Comparison

FocusDriver vs Cat Hourglass

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

Head to head
About

FocusDriver

This app gamifies focus sessions by simulating a driving experience to a destination. Earn rewards, unlock vehicles, and visualize your progress through interactive cityscapes. Track your focus habits over time with detailed analytics.

Highlights
  • Simulated driving experience for focus sessions
  • Travel through six cities with iOS Flyover integration
  • Earn credits and unlock vehicles
  • Detailed focus analytics and trends
  • iPhone widgets and Live Activities support
  • StandBy mode integration
Features
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FocusDriver is a focus app that turns the Pomodoro timer into a simulated driving experience. It won’t lock your phone or monitor whether you leave the app. Instead, FocusDriver takes a different approach to focus: giving every session a destination you can see — and a reason to keep going. ◆ Turn Focus Into a Journey Choose a trip and start driving. As time passes, your car moves steadily toward its destination, while you move closer to the goal you set for yourself. You can stop at any time. But if you choose to keep going a little longer, your destination is just ahead. ◆ Experience Six Cities with iOS 27 Flyover Travel through Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, London, and Berlin, with a different focus journey waiting in every city. FocusDriver brings the Flyover experience in iOS 27 into your focus sessions. See cities, landmarks, and streets from above as your car makes its way toward the destination. Abstract focus time becomes a journey you can actually see. ◆ Complete Trips and Earn Rewards Complete trips to earn credits. Stay focused, build up your credits, and unlock vehicles in different styles. Every vehicle represents time you chose to spend with intention, and every arrival marks another goal you followed through on. ◆ Understand Your Focus Review your focus time, sessions, and trends by day, week, month, year, or across your entire history. Go beyond simply knowing how long you focused. Discover when you find it easiest to get into the zone and how your focus habits change over time. ◆ Designed for iPhone FocusDriver is designed to feel at home on iPhone. Check your focus status with widgets. Follow your current trip with Live Activities and Dynamic Island even after leaving the app. On supported devices, StandBy keeps your ongoing journey visible as part of your everyday space. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Cat Hourglass

Features
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Turn focused time into small rewards with a little cat companion. Choose one of four illustrated hourglasses for a countdown, or use a count-up timer where steady drops slowly shape a stone. Earn fish from completed focus sessions and exchange them for rewards you choose. • Custom tasks, session lengths and personal rewards • Four hourglasses, a dripping stone and long-term achievement badges • Statistics from real sessions, task distribution and a movable fish jar • Focus sessions and records shared between iPhone and Apple Watch • Optional Screen Time restrictions, phone-rest detection and wrist-flip controls • Multiple languages; light and dark appearances Local timers and records work without an account. Optional Sign in with Apple syncs this app’s tasks, records and reward ledger. Phone-rest and wrist gestures operate only while foreground sensor sampling is available. Basic timers and records are free. Premium unlocks additional hourglasses, advanced statistics, all widgets, task categories and Night Owl mode. Choose an auto-renewing annual subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app. Restore purchases from the membership page. Cancel annual renewal in Apple subscription settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

FocusDriver4 screens
Cat Hourglass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FocusDriver at none against Cat Hourglass's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cat Hourglass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. FocusDriver asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
FocusDriver versus Cat Hourglass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusDriverCat Hourglass
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer泽宁 牛QUN LIN

In-app purchases

None

FocusDriver

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cat Hourglass

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Premium$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cat Hourglass Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is FocusDriver free?
FocusDriver is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cat Hourglass free?
Cat Hourglass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusDriver or Cat Hourglass have ads?
Neither FocusDriver nor Cat Hourglass shows ads.

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