Comparison

Focus Dial vs 59 min

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

Head to head
About

Focus Dial

This app helps you improve focus with a simple, innovative timer. Track progress over time with customizable categories and interactive widgets. Sync data across devices with iCloud support.

Highlights
  • Innovative focus dial for time adjustment
  • Timer counts up towards goal
  • Track focus across weeks, months, years
  • Interactive Home Screen widgets
  • 10 customizable categories with colors/icons
  • iCloud backup and sync
Features
Read full description

Focus Dial is here to improve your ability to focus on the tasks and hobbies you care about! SIMPLE: 
Quickly adjust your goal time before each session using the innovative focus dial! POSITIVE: Timer counts up towards your goal. Focus on what you are doing and feel good about what you have done. Progress over perfection! POWERFUL: Track your focus across weeks, months, and years. Challenge yourself to become more intentional with your time and how you spend it. See your progress at a glance on your Home Screen with powerful and interactive widgets and live activities. CUSTOMIZABLE: Use up to 10 customizable categories with your favorite colors and icons for the tasks and hobbies you focus on. Automatically follow your devices dark or light theme, or specify which one you want to use in Focus Dial. SUPPORTS ICLOUD: Back up your data and sync across multiple iPhones and iPads. Start dialing in your focus today!

About

59 min

A visual timer that uses intuitive twisting gestures to set time up to 60 minutes. It displays remaining time with a shrinking red disk and offers customizable alerts for important milestones. The app ensures alarms ring even in Silent Mode and supports sharing timers via App Clips.

Highlights
  • Twist to set timer up to 60 minutes
  • Visual countdown with shrinking red disk
  • Customizable milestone alerts
  • Alarms ring in Silent Mode
  • Shareable timers via App Clips
  • Home screen widgets
Read full description

Turn your phone. That’s the timer. 59 min is a visual timer you set the way you set a kitchen timer: by twisting it. Tap +, rotate your iPhone, and a red disk fills the dial. One full turn is one hour. Tap again and the disk starts to shrink, so you can see how much time is left from across the room. TWIST TO SET • Rotate your iPhone to dial in anything up to 60 minutes • A big countdown above the dial shows the exact time, and gentle haptics tick off each minute • The labels stay upright while you turn. No wheels to scroll, no numbers to type SEE TIME DISAPPEAR • A big red disk shows the time that’s left, like a classic classroom timer • The countdown tells you when it ends, like “Ends at 10:45” • The screen stays awake while the timer runs, and the dial rattles like an alarm clock when time’s up MILESTONES: A HEADS‑UP BEFORE TIME’S UP • Tap the dial while setting to add extra alerts, like “10 min left” or “5 min left” • Tap a dot to remove it • Great for talks, exams, meetings and workouts REAL ALARMS THAT RING ON SILENT • Built on Apple’s AlarmKit: your timer rings even in Silent Mode or a Focus • A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island shows the countdown • Stop the alarm with one tap, without unlocking ONE TIMER, EVERY PHONE. NO APP NEEDED • Tap Share to show a QR code of your running timer • Others scan it with the iPhone Camera and join instantly in an App Clip, no download needed • Or tap Send Link to share it in Messages, Mail or anywhere else • Everyone gets the same end time and milestones • Perfect for classrooms, workshops, group workouts or a speaker and their timekeeper • No account, no sign‑up, no server: the timer is in the code ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • A small or medium widget shows the red disk and the time left at a glance CALM BY DESIGN • Shake to cancel • The screen fades to black when you’re not touching it; tap to wake it • Light and Dark Mode • No ads. No account. No tracking. Made for anyone who works better when they can see time: people with ADHD, teachers and students, speakers, cooks, and anyone who just wants a timer without the clutter.

Screenshots

Focus Dial4 screens
59 min3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: 59 min at Free against Focus Dial's $3.99. Focus Dial's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On rating, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

59 min is free to download; Focus Dial costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focus Dial against 5.0 for 59 min. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus Dial has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Dial ships an update every 3 weeks, 59 min every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Focus Dial versus 59 min: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus Dial59 min
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Wave CreativeMarco Luthi

Customer experience

Focus Dial

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

59 min

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Focus Dial

No in-app purchases

None

59 min

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Dial free?
Focus Dial costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is 59 min free?
59 min is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Focus Dial or 59 min?
Focus Dial and 59 min are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Focus Dial or 59 min have ads?
Neither Focus Dial nor 59 min shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Dial or 59 min?
Focus Dial ships an update every 3 weeks, and 59 min every 6 months. Most recently, Focus Dial was updated on October 24, 2026 and 59 min on October 18, 2026.

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