Focus timer vs Pomodoro.me
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
Pomodoro.me
This app implements the Pomodoro Technique to enhance focus and productivity. It breaks work into timed intervals with short breaks, offering customization for timers, sounds, and data tracking. Users can monitor progress with statistics and charts, and export their data.
- Start, stop, and pause timer
- Track progress with history and statistics
- Customizable pomodoro and break intervals
- Adjustable notification sounds
- Export data to CSV
- Dark mode support
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Pomodoro is a time management method that helps to boost productivity. The technique uses a timer to break down work into multiple intervals, traditionally 25 minutesin length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro (WikiPedia) Pomodoro.me is one of many apps implementing this technique Key Features: - start, stop and pause easily. You can do it from status bar or from little modal window - history, statistics and charts - track your progress through any period - customization options - pomodoro and break intervals - notification sounds, different alert sizes - export data to CSV - dark mode If you miss anything please contact me at support@aloggers.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Focus timer at 4.6 against Pomodoro.me's 4.0. Focus timer also leads on ratings volume (1.8K vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Pomodoro.me's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (90% vs 77%). 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
Both are free to download. Focus timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pomodoro.me sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus timer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus timer has 1.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Focus timer's written reviews are positive against 90% of Pomodoro.me's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Focus timer ships an update every 5 weeks, Pomodoro.me every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus timer | Pomodoro.me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.8K ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 89.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 书敏 贾 | BGCI |
Customer experience
Focus timer
Pomodoro.me
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
Pomodoro.me
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Focus timer
- Professional Version$2.99
Pomodoro.me
- Premium$4.99
