Comparison

Pomodoro Focus vs Breaks

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pomodoro Focus

Enhance your study and work sessions with a customizable timer based on the Pomodoro technique. Enjoy ambient sounds to create a focused environment and track progress directly from your lock screen.

Highlights
  • Pomodoro technique timer
  • Customizable work/break intervals
  • Ambient soundscapes
  • Lock screen integration
  • Progress statistics
Features
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Pomodoro Focus is a calm, beautiful Pomodoro timer that helps you study, work and read with deep focus, and actually take your breaks. Start a 25-minute focus session with one tap. When it ends, a short break is ready; every third session earns you a longer one. Your timer lives on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never have to unlock your phone and get distracted. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Pomodoro or No breaks: classic focus and break cycles, or an open-ended stopwatch for long flow sessions • Live Activity: the countdown on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with pause and start buttons • Smart breaks: a short break after every focus, a long break after every 3 sessions • Stats that motivate: focus time by day, week and month, your sessions and your day streak • Categories: track time for work, study, reading or anything you add, each with its own emoji • Ambient sounds: rain, forest, campfire, waterfall, thunderstorm and office noise to block distractions • Living backgrounds: Lava, Aurora, Silk and Mesh in 7 colors. Auto changes the color with every stage • Notifications when a focus or a break ends, even when your phone is locked • Start from anywhere: Control Center, the Action button, Siri and Shortcuts • iCloud sync across your devices • A small celebration for every finished session MADE TO STAY OUT OF YOUR WAY No account, no ads, no clutter. Set your durations once (focus 10 to 90 minutes, short breaks 1 to 15 minutes, long breaks 10 to 40 minutes) and get to work. Great for students preparing for exams, writers, developers, remote workers and anyone who wants to beat procrastination with the Pomodoro Technique.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable work and break durations
  • Session start and end notifications
  • Work-only or break-only sessions
  • Interactive widgets for session control
  • Single-screen simplicity
Features
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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

Screenshots

Pomodoro Focus4 screens
Breaks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pomodoro Focus at Free against Breaks's $0.99. Pomodoro Focus also leads on ratings volume (60 vs 3). Breaks's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pomodoro Focus is free to download; Breaks costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Pomodoro Focus against 5.0 for Breaks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pomodoro Focus has 60 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pomodoro Focus versus Breaks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomodoro FocusBreaks
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.9 (60 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings60 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr ChichkanovZachary Waugh

Customer experience

Pomodoro Focus

All ratings60 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Breaks

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pomodoro Focus

No in-app purchases

None

Breaks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pomodoro Focus free?
Pomodoro Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Breaks free?
Breaks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pomodoro Focus or Breaks?
Breaks is rated higher. Pomodoro Focus averages 4.9 out of 5 from 60 ratings, while Breaks averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Pomodoro Focus or Breaks have ads?
Neither Pomodoro Focus nor Breaks shows ads.

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