Pause vs Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pause
This app offers a unique, interactive approach to mindfulness and stress relief. By guiding your fingertip across the screen, it aims to activate the body's relaxation response, helping you regain focus and find calm anytime, anywhere. It's based on ancient principles and validated with EEG technology.
- Interactive fingertip guidance
- Stress release
- Regain focus
- Calming audiovisual feedback
- Mindfulness minutes tracking
- Scientifically validated with EEG
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Based on the ancient principles of Tai Chi and mindfulness practice, PAUSE brings the act of focused attention to your mobile device. Using a patent-pending technique and a unique approach to modern technology, you can easily start the journey to relaxation – anywhere and anytime. By slowly and continuously moving your fingertip across the screen, PAUSE triggers the body’s ‘rest and digest’ response, quickly helping you regain focus and release stress within minutes. The calming audiovisual feedback in the app is designed to help you keep your attention and focus in the present moment. Throughout development of the application, PAUSE has been continuously tested and validated using EEG-technology. What is PAUSE? ∙ A new digital approach to ancient meditation practices ∙ An interactive tool to quickly regain focus and release stress ∙ Scientifically tested and validated with EEG-technology ∙ Available anywhere and anytime ∙ Using PAUSE now adds mindfulness minutes to Health App on iPhone iOS10+ devices. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Focus
Practice mindfulness and meditation using eye movements with augmented reality. Track your progress and sync mindful minutes to your health data. Enjoy relaxing music and engaging games designed for mental well-being.
- Eye-controlled focus and meditation
- Augmented Reality eye tracking
- Mindful minute tracking
- HealthKit synchronization
- Relaxing music
- Flip Game
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Focus is controlled entirely using your eyes.Practice focus and meditation through eye movements. Focus use Augmented Reality to tracking eyes, aims at physical and mental care through integrating meditation and focus into an app. How it Works: - The dot show where you're looking on the screen. - Docile thoughts through focusing one dot and listening relax music in one minute. - Record mindful minutes to 'Health'. - Support Widget. - Enjoy emptying yourself. - Enjoy Flip Game. Matters needing attention: - Focus has been connected to HealthKit,which can synchronize meditation time to 「Health」. If your have any issues or some advices, email us at lbechomt@163.com. We're always looking to improve!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Focus at 100% against Pause's 57%. Focus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Pause's advantage is ratings volume (112 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Pause sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Focus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pause has 112 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Pause's written reviews are positive against 100% of Focus's.
Pause ships an update fortnightly, Focus every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pause | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (112 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 112 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 407 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PauseAble ApS | 荣煜 罗 |
Customer experience
Pause
Focus
Bugs and requests
Pause
Reported bugs
3 issues- Streak reset issue for meditation tracking
- Inconsistent behavior when moving finger too fast
- Audio cutting out during sessions
Requested features
4 requests- Add voice/audio instructions
- Provide more color and sound options
- Integrate with health/fitness tracking
- Improve full-screen support for newer devices
Focus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pause
- Pause Premium (monthly)3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Pause Premium (yearly)7 Days trial$19.491 Year
- Soundtrack: Peaceful Mountain$0.99
- Pause premium (life time)$54.99
Focus
No in-app purchases









