Comparison

Simple Pomodoro Timer vs Koe Okoshi

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

Head to head
About

Simple Pomodoro Timer

This app offers a minimalist Pomodoro timer with customizable focus and break durations. Earn fruits for completed sessions, collect them on a calendar, and enjoy background music to enhance concentration. Personalize timer colors to boost motivation.

Highlights
  • Customizable focus and break sessions
  • Fruit rewards for completed sessions
  • Calendar view of collected fruits
  • Background concentration music
  • Customizable timer and break screen colors
  • Golden fruit bonus for daily achievements
Features
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Doro is a super simple Pomodoro timer that the developer created because personally wanted it. We focused on making the main screen as minimal as possible. To stay true to this concept, we decided not to include any ads. Features: - A Pomodoro timer with 25-minute and 50-minute focus sessions (with 5- and 10-minute breaks, respectively). - Earn 1 fruit for completing a 25-minute session, and 2 fruits for a 50-minute session. - Review the fruits you've collected on the calendar. - Includes background music designed to help you concentrate. - You can customize the colors of the timer and break screens to your liking—change them to your favorite color to boost your motivation. A Fun Extra The name "Doro" comes from Pomodoro, which means "tomato" in Italian. Interestingly, Doro can also mean "gold." If you collect 5 fruits in a day, you'll receive a golden fruit—just a little reward to brighten your day.

About

Koe Okoshi

Features
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KoeOkoshi records your voice and turns it into text — right on your iPhone. Meetings, lectures, interviews, or an idea that comes to you on the way to work: press record, and read it back as text later. TRANSCRIBED ON YOUR DEVICE Transcription uses Apple's speech recognition and runs entirely on your device. Neither your recordings nor your transcripts are ever sent to a server. RECORDING • A large elapsed-time display, with pause, resume and discard • When you stop, choose to transcribe now, transcribe later, or delete • If the microphone picked up nothing, you are told straight away TRANSCRIPTS • The full text in a clean, readable view, with adjustable text size • Fix misheard words in place • Transcribe again in a different language • Search titles and transcripts, and sort by date or length COPY WITH A PROMPT — READY FOR YOUR AI ASSISTANT Copy a transcript together with a prompt you have saved, then paste it into any AI chat to get meeting minutes or a summary. • Meeting minutes, Summary and Sales report prompts are included • Add, edit and reorder your own prompts • Choose whether to include delimiters and boilerplate text KoeOkoshi itself does not use generative AI — you choose where to paste. PLAYBACK Skip back or forward 10 seconds, and choose from seven speeds between 0.5× and 2×. RECORD FROM APPLE WATCH Start a recording from your wrist. While recording, the watch shows only the date and a small timer, so it stays discreet. The recording is sent to your iPhone and transcribed there. IMPORT FROM OTHER APPS Share audio from Voice Memos, or open it from the Files app, to import and transcribe it. For video files, only the audio track is used. IPAD On iPad, your recordings and the transcript sit side by side. ICLOUD SYNC (OPTIONAL) Share transcripts and prompts between your iPhone and iPad signed in to the same Apple Account. Audio is not synced. Off by default. LANGUAGES Transcription works in the languages supported by Apple's on-device speech recognition, including English and Japanese. Each language model is downloaded from Apple the first time you use it (an internet connection is required). The app is available in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Polish, Turkish and Russian. ABOUT ADS KoeOkoshi is free and supported by a banner ad. Watch a short video ad to the end and the banner is hidden for the rest of the day. GOOD TO KNOW • Transcription requires iOS 26 or later. On iOS 18 you can record, play back and import, but not transcribe. • Apple's speech recognition may not be available on every device or in every region. • No account and no sign-in. • Accuracy depends on the recording conditions and how clearly people speak.

Screenshots

Simple Pomodoro Timer4 screens
Koe Okoshi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Koe Okoshi at none against Simple Pomodoro Timer's 3. Koe Okoshi also leads on device support (4 vs 1). Simple Pomodoro Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price and update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Simple Pomodoro Timer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Koe Okoshi asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Simple Pomodoro Timer versus Koe Okoshi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Pomodoro TimerKoe Okoshi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAIKI YUASANanshu Kaneshiro

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Simple Pomodoro Timer

One-time3
  • Buy me a coffee$1.99
  • Buy me a burger$3.99
  • Premium Plan$8.99
None

Koe Okoshi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Pomodoro Timer free?
Simple Pomodoro Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Koe Okoshi free?
Koe Okoshi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Pomodoro Timer or Koe Okoshi have ads?
Koe Okoshi shows ads; Simple Pomodoro Timer does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Pomodoro Timer or Koe Okoshi?
Simple Pomodoro Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, and Koe Okoshi every 2 weeks. Most recently, Simple Pomodoro Timer was updated on November 7, 2026 and Koe Okoshi on October 31, 2026.

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