Break Timer vs Breaks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Break Timer
This productivity tool uses a cute tiger character to signal work and break intervals with alarms. Set custom durations for focused work sessions and rejuvenating breaks to enhance efficiency.
- Customizable work/break intervals
- Alarm notifications
- Cute tiger character guide
- Ad-free experience
- Simple interface
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※ This is a free app's disable ads version. 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.
Breaks
This app helps you enhance productivity by timeboxing work and breaks. It offers a simple, single-screen interface to set durations and start focus sessions. Receive notifications for session completion and utilize interactive widgets for easy control.
- Customizable work and break durations
- Session start and end notifications
- Work-only or break-only sessions
- Interactive widgets for session control
- Single-screen simplicity
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Breaks is a simple focus timer to help you do your best work. Breaks lets you easily timebox your work and ensure you’re taking adequate breaks, so you can focus better and be more productive. Breaks is designed to be simple as possible with no extraneous features. Too many apps today try to do too much and make it difficult to do the one thing you actually want the app to do. Breaks is a single screen. You set your work duration, break duration, and hit Start Session, and that's it! Breaks will remember your last used durations so when your session is over, you can go again with a single tap. - Start a focus session with work and break durations - Get notifications when the work portion is over and at the end of the session - Can do work-only or break-only sessions - Interactive widgets lets you see the current time remaining as well as start/stop/restart sessions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Breaks at $0.99 against Break Timer's $3.69. Breaks also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Break Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Break Timer costs $3.69 and Breaks $0.99 up front. 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 Break Timer against 5.0 for Breaks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Break Timer | Breaks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.69 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HARASHOW Interactive | Zachary Waugh |
Customer experience
Break Timer
Breaks
In-app purchases
Break Timer
No in-app purchases
Breaks
No in-app purchases
