Focus timer vs FocusTimer 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus timer
Enhance concentration with a Pomodoro-style timer. Choose from various ambient sounds to create a focused work or study environment. Customize focus and break durations, and receive end-of-timer reminders with a selection of sounds.
- Pomodoro timer with customizable intervals
- Ambient soundscapes for focus
- Customizable focus and break times
- End-of-timer reminders with sound options
- Minimalist interface with flip animation
- Background running support
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Focus timer is a tomato timer based app that helps you concentrate on your work and study. When you want to start concentrating on, you can choose an environment, accompanied by beaches, trains, rainy days, bonfire, country cricket sounds, and you will be comfortable concentrating on. Features: - Tomato timer, break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. - Support custom time, easy to set the focus time, rest time. - Set the reminder after the end of the timer, a variety of sounds to choose from. - Minimal interface design, timer display clear with flip animation - Supports background running
FocusTimer 2
This app helps you stay focused on tasks using the Pomodoro Technique. It breaks down work into timed intervals with short and long breaks, offering statistics on your performance. Improve productivity for learning, work, and training by minimizing distractions.
- Pomodoro Technique timer
- Customizable focus and break lengths
- Long break mode
- Work and study focus
- Performance statistics
- Distraction minimization
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FocusTimer+ is work focus timer. It also contains statistics and performance analysis of your working log. Stay focused and use FocusTimer+ for learning, work, and training sessions. Stop wasting your time on distractions instead of focusing on what really matters. How to use this app? - Base on Pomodoro Technique, for work and stury - 25-minutes fully concentrated periods, separated by 5-minutes short breaks - Long Break mode. Trigger a long break every four concentrated periods - Allows customizing the length of focuses and breaks Pomodoro Technique is an easy-to-use time management method, which uses a timer to break down works into intervals, traditionally 25 min in length, separated by 5 min breaks. Pomodoro in Italian means tomato.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Focus timer at 4.6 against FocusTimer 2's 3.3. Focus timer also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 3). FocusTimer 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Focus timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FocusTimer 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Focus timer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus timer has 1.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Focus timer's written reviews are positive against 57% of FocusTimer 2's.
Focus timer ships an update every 5 weeks, FocusTimer 2 every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus timer | FocusTimer 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.8K ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.0% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 书敏 贾 | AppNextDoor Labs |
Customer experience
Focus timer
FocusTimer 2
Bugs and requests
Focus timer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Timer stops when device is locked or app is minimized
- Inconsistent timer behavior when switching between apps
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to set custom alarm/notification sounds
- Option to disable background sounds
- Automatic start/stop of focus and break timers
- Customizable timer duration
- Dark mode or theme options
FocusTimer 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Focus timer
- Professional Version$2.99
FocusTimer 2
No in-app purchases
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