Comparison

Focus Passage vs Kept

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

Head to head
About

Focus Passage

Transform focus sessions into nautical journeys. Sail across real seas to virtual harbors, with your chosen apps silenced until you arrive. Track your progress and discoveries in a captain's log.

Highlights
  • Simulated sailing passages
  • Real-world harbors and routes
  • App silencing during sessions
  • Daily weather variations
  • In-app discoveries and collectibles
  • Captain's logbook for tracking
Features
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Every focus session is a voyage. Focus Passage turns your working time into a sailing passage between real harbours. Pick a port, spin the helm, and your boat sets out along a real coast. Stay with your work and she sails on. Put the phone down. Cross the sea. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a real harbour. Choose where you're headed from the harbours within reach of your session, anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes. The longer you focus, the further you can go. • Spin the helm. The apps you chose go quiet the moment you set sail and stay that way until you arrive. • Sail. Watch your boat cross the chart in real time, over real water, past real headlands and lighthouses. • Arrive. Finish, and you wake up somewhere new. Stop early and you lose the miles. 1,149 REAL HARBOURS Every port is a real place, at its real position, and every passage is measured in real nautical miles along a route that stays in the water. Start from Lisbon, Brittany, the Chesapeake, the Cyclades, Sydney, the Caribbean — 56 coasts in 53 countries — and work your way along, one session at a time. THE WIND CHANGES EVERY DAY Each day brings its own weather, the same for everyone. A fresh breeze carries you further; a calm day asks for a little more patience. The wind decides how far you get — never how long you sit. YOUR APPS, SILENCED Choose the apps that pull you away — social, video, games, whatever steals your afternoon. During a session they stay shut. Focus Passage uses Apple's Screen Time and never learns which apps you picked: the choice stays on your iPhone. WHAT THE SEA TURNS UP Longer sessions go further out, and further out is where things happen. • Sightings — flying fish and dolphins, then turtles, sharks and whales. The albatross only appears on the longest passages. • Lighthouses raised as you round the headlands. • Messages in bottles, found drifting along the way. • A stamp for every harbour you reach. YOUR CAPTAIN'S LOG Every passage is written up in your logbook: miles sailed, hours focused, harbours reached, stamps, sightings and the notes you've found. It's a record of the time you took back — and a reason to sit down again tomorrow. YOUR YEAR, SAILED At a mile a minute, the hours that disappear into your phone add up to a real distance. Focus Passage shows you how far that time could carry you — and then helps you start sailing it. BUILT FOR DEEP WORK • Sessions from 30 to 90 minutes, sized for real work, study, reading or creative time • A gentle daily reminder at the hour you choose, on the days you choose • No streaks to break, no leaderboards, no noise — just the next harbour • Designed to be calm: one sea, one boat, one thing at a time Whether you're writing, studying for exams, coding, reading, or just tfternoon without scrolling, Focus Passage gives your attentionsomewhere to go. Set sail. — SUBSCRIPTION Focus Passage is free to download. Full access requires a Premium Passonthly or yearly. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or al. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a fn you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://odinsolutions.one/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://odinsolutions.one/terms-of-service

About

Kept

This app helps you focus by blocking specific apps and websites based on your schedule and location. It offers customizable challenges to temporarily unlock blocked content, promoting mindful usage and productivity.

Highlights
  • Block apps and websites by time
  • Block apps and websites by location
  • Customizable unlock challenges
  • Strict mode for commitment
  • Progress tracking via Screen Time data
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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Block apps and websites by time and location. Choose what to block, when and where, and Kept handles the rest, even when the app is closed. • Block social apps at the office, 8 AM to 1 PM • Block all games and social apps from 10 PM to 7 AM • Block social apps at home during dinner, 7 to 8 PM • Block every adult website, all day, every day WHAT YOU CAN BLOCK • Any app, picked from Apple's own app list • Whole categories, like Social, Games or Entertainment • The websites you keep going back to • All adult websites, with one switch TIME AND PLACE, TOGETHER • Pick days and hours, like a bedtime from 10 PM to 7 AM • Pick places: only at home, only at the office, or everywhere except the office • Combine both: weekdays 9 to 5, only while you're at work • Place rules run in the background, even with Kept closed. Arriving and leaving can take a few minutes to register CHALLENGES TO UNBLOCK Need a break? Unlock for 15, 30 or 60 minutes by completing the challenge you set: • Wait 10 seconds, and longer each time that day • Type out a passage • Solve three sums • Catch the dot, eight times • Turn your phone sideways and back, twice • Enter your own code, or one only your partner knows • Plug your phone into a charger • Or no challenge at all You also decide how many breaks you get per day, from zero to five. STRICT MODE • Firm: a rule can't be loosened or turned off while it runs • Committed: a rule is locked until a date you pick. Nothing can be loosened inside Kept, and iOS keeps Kept from being deleted until then • One emergency pass per month, for when it really matters PROGRESS, NOT GUILT See how many moments you kept and how much of your evening came back, from Screen Time's own numbers. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no sign-up • The apps you choose and your Screen Time data stay on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. Kept can't see them, and neither can we ONE SUBSCRIPTION, EVERYTHING INCLUDED • Kept requires a subscription. Every feature is included • 7-day free trial on the yearly plan • Family Sharing included • Built on Apple's Screen Time API. Requires iOS 17 or later The best moments are kept. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getkeptblocker.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Focus Passage4 screens
Kept4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Kept at 5.0 against Focus Passage's 3.0. Kept also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Focus Passage's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Focus Passage sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Kept sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kept holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Passage ships an update fortnightly, Kept every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Focus Passage versus Kept: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus PassageKept
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOdin Solutions LdaJoao Gomes

Customer experience

Focus Passage

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Kept

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Focus Passage

Subscriptions2
  • Focus Passage Premium Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Focus Passage Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
3 purchases

Kept

Subscriptions2
  • Kept Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Kept Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Reset strictness$0.99

Questions

Is Focus Passage free?
Focus Passage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kept free?
Kept is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus Passage or Kept?
Kept is rated higher. Focus Passage averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Kept averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Focus Passage or Kept have ads?
Focus Passage shows ads; Kept does not.
Which is updated more often, Focus Passage or Kept?
Focus Passage ships an update fortnightly, and Kept every 4 days. Most recently, Focus Passage was updated on October 26, 2026 and Kept on October 29, 2026.

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