Pomodoro Focus Timer vs Simple Pomodoro Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pomodoro Focus Timer
Dedicate one focused hour each day to a single task for personal growth. This app helps you stay on track with your reading, studying, or exercise goals. Reclaim your time and make it yours.
- Daily one-hour focus sessions
- Single task dedication
- Personal growth activities
- Study and work focus
- Exercise tracking
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How many hours out of the 24 in a day are truly yours? Dedicate just one hour each day to focus on a single task. Make it your time—just for you. Whether it’s reading, studying, or exercising, any activity that helps you grow is perfect. We’re here to help you stay focused
Simple Pomodoro Timer
This app offers a minimalist Pomodoro timer with customizable focus and break durations. Earn fruits for completed sessions, collect them on a calendar, and enjoy background music to enhance concentration. Personalize timer colors to boost motivation.
- Customizable focus and break sessions
- Fruit rewards for completed sessions
- Calendar view of collected fruits
- Background concentration music
- Customizable timer and break screen colors
- Golden fruit bonus for daily achievements
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Doro is a super simple Pomodoro timer that the developer created because personally wanted it. We focused on making the main screen as minimal as possible. To stay true to this concept, we decided not to include any ads. Features: - A Pomodoro timer with 25-minute and 50-minute focus sessions (with 5- and 10-minute breaks, respectively). - Earn 1 fruit for completing a 25-minute session, and 2 fruits for a 50-minute session. - Review the fruits you've collected on the calendar. - Includes background music designed to help you concentrate. - You can customize the colors of the timer and break screens to your liking—change them to your favorite color to boost your motivation. A Fun Extra The name "Doro" comes from Pomodoro, which means "tomato" in Italian. Interestingly, Doro can also mean "gold." If you collect 5 fruits in a day, you'll receive a golden fruit—just a little reward to brighten your day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Simple Pomodoro Timer at none against Pomodoro Focus Timer's shown. Simple Pomodoro Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Pomodoro Focus Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (194 vs 12). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Pomodoro Focus Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Simple Pomodoro Timer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Pomodoro Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pomodoro Focus Timer has 194 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Pomodoro Focus Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple Pomodoro Timer's.
Pomodoro Focus Timer ships an update every 3 days, Simple Pomodoro Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pomodoro Focus Timer | Simple Pomodoro Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (194 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 194 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pepper Factory | DAIKI YUASA |
Customer experience
Pomodoro Focus Timer
Simple Pomodoro Timer
Bugs and requests
Pomodoro Focus Timer
Reported bugs
6 issues- App lock mode frequently malfunctions
- Timer doesn't sound alarm when time ends
- App crashes regularly
- Circle timer not centered properly
- Timer overlaps and restarts with visual glitches
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- Phone notifications bug when device is switched off during session
Requested features
11 requests- Multiple goals/tasks at the same time
- Alarm notification when focus session ends
- Time of day tracking for studying patterns
- Pie chart showing daily focus distribution
- Week and month view for pie charts
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- Ability to delete time entries
- More rewards/gifts for consistency
- Larger and longer visual timer indicators
- Ambient sounds (ocean, streams, white noise)
- Calendar sync integration
- Social media timer (not just general timer)
Simple Pomodoro Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pomodoro Focus Timer
- OneThing Premium$2.991 Month
- OneThing Premium$24.991 Year
- OneThing Premium$44.99
Simple Pomodoro Timer
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Buy me a burger$3.99
- Premium Plan$8.99
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