FocusOrbit vs Quiet Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FocusOrbit
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Focus Orbit is an iPhone focus timer that turns your concentration time into a spaceflight experience. It includes two modes: “Custom Flight,” which works as a standard focus timer, and “Planet Roadmap,” where you advance from Earth to the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto as you accumulate focus time. One of the app’s strongest features is its “Mission Pass” boarding sequence before each session begins. Instead of simply tapping a start button, the user slides their mission pass to the right and physically feeds it through the on-screen scanner to authorize the flight. This makes the moment you begin focusing feel intentional, immersive, and memorable. Before each session, users choose their task, duration, and destination, then scan their mission pass to start the flight. Once the journey begins, the app avoids unnecessary interaction and lets users stay focused inside a calm, space-themed environment. After the session ends, the destination reached and focus record are saved to the flight log, making it easy to reflect on steady progress over time. In Planet Roadmap mode, focus time carries over continuously instead of resetting each time, allowing users to keep moving deeper into the solar system. Planets that can be landed on include landing, authorization, and liftoff sequences, while non-landable planets are passed through with flyby sequences, giving users a stronger sense of progress and achievement as they continue studying or working. Focus Orbit is designed to create immersion and a sense of momentum without losing the core purpose of a focus timer. It transforms studying, reading, creative work, and deep tasks into a quiet, cinematic journey through space.
Quiet Orbit
Enhance focus with a Pomodoro timer and app blocker. Earn rewards and explore new worlds as your virtual spaceship travels through space. Collaborate with friends for shared focus sessions.
- Customizable focus timer (15-90 minutes)
- App and website blocking
- Gamified progress with space exploration
- Focus sessions with friends
- Collectible in-app items and ship customization
- Progress tracking and patterns
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A calm focus timer with an app blocker, and a spaceship of your own. Every minute you focus flies it toward the next planet, and now friends can fly beside you. Pick 15 to 90 minutes, in steps of five. Choose which apps stay out. Hold the button to start. NEW: THREE MORE WORLDS Ceres in the asteroid belt, Europa at Jupiter and Charon at Pluto, each with its own things to find and its own sound. Premium now opens every world from the day you join, and each month one Premium world is open to everyone, for that month only. FOCUS WITH FRIENDS Invite up to three friends to a session. You all start at the same minute, wherever you are, and your ships fly side by side. Take the break together, then land together. Some things only ships flying together bring back. Hosting and joining are free. BLOCK WHAT PULLS YOU AWAY Choose the apps and websites to keep out for the length of a session. Quiet Orbit uses Apple's Screen Time system, so only what you choose is blocked, and only while a session runs. The block lifts on its own timer, so access comes back at the end whatever happens to the app in between. Blocking is optional, and the timer works the same with it off. PROGRESS THAT LASTS Fourteen destinations, from Earth orbit out to Pluto and its moon Charon. Every focused minute counts toward the next one, whether you sit down daily or once a week. Come back after a month away and the route is exactly where you left it. End a session early and the minutes you focused are kept. Finish every destination and the map closes every ring, with your hours and every world you flew. 323 THINGS TO FIND Finished sessions turn up things to keep: objects brought aboard, records from the places you reach, and the sound of fourteen worlds, plus 42 things only a crew of friends brings back. Each one has its own name and story. Decorate your ship with your favorites, with two of them beside you in the cockpit every time you fly. 33 badges mark the milestones. YOUR SHIP, YOUR COLORS Focused time earns new paints, engine lights and ships. Every world you finish adds its colors, your ship picks up others in flight, badges bring more, and a few come only from flying with friends. Paint the hull, wings and trim the way you like, while new ships take shape one session at a time. SEE YOUR PATTERNS An honest record of the work: a log of each week, focused time over the past week, the hours of the day you finish most often, and your longest sessions. WHAT'S INCLUDED Earth orbit and the Moon, a Premium world to visit each month, every session length, app blocking, protected breaks, sessions with friends, reminders, your streak, every badge, your ship with the paints and ships you earn, the view of your ship from behind while you focus (with your friends' ships when you fly together), and your history come with the app. Quiet Orbit Premium adds the other twelve worlds and their sounds, open from the day you join, five more cameras for watching your ship fly, among them one that circles it and one it flies past, two more ships, seven gradient paints, places to dock your ship and a name of your own for it, unlimited saved setups, private notes, every widget, and trends across weeks and months. Quiet Orbit protects one stretch of attention at a time. Your progress stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, and the apps you choose to block stay inside Apple's Screen Time, and only there. iPhone only. Requires iOS 18 or later. Made by Zeus Apps B.V. in the Netherlands. QUIET ORBIT PREMIUM Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. A subscription renews itself unless you turn that off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://quietorbit.org/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FocusOrbit at none against Quiet Orbit's 4. Quiet Orbit's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, 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. Quiet Orbit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. FocusOrbit asks for nothing beyond the download.
FocusOrbit ships an update fortnightly, Quiet Orbit every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocusOrbit | Quiet Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kenshin miyamoto | Zeus Apps B.V. |
In-app purchases
FocusOrbit
No in-app purchases
Quiet Orbit
- Quiet Orbit Premium$2.991 Month
- Quiet Orbit Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Quiet Orbit Premium Lifetime$22.49
- Quiet Orbit Premium Lifetime$29.99









