Comparison

Focus Space vs Pull

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

Head to head
About

Focus Space

Features
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Focus Space: A smarter system to get work done. Most timers just count down. Focus Space turns your work into a repeatable cycle of progress: Plan your priorities, focus with visual Pomodoro sprints, and reflect on completed sessions. The 3-Step System: • Plan & Prioritize: Create multiple task lists and categorize every item by priority. • Focus with Pomodoro: Run focused sprints with hand-painted visual timers and ambient soundscapes. • Reflect & Refine: Note down how your session went, celebrate small wins, and build a lasting focus journal. Designed for Seamless Focus: • Live Activities & Dynamic Island on Lock Screen • Companion Link: Local Wi-Fi sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Macs • Full offline support with complete privacy: No account registration, no ads, and no tracking Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docs-taupe-pi-86.vercel.app/privacy.html

About

Pull

Features
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Pull is a focus timer that closes your distracting apps until the session ends, and learns how long you can actually concentrate so you stop guessing at twenty-five minutes. It shows you that session as an espresso shot. Set your dose — the length you believe you can concentrate for — and pull. The shot renders live, and nothing on the screen is decorative. The stream thins and pales as the puck gives up. Crema builds on the surface and holds. Run far past your dose and the stream blondes to straw, because that is what over-extraction looks like. Stop short and it is sour. Pick up your phone and the puck channels. The stream splits, the crema tears, and the tear stays for the rest of the shot and afterwards, on your wall. If you have used a pomodoro timer, this is the same shape of thing with one difference that matters: the length is yours rather than a fixed twenty-five. MATCH YOUR DOSE TO YOUR REAL ATTENTION SPAN Twenty-five minutes came off a paperback in the 1980s. It is not your number. Pull watches your clean sessions and reads back the dose you can actually hold — and tells you honestly when your history is too scattered to call one yet. THE WALL Every shot you have ever pulled, kept. Day, week, month and year are one continuous object at four zooms: cups on lit shelves, in the colour they came out. A god shot lights its own rim. A dumped one lies on its side and stains the board, at the same size as a good one, permanently. AN INSTRUMENT, NOT AN ILLUSTRATION The extraction is drawn from live session state, sixty times a second. The pressure trace under the timer is the real curve. The gauge reads the real number. If the picture changes, something changed. BUILT TO BE TRUSTED Ā· No account. No login. No sign-up wall. Ā· No network. The app works in aeroplane mode, always. Ā· No analytics SDK. No tracking. No ads, ever. Ā· Your history is one file on your device and never leaves it. THE SHIELD Pull can hold the line for you. Arm the shield before a shot and nothing but Pull opens until the shot ends. It lifts itself the moment you cut, and it never outlives the session that armed it. ONE PURCHASE, FOREVER Not a subscription. Every dose is free, at any minute you like. Every origin, every machine part, the whole log, Live Activity, Dynamic Island — free. The shield is free too, and free it closes everything. One optional purchase buys precision: name the handful of apps you cannot be trusted with, and leave maps, music and the rest exactly where they are. The paid version blocks less, not more. Nothing that works today will ever move behind it. Requires iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

Focus Space4 screens
Pull4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus Space at every 5 days against Pull's every 2 weeks. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Focus Space sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Pull sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Space ships an update every 5 days, Pull every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Focus Space versus Pull: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus SpacePull
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLakshya AgarwalELIZ TEKCAN ALAYGUT

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Focus Space

Subscriptions2
  • Focus Space Premium Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Focus Space Premium Annual$24.901 Year
1 purchases

Pull

One-time1
  • The Full Collar$4.99

Questions

Is Focus Space free?
Focus Space is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pull free?
Pull is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus Space or Pull have ads?
Neither Focus Space nor Pull shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Space or Pull?
Focus Space ships an update every 5 days, and Pull every 2 weeks. Most recently, Focus Space was updated on October 25, 2026 and Pull on October 4, 2026.

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