Comparison

Focus Timer vs Focus Atlas

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

Head to head
About

Focus Timer

Features
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A Pomodoro focus timer for study and work. Block selected apps, settle into cabin white noise and take a virtual flight across Earth. Flight Pomodoro turns completed focus sessions into boarding passes you can collect. Choose your destination, print a ticket and take off when you are ready. FIND A JOURNEY FOR YOUR TIME Pick your departure and destination or discover flights by focus time. Time-scaled mode keeps longer journeys longer. You can also match a session to the estimated flight duration provided for a route. BLOCK DISTRACTIONS, BUILD YOUR CABIN Choose apps to block while you study, work or read. Set the mood with cabin ambience and flight-inspired sounds. App blocking requires Screen Time permission. Haptics are available on supported devices. WATCH YOUR FOCUS CROSS THE EARTH Follow your aircraft over detailed continents, oceans, clouds, day and night. The camera tracks your flight, and you can rotate and zoom the globe to explore. PRINT YOUR BOARDING PASS Start with a paper-printing animation at the top of your device. On iPhones with Dynamic Island, the animation connects to the island. Printing a ticket and starting a flight are separate, so you decide when to take off. COLLECT THE TIME YOU COMPLETED Finished flights become boarding passes in your album. Complete a flight with app blocking maintained to receive your first passport stamp at that arrival airport. Turn the pages and zoom in to explore your collection. KEEP A JOURNAL OF YOUR FOCUS Review focus time, add journey notes and look back on your week. Export your records or save an encrypted backup file to restore later. ONE APP PURCHASE. EVERY FEATURE INCLUDED. No additional in-app purchases or subscriptions. Explore every available destination, keep adding album and passport pages, choose from three album designs, four cabin soundscapes and five app icons, and save your focus environments. Existing users also receive every feature when they update. Each page holds eight items, with new pages added as your collection grows. Flights and boarding passes are virtual experiences for focus. Flight Pomodoro does not issue real airline tickets, book flights or track live airline operations.

About

Focus Atlas

Transform focus time into a rewarding building experience. As you complete focus sessions, watch virtual landmarks rise block by block, eventually populating a 3D globe at their real-world locations. Learn historical facts about each landmark as you build.

Highlights
  • Build 20 voxel landmarks
  • Customizable focus session lengths
  • Pause and resume focus sessions
  • Landmarks placed on a 3D globe
  • Live Activity countdown
  • Historical facts for each landmark
Features
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Focus Atlas turns your focus time into a small world. Pick a landmark, start a focus session, and watch it rise block by block as the minutes pass. Your sessions add up until the landmark is finished, and then it takes its place on a 3D globe at its real location. BUILD WITH FOCUS โ€ข 20 voxel landmarks, including Cheomseongdae, Gwanghwamun, the Eiffel Tower, the Great Pyramid of Giza, Big Ben, the Colosseum and the Taj Mahal โ€ข Choose a 5, 15, 25 or 50 minute session and see how far it will take your landmark before you start โ€ข Pause and resume anytime; time that passes while the app is in the background still counts YOUR SMALL WORLD โ€ข Finished landmarks stand on a satellite globe at their real coordinates โ€ข Landmarks still to build wait there faded, so your next goal is always in view โ€ข One tap shows the whole world with every landmark complete STAY ON TRACK โ€ข A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with a live countdown โ€ข Clear progress for the current session and for the landmark โ€ข A log of every focus session LEARN AS YOU BUILD โ€ข Every landmark comes with a short history: key facts and a timeline No account, no ads, no tracking. Your focus records stay on your device.

Screenshots

Focus Timer4 screens
Focus Atlas3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Focus Atlas at Free against Focus Timer's $2.99. On ads, in-app purchases, 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

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
Focus Timer versus Focus Atlas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus TimerFocus Atlas
Price$2.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size164 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSnapWorks LabJiYeon Noh

In-app purchases

None

Focus Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Focus Atlas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Timer free?
Focus Timer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focus Atlas free?
Focus Atlas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus Timer or Focus Atlas have ads?
Neither Focus Timer nor Focus Atlas shows ads.

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