Comparison

FocusVille vs LiLiCal

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

Head to head
About

FocusVille

This app gamifies focus sessions by letting you build a cozy pixel-art village. Earn resources by completing timed work or study sessions, and watch your village grow as a record of your concentration. It also includes an app blocker to minimize distractions.

Highlights
  • Gamified Pomodoro timer
  • Pixel-art village building
  • Resource collection for focus sessions
  • App blocker functionality
  • Focus statistics tracking
  • Offline and private operation
Features
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FocusVille is a Pomodoro timer that turns your focus time into a cozy pixel-art village. Start a focus session, put your phone down, and your villager gets to work chopping wood, mining stone and digging clay. Finish the session and the resources are yours. Leave early and the day's work is lost. A study timer, work timer, app blocker and village-building game in one, made for students, remote workers, people with ADHD and anyone who wants to stop procrastination and cut screen time. No ads. No account. No pop-ups. Just a timer, a village and your concentration. POMODORO TIMER & STUDY TIMER • Every length: presets from 15 to 90 minutes and your own lengths up to 180 minutes • One screen to start: pick a building, pick a length, tap begin • See exactly what you will earn before the session starts • The Pomodoro technique made visual: every finished session is a piece of your village BUILD A VILLAGE WHILE YOU FOCUS • Earn wood, stone and clay for every completed session • Upgrade the Timber Hut, the Quarry and the Clay Pit • Watch a lone campfire in the woods grow into a thriving village • Invite 16 campfire companions: a cat, an owl, a fox, a bard and more • Your village is a record of every hour you stayed off your phone REAL STAKES, FRIENDLY RULES • Quit a session early and you lose that session's loot and a little energy, nothing more • No guilt, no dead trees, no punishment for a bad day • Short sessions work too: 15 minutes is a real start when starting is the hard part • Day streaks reward showing up again, not perfection BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS • Keep the apps that pull you away out of reach while the timer runs • Fewer interruptions, less doom scrolling, lower screen time • Privacy first: FocusVille never sees what you block FOCUS STATS • Focused time today, this week and this month, your streak and your records • Focus insights into your best hours, days and session length • A simple record of your focus habit, without nagging notifications MADE FOR • Students: exams, homework, revision and reading with the Pomodoro technique • Remote and deep work: time blocking, flow, time management • ADHD focus: simple, visual, kind. A timer that works with your brain, not against it • Writers, developers, designers and anyone building a concentration habit FOCUSVILLE PLUS FocusVille is free to download. To focus and build your village you need FocusVille Plus: monthly with a 7-day free trial, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Plus is the whole app: • Unlimited sessions of every length, every day • Every level and all 16 campfire companions • The app blocker • Focus insights: your best hours, strongest weekdays, ideal session length, when you tend to give up, a twelve-week trend and your whole year as one heatmap Bought FocusVille back when it was a paid app? You keep everything, without paying again. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://focusville.web.app/privacy PRIVACY & OFFLINE • No ads, no account, no data sold • Your focus data stays on your phone: sessions and village are never uploaded • Only anonymous usage statistics, no personal profiles • The timer works offline, no connection needed • Dark, cozy pixel art and a calm soundscape FocusVille is built by one solo developer, not a studio. No ad budget, no growth team. If it helps you focus, a rating is the single biggest thing that helps other people find it. Missing something? Wish for a feature right in the app settings. Pomodoro timer. Study timer. App blocker. Habit builder. Build a village every time you focus. Download FocusVille and stay focused today.

About

LiLiCal

This app integrates with your system's calendar and reminders to display events and countdowns. It offers holiday subscriptions for various regions and customizable widgets for your home and lock screens.

Highlights
  • System calendar and reminder integration
  • Holiday subscriptions for 37 countries
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Countdown timers for important dates
  • Pomodoro focus timer
  • Real-time iCloud sync with Mac app
Features
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LiLiCal is a calendar and reminders app that works with the system apps you already use. Your events come from Calendar, your reminders from Reminders, and the days you care about get their own countdown. HOLIDAYS FOR ANY REGION · Public holidays for 37 countries and regions, ready to subscribe · Each subscription gets its own color; one day can carry marks from several regions · Chinese lunar dates, the 24 solar terms, traditional festivals, and mainland China's statutory holidays with make-up workdays — always on WORKS WITH CALENDAR AND REMINDERS · Events and reminders are read and written straight to the system apps — no separate silo · The week ahead grouped by date; show only the calendars you pick · Pre-meeting notifications with one-tap join for online meetings MAKE THE DAYS COUNT · Birthdays, anniversaries, project milestones — with yearly lunar repeat and custom cycles · Grouped by urgency, with milestones that tell you where the next one worth marking is · Syncs with the Mac app through your own iCloud, in real time WIDGETS ON HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN · Four widgets — month, agenda, reminders, countdowns — in small, medium and large · LiLi Agenda counts down to your next item on a big card at the top, with today's events, reminders and countdowns in one list below — choose countdown or time, and what to list, in Edit Widget · A countdown for the Lock Screen too · Tap any row on a widget to open that item THOUGHTFUL TOUCHES · Turn tabs on or off and drag them into the order you want · Start the week on Sunday, Monday or Saturday; show week numbers; choose how many weeks the month view shows · A Pomodoro focus timer (off by default, switch it on in Settings) · iPad and landscape iPhone use a two-column layout: list on the left, editor on the right PRIVACY FIRST No personal information is collected. Events and reminders are read and written on your device only; Countdowns sync through your own iCloud. The only network requests fetch public holiday data.

Screenshots

FocusVille4 screens
LiLiCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: LiLiCal at free against FocusVille's free with in-app purchases. LiLiCal also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). FocusVille's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FocusVille against 5.0 for LiLiCal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusVille ships an update every 2 weeks, LiLiCal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
FocusVille versus LiLiCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusVilleLiLiCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCaspar BaumeisterShaoKai Zheng

Customer experience

FocusVille

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LiLiCal

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FocusVille

No in-app purchases

None

LiLiCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FocusVille free?
FocusVille is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LiLiCal free?
LiLiCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FocusVille or LiLiCal?
FocusVille and LiLiCal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do FocusVille or LiLiCal have ads?
Neither FocusVille nor LiLiCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusVille or LiLiCal?
FocusVille ships an update every 2 weeks, and LiLiCal every 4 days. Most recently, FocusVille was updated on November 5, 2026 and LiLiCal on November 8, 2026.

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