Comparison

Pomodoro Timer vs Pixntel

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

Head to head
About

Pomodoro Timer

Enhance your focus and productivity with customizable timers based on the Pomodoro technique. Track your progress with insightful charts, receive timely notifications, and organize sessions by category. Sync across devices and build consistent, lasting habits for a deeper, more balanced life.

Highlights
  • Customizable focus and break timers
  • Progress tracking with charts and analytics
  • Alarms and notifications
  • Live Activities for Lock Screen/Dynamic Island
  • Session organization by category
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Focus streak and goal building
Features
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FocusKit helps you work with deeper focus, protect your time, and build a calmer daily rhythm. Features Smart Focus Sessions Use Pomodoro-style focus and break timers that fit the way you work. Stay productive, take better breaks, and keep your day balanced. Progress Tracking See your focus time, patterns, streaks, goals, and long-term progress with clear charts and helpful insights. Alarms and Notifications Never lose track of time. FocusKit can alert you when a session ends, when a break begins, or when it is time to get back into flow. Live Activities Follow your current session from the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island without unlocking your iPhone. Categories Organize sessions by project, task, or purpose so you can understand where your time really goes. iCloud Sync Keep your sessions and categories in sync across your devices, with privacy and security built in. Consistency Maintain focus streaks, reach daily and weekly goals, and turn focused work into a lasting habit. Home Screen Widgets Bring FocusKit to your Home Screen. Start, pause, or check your current session at a glance without opening the app. Choose from multiple widget sizes and styles, view your daily focus progress, track your streaks, and start a new session with a single tap. Apple Watch Take FocusKit with you wherever you go. Start, pause, and end focus sessions from your wrist, get haptic feedback for session transitions and breaks, check the remaining time, switch categories on the fly, and keep your streak alive even when your iPhone is out of reach. Complications put your next focus session one tap away from any watch face. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.tryfocuskit.com/privacy/

About

Pixntel

Features
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Pixntel helps you pull text out of screenshots and images, understand what’s in them, and act on it—without sending your images to a cloud model for the built-in AI features. OCR that works for real screenshots Uses Apple’s Vision framework for accurate text recognition, with image preprocessing tuned for tricky captures and a Tesseract fallback when confidence is low—so receipts, slides, and dense screenshots are easier to turn into editable text. See the details Review capture date and location metadata when it’s available, so you remember when and where a shot was taken. Zoom and mark up Pinch and pan to read fine print, then highlight, box, or circle what matters so exports and notes are clearer. On-device intelligence (Gemma 3N) Download the model once; it runs entirely on your device. From extracted text or the image itself you can: • Extract books (with optional links to search for titles) • Extract locations (places and addresses) • Extract people (names mentioned) • Chat about the image or the text you extracted You can also edit the default prompts so extractions match how you work. Built for your workflow • History to reopen recent sessions • Share extension—send images (or URLs) into Pixntel from the system share sheet • Dark, focused UI designed for long reading sessions Pixntel Pro Upgrade to remove ads while keeping the same OCR, zoom, and AI capabilities. Free use may include ads around certain actions (for example text extraction, zoom, or AI). A free trial is available—see in-app for current terms. Whether you’re archiving quotes, digitizing notes, or mining screenshots for names and places, Pixntel is your productivity hub for screenshot text and local AI.

Screenshots

Pomodoro Timer4 screens
Pixntel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pixntel at 17.6 against Pomodoro Timer's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pomodoro Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Pixntel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pomodoro Timer ships an update fortnightly, Pixntel every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pomodoro Timer versus Pixntel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomodoro TimerPixntel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (50 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings50 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian RoehlPrashanth Rai

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pomodoro Timer

Subscriptions4
  • FocusKit Pro (1 Month)$0.991 Month
  • FocusKit Pro (1 Month)$1.991 Month
  • FocusKit Pro (1 Year)$9.991 Year
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  • FocusKit Pro (1 Year)$17.991 Year
One-time2
  • FocusKit Pro (Lifetime)$17.99
  • FocusKit Pro (Lifetime)$39.99
1 purchases

Pixntel

One-time1
  • Pixntel Pro$12.99

Questions

Is Pomodoro Timer free?
Pomodoro Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixntel free?
Pixntel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pomodoro Timer or Pixntel have ads?
Neither Pomodoro Timer nor Pixntel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pomodoro Timer or Pixntel?
Pomodoro Timer ships an update fortnightly, and Pixntel every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pomodoro Timer was updated on October 20, 2026 and Pixntel on October 9, 2026.

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