Silo vs Smart Sloth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silo
This app provides a distraction-free Pomodoro timer specifically designed for Apple Watch. It uses subtle haptic feedback to guide focus and break sessions, helping users stay on track without auditory alerts. Ideal for quiet environments, it supports task management and progress tracking.
- Apple Watch native design
- Discreet haptic alerts
- Focus and break cycles
- Adjustable timer intervals
- Distraction-free operation
- Task management and reminders (Pro)
- Focus stats tracking (Pro)
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Silo is a Pomodoro-style focus timer built for Apple Watch and iPhone. It uses subtle wrist haptics to guide focus and break sessions without loud alerts, distracting notifications, or constant phone checking. Perfect for students, people with ADHD, deep-work professionals, and anyone who wants a calmer way to stay on track. Silo is especially powerful on Apple Watch: a tap on your wrist tells you when to focus, when to take a break, and when to return. It’s ideal for libraries, offices, meetings, and anywhere silence matters. “To add something to your daily life without intrusion or complication—that’s what the Apple Watch is about, and this app does a great job of that.” — Apple WatchCast Podcast FEATURES • Apple Watch-first focus timer • Pomodoro-style focus and break sessions • Gentle haptic alerts on your wrist • Adjustable timer intervals on Apple Watch and iPhone • Pause and resume anytime • Quiet, distraction-free design • Great for silent environments • Works great with Airplane Mode SILO PRO • Apple Watch Complications • Plan your day with tasks and reminders • Assign tasks to focus sessions • Mark tasks complete • Custom focus presets • Track daily and weekly focus stats • iCloud sync for tasks and stats Support: support@silofocus.com Terms: silofocus.com/terms Privacy: silofocus.com/privacy
Smart Sloth
This productivity app combines a task manager with the Pomodoro Technique to help users stay focused and efficient. It offers customizable task lengths, notifications, and gesture-based controls to overcome procrastination and build routines.
- Pomodoro timer integration
- Task management
- Customizable task lengths
- Notification alerts
- Gesture-based controls
- Focus enhancement
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Give each task a time slot. Smart Sloth brings task planning and a focus timer together for work, study and everyday routines. Plan tasks, choose their durations and follow the current task from the Now screen. Use Plan to organize your task queue and Routines to manage reusable task lists. Start, pause and resume the timer, and receive a notification when a task’s time runs out. Choose the app language in Settings: English, Azerbaijani, Russian, Spanish, French, Turkish, German, Italian or Portuguese (Portugal). Pomodoro ™ and Pomodoro Technique ® are registered trademarks of Francesco Cirillo. This app is not affiliated with Francesco Cirillo. Privacy Policy: https://www.jafarnajafov.com/smart-sloth/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Smart Sloth at Free against Silo's $1.99. Smart Sloth also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 36%) and rating (4.1 vs 3.4). Silo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and chart position (#199 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Smart Sloth is free to download; Silo costs $1.99 up front. Silo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Smart Sloth sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Sloth holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Silo's written reviews are positive against 79% of Smart Sloth's.
Silo ships an update every 3 weeks, Smart Sloth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silo | Smart Sloth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.4 (10 ratings) | 4.1 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.6% of reviews | 79.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Rainbox Studio | Jafar Najafov |
Customer experience
Silo
Smart Sloth
In-app purchases
Silo
- Unlock Pro Features$2.99
Smart Sloth
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$1.491 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$4.491 Year
- Lifetime$4.99
