Freeze Focus vs Halo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Freeze Focus
This app helps you stay off your phone during deep work sessions with a visual timer that simulates melting ice. It encourages building focus habits by creating intentional time and reducing distractions.
- Ice-melting focus timer
- Customizable session lengths
- Session history tracking
- Satisfying visual feedback
- No account required
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Freeze your phone. Find your focus. FreezeFocus is the focus timer app that helps you stay off your phone and follow through on your next deep work session. Instead of checking your phone out of habit, FreezeFocus gives you a simple focus ritual: choose how long you want to focus, start the session, and watch the ice melt as time passes. Stay with it, finish the session, and build a stronger focus habit one session at a time. FreezeFocus helps you turn scattered minutes into intentional time. FEATURES • Ice-melting focus timer • Customise session lengths • Session history • Sound effects • No accounts required WHY FREEZEFOCUS? Most productivity apps ask you to manage more. FreezeFocus helps you do less, better. Because the first step to focusing is creating a little space between you and your phone. FreezeFocus makes that moment simple, visual, and satisfying. Download FreezeFocus and start building calmer, more focused days. Terms of Service: https://freezefocus.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://freezefocus.app/privacy
Halo
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Most Pomodoro apps go silent between beeps. Halo doesn't. Pick brown noise, pink noise, or rain, and the sound follows every focus block. When the break starts, it fades. When the next block begins, it comes back. That's the difference. WHAT'S INSIDE A Pomodoro timer with your own focus, short-break, and long-break lengths. Auto-start the next phase or step through manually. Skip or reset at any time. Three ambient beds bundled with the app, not streamed. Brown noise for heads-down work. Pink noise for reading. Rain for the last hour of the day. A completion sound picker too: Off, Default, Chime, Bell, Soft. Tag each session by subject. General, Calculus, Design, Reading, whatever you're on. See the week broken down per subject so you know where the hours actually went. A daily focus goal (2 hours out of the box, editable), a streak that counts consecutive days you hit it, a weekly bar chart, and all-time totals. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep the countdown on your Lock Screen while you switch apps. Home-screen widgets in four sizes: Today, Streak, Stats, and This week. Full light and dark mode, follows your system. English, Espanol, Francais. WHAT'S NOT INSIDE No account. No sign-in. No cloud. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. No ads. No tracking. Everything is stored on your device. Uninstall Halo and the data goes with it. Settings has a Reset all data button if you want to wipe it without deleting the app. The only permission Halo asks for is notifications, so it can tell you when a session ends. It also uses Live Activities and Background App Refresh so the countdown stays accurate. No camera, microphone, photos, contacts, calendar, location, HealthKit, or motion access, ever. Halo works fully offline. There is no network call in the app. Free. That's the whole story.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Halo at none against Freeze Focus's shown. Halo also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Freeze Focus ships an update every 4 days, Halo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Freeze Focus | Halo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matty Hempstead | youssef fakih |
In-app purchases
Freeze Focus
No in-app purchases
Halo
No in-app purchases









