Comparison

Meeting Cost Timers vs Pomodoro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Meeting Cost Timers

This app tracks meeting duration, total person-hours, and estimated costs based on attendee hourly rates. It helps visualize meeting expenses to encourage efficiency and save time and money. Features include configurable rates, attendee management, and reporting.

Highlights
  • Configurable hourly rates
  • Add/remove attendees during meetings
  • Pause and restart timer
  • Meeting templates
  • Siri shortcut support
  • Backup and restore data
  • Generate meeting reports
Features
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How much time and money is being spent in meetings? Meeting Cost Timers displays the meeting duration, total person hours, and total cost (based on the hourly rates for attendees). Visualizing this information can help focus meetings to save time and money. • Configurable hourly rates for roles and individuals (using your local or custom currency). • Add or remove attendees during the meeting. Person time and cost calculations are adjusted accordingly. • Pause and restart the timer for those really long meetings that require breaks. • Use meeting templates to quickly configure the attendees for recurring meetings. • Meeting templates appear in iOS search results. Tap a result to automatically launch the app and change the current attendees. • Siri shortcut support for copying attendees from meeting templates (requires iOS 12). • Manage shortcuts in the app's Settings screen, the Shortcuts app on iOS 13, or in the Siri & Search section of Apple's Settings app. • Back up your currency, hourly rates, meeting templates and current meeting configuration to iCloud Drive, Dropbox etc. for safekeeping or to copy between your devices. • Change icon currency symbol. • Inverted colour scheme is great for projecting onto the wall. • Generate a report of the meeting's current elapsed time, cost and attendees. • External display support showing a custom screen-filling view of the timer. • VoiceOver support for the visually impaired. • Dark appearance support (requires iOS 13). • iPad multitasking. Meeting Cost Timers is available for iOS and Mac. It is free to download and use with some restrictions. A single in-app purchase unlocks all features on both platforms: • Back up and restore your data. • Unlimited number of attendees. • Unlimited number of hourly rates. • Unlimited number of meeting templates. • Change icon currency symbol (iOS only). For more information see https://hacknicity.com/meetingcosttimers or email me at support@hacknicity.com

About

Pomodoro

Enhance your focus and productivity with a timer that breaks work into intervals. This app helps you manage tasks using the Pomodoro technique, offering customizable timers, relaxing sounds, and progress tracking. It supports various Apple devices and works offline.

Highlights
  • Pomodoro technique timer
  • Customizable intervals
  • Relaxing sound player
  • iOS widgets and Apple Watch support
  • Task management
  • Progress tracking
  • White noise integration
Features
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The Best Pomodoro Application. Work with this app to improve your productivity by breaking up after each working period. Features - Timer list - Relaxing sound player - iOS14 Widgets Support - Apple Watch Complications - White noises are played with timer - Customizable timer style & background image - Customizable settings for your working interval and short, long break interval - Offline mode - Dark mode - Manager your task using Pomodoro technique - Focus with white noise sounds - Track your progress - Background scheduling and notification - Support Working on backgrounds - Voice Feedback after finishing work and break - Universal app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch Feedback email - jason@delightroom.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Meeting Cost Timers4 screens
Pomodoro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Meeting Cost Timers at none against Pomodoro's shown. Meeting Cost Timers also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Pomodoro's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 9) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meeting Cost Timers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pomodoro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pomodoro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pomodoro has 11K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Meeting Cost Timers's written reviews are positive against 50% of Pomodoro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meeting Cost Timers ships an update every 6 weeks, Pomodoro monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Meeting Cost Timers versus Pomodoro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting Cost TimersPomodoro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (9 ratings)4.7 (11K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings911K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeoff HackworthDelightApps Corp.

Customer experience

Meeting Cost Timers

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Pomodoro

All ratings10,798 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews298 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.4%
Negative37.6%

Bugs and requests

Meeting Cost Timers

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pomodoro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Timer stops counting when switching apps
  • Notifications not working consistently
  • Premium features not functioning as expected
  • App crashing or freezing on certain devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to sync timers across devices
  • More customization options for backgrounds and sounds
  • Improved statistics and reporting
  • Better support and communication from developers

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meeting Cost Timers

One-time1
  • Unlock all Features$2.99
5 purchases

Pomodoro

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Club$0.991 Month
  • Pomodoro - premium$1.991 Month
One-time3
  • Tip$0.99
  • Premium$7.99
  • Lifetime premium$9.99

Questions

Is Meeting Cost Timers free?
Meeting Cost Timers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pomodoro free?
Pomodoro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meeting Cost Timers or Pomodoro?
Pomodoro is rated higher. Meeting Cost Timers averages 4.4 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Pomodoro averages 4.7 from 11K ratings.
Do Meeting Cost Timers or Pomodoro have ads?
Pomodoro shows ads; Meeting Cost Timers does not.
Which is updated more often, Meeting Cost Timers or Pomodoro?
Meeting Cost Timers ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pomodoro monthly. Most recently, Meeting Cost Timers was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pomodoro on October 25, 2026.

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