Comparison

FocusVille vs Focus Hotel

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

Head to head
About

FocusVille

Features
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FocusVille turns your focus time into a little life you grow, and now your friends can sit at the same table. Start a focus session and a tiny friend grows with you: baby, child, teen, adult. Every focused minute turns into coins, a cozier room and a life that slowly takes shape: a job, a salary, a bike, a house with a garden, and one day a seaside villa or an island of your own. Made calm on purpose. No noise, no pressure, no punishment for stopping early, and nothing you have earned is ever taken away. Just a soft, rewarding loop that makes it easier to start, especially if starting is the hard part for you. • Shared Table: study at the same table as your friends. The table has one fire that lights when everyone does a session that day. If someone gets up, their chair stays empty; if a friend isn't there, their session from yesterday sits beside you; ring the bell to call someone who hasn't come. No chat. • Focus coach: a weekly target built from your own sessions, your best hour and day, and one tactic each week. With FocusVille+, daily pace and your road to exam day. • Companion trips: after a session your companion heads out and returns hours later with a gift; every new place adds a postcard. • Subjects and exam plan: link sessions to subjects, see your week per subject and your focus quality. With FocusVille+, a daily target per subject. • Places: café, library, fireside, forest, night, garden and snow. Each place comes with its own scene and sound, and your friend studies there with you. The rainy window is now free for everyone. Try every Plus place free for one session. • Promise: promise yourself 1, 2 or 3 sessions (Easy, Medium or Hard) for today or tomorrow, and earn coins when you keep it. Add some of your coins if you like and they come back multiplied. Pick an hour and get a reminder. Keep 7 in a row for a bonus and a Promise cup for your room. • Your friend's form: your last 7 days of focus show on your character. When Fresh, sessions earn 10% more coins. Need time off? Take a break for 3, 7 or 14 days. Want more challenge? Optional Hard mode: a neglected friend gets sick and their salary is halved, until a few good days bring them back. • Your scene while you focus: during a session, your lock screen and home screen widget show the scene you picked and your friend with a live countdown (iOS 17 and later). Dim the screen and the scene stays softly visible. • Focus Journey: a one-time ticket for a 30-stop path. Every day you reach your minutes you move one stop, collecting room items you can't buy in the shop. • Big goals: a bike, a house with a garden, a sports car, a seaside villa and a private island, each with a new window view. The villa and the island open rooms of their own. • Seasonal trips with postcards, 15 new room items and a quote of the day. • Strict Mode (iOS 18 and later): lock the apps that distract you while your session runs. Free, with no daily limit • Exam and deadline countdown with your weekly focus time • Look after your friend: water, meals, a kitchen to fill and pets you name yourself • Jobs, salary, achievements and a story to unlock • Works offline. Signing in is optional, and your progress is yours FocusVille+ (optional: a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, a one-time Lifetime purchase, or Exam Season: 90 days, paid once, never renews) adds a 4-person Shared Table whose place opens for everyone at it, the focus coach's daily pace and exam road, every place with its scene and sound, Hard lock and Scheduled lock (iOS 18 and later), the weekly report (your first one is free), free streak repair, unlimited breaks for your friend and 20% more coins in coin packs. Coins are earned by focusing; optional coin packs are just a shortcut. Coins have no cash value. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://focus-ville.vercel.app/privacy Light the candle. Grow your world.

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Focus Hotel

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Focus Hotel gives your focus somewhere to go. Start a focus session and distracting apps are locked away until it ends. Complete it to earn Focusines, the currency you can spend on furniture, new outfits and, eventually, entirely new rooms. Most productivity apps ask you to be disciplined. This one gives you something to show for it. HOW IT WORKS • Choose how long you want to focus, then start. • Distracting apps stay blocked for the entire session. • Finish and earn the full reward. Cancel and earn nothing. No lecture, no broken streak, no guilt. • Spend what you earned in the store, then place every piece yourself, tile by tile. • Keep focusing and the hotel opens up: a living room, a kitchen and a bedroom of your own. YOU'RE NOT FOCUSING ALONE Other people's rooms are real places you can visit. See who is focusing right now, what they're working on and how far into their session they are. Say hello. Start your own session from their room and sit together while you both work. It's the quiet company of a library, on your phone. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • No sign-up. No account, email or password. Open the app and you're in. • Works offline. Focusing, earning and decorating never require a connection. • Nothing is rented. Every piece you buy stays yours. • A world, not a dashboard. Cozy pixel art you actually want to look at. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Track minutes focused, sessions completed and your completion rate: the number that shows whether you're getting better at staying focused. ABOUT APP BLOCKING Deep Focus uses Apple's Screen Time controls to keep selected apps blocked while a session is running. You grant permission once, you can say no, and focus sessions still work without blocking. Focus Hotel is free. Focusines are earned by focusing. You can also buy them if you'd rather furnish your hotel faster. Build a room worth coming back to. Terms of Use: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jesuscallejadev/Focus-Hotel/refs/heads/main/TermsOfUse

Screenshots

FocusVille4 screens
Focus Hotel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FocusVille at 15.1 against Focus Hotel's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. FocusVille sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Focus Hotel sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusVille ships an update every 10 days, Focus Hotel fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
FocusVille versus Focus Hotel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusVilleFocus Hotel
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB53 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperEmre Omer YldzJesus Calleja Rodriguez

In-app purchases

10 purchases

FocusVille

Subscriptions3
  • FocusVille+ Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • FocusVille+ Yearly Offer$19.991 Year
  • FocusVille+ Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time7
  • Handful · 1,000 coins$0.99
  • Pouch · 3,200 coins$2.99
  • Focus Journey$4.99
Show 4 more
  • Chest · 7,500 coins$5.99
  • Exam Season$11.99
  • Treasure · 20,000 coins$12.99
  • Hoard · 50,000 coins$24.99
3 purchases

Focus Hotel

One-time3
  • 300 Focusines$1.99
  • 900 Focusines$4.99
  • 2000 Focusines$9.99

Questions

Is FocusVille free?
FocusVille is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Hotel free?
Focus Hotel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusVille or Focus Hotel have ads?
Neither FocusVille nor Focus Hotel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusVille or Focus Hotel?
FocusVille ships an update every 10 days, and Focus Hotel fortnightly. Most recently, FocusVille was updated on November 11, 2026 and Focus Hotel on November 6, 2026.

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