Pops! vs Kick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Kick
This minimalist focus timer utilizes the Pomodoro Technique to help users enhance productivity and motivation. By organizing tasks into timed intervals, it aims to reduce stress and improve concentration for work, study, or programming.
- Pomodoro focus timer
- Minimalist design
- Dark mode compatibility
- Task completion focus
- Learning and programming aid
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Join of happy users using Kick to stay focused and productive. Kick is a minimalist Pomodoro-based focus timer. We believe that less is more. Organizing you workflow into intervals will help you stay efficient and productive. The so-called Pomodoro Technique has been shown to increase focus and motivation while reducing stress-perfect for work-from-home days. Use Kick to... ... stay focused ... complete a task ... learn for school ... program all night Function * Pomodoro with work focus * Notice * Simple Design * Compatible with dark mode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pops! at none against Kick's shown. Pops! also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Kick's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 58 months). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pops! against 5.0 for Kick. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Pops! ships an update every 58 months, Kick every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pops! | Kick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 58 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Eugene Hoch | 晓康 丁 |
Customer experience
Pops!
Kick
In-app purchases
Pops!
No in-app purchases
Kick
No in-app purchases
