Comparison

Pomodoro Timer vs Habit Tracker

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

Habit Tracker

Track daily routines and build streaks with a visual chain of squares. Mark habits complete, set rest days, and utilize widgets for at-a-glance progress. Offers a free tier for up to three habits with full offline functionality and no ads.

Highlights
  • Visual chain tracking
  • Rest day functionality
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable reminders
  • Offline functionality
  • Apple Watch app
  • Unlimited habits with Pro
Features
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Don't break the chain. HabitLoom shows each habit's week as seven squares. Tap today's square to check it off and watch the chain grow, on your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. Mark a day as a rest day and your chain carries on. Three habits are free forever, with everything the app does: widgets, reminders that ring as alarms on iOS 26.1 and later, notes, and the Apple Watch app. No account, no ads, and it works fully offline. Pro adds unlimited habits and sync. Use it for any routine you want to keep: reading, walking, stretching, practicing a language, going to bed earlier. Tap a square to mark it done, tap again to undo, or fill in a day you forgot. FREE FOREVER, FOR UP TO THREE HABITS • Every icon, emoji and color. Hundreds of icons, all searchable • A week view that opens first and shows every habit at a glance • Each habit's month or whole year as a grid, right on its card • Schedules that fit real life: every day, chosen weekdays, or a number of times a week • Rest days that keep your chain going, so a day off doesn't reset your streak • Streak goals from 3 to 365 days, with your progress on the habit page • A page for each habit: calendars, current and best streak, kept percentage and check-ins • Interactive Home Screen widgets: This week and One habit's month. Check off today without opening the app • A Lock Screen widget with today's progress • Reminders, up to three per habit, on the days you choose • A daily check-in nudge, and notes on any day • Custom categories, and rounded, square or circle day cells • Share a clean image of a habit's progress • Four themes: Linen and Daylight for light mode, Nocturne and Carbon for dark mode • Start your week on any day, and use it fully offline with no sign-up APPLE WATCH • Today's habits on your wrist: tap one to check it off and see how much of today is done • Each habit's week, with rest days, and its month at a glance • Double tap checks off the next habit on watches that support it • Complications for your watch face: today's progress, or your longest chain • Works away from your iPhone and syncs when it's back in reach • Requires watchOS 26 and the iPhone app HABITLOOM PRO Pro is an optional in-app purchase, and one purchase covers your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. It adds: • Unlimited habits on every device, your watch and widgets included • Sync across your iPhone, iPad and Mac with Sign in with Apple or Google PLANS HabitLoom is free to download and free to use with up to three habits. HabitLoom Pro is available as a monthly or annual subscription, each with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers, or as a one-time lifetime purchase that never renews. Prices are shown in the app in your local currency. If Pro ends, nothing is deleted. Habits beyond three are kept, locked until Pro is active again. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. YOUR DATA Your habits, check-ins and notes stay on your devices unless you sign in to sync; your Apple Watch gets its copy straight from your iPhone. HabitLoom uses analytics and crash reports, not linked to you, to improve the app; analytics never include your habits or notes. You can delete your account and its cloud data in Settings > Account. LANGUAGES English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Pick one small habit. Check off today. Come back tomorrow. Support: https://www.sogdyapps.com/habitloom/support Terms of Use: https://www.sogdyapps.com/habitloom/terms-of-service Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sogdyapps.com/habitloom/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Pomodoro Timer4 screens
Habit Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Pomodoro Timer at 53 against Habit Tracker's 1. Habit Tracker's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). 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 Habit Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pomodoro Timer has 53 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Pomodoro Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Habit Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pomodoro Timer ships an update fortnightly, Habit Tracker every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pomodoro Timer versus Habit Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomodoro TimerHabit Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (53 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings53 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian RoehlHiloliddin Jaloliddinzoda

Customer experience

Pomodoro Timer

All ratings53 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral8.7%
Negative4.3%

Habit Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
3 purchases

Habit Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • HabitLoom Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • HabitLoom Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • HabitLoom Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Pomodoro Timer free?
Pomodoro Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Habit Tracker free?
Habit Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pomodoro Timer or Habit Tracker?
Habit Tracker is rated higher. Pomodoro Timer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while Habit Tracker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pomodoro Timer or Habit Tracker have ads?
Neither Pomodoro Timer nor Habit Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pomodoro Timer or Habit Tracker?
Pomodoro Timer ships an update fortnightly, and Habit Tracker every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pomodoro Timer was updated on November 10, 2026 and Habit Tracker on November 10, 2026.

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