Simple Pomodoro Timer vs Koe Okoshi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Koe Okoshi
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Simple Pomodoro Timer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Koe Okoshi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Pomodoro Timer | Koe Okoshi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAIKI YUASA | Nanshu Kaneshiro |
In-app purchases
Simple Pomodoro Timer
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Buy me a burger$3.99
- Premium Plan$8.99
Koe Okoshi
No in-app purchases
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