Comparison

Lily pad vs Roundi

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

Head to head
About

Lily pad

This app offers a gentle approach to time management, reducing stress during daily tasks like meal prep or getting ready. It aids in building routines, overcoming procrastination, and achieving a better activity balance.

Highlights
  • Manually adjust visual timer
  • Create multiple timers
  • Distraction-free time tracking
  • Build routines
  • Reduce stress with time management
Features
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Enjoy a gentle time awareness by having our visual timer as an aid. We created this app to have less stress during activities that require time management. Like preparing to go outside or making a meal. It also helps to build up routines, to get started with things one postpones, or get a better balance between activities. Features: - Manually adjust your visual timer - Create multiple timers - Keep track of the time, free from distraction

About

Roundi

This app helps you focus on one task at a time using a visual timer that drains color. It offers strict modes to prevent distractions and allows you to save custom rituals for meditation, study, or work. Integrates with Siri and Apple Watch for hands-free control and progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Visual time draining with color
  • Strict mode to enforce single-tasking
  • Customizable rituals for different activities
  • Pomodoro sequence support
  • Siri integration for hands-free control
  • Apple Watch app for on-the-go use
  • Exportable PDF reports of focus time
Features
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One round, one thing. Roundi holds you to a single task and shows the time as color: focus you can see. Turn the dial, press start, and a disc of color begins to disappear — like a kitchen timer for your attention. No numbers counting down unless you switch them on, no notifications pulling you back. Just time, visibly running out. THE ONE RULE In Strict mode, leave the app or lock the screen before the round ends, and the round is lost, instantly. That's the whole trick: Roundi doesn't block anything, it just makes leaving cost something. Too strict? Allow locking, so the round continues on the lock screen, or switch to Lenient mode. MADE FOR YOUR RITUALS • Meditate — 15 quiet minutes, watching the color fade • Study — a 50-minute block with no pings • Work — deep work sessions up to 2 hours • Train — planks, dead hangs, rest between sets Save each ritual as a tag and it becomes a one-tap start button with its own duration. POMODORO, IN SEQUENCE A tag can hold rounds and breaks: four 25-minute rounds with 5-minute breaks, say. Roundi runs the whole sequence, fills a ring through each break and shows where you are. REMINDED, NOT NAGGED Give a tag up to three reminders: a time and the days you want it. Tap the notification and the round starts right away. A missed one doesn't repeat. SAY IT, DON'T TAP IT "Start Plank in Roundi." Between rounds, Siri sets the length, starts a tag, adds another round, or tells you your streak. Hands free — and once a round starts, nothing interrupts you. ON YOUR WRIST Roundi runs on Apple Watch too. Turn the Digital Crown, tap START, and the color sweeps away on your wrist; a tap and a chime mark the end. Watch rounds land in your iPhone's calendar, Siri works on the watch, and one rule carries over: unlock your iPhone during a watch round and the round ends. A TIMER YOU'LL WANT TO LOOK AT Choose how time drains: a clockwise disc, a color that falls or rises across the whole screen, or a spiral coil that unwinds from the outside in. Six soft colors. A chime and a soft blink of color when the round completes. SOUND FOR THE ROUND Rain, a café, a ticking clock, a fan, a train, the sea: twelve sounds that loop for the whole round and fall silent for breaks. Pick one for a tag, or for rounds started from the dial, or play a file of your own. Set the volume from the speaker icon or on the running round, and tap the sound's name to mute it. EVERY ROUND, KEPT Finished rounds land as dots on your calendar, with your daily total and streak. Time becomes habit; habit becomes you. Did a round end by mistake while you kept going? Change its result; it's marked as edited. YOUR ROUNDS, AS A REPORT Pick a tag and a range of dates, and Roundi makes a PDF: focused time by day or week, rounds completed and rounds ended early, how you do by time of day, and every round listed. Keep it, or share it with a coach, a teacher or your doctor. ON EVERY DEVICE Your rounds, tags and settings follow you between iPhone, iPad and Mac through iCloud, end-to-end encrypted. Widgets put today's rounds and a one-tap start on your Home Screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Only you can read your rounds. Set a time. Stay focused. One round at a time.

Screenshots

Lily pad4 screens
Roundi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Roundi at 4.6 against Lily pad's 3.6. Roundi also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Roundi holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Lily pad's written reviews are positive against 71% of Roundi's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lily pad ships an update every 6 days, Roundi every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lily pad versus Roundi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLily padRoundi
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (9 ratings)4.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFreek LeverYakppal, Inc.

Customer experience

Lily pad

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

Roundi

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral28.6%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lily pad

No in-app purchases

None

Roundi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lily pad free?
Lily pad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roundi free?
Roundi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lily pad or Roundi?
Roundi is rated higher. Lily pad averages 3.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Roundi averages 4.6 from 5 ratings.
Do Lily pad or Roundi have ads?
Neither Lily pad nor Roundi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lily pad or Roundi?
Lily pad ships an update every 6 days, and Roundi every 2 days. Most recently, Lily pad was updated on October 30, 2026 and Roundi on November 13, 2026.

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