Comparison

FlowFocus 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

FlowFocus

This app offers a minimalist Pomodoro timer with integrated task management. It helps users stay focused with customizable work and break intervals, smooth animations, and haptic feedback. Track your progress with session counts and tailor the experience to your workflow.

Highlights
  • Customizable Pomodoro timer
  • Integrated task management
  • Minimalist and modern design
  • Session tracking
  • Smooth animations and haptic feedback
  • Flexible work/break durations
Features
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FlowFocus is a calm, flexible focus timer for getting work done one task at a time. Use Pomodoro sessions, custom timers, or a stopwatch depending on how you like to work. Keep your current task visible, queue what is next, and track what you finish in your history. FlowFocus can also connect with Calendar, Reminders, Apple Music, widgets, and Live Activities so your focus setup fits naturally into your day. Features: • Pomodoro, Timer, and Stopwatch modes • Current task and queued tasks • Apple Reminders import and completion • Calendar-aware focus sessions • Live Activities and widgets • Focus history with completed sessions and tasks • Profiles for different workflows • Custom colours, app icons, sounds, and appearance • Optional keep-awake setting while the app is open • Simple onboarding to choose the modes you use FlowFocus is designed to stay quiet, clean, and out of your way while helping you keep moving.

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

FlowFocus4 screens
Pomodoro Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FlowFocus at none against Pomodoro Timer's 6. Pomodoro Timer's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months). On price, ads, device support 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. Pomodoro Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. FlowFocus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pomodoro Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pomodoro Timer has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of FlowFocus's written reviews are positive against 82% of Pomodoro Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlowFocus ships an update every 6 months, Pomodoro Timer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
FlowFocus versus Pomodoro Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowFocusPomodoro Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.7 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews82.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings214 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuzanne GarrettTigran Muradyan

Customer experience

FlowFocus

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
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

FlowFocus

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

FlowFocus

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 FlowFocus free?
FlowFocus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pomodoro Timer free?
Pomodoro Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FlowFocus or Pomodoro Timer?
Pomodoro Timer is rated higher. FlowFocus averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Pomodoro Timer averages 4.7 from 14 ratings.
Do FlowFocus or Pomodoro Timer have ads?
Neither FlowFocus nor Pomodoro Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlowFocus or Pomodoro Timer?
FlowFocus ships an update every 6 months, and Pomodoro Timer every 2 days. Most recently, FlowFocus was updated on November 2, 2026 and Pomodoro Timer on October 30, 2026.

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