Comparison

Focus 101 vs Pomodoro Timer

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

Head to head
About

Focus 101

This productivity app helps you stay focused by limiting active tasks to five. It offers subtasks, separate profiles for work and personal life, and home screen widgets. Enjoy a distraction-free experience with a minimalist design and automatic dark mode.

Highlights
  • Task limit of five active tasks
  • Subtask breakdown
  • Work and personal profiles
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Minimalist design
  • iCloud sync
Features
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A beautifully simple to-do app that helps you stay focused by limiting your active tasks to just five. No labels, no reminders, no notifications, no clutter. By embracing constraint, you make space for what truly matters. — Features • Task Limit – Keep only a handful of active tasks to stay focused and intentional. • Subtasks – Break down bigger goals into manageable steps. • Work & Personal Profiles – Separate your priorities and stay balanced. • Widgets – Home and Lock Screen widgets keep your goals in sight throughout the day. • Dark Mode – Adapts automatically to your system theme. • iCloud Sync – Your lists, always up to date across all your Apple devices. • Minimalist Design – Clean, calm, and distraction-free. — Private by Design • No data collection. • No tracking. • No ads. Ever.

About

Pomodoro Timer

Enhance your concentration and manage your time effectively with a customizable timer. Track your progress, utilize ambient sounds, and enjoy a distraction-free interface to build better focus habits.

Highlights
  • Adjustable focus and rest durations
  • Session analytics and insights
  • Ambient focus sounds
  • Productivity tracker with custom tags
  • Minimal, distraction-free interface
  • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Pomidor is a calm, simple pomodoro timer for studying and deep work. Plan your day, focus in timed sessions, take real breaks, and watch the hours add up. FOCUS YOUR WAY • Set your own focus and rest lengths, or count up with Timeless mode and stop when you're done • Name your sessions and organize them with tags • The screen stays awake while you focus, and sessions can pause automatically when you leave the app • A gentle notification tells you when a session or a break is over PLAN THE DAY, THEN WORK THE PLAN • Daily Focus Planner: list today's tasks and estimate how many pomodoros each one needs • Start a focus session straight from a task and watch its progress fill in • Move unfinished tasks to the next day with one tap • Task History: look back at any day and pull a past task into today SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Calendar, charts and a full session history, filtered by tag • A heatmap of your focus days • Insights: focus score, your best focus hours, weekly trends and session quality STAY IN THE ZONE • Ambient sounds that keep playing when your phone is locked • A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island keeps your timer in view • A home screen widget with your focus time, sessions and streaks MAKE IT YOURS • Themes and alternate app icons • Your sessions, tags and plan sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud, and everything works offline Made for students, ADHD-friendly routines, writing, coding, homework and deep work: anyone who does their best work in focused sprints with real breaks. WHAT IS FREE, WHAT IS PRO Free: the focus and rest timer with your own lengths, the Live Activity, quick stats, one planned task a day, the piano ambient sound and iCloud sync. Pomidor Pro adds unlimited daily tasks with one-tap carry-over, Timeless mode, full analytics and insights, your own tags, every ambient and end sound, all themes and app icons, and the home screen widget's stats. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly) or a one-time lifetime purchase; the price is shown in the app before you buy. Subscription payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/pomidor-privacy-policy/24e82531-5536-4894-9bae-fdfa1228b0d9/privacy

Screenshots

Focus 1014 screens
Pomodoro Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pomodoro Timer at Free against Focus 101's $1.99. Pomodoro Timer also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (16.2 vs 26.0). Focus 101's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ratings volume, ads 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

Pomodoro Timer is free to download; Focus 101 costs $1.99 up front. Pomodoro Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Focus 101 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus 101 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Focus 101's written reviews are positive against 82% of Pomodoro Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus 101 ships an update fortnightly, Pomodoro Timer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Focus 101 versus Pomodoro Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus 101Pomodoro Timer
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better4.7 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better82.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1014 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnant Vijay SinghTigran Muradyan

Customer experience

Focus 101

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pomodoro Timer

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.6%

Bugs and requests

Focus 101

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pomodoro Timer

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to adjust timer duration from main screen
  • Sync focus sessions to calendar
  • Integration with action button to start/pause session
  • Option to bypass session title screen

In-app purchases

None

Focus 101

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Pomodoro Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Pomidor Pro$2.991 Month
  • Pomidor Pro3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time4
  • One Coffee$0.99
  • Three Coffees$2.99
  • Five Coffees$4.99
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  • Lifetime Pro Access$24.99

Questions

Is Focus 101 free?
Focus 101 costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pomodoro Timer free?
Pomodoro Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus 101 or Pomodoro Timer?
Focus 101 is rated higher. Focus 101 averages 5.0 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Pomodoro Timer averages 4.7 from 14 ratings.
Do Focus 101 or Pomodoro Timer have ads?
Neither Focus 101 nor Pomodoro Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus 101 or Pomodoro Timer?
Focus 101 ships an update fortnightly, and Pomodoro Timer every 2 days. Most recently, Focus 101 was updated on October 30, 2026 and Pomodoro Timer on November 5, 2026.

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