Comparison

Tempo vs Task Focus

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

Head to head
About

Tempo

Features
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Tempo โ€” Smart Task Planner & Event Countdown Tempo is a sleek, fast, and completely private daily planner designed for those who want absolute control over their schedules, tasks, and important life events. No clutter, no distractions โ€” just pure focus on your daily actions and personal productivity. Organize your day, track your consistency with a visual activity map, and run customizable countdowns to your most significant dates with gorgeous designer card styles. TEMPO KEY FEATURES: 1. Focus on Today & Daily Planner Quickly log tasks and organize your days ahead. The "Focus on Today" dashboard keeps your current tasks front and center, eliminating visual overwhelm. Schedule or postpone items easily with our interactive calendar view. 2. Visual Event Countdowns & Dynamic Units Save key dates (deadlines, travels, anniversaries, special occasions). Choose your counter units: track exactly how many days, hours, or minutes are left before or have elapsed since your events. Personalize each event using designer card skins (Polaroid, Concert Ticket, Neo-Brutalist Cartoon, Retro Vinyl, or Premium Frosted Glass). 3. Activity & Streak Heatmap A beautiful, interactive grid showing your daily completion history. Track your consistency visually, similar to a developer's contribution map. Build daily streaks and monitor your momentum over time. 4. Group Collaboration & Assignments Create shared groups with teammates, family, or friends. Delegate tasks directly to members in real-time. Receive instant notifications when a task is assigned to you. 5. Custom Aesthetic Themes Personalize your workspace with beautiful themes: Royal Purple, Midnight Blue, Green Salad, and more. Seamless dark mode support for high comfort day and night. 6. Offline-First & Absolute Privacy Tempo stores your schedules locally on your device using Apple's CoreData framework. Fast, native performance with secure synchronization. Download Tempo today and find your perfect daily rhythm! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Task Focus

Features
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You know what you have to do. Your phone pulls you away anyway. Task Focus pauses the apps that distract you until your one task is finished. Write down the one thing, pick what to pause, and start. Open a paused app in the middle of it, and you see your task instead of the feed. There is no countdown on the screen. Time counts up, and a focus ends when you say it is finished โ€” not when a timer decides you failed. The one limit is a safety net you set yourself, between one and eight hours, that hands your apps back if you never get round to tapping "I'm done". WHAT IT DOES โ€ข Pauses the apps you choose, using Screen Time. Feeds, timelines, the endless pull-to-refresh โ€” closed until you are done. โ€ข Turns a paused app into a reminder: open one, and it shows the task you are finishing and when the app comes back. โ€ข Pauses on a schedule โ€” weekday mornings, every evening โ€” without you starting anything. โ€ข Works with iOS Focus: add Task Focus as a Focus filter, and a Focus like Work or Study pauses the apps you chose. โ€ข Puts the one thing on your Lock Screen and in a widget, so it is always one glance away and never out of sight. โ€ข Gives everything back the moment you tap "I'm done". One toggle in Settings takes it back too, any time. โ€ข Keeps what you finished, so a week adds up to something. NOTHING HERE IS A TARGET No streaks to break. No score to keep up. No badge for a good week and no guilt for a quiet one. The history is a record, not a report card. FREE, AND PRO Pausing apps is free and always will be. Task Focus Pro is everything the app remembers afterwards: โ€ข Every session you finish, kept for good โ€” free keeps this week โ€ข What your focus actually adds up to โ€ข A profile for each kind of focus, so the right apps pause for the right work โ€ข More than one schedule, and a line of your own on the screen over a paused app Pro opens on its own for seven days, the first time you finish a focus. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. When the seven days are up, history goes back to the last week, insights to this week, and profiles to one โ€” nothing is deleted, and pausing apps carries on free as always. Schedules you have made keep running; adding another takes Pro. One payment. No renewal. Nothing to cancel. YOURS TO TAKE WITH YOU Your history follows you between your own devices through your iCloud account, and exports as a file you keep โ€” whatever you use next. The app counts only what happens, anonymously โ€” that a focus was finished, say โ€” and you can switch that off in Settings. What you focus on, and what you choose to pause, stay on your device and in your own private iCloud database. We cannot read either one.

Screenshots

Tempo4 screens
Task Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tempo and Task Focus are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Tempo sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Task Focus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tempo ships an update every 3 weeks, Task Focus fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tempo versus Task Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTempoTask Focus
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size57 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVLADYSLAV BEHIMSascha Thiele

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tempo

Subscriptions1
  • Tempo Premium$0.991 Month
1 purchases

Task Focus

One-time1
  • Task Focus Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Tempo free?
Tempo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Task Focus free?
Task Focus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tempo or Task Focus have ads?
Neither Tempo nor Task Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tempo or Task Focus?
Tempo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Task Focus fortnightly. Most recently, Tempo was updated on October 6, 2026 and Task Focus on October 15, 2026.

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