Pomodoro Focus Timer vs Hourline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pomodoro Focus Timer
Enhance your concentration with a customizable timer and ambient soundscapes. Track your progress with detailed analytics and organize tasks using tags. Ideal for students and professionals seeking to build consistent focus habits.
- Flexible Pomodoro sessions
- Ambient sound mixing
- Idea inbox
- Task tagging
- Focus progress tracking
- Widgets and Live Activities
- iCloud sync
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Focus timer + white noise for calmer, more consistent work. PomoJoy turns the Pomodoro method into a simple focus ritual for iPhone: start a session, protect your attention, and see your progress over time. Focus better with: - Flexible work, short-break, and long-break sessions - Ambient sound mixing for a calmer workspace - Inbox for capturing ideas before they become distractions - Tags for work, study, exercise, and projects - Focus Journey by day, week, and month - Trends, totals, averages, tag breakdowns, and activity heatmaps - Widgets and Live Activities to keep focus visible - Alerts when sessions end - iCloud sync across your devices Made for students, makers, developers, writers, remote workers, and anyone building a steadier focus habit. Start a session. Stay with it. Build a focus rhythm that lasts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Hourline
This app displays a home screen widget that compares working hours across multiple cities. It visually indicates when people are likely awake or asleep, making it easy to find suitable times for communication.
- Home screen working hours comparison
- Live, ticking clocks
- Up to seven cities
- Daylight saving and half-hour offsets
- Search any city or IANA time zone
- Offline functionality
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Hourline puts a working-hours comparison on your home screen. Each city gets a strip of hours running from four hours back to eight hours ahead. Every column is the same moment in every city, so reading straight down tells you what time it is in each place — and whether anyone is awake. Color does the rest. Easily see working hours, early morning, evening, and night. Finding a window where three cities are all in daylight takes about a second. • Live clocks that tick continuously, to the second • Up to seven cities, in medium and large widget sizes • The current hour underlined in every city • A day marker when a city is on a different date than yours • Search any city or IANA time zone, in any of the eight supported languages • Reorder cities — the first is home, and every offset is shown relative to it • Daylight saving and half-hour offsets handled correctly • Light and dark appearance, following your system setting Built for the small, constant question: is it a reasonable hour to message or call someone right now? No account or sign-in required. Clocks, time zone comparisons, and widgets work offline. Your city list and preferences are saved on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Hourline at free against Pomodoro Focus Timer's freemium. Hourline also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 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. Pomodoro Focus Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Hourline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pomodoro Focus Timer ships an update weekly, Hourline every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pomodoro Focus Timer | Hourline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 慧斌 刘 | Jin Woo Park |
Customer experience
Pomodoro Focus Timer
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In-app purchases
Pomodoro Focus Timer
- Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$19.99
Hourline
- Unlock Customizations$4.99









