Breaks vs Event Jar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Event Jar
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Event Jar is an event tracker that helps you to record any event you want: when you take a pill, drink water, work on something, or change the battery of the remote control. After adding a new event, choose a colour and an icon and you can start to record this event by just tapping on it! You can customise a lot of things with the settings: colour of button, layout (horizontal or vertical), design of buttons etc. You can set an alarm for a certain amount of time after the last recorded event or for when you want to remember, e.g. to take medicine. Stay tuned… more features will be available in the future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Breaks at 17.0 against Event Jar's 26.0. On price, 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
Breaks costs $0.99 and Event Jar $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Breaks | Event Jar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Waugh | Fabio Brunengo |
In-app purchases
Breaks
No in-app purchases
Event Jar
No in-app purchases









