Comparison

Haptic Focus Timer vs HapLab

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

Head to head
About

Haptic Focus Timer

This app helps you time focus and meditation sessions using discreet haptic feedback on your watch. It allows for multiple, unique vibrations to mark time or segment your session without sound or screen interaction. Optionally track your heart rate and mindfulness minutes.

Highlights
  • Haptic notifications for silent alerts
  • Multiple notifications per timer
  • Customizable haptic experiences
  • Configure multiple timers
  • Dark/Light Mode support
  • Optional HealthKit heart rate monitoring
Features
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Time your focus and meditation sessions with gentle and subtle haptic notifications. Receive multiple notifications throughout your session, each with its own unique haptic experience, to mark time or segment your session... all without fiddling with your watch or disturbing anyone around you! Key Features: - Haptic notifications alert only you when your watch is in Silent Mode - Get multiple notifications throughout the duration of a timer - Select from multiple haptic experiences for each notification - Configure multiple timers - Dark/Light Mode compatible - Optionally, monitor your heart rate throughout your session with HealthKit - Record your mindfulness minutes in the Health App Try free for up to two weeks. An annual or monthly subscription enables your watch app to time your meditation sessions. Subscriptions are charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and after the expiration of the free trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime within your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. Send any questions, feedback, or complaints to info@bodhibuilder.com TERMS OF SERVICE: https://bodhibuilder.com/timer-terms-of-service

About

HapLab

Features
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Feel your way to the answer. HapLab is a haptics laboratory for iPhone: try the full vocabulary of the Core Haptics engine, combine it freely, and save what feels right. A design tool for people who build apps — and a playground for anyone who loves a good click. ■ PAD — touch and play - Perform intensity and sharpness in real time on an XY surface - Three modes: TAP (one hit), STREAM (sustained), BURST (repeats at 2–40 Hz) - Light and vibration follow your finger while you touch ■ DICT — a dictionary of touch - 44 samples that move one parameter at a time: intensity, sharpness, texture, envelopes, curves, rhythm - Compare with the built-in iOS feedback (Impact / Selection / Notification) - A/B the same haptic with and without sound ■ COMP — compose vibrations - Place transients, sustains and synth sounds on a timeline - Carve intensity, sharpness and envelopes (attack / decay / release) with sliders - Modulate over time with intensity and sharpness curves, then loop and listen ■ LIB — remix the presets - 12 presets: heartbeat, raindrops, engine, glass, alarm and more - Open one, tweak it, save it as your own (free plan saves up to 3) ■ Light and sound as controls - Toggle screen flash, glow, particles, torch (real LED) and synth sounds one by one - Decompose what "feels good" into its parts ■ HapLab Pro (one-time purchase) - Unlimited pattern saves - JSON export — take the numbers you found into your own apps - JSON import — play and remix shared patterns ■ Privacy - No data collection. No ads. Your patterns stay on your device. Haptic playback requires an iPhone with a Taptic Engine. The simulator and some older models cannot play haptics.

Screenshots

Haptic Focus Timer3 screens
HapLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HapLab at every 2 days against Haptic Focus Timer's every 11 months. Haptic Focus Timer's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Haptic Focus Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and HapLab sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Haptic Focus Timer ships an update every 11 months, HapLab every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Haptic Focus Timer versus HapLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHaptic Focus TimerHapLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKnightCode LLCRyusuke Mochida

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Haptic Focus Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Unlimited3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Unlimited14 Days trial$9.991 Year
4 purchases

HapLab

One-time4
  • チップ S$1.99
  • HapLab Pro$4.99
  • チップ M$5.99
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  • チップ L$19.99

Questions

Is Haptic Focus Timer free?
Haptic Focus Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HapLab free?
HapLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Haptic Focus Timer or HapLab have ads?
Neither Haptic Focus Timer nor HapLab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Haptic Focus Timer or HapLab?
Haptic Focus Timer ships an update every 11 months, and HapLab every 2 days. Most recently, Haptic Focus Timer was updated on September 29, 2026 and HapLab on September 30, 2026.

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