Pomodoro Timer vs Tribe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Tribe
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Tribe is a habit app for small groups. You pick one daily habit, gather a few people, and keep each other's streaks going. The idea is simple. Habits are easier to keep when a few people are doing them with you and can see whether you showed up. How it works - Start a tribe around one habit, like reading 10 pages or running a mile. - Invite friends with a code. Most tribes are 6 to 12 people. - Check in each day, and add a note or a photo to show your work. - Cheer the others on. Everyone sees who is in for the day and who is slipping. - Keep the streak alive. Miss a day and it resets, so the group keeps you honest. Free to start Free covers one tribe of up to three people, enough for you and a friend or two. Tribe Pro adds - Unlimited tribes, so you can run a habit with different circles. - Bigger tribes, up to 12 members each. - Streak insights with your full history, trends, and milestones. - Custom reminder times and a flame color of your own. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. Your streaks and tribes stay in sync across devices. Questions or feedback: hello@trytribe.app Terms of Use: https://trytribe.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tribe at daily against Pomodoro Timer's fortnightly. Tribe also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Pomodoro Timer's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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 Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Tribe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pomodoro Timer ships an update fortnightly, Tribe daily. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pomodoro Timer | Tribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (50 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Roehl | Ulugbek Samigjonov |
In-app purchases
Pomodoro Timer
- 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
- FocusKit Pro (Lifetime)$17.99
- FocusKit Pro (Lifetime)$39.99
Tribe
- Tribe Pro$4.991 Month
- Tribe Pro$29.991 Year









