Break Timer vs BreakTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Break Timer
This app helps improve work efficiency by setting customizable work and break intervals. A cute tiger character notifies you when it's time to switch tasks or take a rest.
- Customizable work and break timers
- Alarm notifications
- Cute tiger character
- Improves work efficiency
- Simple interface
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This is a simple timer app. The cute tiger informs to repeats your break time and working hours by an alarm! For example, you can set working hours for 45 minutes and break time for 15 minutes.
BreakTime
This app helps you manage your work breaks to boost productivity and prevent eye strain. Easily start breaks with a tap and receive notifications when they end. It offers customizable durations and useful widgets.
- Start breaks with a tap
- Predefined break durations
- Break notifications
- Custom break duration
- Live activities
- Widgets for lock and home screens
- Dark mode support
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Work break timer - BreakTime is designed to help you keep track of your breaks throughout the day. With its simple and intuitive interface you can start a break with just a tap and be notified when a break with predefined duration has ended. Taking regular breaks while working is very important and Work break timer - BreakTime is a great tool to effectively manage your time, boost your productivity and avoid eye strain. Features: - Unlimited breaks (requires Premium upgrade) - Delete individual breaks - Breaks statistics for the last 7 days in the free version and 60 days with Premium upgrade - Custom break duration - Break notifications - Live activities - Lock screen and home screen widgets - Dark mode support - Work break timer - BreakTime works on iPhone and iPad Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Break Timer at none against BreakTime's 3. Break Timer also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). BreakTime's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). On price, ratings volume 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. BreakTime sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Break Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
BreakTime holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Break Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of BreakTime's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Break Timer ships an update every 6 weeks, BreakTime every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Break Timer | BreakTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (13 ratings) | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HARASHOW Interactive | Stoyan Hristov |
Customer experience
Break Timer
BreakTime
In-app purchases
Break Timer
No in-app purchases
BreakTime
- Unlimited Access3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Unlimited Access$9.991 Year
- BreakTime Premium$12.99
