Comparison

Simple Focus Timer vs NICE

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Ambient jazz and rain sounds
  • Offline functionality
  • Deep work sessions
  • Study and work aid
  • Relaxing atmosphere
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • Edit existing habits
  • Pause and resume habits
  • Undo accidental completions
  • Local notifications
  • Multi-habit selection
  • Widget integration
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Simple Focus Timer1 screens
NICE4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Simple Focus Timer versus NICE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Focus TimerNICE
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size214 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAbove ASKihyun Choi

Customer experience

Simple Focus Timer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NICE

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Focus Timer

No in-app purchases

None

NICE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Focus Timer free?
Simple Focus Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NICE free?
NICE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simple Focus Timer or NICE?
Simple Focus Timer and NICE are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Focus Timer or NICE have ads?
Neither Simple Focus Timer nor NICE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Focus Timer or NICE?
Simple Focus Timer ships an update every 3 days, and NICE every 4 months. Most recently, Simple Focus Timer was updated on October 20, 2026 and NICE on October 7, 2026.

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