Simple Focus Timer vs NICE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Focus Timer
Enhance your concentration with a blend of soothing jazz and calming rain sounds. This app creates a tranquil atmosphere perfect for deep work, studying, or relaxation. It functions entirely offline, making it ideal for any environment.
- Ambient jazz and rain sounds
- Offline functionality
- Deep work sessions
- Study and work aid
- Relaxing atmosphere
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Find your flow with Jazzy Timer. Jazzy Timer was created to be the perfect focus companion for your iPhone or iPad. Designed for deep work sessions, it blends smooth café jazz with the calming sound of rain and distant thunder, creating an atmosphere that keeps you productive and relaxed. No Wi-Fi? No problem. Jazzy Timer works entirely offline, so you can stay focused anywhere — even on a plane. Whether you’re studying, working, or just want a cozy moment of calm, Jazzy Timer turns your iOS device into the ultimate focus space. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
NICE
This app helps you build reliable habits with local data storage and no account requirements. It offers features like editing, pausing, resuming, and undoing habit completions, with customizable notifications.
- Edit existing habits
- Pause and resume habits
- Undo accidental completions
- Local notifications
- Multi-habit selection
- Widget integration
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NICE 1.0.1 is a reliability and habit-management update. No account, sign-in, server connection, analytics SDK, advertising, or in-app purchase is used. All habit data remains in the local SwiftData store shared with the widget through the app group. What changed: • Users can edit an existing habit without deleting its completion history. • Users can pause and resume a habit. Paused days are displayed as rest days and are not counted as failures. • Local notifications are refreshed when the app opens or a habit changes. • Completing a habit removes its remaining reminders for that day while preserving future reminders. • Widget completion state now changes correctly when the calendar day changes. • Multi-habit selection and completion are separate actions. • Accidental completions can be undone. • The previously shown “pinned lock-screen” penalty has been removed because the app cannot programmatically pin a widget. Suggested review flow: 1. Create a habit and allow notifications. 2. On the Today screen, tap Edit to change its action, deadline, persona, intensity, or penalty. 3. Tap Pause, then Resume. 4. Mark the habit complete and use the undo option. 5. Add another habit to review the multi-habit selection and completion controls. Notification content and timing vary according to the selected persona, deadline, and intensity. Notifications are generated locally. No special account or review credentials are required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Focus Timer at every 3 days against NICE's every 4 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Focus Timer against 5.0 for NICE. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Simple Focus Timer ships an update every 3 days, NICE every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Focus Timer | NICE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 214 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Above AS | Kihyun Choi |
Customer experience
Simple Focus Timer
NICE
In-app purchases
Simple Focus Timer
No in-app purchases
NICE
No in-app purchases









