Comparison

Pomodak vs Roundi

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

Head to head
About

Pomodak

Features
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Pomodak is a focus timer you share with Poddaki, a tiny bird. Poddaki flies beside you while you focus, and every focus day earns a stamp on your calendar. • THREE TIMERS Pomodoro for work and break cycles, a stopwatch for open-ended sessions, or a simple countdown. Swipe to pick a duration or type it in. • AUTO REPEAT + WHITE NOISE Breaks follow focus and focus follows breaks, no taps needed. Choose rain, waves and more, and set white noise and the completion sound volumes separately. • STAMP CALENDAR A Poddaki stamp for every day you focus. See today's and this month's totals, detailed logs, and your longest streak this month. • TODAY AND MONTHLY CARDS Turn today's focus or your whole month into a card to share, with your D-day if you like. • HOME SCREEN WIDGET See today's focus time and your D-day without opening the app. • DAILY REMINDER Poddaki nudges you at the time you choose. • STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No accounts, no ads, no servers. Your sessions stay on your device, and you can export them as CSV or JSON anytime. Free. Built by one person who wanted a focus timer that respects your attention.

About

Roundi

This app encourages single-task focus by visualizing time as a disappearing color disc. It enforces focus by making leaving the app before a round ends costly. Users can create custom focus rituals and control it hands-free with voice commands.

Highlights
  • Visual time tracking
  • Single-task enforcement
  • Customizable focus rituals
  • Voice control with Siri
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Multiple visual themes
  • Focus streak tracking
Features
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One round, one thing. Roundi holds you to a single task and shows the time as color: focus you can see. Turn the dial, press start, and a disc of color begins to disappear — like a kitchen timer for your attention. No numbers counting down, no notifications pulling you back. Just time, visibly running out. THE ONE RULE Leave the app — or lock the screen — before the round ends, and the round is lost, instantly. That's the whole trick: Roundi doesn't block anything, it just makes leaving cost something. (Too strict? There's a Lenient mode.) MADE FOR YOUR RITUALS • Meditate — 15 quiet minutes, watching the color fade • Study — a 50-minute block with no pings • Work — deep work sessions up to 2 hours • Train — planks, dead hangs, rest between sets Save each ritual as a tag and it becomes a one-tap start button with its own duration. SAY IT, DON'T TAP IT "Start Plank in Roundi." Between rounds, Siri sets the length, starts a tag, adds another round, or tells you your streak. Hands free — and once a round starts, nothing interrupts you. ON YOUR WRIST Roundi runs on Apple Watch too. Turn the Digital Crown, tap START, and the color sweeps away on your wrist; a tap and a chime mark the end. Watch rounds land in your iPhone's calendar, Siri works on the watch, and one rule carries over: unlock your iPhone during a watch round and the round ends. A TIMER YOU'LL WANT TO LOOK AT Choose how time drains: a clockwise disc, a color that falls or rises across the whole screen, or a spiral coil that unwinds from the outside in. Six soft colors. A chime and a soft blink of color when the round completes. EVERY ROUND, KEPT Finished rounds land as dots on your calendar, with your daily total and streak. Time becomes habit; habit becomes you. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Your rounds stay on your device. Set a time. Stay focused. One round at a time.

Screenshots

Pomodak4 screens
Roundi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Roundi at every 2 days against Pomodak's fortnightly. Roundi also leads on device support (4 vs 2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pomodak ships an update fortnightly, Roundi every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pomodak versus Roundi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomodakRoundi
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndieWayYakppal, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Pomodak

No in-app purchases

None

Roundi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pomodak free?
Pomodak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roundi free?
Roundi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pomodak or Roundi have ads?
Neither Pomodak nor Roundi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pomodak or Roundi?
Pomodak ships an update fortnightly, and Roundi every 2 days. Most recently, Pomodak was updated on October 17, 2026 and Roundi on October 14, 2026.

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