Pomodoro Timer vs Den
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/
Den
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Den is a calm focus timer with a tiny pixel friend who keeps you company. Start a timer and your friend sits quietly beside you on a retro LCD screen. Every hour you focus helps them grow. Collect all six little characters. Each one levels up on its own, one level for every 10 hours you spend with them. TWO WAYS TO FOCUS • Stopwatch: no limit, just focus until you are done. • Countdown: pick anything from 5 minutes to 3 hours. You get a gentle notification when time is up. KEEP TRACK • Tag your sessions, like Study or Work, and add your own tags. • Records: browse every session by week, edit it, or add one you forgot to time. • Statistics: see your focus by day, week, month, and year, with a calendar, best focus hour, daily average, and a breakdown by tag. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • Your records sync through your own private iCloud, so they come back when you reinstall or switch devices. • No account. No ads. No tracking. No third-party code. DESIGNED TO BE CALM Den has no streaks, no daily goals, and nothing that shrinks or gets sad when you are away. Your friend is happy to see you whenever you come back. Levels only go up. • Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Light and Dark Mode • Dynamic Type support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Pomodoro Timer at 3 against Den's 1. Den's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 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
Both are free to download. Pomodoro Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Den sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pomodoro Timer ships an update fortnightly, Den every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pomodoro Timer | Den |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (54 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sebastian Roehl | Ino Chueh |
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
Den
- New Egg$2.99









