Focus Friend alternative
A Focus Friend alternative for when a sad bean stops working
Quiet Orbit is a calm focus timer for iPhone that closes the apps you pick. Your focus flies a ship across the solar system, and stopping early never makes anything sad.
Focus Friend and Quiet Orbit, side by side
| Quiet Orbit | Focus Friend | |
|---|---|---|
| Price to start | Free | Free |
| What paying costs (US) | $3.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $39.99 once | Pro at $3.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $39.99 once, plus bean packs |
| Blocks the apps you pick | Yes, free, through Apple's Screen Time | Yes, in Deep Focus Mode |
| If you stop early | You keep every minute you focused | Your bean is really sad |
| Focus with friends | Up to four phones start together, free | Not listed |
| Runs on | iPhone | iPhone and iPad |
Calm instead of cute
Focus Friend's bean is sweet, and guilt is part of the deal: stop the timer and the bean is really sad. Quiet Orbit is quieter. Your focus flies a ship from Earth out to Pluto, each world has its own objects, records and sounds to find, and stopping early simply banks the minutes you did.
Premium costs the same as Focus Friend Pro in the US, $3.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $39.99 once, with no extra packs to buy. And the app speaks eleven languages.
What Quiet Orbit does
- Focus sessions from 15 to 90 minutes, with breaks if you want them.
- The apps you pick stay closed until the session ends, breaks included. Everything else stays open.
- Every minute you focus flies your ship closer to the next world, Earth out to Pluto. Each session you finish turns up a finding from the place you reached.
- Stop early and you keep every minute. Nothing dies, withers or resets.
- Up to four friends can start the same session at the same second, with a link. Hosting and joining are free.
- A weekly log, a live timer on the Lock Screen, widgets, reminders, and a streak with a rest day built in.
- No account. Which apps you block never leaves your iPhone.
Where Focus Friend is the better pick
- You love decorating a room and dressing up a character on your breaks.
- You use an iPad.
Switching takes a minute
- Install Quiet Orbit from the App Store. It's free, for iPhone on iOS 18 or later.
- Allow Screen Time access when it asks, and pick the apps that stay closed.
- Choose a length, press and hold to start, and put the phone down.
Your history in the other app stays there; Quiet Orbit starts you in Earth orbit. More on how the block works and the study timer, or see every app side by side.
Prices and features of other apps are from their US App Store listings, checked on 16 October 2026, and can change; Forest's pricing history is from Wikipedia. Prices differ by country. Every app named here is a trademark of its owner; Quiet Orbit isn't affiliated with any of them.