Doggydoro vs Focus Dog
Checked against each app’s own website and store listing as of . Prices change, so they’re left to the App Store.
Both are focus timers with a dog. Focus Dog is the older, broader app: Android, iPad and Mac, nine languages, leagues, friends, and meals for shelter dogs. Doggydoro is new and iPhone-only, with ten breeds that keep their own habits, Screen Time blocking, no account, and nothing leaving your phone.
Doggydoro is ours: it’s made by Memenmo Studios, the people who run this site. Focus Dog is made by Fancy Ventures, and we have nothing to do with it. What we say about Focus Dog comes from its own site, help pages and store listings, checked on 6 October 2026. Doggydoro launched this month, so it has none of the history Focus Dog has.
How do Doggydoro and Focus Dog compare?
They share a dog and a timer, and differ on nearly everything else.
| Doggydoro (ours) | Focus Dog | |
|---|---|---|
| The dog | Ten breeds (eight on the free tier), each named by you, with its own habits | One dog, called Focus, with skins to unlock |
| What keeps you going | A room you furnish with bones, and finds at the end of a session | Donuts to collect (over 120 recipes), levels, streaks and challenges |
| Leaving mid-session | The timer keeps time; Screen Time keeps other apps shielded | The donut machine stops |
| Blocking other apps | Strict, Allowlist or Chill out, plus a bedtime lock; free | No app shielding described |
| Platforms | iPhone, iOS 17 or later | iPhone, iPad, Apple silicon Mac, Android |
| Languages | English | Nine, including German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Chinese |
| Account | None | Sign-up and log-in |
| Friends and competition | None | Friends, weekly leagues, a global Top 100 |
| Real-world good | None | Gems donated as meals for shelter dogs |
| Price model | Free, with Pro as a subscription or one-off purchase | Free, with Pro as a monthly subscription or one-off purchase |
| Family Sharing | Every Pro plan | Not available, per its App Store listing |
| Lock Screen and Siri | Live Activity, Siri and Shortcuts | Live Activity, widgets, Siri Shortcuts |
What’s the main difference?
How the dog asks you to stay. Focus Dog runs on a clear, gamey loop: stay in the app and the donut machine keeps making donuts, leave and it stops, and Focus goes hungry if you don’t show up. Its makers describe it as “stupid simple”, and for plenty of people that’s exactly what works.
Doggydoro is quieter. The dog doesn’t need feeding and doesn’t go hungry. It settles in beside the timer and does what its breed does: a Greyhound is flat out by minute two, a German Shepherd stays on watch for six minutes before giving in. At the end, a card says how it went, and sometimes the dog has found you something. If you stop early, it yawns, or just goes back to sleep. If you want stakes, Focus Dog has more of them.
Which is better for blocking distracting apps?
Doggydoro, if you want other apps actually shielded. It uses Apple’s Screen Time on your own phone: Strict shields apps and websites until the session ends, Allowlist lets through the apps you pick in Apple’s picker, and Chill out blocks nothing. The shields come down when the session ends, even if Doggydoro was closed, and an optional bedtime lock does the same every night. All of it is free.
Focus Dog’s listings don’t describe shielding other apps. Its pull is that leaving costs you donuts, and its help pages describe an Auto-Stop feature that needs Pro. Some people find a reward to protect works better than a wall, so this isn’t a clear win either way.
Do I need an account?
Not for Doggydoro. There’s no sign-in and no server of ours; your sessions, tasks and room stay on your iPhone. The trade-off is that there’s no syncing between devices yet, though a full phone backup brings it all across.
Focus Dog has accounts, with sign-up, log-in, password reset and account deletion in its help pages. That’s what lets it run leagues, friends and leaderboards. Its App Store privacy label lists usage data and diagnostics, not linked to you.
Which works on Android, iPad or Mac?
Focus Dog. It’s on Android, iPhone, iPad and Apple silicon Macs, and one Pro purchase covers your devices on the same platform. Doggydoro is iPhone only, with no Android, iPad or Mac version. If you’re not on an iPhone, the choice is made for you.
Which is better with friends?
Focus Dog, clearly. It has friends, invite codes, weekly leagues from Bronze to Legend, and a global Top 100 leaderboard. Doggydoro has no social features at all: no friends, no co-focus, no sharing beyond saving your room as a wallpaper. That’s on purpose, but if a bit of company or competition keeps you going, it’s a real gap.
Which does more good in the world?
Focus Dog. You can donate the gems you earn, and its makers turn them into meals for shelter dogs. Doggydoro doesn’t do anything like that. If that’s what tips it for you, it’s a good reason.
How do the free and paid tiers compare?
Both are free to start with a paid Pro, as a subscription or a one-off purchase. We don’t quote prices here; the App Store shows them in your currency.
Doggydoro’s free tier has the timer, a dog of your choosing, app blocking with a bedtime lock, three sounds, finds, today’s Logs and your streak, tasks and daily nudges. Pro adds two more breeds, double bones, week, month and year in your Logs, and all eleven sounds mixed three at a time. Every plan works with Family Sharing.
Focus Dog’s free tier covers its core features. Its site says Pro adds anti-cheat, advanced statistics, more focus challenges, Siri voice commands, shortcuts, CSV export and a special gift. Its App Store listing says purchases can’t be shared through Family Sharing.
Who should pick which?
Pick Focus Dog if you’re on Android, iPad or Mac, if you’d like the app in a language other than English, if leagues and friends keep you honest, or if feeding real shelter dogs matters to you. It’s a mature app with years of updates behind it.
Pick Doggydoro if you’re on an iPhone and want app blocking that’s real and free, a dog of a breed you like with habits of its own, no account, and nothing leaving your phone. It’s new, so expect it to grow.
Not sure? Try our web timer to see whether a dog beside the countdown suits you, or see how both sit among the others in focus apps with a pet in them.