Comparison

Focus Hotel vs Clover

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

Head to head
About

Focus Hotel

Features
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Focus Hotel gives your focus somewhere to go. Start a focus session and distracting apps are locked away until it ends. Complete it to earn Focusines, the currency you can spend on furniture, new outfits and, eventually, entirely new rooms. Most productivity apps ask you to be disciplined. This one gives you something to show for it. HOW IT WORKS โ€ข Choose how long you want to focus, then start. โ€ข Distracting apps stay blocked for the entire session. โ€ข Finish and earn the full reward. Cancel and earn nothing. No lecture, no broken streak, no guilt. โ€ข Spend what you earned in the store, then place every piece yourself, tile by tile. โ€ข Keep focusing and the hotel opens up: a living room, a kitchen and a bedroom of your own. YOU'RE NOT FOCUSING ALONE Other people's rooms are real places you can visit. See who is focusing right now, what they're working on and how far into their session they are. Say hello. Start your own session from their room and sit together while you both work. It's the quiet company of a library, on your phone. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT โ€ข No sign-up. No account, email or password. Open the app and you're in. โ€ข Works offline. Focusing, earning and decorating never require a connection. โ€ข Nothing is rented. Every piece you buy stays yours. โ€ข A world, not a dashboard. Cozy pixel art you actually want to look at. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Track minutes focused, sessions completed and your completion rate: the number that shows whether you're getting better at staying focused. ABOUT APP BLOCKING Deep Focus uses Apple's Screen Time controls to keep selected apps blocked while a session is running. You grant permission once, you can say no, and focus sessions still work without blocking. Focus Hotel is free. Focusines are earned by focusing. You can also buy them if you'd rather furnish your hotel faster. Build a room worth coming back to. Terms of Use: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jesuscallejadev/Focus-Hotel/refs/heads/main/TermsOfUse

About

Clover

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Clover is a sheep. She lives in a meadow, and she does not need you to talk to her. Choose how long you want to leave your phone alone โ€” a short wander, a good ramble, or a long walk โ€” and press one button. The apps you picked go away for that time. Clover keeps wandering while you're gone, and she finds things. When the time is up, your apps come back and a card appears in your hands, handwritten, naming everything she found. The card is yours to keep. HOW IT WORKS Pick your apps once. Clover uses Apple's Screen Time to put them away โ€” the selection never leaves your phone, and we never see which apps you chose. Pick an outing. Three lengths, named for what she does with the time rather than for the clock. A longer outing finds more. That is the only reason to choose one. Watch, or don't. She keeps wandering either way. If you happen to open the app mid-outing, you might catch the moment she stops to look at something, and a line in her handwriting floats above her. If you don't, you miss nothing โ€” the find is reported at the end regardless. Check the Lock Screen. The Live Activity shows her hopping through the meadow and the last thing she noticed, so you always know she's still out there. Keep the card. Every outing ends with one memory, kept in a journal that only ever grows. THINGS THIS APP WILL NEVER DO No streaks. A streak is a thing that can be broken, and this app is built on the idea that breaking is fine. No punishment for stopping early. Nothing withers, nothing dies, nothing is taken back. If you need your phone, take your phone. Clover will be in the meadow later. No guilt notifications. No "Clover misses you." No pressure to come back. No ads. No pop-ups. Nothing sold to you in the middle of a quiet moment. No account required. The meadow, the journal and your app selection all live on your device. WHO IT'S FOR People who have tried a hard app blocker and quietly deleted it after four days. People who want to study, read, sleep or eat dinner without their phone in reach. People who don't want a productivity dashboard telling them they failed โ€” just somewhere pleasant for the time to go. Focus, screen time, deep work, digital detox, phone-free evenings: whatever you call it, the mechanic is the same. You put the phone down. Something small and good happens in your absence. You get to see what it was. A note on Screen Time: app shielding uses Apple's Family Controls and requires your permission. If you'd rather not grant it, everything else still works โ€” the outing, the meadow, the finds and the journal all run on the clock alone.

Screenshots

Focus Hotel4 screens
Clover4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clover at none against Focus Hotel's 3. Clover also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. Focus Hotel sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Clover asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Hotel ships an update fortnightly, Clover weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Focus Hotel versus Clover: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus HotelClover
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size53 MB188 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJesus Calleja Rodriguezๅฎ‡่ฝฉ ่ฐข

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Focus Hotel

One-time3
  • 300 Focusines$1.99
  • 900 Focusines$4.99
  • 2000 Focusines$9.99
None

Clover

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Hotel free?
Focus Hotel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clover free?
Clover is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus Hotel or Clover have ads?
Neither Focus Hotel nor Clover shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Hotel or Clover?
Focus Hotel ships an update fortnightly, and Clover weekly. Most recently, Focus Hotel was updated on October 25, 2026 and Clover on October 29, 2026.

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