Comparison

Distractionless Focus Timer vs Solace

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

Head to head
About

Distractionless Focus Timer

This focus timer app helps users implement the Pomodoro Technique with customizable work and rest sessions. It offers a distraction-free experience on your watch, with alerts and the ability to adjust timers on the go.

Highlights
  • Standalone watch application
  • Customizable focus/rest times
  • Vibration and sound alerts
  • Active complications for watch faces
  • Pause and skip timer blocks
  • Add time to current timer
Features
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Distractionless is a truly distraction free pomodoro technique focus timer. Pomodoro timers are a work/study method, where you have repeating sessions of focus and rest. - Standalone watch application, configure and start timers on your watch - Vibration and sound will alert you at the end of every block, even when the app is in the background - Custom focus / rest times by 1 minute increments - Optional long rest after every X focus sessions - Active complications for all watch faces, and complication types - Pause the timer, or skip to the end of the current block - Add additional time to the current timer with a single press - Option to only temporarily enable controls with a long press If the app doesn't show after purchase, please find it on the App Store on your watch (not phone) and download it from there.

About

Solace

This app removes willpower from focus sessions by requiring a physical NFC tag scan to start and end. It leverages system-level blocking for apps, websites, and adult content, and prevents its own deletion during active sessions. Optional alarms also require an NFC scan to dismiss.

Highlights
  • NFC-locked focus sessions
  • System-level app and website blocking
  • Optional NFC-gated alarms
  • Multiple focus modes
  • On-device processing, no cloud
  • Focus statistics tracking
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Solace is a focus app for people who are tired of tricking themselves. Most productivity apps rely on willpower. You tap a button, you promise yourself this session will be different, and ten minutes later you're back in the feed. Solace takes willpower out of the equation. To start a focus session, you physically scan an NFC tag. To end one, you scan the same tag again. That's it. If your tag is across the room, in another bag, or locked in a drawer, your distractions stay blocked — because getting back in means getting up. Focus sessions in Solace use Apple's Screen Time system to block whatever pulls you off course: • Specific apps • Entire app categories • Websites • Adult content (optional) • In-app purchases (optional) • App installs and deletions (optional) Create as many focus modes as you want — one for deep work, one for studying, one for reading, one for the gym. Pick a mode, scan your tag, and everything in that mode gets blocked until you scan again. Solace even prevents itself from being deleted during an active session, so you can't uninstall your way out of a commitment. Alarms are gated the same way. Solace's optional alarm feature (iOS 26 and later) rings until you scan your tag. There's no snooze button, no slide-to-dismiss, no escape hatch. If you set the alarm, you're getting up. WHAT MAKES SOLACE DIFFERENT • NFC-locked sessions — the tag is the key, not a password you can talk yourself around • Runs entirely on-device — no accounts, no cloud, no analytics, no trackers • Focus stats for today, this week, this month, and all time • Multiple focus modes for different contexts • Emergency unblocks for real life situations — used sparingly, gone when they're gone • A clean, dark-first interface built for SwiftUI and iOS PRIVACY FIRST Solace collects nothing. No sign-in. No email. No anonymous telemetry. No crash reporting from third parties. Your focus history, blocked apps, and alarm settings live on your device and nowhere else. When you delete Solace, every trace goes with it. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone with NFC support (iPhone 7 or later) • iOS 17 or later for focus sessions • iOS 26 or later for the NFC-gated alarm • Any NDEF-writable NFC tag. Solace-branded tags are available, but any tag works. GETTING STARTED Open Solace, grant Screen Time and NFC permissions during the short onboarding, pick your first focus mode, and scan your tag. You're in.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Solace at Free against Distractionless Focus Timer's $0.99. Solace also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). Distractionless Focus Timer's advantage is chart position (#170 vs unranked) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Solace is free to download; Distractionless Focus Timer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Solace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Distractionless Focus Timer has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Distractionless Focus Timer versus Solace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDistractionless Focus TimerSolace
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#170 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndras SolyomLevon Malkhasian

In-app purchases

None

Distractionless Focus Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Solace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Distractionless Focus Timer free?
Distractionless Focus Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Solace free?
Solace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Distractionless Focus Timer or Solace?
Solace is rated higher. Distractionless Focus Timer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Solace averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Distractionless Focus Timer or Solace have ads?
Neither Distractionless Focus Timer nor Solace shows ads.

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