine Engineer at every 4 days against Orbital Focus's every 2 weeks. Marine Engineer also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 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
Both are free to download. Orbital Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Marine Engineer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Orbital Focus ships an update every 2 weeks, Marine Engineer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orbital Focus | Marine Engineer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Red Honey LLC | Oral Elmas |
In-app purchases
Orbital Focus
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$19.991 Year
- LifetimeFree
Marine Engineer
- EngineRoom Pro - 3 Vessels1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- EngineRoom Pro - 5 Vessels1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- EngineRoom Pro - 10 Vessels1 Month trial$2.991 Month
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- EngineRoom Pro - 15 Vessels1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- EngineRoom Pro - Unlimited$5.991 Month
- Unlimited Vessels Yearly$59.991 Year
- ORB Part I – Lifetime Access$24.99
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