Comparison

BreakTime vs Breaks

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

Head to head
About

BreakTime

This app helps you manage your work breaks to boost productivity and prevent eye strain. Easily start breaks with a tap and receive notifications when they end. It offers customizable durations and useful widgets.

Highlights
  • Start breaks with a tap
  • Predefined break durations
  • Break notifications
  • Custom break duration
  • Live activities
  • Widgets for lock and home screens
  • Dark mode support
Features
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Work break timer - BreakTime is designed to help you keep track of your breaks throughout the day. With its simple and intuitive interface you can start a break with just a tap and be notified when a break with predefined duration has ended. Taking regular breaks while working is very important and Work break timer - BreakTime is a great tool to effectively manage your time, boost your productivity and avoid eye strain. Features: - Unlimited breaks (requires Premium upgrade) - Delete individual breaks - Breaks statistics for the last 7 days in the free version and 60 days with Premium upgrade - Custom break duration - Break notifications - Live activities - Lock screen and home screen widgets - Dark mode support - Work break timer - BreakTime works on iPhone and iPad Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Breaks

This app helps you enhance productivity by timeboxing work and breaks. It offers a simple, single-screen interface to set durations and start focus sessions. Receive notifications for session completion and utilize interactive widgets for easy control.

Highlights
  • Customizable work and break durations
  • Session start and end notifications
  • Work-only or break-only sessions
  • Interactive widgets for session control
  • Single-screen simplicity
Features
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Breaks is a simple focus timer to help you do your best work. Breaks lets you easily timebox your work and ensure you’re taking adequate breaks, so you can focus better and be more productive. Breaks is designed to be simple as possible with no extraneous features. Too many apps today try to do too much and make it difficult to do the one thing you actually want the app to do. Breaks is a single screen. You set your work duration, break duration, and hit Start Session, and that's it! Breaks will remember your last used durations so when your session is over, you can go again with a single tap. - Start a focus session with work and break durations - Get notifications when the work portion is over and at the end of the session - Can do work-only or break-only sessions - Interactive widgets lets you see the current time remaining as well as start/stop/restart sessions

Screenshots

BreakTime4 screens
Breaks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BreakTime at Free against Breaks's $0.99. BreakTime also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 3). Breaks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BreakTime is free to download; Breaks costs $0.99 up front. BreakTime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Breaks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Breaks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BreakTime versus Breaks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreakTimeBreaks
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.8 (12 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStoyan HristovZachary Waugh

Customer experience

BreakTime

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Breaks

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

BreakTime

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited Access3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited Access$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • BreakTime Premium$12.99
None

Breaks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BreakTime free?
BreakTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Breaks free?
Breaks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BreakTime or Breaks?
Breaks is rated higher. BreakTime averages 4.8 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Breaks averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do BreakTime or Breaks have ads?
Neither BreakTime nor Breaks shows ads.

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