Comparison

Breaks vs Deckset

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

Head to head
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

About

Deckset

Create professional presentations quickly by writing in Markdown. This app automatically converts your text into visually appealing slides with various design themes and advanced features for technical content. It offers presenter tools and flexible export options.

Highlights
  • Markdown-based presentation creation
  • Professional presentation themes
  • Automatic slide layout and typography
  • Syntax-highlighted code blocks
  • Math formula rendering
  • Rich media support
  • Presenter tools
  • Export to PDF, PNG, JPG
Features
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# Deckset — Create Powerful Markdown Presentations Fast Deckset is a presentation app that lets you create professional slides directly from plain text. Write your presentation in Markdown and Deckset automatically turns it into a full slide deck. It's built for anyone who wants to create presentations faster, design slides easily, and focus entirely on the message. Deckset is ideal for developers, teachers, founders, designers, researchers, students, and anyone who needs a simple but powerful slide creator. # Key Features - Markdown-based presentation creation: Write your slides in Markdown using our built-in text editor. Deckset converts your content into a complete presentation automatically. - Professional presentation themes: More than 25 design themes for lectures, conferences, startup pitches, classroom teaching, and business presentations. - Automatic slide layout and typography: Deckset handles formatting, slide design, spacing, fonts, and structure so you can create clean, consistent slides without manual editing. - Advanced support for technical presentations: - Syntax-highlighted code blocks for developers - Math formula rendering - Table support - Diagram and chart support using Mermaid.js - Rich media support: Insert images, videos, GIFs, and SVG files. Deckset automatically scales and optimizes them for your slides. - Presenter tools: Use presenter view, speaker notes, and rehearsal mode to deliver clear and confident presentations. - Flexible export options: Export your presentation to PDF, PNG, or JPG for printing, sharing, uploading, or distributing online. # Why Deckset Stands Out Deckset offers a faster, more efficient workflow than traditional slide design apps. Instead of manually arranging elements, you focus on writing your content. Deckset’s Markdown-based system gives you a clean, version-controlled, future-proof presentation workflow. This makes Deckset especially effective for: - Technical presentations - Startup pitch decks - Classroom lectures - Conference talks - Code-heavy presentations - Research presentations - Markdown-first workflows Users choose Deckset because it combines the simplicity of a text-based workflow with the power of high-quality slide design. You write the content once, and Deckset handles the presentation design automatically. Deckset is the modern, efficient way to create, design, and present ideas. TALK TO US If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Visit https://www.deckset.com/support for support and feedback. Privacy policy: https://www.deckset.com/privacy/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Breaks4 screens
Deckset4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Deckset at Free against Breaks's $0.99. Deckset also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 3). Breaks's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Deckset is free to download; Breaks costs $0.99 up front. Deckset sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Breaks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Breaks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Breaks versus Deckset: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreaksDeckset
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.1 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings311 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZachary WaughPawel Dudek

Customer experience

Breaks

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

Deckset

All ratings8 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Breaks

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Deckset

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is Breaks free?
Breaks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deckset free?
Deckset is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Breaks or Deckset?
Breaks is rated higher. Breaks averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Deckset averages 4.1 from 11 ratings.
Do Breaks or Deckset have ads?
Neither Breaks nor Deckset shows ads.

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