Perfect Loops vs Focus@Will
This page describes the difference. It doesn’t declare a winner: everything below about Focus@Will was read off its own pages on October 18, 2026, not lived with for a month. We make Perfect Loops, so read our column accordingly; its gaps are listed at the bottom.
They’re different kinds of thing. Focus@Will is closest to generative and adaptive soundscapes: Apps whose sound is produced by the company’s own system, in real time or from its own composers, shaped for focus, relaxation or sleep. It never ends because it is being generated. Perfect Loops is seamless loops cut from real artists’ tracks, with the artist paid from your own fee.
| Focus@Will | Perfect Loops (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Does the music end? | Channels play continuously with a focus timer. Several App Store reviewers say the music repeats often; that is their account, not ours. | Yes: a loop repeats sample-exactly, with no gap and no click, until the timer fades it out. |
| Who made it | Musicians working for the company, per its description. No artist is named. | Named artists, from their own finished tracks; each loop links to the artist and their platforms. Our own collections (made with Jam, and with AI music tools) are labelled as such and listed after the artists. |
| How the makers are paid | Not stated. | User-centric: half of each subscriber’s $5 goes to the artists that subscriber played, split by that subscriber’s own seconds, so a listener who only plays one artist sends their whole half to that artist. Paid monthly from $20 and quarterly from $5, with us covering the payment fees. An artist who brings a fan through their link also earns 20% of that fan’s payments for as long as they stay. |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision; a web app | Any browser; installs to the home screen as an app on iPhone and Android, with lock-screen controls. A Loops button in the header of every HiveJournal page starts one in a tap. |
| Pricing | focusatwill.com would not give us a readable page. The App Store listing shows in-app purchases of $9.99, $34.99, $52.99 and $69.99 plus “legacy pricing” items from $4.99 to $44.99, without naming which is the current monthly or yearly plan. A 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee are described. | $5 a month or $48 a year for the artists’ loops. Our own collections are free to play. Streamers and video makers may use the loops as background music free with credit. |
Where Focus@Will is ahead
Fourteen years of a product built for one thing, with offline mode and a built-in productivity tracker.
What Perfect Loops doesn’t do
- Small. As of October 2026 the catalog is our own two collections plus one human artist’s loops awaiting his approval and agreement; more artists are being invited. Every product above has more music.
- A loop is seconds of a track, not the track. If you want to hear the song, this is the wrong place; the artist’s links are there for that.
- The first artist payout has not run yet: the pipeline is built and the terms are set, but no statement has been paid.
- Browser-based. It installs as an app, but there is no native app, no offline mode, and on a locked phone a scheduled switch (Blend, a Path) can be delayed until you unlock.
- No sleep or health claims: the energy levels describe tempo and feel, nothing about you.
- The artists’ loops need a subscription; only our own collections are free.