The Pomodoro timer that catches ghosts.

Tap Deep Focus, put your phone down and work for 25 to 120 minutes while a picture paints itself in, dot by dot. Finish and you catch a chapter from history (a quote, a story or an image) plus coins and XP. Catch every chapter and that ghost’s whole story is yours. Shallow Focus runs from 10 minutes for lighter tasks; it pays coins and keeps your streak alive, with no chapter at the end.

Yes, on iPhone and Android, with no card needed. The Free tier includes the Pomodoro timer, the ghost-catching loop, Focus Together group sessions, and the leaderboard. Every focus session also earns you coins you can spend in the in-app Store on themed ghost packs. Keep your streak and you earn more coins per session, and every pack in the Store can be earned by focusing. There are no ads on either plan.

Legendary Ghosts, the Sleep Timer (phone down all night, wake up to a chapter), the Ghost Universe, and Full History, which charts your focus by day, week, month, and year. Everything else is free. Pro is $34.99 per year or $4.99 per month, with a 7-day trial on annual and, on iPhone, 3 days on monthly. If Pro ends, every ghost you caught stays yours.

Catch the Ghost Pro in the help center.

The apparition you were catching gets away. Its ghost stays In Progress with every chapter you’ve already caught, and your coins stay yours unless you staked them. Leave the app and you have three one-minute passes per session to come back. Locking your phone is free.

Stakes and grace periods in the help center.

Yes, when each session is short, has a clear end and pays off right away. In Catch the Ghost the picture fills in while you work, and the chapter is yours the moment you finish. Pick Deep Focus from 25 to 120 minutes or Shallow Focus from 10, aim it at a category or a ghost you care about, and open a Focus Together room when you want someone working beside you. The timer adapts to you instead of the other way around.

Yes, and it’s free. Start a Focus Together room and share its code, link or QR code. A room holds up to 8 people, and everyone’s timer starts on the same second. When two or more of you finish, everyone who finished earns double coins and XP. A partner who quits takes nothing from your reward, and the room shows who’s still in, for example 2 of 2 focusing. Rooms run Deep Focus, from 25 minutes to 2 hours.

Focus Together in the help center.

Focus on any day, even with a 10-minute Shallow session, and your streak grows. Hold it and every session pays more coins: 1.25x at 7 days, 1.75x at 30, 3x at a year. Miss a day and your streak drops to 0, unless you buy it back for 5,000 coins before the recovery countdown ends. Your streak follows your account, so reinstalling, switching phones or crossing time zones keeps every day you earned.

How streaks work in the help center.

No. Every app on your phone stays open to you. Catch the Ghost pays you for putting the phone down: a chapter, coins and XP for every finished Deep Focus session. During Deep Focus it notices only when you leave its own app, and it doesn’t read your Screen Time data or track your other apps.

Forest grows a tree while you stay off your phone. Catch the Ghost paints in a chapter from history (a quote, a story or an image) and pays coins and XP when you finish. You can stake coins on a session, focus in rooms of up to 8 where finishers earn double, and build a collection from 800+ ghosts. The Forest comparison page has the full table.

Yes. Catch the Ghost is on Google Play with the same library, chapters, Focus Together rooms, coins and streaks as iPhone, and one account syncs across both. On Android the live countdown is an ongoing notification instead of a Live Activity, and Lifetime is sold on iPhone only; Android has Monthly and Annual.