Flowmo vs Acadenda
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flowmo
This app offers a flexible timer to help you maintain focus by adjusting work and break durations. It integrates with popular to-do list apps and provides focus reports to track your productivity.
- Flexible work and break timer
- Automatic break calculation
- To-do list integration
- Daily focus statistics
- Customizable work/break ratios
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Flowmo: Flexible Pomodoro timer that won't break your flow state The problem with classical Pomodoro is that we often finish our work early or the task takes longer than 25 minutes, resulting in interruptions by the alarm. Flowmo addresses this by offering flexibility: work x minutes, take x/5 minutes break. Flowmo automatically calculate and set break timer for you based on your work duration. In this way you can stay in the flow state while maintaining the 5:1 work-break ratio. Main features: • Flexible Timer: Work 50 minutes, take 10 minutes break; work 120 minutes, take 24 minutes break. • Todo List: Focus one task at a time to stay monotasked. Todo list app integrations available (Todoist, TickTick, Microsoft To Do and Google Tasks) • Focus reports: Provides daily focus statistics • Customizable Options: Tweak the work and break ratio to fit your needs. Terms of Use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
Acadenda
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Acadenda is your companion for academic conferences. Plan your days, capture research ideas, and keep your academic connections together across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Bring your program into Acadenda • Save a conference PDF, open or share the original anytime, and parse it when you are ready. • Use an external AI app with the supplied prompt, then paste its JSON response back into Acadenda. • Choose on-device parsing when Apple Intelligence is supported, enabled, and available. • Import .acadenda or compatible JSON files, or paste JSON text and preview the program. • Follow a program link supplied by an organizer to receive schedule updates. Plan your conference day • Browse sessions, talks, speakers, and rooms in calendar and timeline views. • Star the sessions and talks you want to attend, then see what is happening now, next, and later in Today. • Explore recommendations based on your research interests, see why talks match, and refresh recommendations when needed. • Follow researchers and find their talks in your recommendations. • Set session reminders and keep your personal notes and stars when programs are updated. Capture research ideas • Add text, photos, or voice recordings to talk and person notes. • Keep track of questions to ask, research ideas, and points worth revisiting. • Browse and search your notes in one place to make reviewing the conference easier. Keep academic connections together • Organize researchers’ names, affiliations, and contact details. • Follow researchers directly from the People list or their individual pages. • Find people quickly with Following, With Notes, and To Contact filters. • Create an academic card, choose what to share, and exchange it using a QR code or contact file. Useful before the conference and on stage • Use the presentation timer and full-screen countdown board to chair sessions, rehearse talks, or keep presentations on time. • Choose Light, Dark, or System appearance. • Use the app in English or Traditional Chinese. • Sync through your personal iCloud account across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. External AI services are used separately. Apple Intelligence features depend on device support, system settings, and model availability.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Flowmo at 15.1 against Acadenda's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Flowmo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Acadenda sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flowmo ships an update weekly, Acadenda every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flowmo | Acadenda |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shang Wei Shen | Wei Chen |
In-app purchases
Flowmo
- Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$47.991 Year
Acadenda
- Minor Revision$0.99
- Major Revision$1.99
- Conditional Acceptance$4.99
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- Desk Accept$9.99









