Cucumber Timer vs Dovilo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Cucumber Timer
This app helps users focus on tasks and manage breaks effectively using a visual timer. It offers customizable intervals, intuitive time displays, and battery-saving features to enhance productivity and prevent burnout.
- Customizable focus and break intervals
- Intuitive visual time display
- Adjustable intervals on the go
- Customizable display themes and brightness
- Minimal battery consumption
- Choice of notification sounds or vibration
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-- Is this app for me? -- Students, software developers, writers, artists โ anyone with a todo list. Cucumber Timer is for those who want to achieve their daily goals regularly. Set a rhythm of focused work and regular breaks so you get more done while saving your energy. With a non-distracting overview of elapsed and remaining time, Cucumber Timer helps you stay motivated, avoid distractions, and avoid sitting too long without a break. -- No ads -- Cucumber Timer helps you concentrate on what's important to you. Feature-rich for free: you can adjust focus and break intervals to reflect your preferences. Extra customization can be unlocked with a one-time payment: beautiful themes, specially recorded sounds, and a fixed brightness setting that helps the battery last longer. -- Adjust on the go -- Adjust remaining interval with 2 taps any time without affecting your usual settings. Sometimes you might have less time than usual, say you prefer to work for 25 minutes but now have just 10 before an appointment. Or perhaps you're feeling especially focused and would like to sit undisturbed for a longer time than usual. You can either select a new duration of the current interval (e.g., 20 minutes) or end time (finish at 15:30). -- Intuitive visual time -- The interval rings make the current time immediately recognizable. You already have an intuitive feel for how many minutes a portion of a watch face represents โ a quarter of an hour is a quarter of the circle, no counting needed. -- Customize display -- 8 beautiful dark color themes that are non-distracting, visually balanced, and readable. Choose to keep the screen always on as a reminder that you're focusing. Lower the brightness to make the battery last longer โ or to stay discreet on your desk in an office or library. The in-app brightness slider holds your chosen level whenever Cucumber Timer is in the foreground, so you don't have to adjust it by hand each time. -- Save battery -- Minimal battery use in the foreground; none in the background. When you start an interval, Cucumber Timer schedules notifications for upcoming focus and break intervals โ no code running in the background to drain your battery. -- Choose sounds -- Choose whether the app plays a sound, vibrates, or stays silent when an interval starts. 19 unique sounds recorded specifically for Cucumber Timer.
Dovilo
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Plan with your AI. Hand work to agents. Grow your city. Dovilo is a to-do list, a focus timer and a city builder in one app. Finished tasks and focus sessions earn bricks, and bricks build an isometric city: a record of the work you actually did. Plan with your AI Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok, then ask it to plan your day, an event or a project. For example: "Plan Mia's birthday party on Saturday in Dovilo." "Break my move next month into weekly tasks in Dovilo." The plan arrives in your Dovilo inbox with a notification. Connecting is free; approving a plan needs Pro. โข Review each item: keep it, edit it or drop it. Nothing is added or changed until you approve. โข Choose which lists each AI can see, or disconnect it from your phone at any time. โข There is no delete tool: no AI can delete your tasks. AI Agents Part of Dovilo Pro. Give a coding agent like Claude Code or Cursor its own key and the projects it may work on. It connects over MCP from any computer, takes AI tasks from those projects and reports back. โข Follow its steps and notes on your phone, and answer its questions there. โข Schedule AI tasks, or repeat them daily, weekly or monthly. โข Ask your chat AI to turn an idea into AI tasks; each one waits for your approval. โข An agent sees only its own projects. It never sees your personal list and cannot create or delete tasks. Tasks and focus My Day, Important, Planned, Flagged and your own lists, with due dates, reminders, repeat and notes. Focus with a single session, a Pomodoro cycle (25 minutes on, 5 off) or a session tied to one task; the timer keeps running with the phone locked. Ambience 6 full-screen focus scenes. Default is free; Rainy City, Midnight, Dusk, Snow and Fog come with the Focus Ambience Pack, with 16 sound layers such as rain, fireplace, cafรฉ and brown noise, three at a time. Build Spend bricks on houses, offices, parks and roads and place them on your map. Nothing decays, and no streak punishes you for a quiet week. Free, with no ads Unlimited tasks, lists and focus sessions, the starter city, basic statistics, dark and light themes and 5 languages. Works offline. No ads on any plan. Dovilo Pro โข Plan with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok and approve the plan in Dovilo โข AI Agents like Claude Code and Cursor work through 15 AI tasks a month โข Dovilo Desktop for Windows and Mac โข Cloud sync across your devices โข Focus Ambience Pack: 5 scenes and 16 sound layers โข Full City Package: every building and upgrade โข Advanced statistics โข +6 build permits a day โข Snooze a reminder for 30 minutes from the notification AI features need a Dovilo account (sign in with Apple or Google). Adding a custom app to your AI chat app depends on that app's plan and region. Dovilo Pro: monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. 7-day free trial on the monthly and yearly plans for new subscribers. A subscription renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://dovilo.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://dovilo.app/privacy/ Built by one engineer in Istanbul. Questions reach him directly: support@dovilo.app ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Claude Code and Cursor are trademarks of their owners. Dovilo is independent and not affiliated with them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cucumber Timer at every 9 days against Dovilo's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Cucumber Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dovilo sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cucumber Timer ships an update every 9 days, Dovilo monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cucumber Timer | Dovilo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days โ better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 15.1 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Serdiuk | Selahaddin Akgun |
In-app purchases
Cucumber Timer
- Full Version$3.99
Dovilo
- Dovilo Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Dovilo Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Daily Permit Boost$0.99
- +10 AI Tasks$0.99
- Brick Boost$1.99
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- +30 AI Tasks$1.99
- +75 AI Tasks$3.99
- Focus Ambience Pack$4.99
- Full City Package$4.99
- Dovilo Pro Lifetime$49.99
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