Two ways to protect a morning
Focus Bear works on the environment. It blocks distracting apps and sites across your devices, and wraps that in guided morning and evening routines so the blocking has a shape. The premise is that the environment beats intention, which is largely true.
Orbit works on the sequence. It blocks nothing and controls nothing; it holds the order of the routine and shows you the current step wherever you look. The premise is that the failure happens between steps rather than at temptations, which is also largely true — for different people, or for the same person at different times of day.
Side by side
| Focus Bear | Orbit | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Focus Bear Pty Ltd | Aron de Groot (Groot Apps), Netherlands |
| Apple devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone only |
| Desktop | Yes, central to the product | None |
| Minimum iOS | 16 | 26 |
| Blocks apps and sites | Yes | No |
| Runs a routine step by step | Yes | Yes |
| Streak on a missed day | — | Freeze spent automatically |
| Account required | Yes | No |
Platform facts checked against each app's App Store listing on 6 September 2026.
Where Focus Bear is genuinely better
Blocking. It is the feature, it spans desktop and mobile, and no routine app replaces it.
Desktop. If your day happens on a laptop, an iPhone-only app is only touching part of the problem.
Breadth. Habit guidance, breaks and environment control in one product.
Explicit AuDHD design. Built by a team who describe themselves as ADHD and autistic, with features aimed at both.
Where Orbit is genuinely better
It is narrow on purpose. One thing — running a routine — done without configuration screens or permissions to grant.
Missed days cost nothing. Freezes are automatic.
No account, no data leaving the phone.
Nothing to install on your computer. Some people want an app that never touches the rest of their setup. If blocking is not your problem, blocking software is overhead.
How to choose
Ask what actually happened the last time a morning went wrong. If you opened something you should not have, that is an environment problem and Focus Bear addresses it directly. If you simply stopped between two steps without going anywhere in particular, blocking would not have helped, and a routine that follows you onto the Lock Screen would.
Using both is reasonable: block the environment on the desktop, and run the routine on the phone.