Pomodak vs Jeolmi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Pomodak
Enhance your focus with a cute bird companion that flies alongside you during study or work sessions. Earn in-app currency to customize your companion and its environment, track your progress with a calendar, and share your achievements.
- Cute bird companion for focus sessions
- Customizable companion and timer appearance
- Earn and spend in-app currency (feathers)
- Multiple timer modes (Pomodoro, stopwatch, countdown)
- Auto-repeat focus/break cycles
- Integrated calendar with focus stamps
- Home screen widget for quick access
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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. ⢠DECORATE YOUR NEST Choose Poddaki's look, a timer background, and focus and break motions. Your timer changes right away. Looks marked Pro, like dark Podark and the Halloween skins, open with Pomodak Pro or with a short pass paid in feathers. ⢠COLLECT FEATHERS Earn feathers when you focus for 25 minutes or finish your first focus of the day, and more when you focus several days in a row. Spend them on 1-day or 7-day passes for Pro looks, and see what you earned and spent in your feather history. ⢠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. Days in a row link up on the calendar. ⢠STAMPS AND SHARE CARDS Collect achievement stamps as you focus, and pick the stamp that marks your calendar. Turn a day, a week or a month of focus into a card to share, with Poddaki's face and 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 and no ads. Your sessions stay on your device, and you can export them as CSV or JSON anytime. Purchases are checked with the App Store through RevenueCat using an anonymous ID. ⢠POMODAK PRO Timers, records, reminders, the calendar, D-day, export, the widget, white noise, share cards, stamps, the basic nest looks and feathers are free. Pomodak Pro opens every nest look, including Podark, Halloween Light, Halloween Dark and the ghost motion Pomodak Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. If you installed Pomodak before version 1.15.0, Pro is yours as a thank-you to early users. Built by one person who wanted a focus timer that respects your attention. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://indieway.xyz/en/apps/pomodak/privacy
Jeolmi
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Jeolmi is a focus timer and to-do list with a small paper seal that copies whatever you write. Type "read chapter 4" and the seal picks up a book. Type "pay rent" and it brings a wallet (empty, it apologizes). Tap start, lock your phone, and the seal is on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, holding the prop next to your task while the timer runs. Every real 25 minutes of focus inks one grape on today's bunch. Checked-off tasks add grapes too, drawn dotted so you can tell them apart. Fill the day's grape slots and the seal sits up and claps. Once a day. What the seal does Ā· Copies your task with a paper prop, live as you type. There are 32 props to find, and the ones you find stay on your prop shelf. Ā· Stays on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you focus. Done, Pause and +5 work without opening the app. Ā· Says one dry line per state. It never coaches and never guilts. Ā· Wears what you give it: outfits, body colors, a four-slot desk. Outfits, desk items and two of the body colors cost Jelly, which you earn by focusing and finishing tasks. Nothing is random. Ā· Goes for a swim once today's grapes are filled and comes back with one line. If you take a few days off, it folds you a paper crane. It never counts the days you missed. Everything below is free Ā· Timer: count up with no cap, a 25-minute countdown, or any length from 5 to 240 minutes. Keeps running if the app is closed Ā· Tasks: tap to check one off, or make it timed and see today's minutes on it. Today, tomorrow, weekday routines, subjects with colors Ā· D-day: finals, SAT, ACT, custom dates, D+ after the day Ā· Widgets: Home Screen and Lock Screen, with today's tasks, grapes and your D-day. Check tasks off right on the widget Ā· Live Activity with the seal and your task, also in the Dynamic Island on iPhones that have one Ā· Stats: a month of grapes, hours per subject, days showed up, lifetime hours Share, if you want A card of today's grapes, a mirror card with your task and the prop, a transparent sticker of your seal for notes apps and Stories, and a three-second clip of the flop or the clap. Nothing is posted anywhere by itself. Quiet by design One note a day at most, in the seal's voice, at a time you pick (8 p.m. unless you change it). A heads-up when a countdown ends. Quiet Mode is one tap. Days showed up are counted, never used against you: two freezes refill on their own, and no message ever says something is at risk. Stays on your phone Everything stays on your phone. There is no sign-up and no email, and your tasks and records never leave the device unless you share a card yourself. The app sends only anonymous usage statistics, never what you write, to help improve it. Your records are part of your iPhone's own backup (iCloud Backup or a computer backup), so restoring or moving to a new iPhone brings them along. In English, Korean and Japanese: it follows your iPhone, and you can switch any time in Settings ā Language. Jeolmi is a spotted seal pup named after injeolmi, the Korean rice cake it resembles. It insists it is a seal, not a sea lion. This matters to it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jeolmi at none against Pomodak's 3. Pomodak's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pomodak sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Jeolmi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pomodak ships an update every 2 weeks, Jeolmi weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pomodak | Jeolmi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Monetization | Freemium | ā |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IndieWay | Jaewook Jung |
In-app purchases
Pomodak
- Pomodak Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pomodak Pro Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Pomodak Pro Lifetime$29.99
Jeolmi
No in-app purchases









