“Best focus app, and free version is great! — Best focus app, and free version is great!”
Public review signal · 500 reviews scanned · scope limited to review patterns.
4.8 ★11,520 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
54 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Refocus is an app blocker & website blocker that helps you limit screen time on apps!
Refocus is easy to use, yet has powerful screen time control features:
▶ Various ways to restrict or lock apps and block websites. Choose what helps you focus! Block any app or site — from social media and games to messaging and news.
▶ "Strict Mode" feature prevents you from unblocking. Set a passcode, or use an NFC tag, or wait a duration (ex. 30 seconds), or do a copy text challenge, or utilize Pomodoro (limit unblocking to 5 times per day, for 25 minutes each, with a 5-minute cooldown between each unblock).
▶ Block for a specific duration (ex. app timer for 30 minutes).
▶ Block at specific times (ex. every weekday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM).
▶ Set app limits (ex. after 10 minutes of using Instagram, block it). Set an app time limit!…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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What we measured
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Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
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Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
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In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
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Reviewers describe the free version as usable10 reviews · user report
No ad complaints5 reviews · user report
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Absolutely Amazing — Any app blocker that I find is either very costly, very easy to bypass, or both. I unfortunately cannot pay for a subscription on this, but even with the free version it is amazing and has lowered my screen time…”
“Love it! — I really like this app because I’ve been having some trouble with focusing on my homework with my phone. This was such an easy fix since you don’t have to pay to just block the apps. There are more options you have to pay for…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.1.29.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.