Comparison

FocusFlow Timer vs Focus Hour

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

Head to head
About

FocusFlow Timer

Boost productivity with a Pomodoro technique timer. Customize work and break durations, manage tasks, and track progress with detailed statistics and gamified achievements. Prevent burnout by balancing focused work with strategic rest.

Highlights
  • Customizable Pomodoro timer
  • Integrated task management
  • Detailed productivity statistics
  • Session history with notes
  • Gamified achievement system
  • Distraction-free interface with dark mode
Features
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Boost your productivity and maintain focus with FocusFlow Timer, a beautifully designed Pomodoro technique timer that helps you work efficiently and take breaks strategically. Why FocusFlow Timer? • Elegant, distraction-free interface with dark mode • Fully customizable work, short break, and long break durations • Task management system integrated with your focus sessions • Detailed statistics to track your productivity • Session history with notes and ratings • Achievement system to keep you motivated Key Features: Customizable Timer: • Set your ideal work duration (15-60 minutes) • Adjust short breaks (3-15 minutes) and long breaks (15-30 minutes) • Customize sessions count before long breaks • Auto-start options for breaks and work sessions Task Management: • Create and manage tasks directly in the app • Associate focus sessions with specific tasks • Track completion status and session counts per task • Easily mark tasks as complete with swipe gestures Comprehensive Statistics: • View daily, weekly, and monthly progress • Track total focus time and completed sessions • Monitor your daily goals and achievement progress • Visualize your productivity trends Session History: • Review all your past focus and break sessions • Rate and take notes on your focus sessions • Filter and search through your session history • Analyze your most productive times Focus Enhancement: • Visual progress indicators during sessions • Sound and vibration notifications • Do Not Disturb mode integration guide • Achievement system to gamify your productivity Whether you're studying for exams, working on projects, or need to maintain focus during any task, FocusFlow Timer provides the perfect balance of work and rest to maximize your productivity while preventing burnout. Download FocusFlow Timer today and transform your work habits with the power of focused intervals and strategic breaks!

About

Focus Hour

Features
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Focus Hour is a task manager, a day planner and a focus timer in one app. No account. No sign-up. No email. No ads. Open it, plan tomorrow, and start. PLAN THE DAY, THEN DO IT Lists, folders and headings for structure. Tags, saved filters and search for everything else. Subtasks, checklists, markdown notes and photo attachments on any task. Due dates, defer dates, durations, recurrence, and reminders with buttons you can act on straight from the notification. TYPE IT, DON'T TAP IT Quick add reads what you write. "Draft the report friday 2pm #work !2" lands dated, tagged and flagged without touching a single picker. A PLANNER THAT KNOWS YOUR CALENDAR Your tasks and your existing calendar events on one timeline, so the plan reflects the time you actually have. Auto-plan drops the backlog into the gaps. Calendar events are read-only and never leave your device. FOCUS, PROPERLY A real Pomodoro cycle — focus, a short break, and a longer reset after a few rounds — with every duration configurable. Or a plain stopwatch. Synthesised ambient beds to work under: rain, waves, fire, and three kinds of noise. Start a session on a task and the time is logged against it. BUILD THE HABITS Daily, weekday or times-per-week habits, with count goals, streaks and notes. SEE IT WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Home Screen widgets for today's list — with checkboxes that work right there — and for the running timer. Lock Screen widgets for what's next and how long is left. An Apple Watch app to tick things off, log habits and run a focus session from your wrist. And a share sheet that sends a link, a screenshot or selected text from any app straight to your Inbox. MADE TO LOOK LIKE SOMETHING Three skins — Ink, Carbon and Terminal — with hard rules, a grotesk display face and monospaced figures. Not another rounded grey list. ALSO IN THE BOX An Eisenhower matrix, a weekly review, project templates, XP levels and badges, and focus statistics by day, list, task and hour. BUILT BY ONE PERSON I built Focus Hour for myself, in a year when AI finally made something like this achievable alone — then kept building whatever people asked for. No team, no investors, and no roadmap written by anyone but the people using it. And no subscription: your own to-do list shouldn't be rented back to you month after month. Your tasks, notes and photos stay on your iPhone, and your calendar is read-only and never leaves the device. No tracking of you across other companies' apps or websites, and nothing shared with data brokers. TELL ME WHAT TO BUILD See something in another to-do app that you wish this one had? Email mark@vibecode.review. I read every message and I build what people actually ask for — that is how most of this app got here. Install it and plan tomorrow tonight.

Screenshots

FocusFlow Timer4 screens
Focus Hour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus Hour at every 2 days against FocusFlow Timer's every 3 months. Focus Hour also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. FocusFlow Timer sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Focus Hour sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FocusFlow Timer ships an update every 3 months, Focus Hour every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FocusFlow Timer versus Focus Hour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusFlow TimerFocus Hour
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNguyen Toan LeMeng-Yi Hsu

In-app purchases

4 purchases

FocusFlow Timer

One-time4
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Big Coffee$2.99
  • Lunch Money$4.99
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  • Generous Support$9.99
3 purchases

Focus Hour

One-time3
  • Unlock All Apps I Built$5.99
  • Unlock Focus Hour$9.99
  • Unlock Focus Hour$12.99

Questions

Is FocusFlow Timer free?
FocusFlow Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Hour free?
Focus Hour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusFlow Timer or Focus Hour have ads?
Neither FocusFlow Timer nor Focus Hour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusFlow Timer or Focus Hour?
FocusFlow Timer ships an update every 3 months, and Focus Hour every 2 days. Most recently, FocusFlow Timer was updated on September 30, 2026 and Focus Hour on September 14, 2026.

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