Salad Timer vs Pops!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Salad Timer
This app uses the Pomodoro Technique to help you focus on tasks and study sessions. Choose a salad icon to represent your work, set a 25-minute timer, and take short breaks to stay productive.
- Pomodoro Technique timer
- Pause and resume functionality
- Short break support
- 10+ customizable salad icons
- 3+ background timer images
- Work and study time tracking
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Pomodoro Salad Timer：Stay focused and get more things done! Salad Timer is a science-based app that will motivate you to stay focused and get things done. It brings Pomodoro Technique, allows you to focus on work & study, check the time spent at work. It's the ultimate app helping you focus on work & study and tracking your working hours. How it works: 1. Pick a salad icon depending on the job you need to accomplish. 2. Set a timer for 25 minutes, keep focused and start working. 3. When the pomodoro timer rings, take a 5 minute break. Key Features: - Pause and resume Pomodoro - Support for short breaks - 10+ Salad Icons that you can separate your work mode - 3+ Salad Background Timer Image Privacy Policy: https://wemakegoodapps.gitbook.io/notes/salad-timer/privacy-policy Terms Of Use https://wemakegoodapps.gitbook.io/notes/terms/terms-of-use-1
Pops!
This productivity app uses the Pomodoro technique with personalized coaching. It employs vibrations and light flashes to signal work and break times, with notifications to keep you on track. Get focused and manage your time effectively with a choice of three unique coaching styles.
- Personalized coaching styles
- Vibration alerts for breaks
- Flashing light notifications
- Work and break timers
- Customizable alerts
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Pops is a Pomodoro technique app with personality! Choose from three available coaches that offer three distinct flavors of Pomodoro and get working. Your phone will vibrate and flash its light to alert you of breaks and send you notifications to tell you when its time to get back to work. Now get to it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pops! at 100% against Salad Timer's 50%. Pops! also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.0). Salad Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 58 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Pops! is free to download; Salad Timer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pops! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Salad Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pops!'s.
Salad Timer ships an update every 4 months, Pops! every 58 months. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salad Timer | Pops! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 58 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IcePenguin's cruise diary | Jeffrey Eugene Hoch |
Customer experience
Salad Timer
Pops!
In-app purchases
Salad Timer
No in-app purchases
Pops!
No in-app purchases
