Focus & Pomodoro Timer vs Squares
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus & Pomodoro Timer
This app offers a minimalist Pomodoro timer designed to boost productivity and well-being. It integrates focus sessions with stretching exercises and ambient sounds to enhance concentration and prevent burnout. Track your progress with detailed statistics and categorize your focus sessions for better insights.
- Customizable Pomodoro timer
- Integrated stretching exercises
- Ambient soundscapes for focus
- Detailed focus statistics
- Customizable focus categories
- Ad-free experience
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Focus deeply. Take better breaks. Find your rhythm with Foca, a minimalist, ad-free Pomodoro timer that brings focused work, calming sounds, and guided stretching together. Whether you’re studying, working, or making time for a personal project, Foca helps you give each task your attention—and make room for a refreshing break. A TIMER THAT FITS YOUR DAY • Customize your focus sessions to suit your task. • Pause and resume when you need to. • Stay on track with sound and vibration alerts. • Keep your rhythm going with Auto-Run mode. SET THE MOOD FOR FOCUS Create a calmer space with ambient sounds, from Dawn Forest and Seashore to Berliner Café. Choose your background, settle in, and focus on what matters. MAKE YOUR BREAKS COUNT Step away from your task for a guided stretch. Follow clear illustrations and voice guidance, with exercises for your neck, shoulders, back, hands, legs, and whole body. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES Look back on your focus time and see how it’s distributed across your categories. Understand your routine, recognize your effort, and make time for what matters to you. MAKE IT YOURS Organize your sessions with custom category names and colors—for work, study, reading, or whatever you’re focusing on. Less distraction. More room to focus. No ads. Just you, your next task, and a little time to reset. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Squares
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You know the GitHub contribution graph. Those little green squares that show every day you wrote code. Squares is that, but for your entire working life. Most people have no idea where their hours actually go. Squares shows them. HOW IT WORKS Every 30 minutes, Squares asks one question: what did you just do? You answer in a few words. One tap. One slot fills in. That is it. No timers to start. No sessions to forget. No friction. Just a quiet prompt and a green square that grows on your grid. Tag your entries as Deep Work, Coding, Meetings, Design, or anything you create yourself. Link them to projects when it matters. Skip the ones that do not. THE GRID Your annual heatmap shows every day of the year at a glance. The darker the green, the more you worked. Intense weeks, slow weeks, streaks, gaps, every shape of your year, visible in one screen. Open any past day to fill in entries you missed. Filter the entire grid by tag or by project to see exactly where your hours went. WIDGETS Home screen and lock screen widgets in three sizes keep your heatmap visible all day without opening the app. They refresh automatically as you log entries. WHY IT WORKS Your total blocks, current streak, and best streak are always visible. As the grid fills, the streak becomes something worth protecting. The visual record of your work becomes its own motivation. After a year, you have a complete map of every hour worked. The intense days. The slow ones. The patterns you never noticed. DESIGNED FOR iPhone Native SwiftUI app. iCloud sync across your devices. Export your data as CSV anytime. No account required to start. Your data stays yours. Terms of Use: https://squares.day/terms Privacy Policy: https://squares.day/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Focus & Pomodoro Timer at Free against Squares's $2.99. Focus & Pomodoro Timer also leads on device support and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Squares's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8).
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Focus & Pomodoro Timer is free to download; Squares costs $2.99 up front. Focus & Pomodoro Timer sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Squares asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Focus & Pomodoro Timer | Squares |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (102 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 102 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Mac — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yating Lu | Amaury Gau |
Bugs and requests
Focus & Pomodoro Timer
Reported bugs
8 issues- Session progress not saved when app is closed or phone dies
- No notifications or sounds when focus session ends
- Cannot configure background notification settings
- Focus time slider does not allow setting less than 10 minutes
- App causes high CPU usage/performance issues
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- Timer does not count in background (older versions)
- Upgraded to Pro but did not receive Pro version
- No response from customer service
Requested features
12 requests- Widget option
- Ability to choose own playlist for background sounds
- Apple Watch compatibility
- Different sounds for session end/break start
- More calming sounds (ASMR, brown noise, piano music)
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- Add a to-do list
- Way to change categories
- Option to buy specific features instead of the whole app (already exists for some features)
- Daily stats for analytics
- Ability to continue sessions after phone dies/app is closed
- Fix notification issues
- Allow focus times less than 10 minutes
Squares
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Focus & Pomodoro Timer
- Foca Plus macOS (per month)$1.991 Month
- Foca Plus macOS (per year)$9.991 Year
- Unlock customisable categories$2.99
- Unlock full statistics reports$2.99
- Unlock customizable auto-run$2.99
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- Unlock extra ambient sound$4.99
- Lifetime Purchase$14.99
- Lifetime Purchase on macOS$14.99
Squares
No in-app purchases
Questions
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