Focus Study Timer vs Pomotown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Study Timer
This app transforms study and focus sessions into immersive flights with ambient sounds and dynamic maps. It combines a focus timer with distraction-free habits to support deep concentration for students, professionals, and individuals with ADHD.
- Immersive focus flights with ambient sounds
- Virtual flights to chosen destinations
- Detailed productivity stats tracking
- Dynamic maps for real-time route following
- Gentle app blocker for distraction-free focus
- Customizable study trip planning
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FlightMode transforms your study sessions and focus time into peaceful, immersive flights. It helps you stay focused, calm, and productive in a natural and effortless way. Built for students, professionals, and creatives, including people with ADHD, FlightMode combines a focus timer with a distraction-free environment and app blocker–like habits to support deep concentration. Whether you are studying, working, reading, or coding, FlightMode offers a unique focus and productivity experience inspired by real in-flight moments. Take off, stay focused, and land with a real sense of accomplishment. Download FlightMode today and make deep focus feel simple. Why choose FlightMode? • Immersive Focus Flights Start a focus timer that feels like boarding a real airplane, with engine ambience, authentic cabin sounds, and smooth transitions designed for long deep focus sessions. • Choose Your Destination Select an airport anywhere in the world. The longer you stay focused, the farther you fly, turning study time and work sessions into motivating virtual flights. • Track Your Focus Journey View detailed productivity stats including total focus time, distance flown, number of flights, destinations visited, and personal bests. • Beautiful Dynamic Maps Follow your route in real time with clean, distraction-free maps powered by Apple Maps. • A Gentle App Blocker for Distraction-Free Focus FlightMode helps reduce interruptions by encouraging app blocking behaviors and limiting distractions through an airplane-like focus mode. This approach is especially helpful for studying, deep work, and ADHD-friendly routines. Take off into deep focus and make studying feel effortless. What you can do with FlightMode • Plan Your Study Trip Pick your arrival airport, set your study timer or work session, and enter a distraction-free focus mode. • Experience Authentic Focus Sounds Enjoy takeoff ambience, cabin noise, and carefully crafted looping audio designed for long focus and study sessions. • Build Progress With Every Flight Complete routes, unlock detailed stats, and reinforce productive habits through consistent focus sessions. • Celebrate Your Achievements After landing, enjoy a smooth end-of-flight animation that highlights your progress and milestones. Built for students, creators, and professionals Whether you are preparing for exams, working remotely, journaling, reading, or managing ADHD-related focus challenges, FlightMode works as a focus timer, productivity tool, and app blocker alternative within a calm and immersive experience. Join thousands of travelers taking off every day to reach deep focus, better productivity, and meaningful progress. Download FlightMode and start your next focus journey today. Terms : https://www.getflightmode.app/terms Privacy Policy : https://www.getflightmode.app/privacy
Pomotown
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A pomodoro timer set in a hand-pixeled Japan. Press start. The konbini's neon hums. Rain begins on the window. For twenty-five minutes, this place breathes with your focus — and when the timer ends, a chime that belongs to the place sees you off. Twenty-five minutes is enough for the chapter you've been avoiding. The bug you keep half-fixing in your head. The reading that won't read itself. Pomotown helps you pick one. ———— FOUR PLACES TO FOCUS IN · Tokyo Konbini — fluorescent hum, rain on the window, the soft beep of a register at 2 a.m. · Kyoto Chashitsu — tatami quiet, a kettle warming, sakura drifting past shoji · Shibuya Crossing — neon flicker on wet asphalt, distant trains, a city that never quite sleeps · Lofi Bedroom — vinyl crackle, a desk lamp, rain against the glass Every frame is hand-pixeled. Every sound is recorded, not generated. The world keeps living whether you're watching or not. ———— WHAT'S IN THE APP · Classic Pomodoro — 25 minutes focus, 5 minutes break, customizable · Live Activity & Dynamic Island — your timer lives on the Lock Screen · Streak tracking — the days you showed up · A pixel town that grows with every session — yours to lose if you stop · Per-theme chimes — pick how your focus ends · Session history — local-only, never leaves your device ———— PRIVACY, BY DEFAULT No sign-up. No email. No "create an account." No analytics SDK. No ad network. We literally cannot see what you do in this app — and that's the point. ———— PAY ONCE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. ¥380 / $2.99 — one time. Yours forever, on every iPhone you own. Three days free, fully unlocked, no card required. After that, the buyout unlocks every theme, every sound, and every future update. If you don't unlock, Pomotown keeps working with one theme so your focus habit doesn't break. We were tired of timers that wanted a credit card on file. So we built one that doesn't. ———— WHO IT'S FOR · Students writing dissertations in long, quiet blocks · Writers, designers, engineers — anyone who needs the world to slow down for twenty-five minutes · People who love beautiful software and own it instead of renting it · People who turned off every notification on their phone and want their timer to feel the same way ———— FROM THE MAKER I'm one developer, building Pomotown alone. No VC, no growth team, no analytics dashboard watching what you tap. I wanted a timer that felt like a place, not a productivity tool. Quiet. Specific. Not trying to optimize me. If you find a bug — or have a town you'd like to see next — write: gijirokuman@gmail.com I read every message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pomotown at none against Focus Study Timer's shown. Focus Study Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Focus Study Timer sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Pomotown sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Focus Study Timer | Pomotown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (76 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lohan Serre | 丽佳 施 |
In-app purchases
Focus Study Timer
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
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- Annual Subscription3 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Annual Subscription$17.991 Year
- Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$24.99
- Lifetime Promo Payment$24.99
- Lifetime Subscription$49.99
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- Lifetime Payment$49.99
Pomotown
- Pomotown Unlock$0.49
- Remove Ads$0.99





