Catudy vs Vana
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Catudy
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A little more reason to focus: a cat waiting for you. Catudy is a focus app for studying, work and personal goals. Set your timer, finish a session and restore your cat's happiness and energy. Build a bond, decorate a room and make a routine that feels like yours. When you want company, join friends in a lobby, work toward crew goals and follow your team's progress. FOCUS ZONES THAT HELP PROTECT YOUR ATTENTION Choose the apps that distract you. Use app blocking during focus sessions or in places you choose, such as your library, school or workspace. You decide where and which apps to restrict. YOUR FOCUS BRINGS YOUR CAT TO LIFE Completed real focus sessions restore your cat's happiness and energy. Happiness decreases over time; energy decreases while you use your selected distracting apps. Optional cat-based protection blocks selected apps when energy reaches zero or happiness falls below 25%. A GROWING BOND. A ROOM OF YOUR OWN. Play with your cat, show it affection and strengthen your bond. Spend in-app rewards earned through focus on furniture, decorations and accessories. Choose walls, floors and your cat's look to make its room your own. SHARE A LOBBY, SHARE YOUR FOCUS Create a lobby or join with a friend's code. Start the same focus timer together and make time for a shared study session. FIND YOUR CREW. REACH SHARED GOALS. Create or join a crew, contribute to a shared weekly minute goal and follow your team's progress. Weekly gem leagues are coming soon. SEE YOUR PROGRESS. PLAN YOUR NEXT STEP. Set daily and monthly goals. Explore your focus time, sessions and categories in weekly, monthly and all-time stats. Review past sessions on the calendar and keep plans, tasks and reminders together. PERMISSIONS AND CONTROL App blocking is optional and requires iOS 16 or later and Screen Time access. Location locks require location permission, including background access to update while Catudy is in the background. You can turn off cat-based blocking or choose reminders only. Lobbies and crews need an internet connection. Weekly leagues are not open yet. Support: https://catudy.com/support Privacy: https://catudy.com/privacy
Vana
This app provides a shared focus timer experience, creating a virtual library atmosphere to enhance productivity. Users can join sessions with animal companions representing real people, fostering a sense of accountability without direct interaction. Earn in-app rewards for focused time to customize your virtual space.
- Shared focus timer sessions
- Virtual animal companions
- Body doubling effect
- Earnable in-app currency
- Customizable virtual garden
- Lock screen Live Activity
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Vana is a focus timer with other people in it, and a gentle app blocker when you want one. It is free, and you can start without making an account. Press Begin and your animal companion settles into a small grove beside everyone else who is focusing right now. Nobody talks. Nobody scrolls. The light drifts from morning to dusk while you work. Think of the last time you got real work done in a library. You stayed in your seat because the people around you were staying in theirs. People with ADHD call this body doubling. Vana is that library, open at whatever hour you need it. HOW A SESSION WORKS Grove sessions run 30 or 60 minutes, and your timer is your own, so you can arrive in the middle of someone else's hour and still finish on yours. A grove holds eight people at most. Tap any companion to see how long that person has been focusing. There is no chat. You can send a wordless bubble, or a heart to someone who sat through the hour with you. Every animal in the ring belongs to a real person. Vana will never pad a quiet room with bots, so on a slow night your grove may be just you and your egg. THE GATE If you like, close the gate when a session begins: the apps you choose wait outside until it ends. If you came looking for an app blocker, this is that, but gentler. You are never locon opens the gate, and every focused minute still counts. The gate never closes on its own. It uses Apple's Screen Time on your device, and Vana never sees which apps you choose. WHAT THE HOURS TURN INTO Your first full grove session always ends with an egge grove session leaves one too. Eggs hold a newcompanion, something to wear or place, or more honey, so no hatch is ever wasted. There are nine species, and every animal comes out one of a kind, with its own coat and temperament. Honey is earned by focusing and cannot be bought. Spend it on cozy things to wear, cushions to meditate on, and decor for a garden of your own. The garden is a golden hilltop above the clouds, and you can focus up there alone, 5 to 90 minutes, whenever the grove feels like too much. The rarest pieces in the shop never come from eggs, so anything unusual on a companion was worked for. THE LANTERN Thirty minutes of focus lights that day's lantern. You get one grace day, your longest run is always remembered, and nothing here will ever tell you that you failed. Leaving a session early still counts every focused minute. No plant dies if you stop. Sign in with Apple whenever you like and your companions come with you to a new phone. A Live Activity keeps your session on the lock screen, and a home-screen widget carries your lantern streak. Vana sits beside your work and asks nothing of you except the time you already meant to spend.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vana at every 5 days against Catudy's monthly. Catudy's advantage is 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Catudy ships an update monthly, Vana every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catudy | Vana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yusuf Arca Cicek | Rudra Saha |
In-app purchases
Catudy
No in-app purchases
Vana
No in-app purchases









