Comparison

Focus timer vs DIRECTIVE73

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

DIRECTIVE73

Features
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MOTIVATION IS NOT CONTENT. IT'S A PROTOCOL. Every motivation app is a slot machine wearing a gym shirt — infinite quotes, zero weight. DIRECTIVE73 issues one order per day, at the hour you set, from men who earned the right to be quoted. You read it. You execute. You come back tomorrow. ONE ORDER PER DAY Delivered at your reveille — the time you choose. Harvey Specter to Marcus Aurelius, Rocky Balboa to David Goggins. Curated, sourced, never random noise. Scarcity is the feature: no feed, no infinite scroll, no doomscrolling at 1AM. THE VAULT Every order you've received, archived with dossiers and field notes: who said it, where, and what it cost him. Context free quote apps don't have. DISCIPLINE LOG An unbroken streak you won't want to break. Your record lives on your device and your iCloud — nowhere else. SHARE ASSETS Every quote exports as a poster — hazard stripes, barcode, directive number. Send it to the men who need it. BUILT LIKE A BUNKER No account. No email. No analytics. No ad SDK. No trackers. Your streak, your saved orders, your call sign — stored on your device and your private iCloud. We can't sell your data. We don't have any. THE ARSENAL FILM — Specter, Balboa, Corleone. BOOKS — Willink, Goggins, Gregorek. STOIC — Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus. GRIND — Ali, Lee, the SEALs. AND MORE. Show up tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Focus timer4 screens
DIRECTIVE734 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DIRECTIVE73 at none against Focus timer's shown. Focus timer's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Focus timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DIRECTIVE73 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Focus timer versus DIRECTIVE73: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus timerDIRECTIVE73
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer书敏 贾Oleksii Kyrychenko

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

DIRECTIVE73

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Focus timer

One-time1
  • Professional Version$2.99
3 purchases

DIRECTIVE73

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly — Field Rate$1.991 Month
  • Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Focus timer free?
Focus timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DIRECTIVE73 free?
DIRECTIVE73 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Focus timer or DIRECTIVE73 have ads?
Focus timer shows ads; DIRECTIVE73 does not.

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