Comparison

Pomodoro Timer vs Kaizen

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

Kaizen

Features
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Kaizen is a minimalist focus and study companion for people who'd rather just get to work. FOCUS, ENFORCED Run Pomodoro-style cycles or a standalone timer. Focus Guard means leaving the app mid-session actually costs you — no silent pausing, no cheating the clock. EARNED PROGRESS Tasks can only be checked off after you've actually put focused time into them. Group tasks under goals, watch progress bars fill up, and let finished goals archive themselves — or mark a goal to repeat, so it resets and tracks how many times you've completed it. CAN'T DECIDE? SPIN. When you don't know what to work on next, let the spinner pick from your open tasks. SEE YOUR PATTERNS A weekly chart and a monthly heat-map calendar show where your focus actually went, day by day. Streaks and a simple XP/level system make consistency visible without turning it into a game. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no sign-up, no server. Every goal, task, and session lives only on your device. Nothing is collected, tracked, or shared — see the full privacy policy for details. Kaizen — 改善 — means constant, incremental improvement. That's the whole idea.

Screenshots

Pomodoro Timer4 screens
Kaizen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Pomodoro Timer at 3 against Kaizen's 1. Kaizen's advantage is 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

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 Kaizen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pomodoro Timer versus Kaizen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomodoro TimerKaizen
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (50 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings50 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian RoehlAxmadjon Yodgorov

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

Kaizen

One-time1
  • Kaizen Pro Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Pomodoro Timer free?
Pomodoro Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kaizen free?
Kaizen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pomodoro Timer or Kaizen have ads?
Neither Pomodoro Timer nor Kaizen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pomodoro Timer or Kaizen?
Pomodoro Timer ships an update fortnightly, and Kaizen fortnightly. Most recently, Pomodoro Timer was updated on October 20, 2026 and Kaizen on October 8, 2026.

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