Comparison

Focus To vs BLACKBOXAI

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

Head to head
About

Focus To

This app combines a Pomodoro timer with task management to boost productivity. Organize tasks, set reminders, and track your focused work sessions with detailed reports. Syncs across all your devices for seamless management.

Highlights
  • Pomodoro timer with customizable lengths
  • Task and project organization
  • Recurring tasks and reminders
  • Detailed time tracking reports
  • Cross-platform synchronization
  • White noise for focus
Features
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Focus To-Do combines Pomodoro Timer with Task Management, it is a science-based app that will motivate you to stay focused and get things done. It brings Pomodoro Technique and To Do List into one place, you can capture and organize tasks into your todo lists, start focus timer and focus on work & study, set reminders for important tasks and errands, check the time spent at work. It's the ultimate app for managing Tasks, Reminders, Lists, Calendar events, Grocery lists, checklist, helping you focus on work & study and tracking your working hours. Focus To-Do syncs between your phone and computer, so you can access your lists from anywhere. How it works: 1. Pick a task you need to accomplish. 2. Set a timer for 25 minutes, keep focused and start working. 3. When the pomodoro timer rings, take a 5 minute break. Key Features: - Pomodoro Timer:Stay focused and get more things done. Pause and resume Pomodoro Customizable pomodoro/breaks lengths Notification before the end of a Pomodoro Support for short and long breaks Skip a break after the end of a Pomodoro Continuous Mode - Tasks Management: Task Organizer, Schedule Planner, Reminder, Habit Tracker, Time Tracker Tasks and projects: Organise your day with Focus To-Do and complete your to do, study, work, homework or housework you need to get done. Recurring tasks: Build lasting habits with powerful recurring due dates like "Every Monday". Reminders: Setting a Reminder ensures you never forget important things ever again, you can set up recurring due dates to remind you each and every time. Sub-tasks: Break down your task into smaller, actionable items or add a checklist . Task Priority: Highlight your day’s most important To-Do with color-coded priority levels. Estimated Pomodoro Number: Estimate the workload or set a goal. Note: Record more detailed about the task. - Report: Detailed statistics of your time distribution, tasks completed. Support the calculation of the total time of Focus Time. Gantt Chart of the Focus Time. Statistics on completed To Do. Statistics on time distribution of project. Trend chart of the completed To Do and the focus time. - All-Platform synchronization: View and manage your goals wherever you are for better goal achieving. Support seamless synchronization within iPhone、Mac、iPad、Apple Watch and other major platforms. - Various Reminding: Focus Timer finished alarm, vibration reminding. Various white noise to help you focus on work & study. - Daily/Weekly/Monthly Report View all of your tracked time in a calendar view. - Support prevention of screen lock: Check the pomodoro time left by keeping the screen on. Contact Us: support@focustodo.net, reply within 24 hours. Website: http://www.focustodo.cn Pomodoro ™ and Pomodoro Technique ® are registered trademarks of Francesco Cirillo. This app is not affiliated with Francesco Cirillo. Users have been focused on our app for 200 million hours, join us and we help you to be focused and increase your productivity, reduce procrastination and anxiety.

About

BLACKBOXAI

This AI-powered coding assistant helps developers write and release software faster. It translates natural language into code, offers real-time knowledge, and provides intelligent code completion. Analyze screenshots, generate comments, and create commit messages with ease.

Highlights
  • Natural language to code generation
  • Real-time world knowledge
  • Intelligent code completion
  • Image input analysis (VISION)
  • Automated code commenting
  • Commit message generation
  • Chat with code files
Features
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BLACKBOX.AI is a coding LLM designed to transform the way we build software. By building BLACKBOX.AI, our goal is to: Accelerate the pace of innovation within companies by making engineers 10X faster in building and releasing products Accelerate the growth in software engineers around the world and 10X the number of engineers from ~100M to 1B BLACKBOX.AI’s coding capabilities over the past 12 months have expanded significantly. 1. Natural Language to Code BLACKBOX is built to answer coding questions and assist you write code faster. Whether you are fixing a bug, building a new feature or refactoring your code, ask BLACKBOX to help. 2. Real-Time Knowledge BLACKBOX has real-time knowledge of the world, making it able to answer questions about recent events, technological breakthroughs, product releases, API documentations & more 3. Code Completion BLACKBOX integrates directly with VSCode to automatically suggests the next lines of code based on your repo context. 4. VISION BLACKBOX Vision enables users to instruct BLACKBOX to analyze image inputs, for example, screenshot of code or product sketches. 5. Code Commenting BLACKBOX will properly write the commenting for your code files, wether it contains a few lines of code of 100s of lines of code. BLACKBOX Code Commenting works for all programming languages. 6. Commit Message Generation Blackbox will properly write a commit message for the changes you made in your repo files. 7. Chat with your Code Files BLACKBOX enables users to upload large code files (100s of lines of code) and chat with

Screenshots

Focus To4 screens
BLACKBOXAI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Focus To at 80% against BLACKBOXAI's 24%. Focus To also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.7) and ratings volume (15K vs 46). BLACKBOXAI's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). 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. Focus To sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. BLACKBOXAI asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus To holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus To has 15K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Focus To's written reviews are positive against 24% of BLACKBOXAI's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus To ships an update every 5 weeks, BLACKBOXAI weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Focus To versus BLACKBOXAI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus ToBLACKBOXAI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (15K ratings) — better2.7 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better24.1% of reviews
Number of ratings15K — better46
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB19 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperShenzhen Tomato Software Technology Co., Ltd.RIZK Richard

Customer experience

Focus To

All ratings14,611 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews1,793 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral8.1%
Negative11.9%

BLACKBOXAI

All ratings47 ratings
Positive38.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative57.4%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive24.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.9%

Bugs and requests

Focus To

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Pomodoro timer not working correctly
  • Data/progress resets randomly
  • Syncing issues between devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Calendar integration
  • Ability to pause/resume Pomodoro sessions
  • More customization options
  • Improved Apple Watch app functionality

BLACKBOXAI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Focus To

One-time3
  • Focus To-Do Premium$1.99
  • 3 Months$3.99
  • Lifetime$11.99
None

BLACKBOXAI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus To free?
Focus To is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BLACKBOXAI free?
BLACKBOXAI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Focus To or BLACKBOXAI?
Focus To is rated higher. Focus To averages 4.8 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while BLACKBOXAI averages 2.7 from 46 ratings.
Do Focus To or BLACKBOXAI have ads?
Neither Focus To nor BLACKBOXAI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus To or BLACKBOXAI?
Focus To ships an update every 5 weeks, and BLACKBOXAI weekly. Most recently, Focus To was updated on November 7, 2026 and BLACKBOXAI on October 30, 2026.

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