Pops! vs Promise
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!
Promise
This app helps you reduce screen time and digital distractions with playful app blocking and focus routines. It features a cute companion that keeps you accountable, offering gentle warnings before blocking access to distracting applications.
- Block distracting apps
- Reduce screen time
- Set app limits
- Focus routines
- Soft warnings before blocks
- Track screen time and usage
- Build healthier phone habits
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Social media apps are designed to keep you scrolling. Promise helps you reduce screen time with playful app blocking, focus routines, and a cute companion who keeps you accountable. Set limits for distracting apps like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, games, or any app you want to use less. When you try to open a blocked app, Promise gives you a gentle pause before you continue. You can take a short break — or break your promise and watch your companion’s happiness drop. Promise is more than a screen time tracker or app blocker. It makes screen time control feel personal, visual, and motivating. Features: • Block distracting apps • Reduce screen time and doomscrolling • Set app limits and focus routines • Get soft warnings before hard blocks • Break the heart to unlock apps intentionally • Track screen time, phone pickups, and app usage • Build streaks and healthier phone habits • Choose cute companions like Whiskers, Mochi, or Capy Perfect for: • Reducing phone addiction • Spending less time on social media • Staying focused while studying or working • Building better digital wellbeing habits • Turning app blocking into something you actually care about Make a promise. Protect your companion. Take back your screen time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Promise at every 3 days against Pops!'s every 58 months. Pops!'s advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, 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
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 Promise. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Pops! ships an update every 58 months, Promise every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pops! | Promise |
|---|---|---|
| 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 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Eugene Hoch | JAKUB ELIAS |
Customer experience
Pops!
Promise
In-app purchases
Pops!
No in-app purchases
Promise
No in-app purchases









