Focus timer vs Focus Master.
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
Focus Master.
Enhance productivity with a Pomodoro timer and activity logger. Customize focus sessions, breaks, and tasks, track progress, and export logs. Offers passcode protection and cloud backup.
- Customizable Pomodoro and break times
- Task management
- Activity logging and statistics
- Log export (PDF, HTML, CSV)
- Passcode protection
- Dropbox backup and restore
- Today Widget support
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We all have the things we should to do or finish, but actually we are often attracted by the checking the phone, reading the news and blogs, checking weather, playing game and other little staff, of course the time elapses and elapses when we are ‘off line’. We often feel guilty about time but how to change this? Pomodoro technique is recommended by many people to help to focus and enhance work effectiveness. Just focus on your study, work, reading or writing during pomodoro, all others should stand by. This app helps to do it better, it helps timing and recording, you can custom the time of pomodoro and break, check the logs and export by email. Here is the key features: ⁃ Custom pomodoro, short break and long break time. ⁃ Custom number of sessions of each set. ⁃ Different alert sounds. ⁃ Big hourglass counting style. ⁃ Custom different tasks. ⁃ Rewards a tomato icon after each pomodoro. ⁃ Supports pause and skip when counting. ⁃ Check pomodoro logs. ⁃ Check pomodoro statistics. ⁃ Export pomodoro logs by email in format of PDF, HTML or CSV. ⁃ Print pomodoro logs in app. ⁃ Set goal number of pomodoro. ⁃ Supports Today Widget. ⁃ Passcode protection. ⁃ Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports universal version (available on both iPhone and iPad). If you have any question or suggestion, please email to linklinksapp@tom.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus timer at every 5 weeks against Focus Master.'s every 7 months. Focus Master.'s advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 77%). On price, ads, 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 Focus Master. sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus timer ships an update every 5 weeks, Focus Master. every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus timer | Focus Master. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 77.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 书敏 贾 | LINKLINKS LTD |
Customer experience
Focus timer
Focus Master.
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
Focus Master.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Focus timer
- Professional Version$2.99
Focus Master.
- Premium - 6 months7 Days trial$2.996 Months
Questions
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