FocusDriver vs Cat Hourglass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Cat Hourglass
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
| Parameter | FocusDriver | Cat Hourglass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 泽宁 牛 | QUN LIN |
In-app purchases
FocusDriver
No in-app purchases
Cat Hourglass
- Annual Premium$9.991 Year
- Cat Hourglass Lifetime$24.99
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