Comparison

Freeze Focus vs Halo

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Halo

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Freeze Focus3 screens
Halo4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Freeze Focus ships an update every 4 days, Halo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Freeze Focus versus Halo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFreeze FocusHalo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatty Hempsteadyoussef fakih

In-app purchases

None

Freeze Focus

No in-app purchases

None

Halo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Freeze Focus free?
Freeze Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Halo free?
Halo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Freeze Focus or Halo have ads?
Freeze Focus shows ads; Halo does not.
Which is updated more often, Freeze Focus or Halo?
Freeze Focus ships an update every 4 days, and Halo daily. Most recently, Freeze Focus was updated on October 24, 2026 and Halo on October 16, 2026.

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