Comparison

FocusVille vs PDFOne

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

PDFOne

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**PDFOne makes working with PDFs simple on iPhone.** Open a document, organize its pages with intuitive gestures, add new content, fill in your PDF, and place your signature — all within a clean interface designed to keep the document at the center of your work. Whether you need to fix a few pages or reorganize a larger document, PDFOne gives you the essential tools without unnecessary complexity. **ORGANIZE YOUR PAGES** View your document as a Grid, Carousel, or List and choose the layout that works best for you. You can: • reorder pages with drag and drop; • select multiple pages; • create and manage page stacks; • duplicate or delete pages; • replace pages while keeping control of your document; • extract and reorganize content when needed. **ADD NEW CONTENT** Insert additional PDFs exactly where you need them, or create new pages from: • PDF documents; • images from your Photos library; • blank pages. **FILL IN PDFs** Add text directly to a PDF page, position it where it belongs, and adjust its size before applying it to the document. Perfect for forms, administrative documents, and PDFs that need additional information. **ADD YOUR SIGNATURE** Import a signature and keep it in your signature library so it is ready whenever you need it. Add multiple signatures, move them around the page, resize them, or remove them before applying your changes to the PDF. **SAVE AND SHARE** Save your changes, create a separate copy, or share the finished PDF using the familiar sharing tools built into iOS and iPadOS. **DESIGNED TO STAY SIMPLE** PDFOne is built as a native Apple app, with familiar controls, direct interactions, light and dark appearances, and an interface that keeps the focus on your document. No unnecessarily complicated tools. Just what you need to organize, fill, sign, and manage your PDFs.

Screenshots

FocusVille4 screens
PDFOne4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: FocusVille at Free against PDFOne's $2.99. FocusVille also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). PDFOne's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

FocusVille is free to download; PDFOne costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusVille ships an update every 2 weeks, PDFOne every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
FocusVille versus PDFOne: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusVillePDFOne
PriceFree — better$2.99
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCaspar BaumeisterANTONIO PADALINO

In-app purchases

None

FocusVille

No in-app purchases

None

PDFOne

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FocusVille free?
FocusVille is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PDFOne free?
PDFOne costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do FocusVille or PDFOne have ads?
Neither FocusVille nor PDFOne shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusVille or PDFOne?
FocusVille ships an update every 2 weeks, and PDFOne every 4 days. Most recently, FocusVille was updated on October 14, 2026 and PDFOne on October 18, 2026.

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