Fella vs Stay Focused:
a permanent rule or focus profiles?

Stay Focused is a general screen-time and productivity toolkit for iPhone and iPad. It can block apps and websites, create multiple profiles, set overall phone limits, whitelist important apps, record usage statistics and unlock patterns, and show a timeline of activity.

Fella is not a general focus toolkit. It does not measure unlocks, create profiles, manage websites, or run temporary productivity sessions. Selected distracting apps remain blocked throughout the day, with one 5-minute emergency unlock per session.

The buyer decision is between adaptable focus control and a permanent default. Stay Focused handles several situations. Fella handles one situation with fewer choices.

A blocking profile groups apps, websites, and restrictions for a particular job. Work, study, bedtime, or personal time can each use different boundaries instead of sharing one permanent blocklist.

Profiles make the app adaptable. A social app might remain available after work but disappear during study. A website can be blocked while an essential phone app stays on an allowlist. Overall phone-use limits can address time spread across many small apps.

Fella does not offer that separation. If an app is selected, it remains blocked regardless of task or time. That is convenient only when the same rule is appropriate everywhere.

Stay Focused helps identify patterns as well as enforce limits. Its official site lists usage statistics, screen-unlock patterns, and an activity timeline. These can show when checking begins and whether a particular profile is reducing it.

Fella does not turn progress into a report. There is no trend to inspect or timeline to review. The product focuses on closing selected apps rather than documenting the rest of the phone.

Analytics are useful when the problem is unclear. If the problem is already unmistakable, repeatedly reviewing it can become overhead. Choose based on whether information will change your next decision.

Stay Focused's official feature page lists Strict Mode and Lock Mode to prevent profile changes and bypassing. This matters because a scheduled profile is only useful if it survives the moment you want to disable it.

Fella's strictness is built into access frequency instead of profiles. One five-minute emergency unlock is the only planned opening. There is no work profile to stop early or phone-time allowance to extend.

Stay Focused is more versatile, while Fella is easier to reason about. Versatility wins when you need different rules. Simplicity wins when every additional control becomes another possible exception.

Choose Stay Focused if you want one app for blocking, tracking, and several focus contexts. It is the better fit for websites, multiple profiles, phone-wide limits, allowlists, timelines, and strict temporary rules.

Choose Fella if you want no focus sessions at all. It suits apps that should remain unavailable by default even when you forget to start a profile or do not feel productive.

Stay Focused is also cheaper on published subscription pricing. Its current US listing shows $3.99 monthly, $9.99 quarterly, and $24.99 yearly. Fella's value proposition must therefore be its fixed access model, not price or feature breadth.