Focus timer vs Sery Snap
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
Sery Snap
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Sery Snap is the mobile companion for Sery — your private data agent. Ask questions about your files and datasets in plain English, get answers in seconds, and browse everything indexed across your connected machines. Chat with your data Type or speak a question — "How many CSV files do I have?", "Show me the largest files this month", "What's in my sales dataset?" — and get an AI-powered answer drawn directly from your own files. Results stream in real time, with tables you can scroll through right on your phone. See your whole network The Network tab shows every machine running Sery Link — online status, file count, storage used, and last seen time. Tap any machine to browse its connected sources and the files indexed within each one. Voice input Tap the mic and ask your question out loud. Your words become the query, no typing needed. Your data stays yours Sery never stores your files. Queries run against your own machines over an end-to-end encrypted tunnel. Raw data never passes through Sery's servers. What you need A free Sery account and at least one machine running Sery Link (available at sery.ai). Sery Link connects your local files, S3 buckets, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more. — Subscription — Sery Plus (Monthly) — $19.99/month. Auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://sery.ai/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://sery.ai/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Sery Snap at none against Focus timer's shown. Sery Snap also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks). Focus timer's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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 Sery Snap sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus timer ships an update every 5 weeks, Sery Snap every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus timer | Sery Snap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.9K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 书敏 贾 | HE PANG |
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
Sery Snap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Focus timer
- Professional Version$2.99
Sery Snap
- Plus Monthly$19.991 Month
