iFocusTime vs NEN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iFocusTime
A minimalist, hand-drawn Pomodoro timer designed to help you focus on tasks by temporarily putting your phone aside. Features multiple white noise options to enhance concentration.
- Hand-drawn minimalist design
- Pomodoro timer functionality
- Multiple white noise options
- Focus on tasks
- Temporary phone distraction reduction
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这是一款手绘风格的极简番茄钟，多种白噪音助你定心凝神。本应用旨在让你暂时放下手机，在一定时间内专注的做一些事。
NEN
This app provides a calm, Pomodoro-style focus timer designed for deep work and study sessions. It helps users maintain attention with clear progress tracking and distraction-resistant routines, offering customizable break intervals and app blocking features.
- Focus, short break, and long break sessions
- Clear timer progress and round tracking
- Focus categories for different work types
- Block selected apps during focus (Pro)
- Apple Watch controls
- Live Activities and widgets
- Session history and progress insights
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NEN is a calm Pomodoro-style focus timer for iPhone and Apple Watch, built for deep work, study sessions, real breaks, and distraction-resistant routines. Start a focus session, move through short and long breaks, and keep your attention on the work in front of you. NEN is built around a simple Pomodoro-style timer flow with a quiet visual style, clear session progress, and useful controls when you need them. Use NEN for deep work, study blocks, writing sessions, coding, reading, or any routine where you want a focused rhythm without extra noise. Features: - Focus, short break, and long break sessions - Clear timer progress and round tracking - Focus categories for different kinds of work - Block selected apps during focus with NEN Pro - Apple Watch controls - Live Activities and widgets - Session history and progress insights - Optional NEN Pro lifetime unlock for deeper focus tools NEN is made for people who want a focused timer that feels calm, native, and easy to return to every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iFocusTime at none against NEN's 1. iFocusTime also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.5). NEN's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads and device support 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. NEN sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iFocusTime asks for nothing beyond the download.
NEN holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iFocusTime has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of iFocusTime's written reviews are positive against 100% of NEN's.
iFocusTime ships an update every 3 months, NEN every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iFocusTime | NEN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 志欣 尚 | Nijanthan Vijayakumar |
Customer experience
iFocusTime
NEN
In-app purchases
iFocusTime
No in-app purchases
NEN
- NEN Lifetime Unlock$2.39
