Breaks vs MotivMate
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
MotivMate
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Features: - Daily task declarations shared with your squad - 30-day and short-term challenges with daily prompts - Co-working sessions with a focus timer - Community task templates to copy and customize - Progress tracking and achievement badges
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MotivMate at Free against Breaks's $0.99. MotivMate also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Breaks's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On 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
MotivMate is free to download; Breaks costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Breaks | MotivMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Zachary Waugh | CanDo Labs LTD. |
In-app purchases
Breaks
No in-app purchases
MotivMate
No in-app purchases
