Comparison

Orbital Focus vs ScanPDF Pro

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

ScanPDF Pro

Features
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ScanPDF Pro turns your device into a fast, private document scanner. Everything happens on your device. No internet connection, no account, no ads to dismiss, no subscription to cancel. Pay once and keep it forever. WHY SCANPDF PRO - 100% offline: your documents never leave your device - One-time purchase: no subscription, no in-app purchase, no "Pro" upsell - No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no sign-up - No watermarks, no page limits, no export limits - 11 languages and full dark mode support - Native support for iPad SCAN - Automatic edge detection finds the document for you and keeps a live outline on screen while you frame it - Capture several pages in a row without leaving the camera - Or import photos you already have from your library FIX AND POLISH - Adjust the four corners by hand with a magnifier and edge snapping, and preview the perspective result instantly - Six filters: Original, Document, Black & White, Grayscale, Cool, Warm - Rotate to straighten sideways pages - Retake a page to replace it in place, keeping its position in the queue ORGANISE AND EXPORT - Manage pages: reorder, ignore a page for this export, delete one, or clear the whole queue at once - Pick your paper size: A4, Letter, Legal, A5, A3, B5 or Tabloid - Export to PDF, then share it or open it right inside the app - History keeps every PDF you have created so you can reopen it later BUILT FOR PRIVACY - Camera and photo access are used only to scan documents - No servers, no uploads, no third-party SDKs, no data collection - PDF files are saved in the app's own folder, reachable from the Files app No account to create. Nothing to subscribe to. Nothing leaves your device. Made for people who want a scanner that works, and then gets out of the way.

Screenshots

Orbital Focus4 screens
ScanPDF Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Orbital Focus at Free against ScanPDF Pro's $0.99. Orbital Focus also leads on device support (4 vs 2). ScanPDF Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On 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

Orbital Focus is free to download; ScanPDF Pro costs $0.99 up front. Orbital Focus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ScanPDF Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Orbital Focus versus ScanPDF Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbital FocusScanPDF Pro
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size301 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRed Honey LLC昂 熊

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Orbital Focus

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • LifetimeFree
None

ScanPDF Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orbital Focus free?
Orbital Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScanPDF Pro free?
ScanPDF Pro costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orbital Focus or ScanPDF Pro have ads?
Neither Orbital Focus nor ScanPDF Pro shows ads.

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