Comparison

NoMo vs Pull

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

Head to head
About

NoMo

Features
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Block distracting apps. Build a village with your focus. NoMo helps you make time for studying, work, reading, or simply being away from the scroll. Choose distracting apps, start a focus session, and turn completed focus time into a little village of your own. BLOCK DISTRACTIONS, FREE โ€ข Block chosen apps during focus sessions with Apple's Screen Time permission. โ€ข Use the focus timer even if you decline blocking permission. โ€ข Start without providing an email address or signing in with Apple. FOCUS โ†’ COINS โ†’ VILLAGE โ€ข Earn coins from qualifying completed focus sessions. โ€ข Save for homes, gardens and details that make your village feel like you. โ€ข Choose colours, arrange pieces and give animal companions a home. โ€ข Welcome pets and explore more of your island as you progress. A CALMER ROUTINE โ€ข Choose a focus duration or use count-up mode. โ€ข Settle into free ambient sounds or focus in silence. โ€ข See your focus time add up and keep a private, device-local journal. OPTIONAL NOMO PREMIUM NoMo Premium adds website blocking, scheduled Quiet Hours, full focus insights, weekly Field Notes, additional village designs and sound mixing. Some designs require NoMo Premium plus earned coins. Membership does not unlock every displayed item immediately or multiply the normal coin-earning rate. Pieces you acquire remain yours to place and edit after membership ends. Pets and regions also depend on your progress. YOUR DATA, CLEARLY EXPLAINED Connected guest mode creates a technical account for synced progress. Link an email or Apple identity to recover that account on another installation. Your v2 journal stays on the device. Optional first-party Usage analytics starts off; essential account, sync and purchase processing is separate. No advertising tracking. PURCHASE INFORMATION NoMo is free to start. Optional NoMo Premium monthly and annual subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Founder Lifetime is a one-time, non-consumable purchase with no recurring charge. The App Store shows your exact price, currency, billing period and introductory-offer eligibility before confirmation. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Apple Account subscription settings. Cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends to avoid renewal. Account deletion does not cancel billing. Restore purchases using the same Apple Account. Terms: https://nomoinc.co/terms Apple standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://nomoinc.co/privacy

About

Pull

Features
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Pull is a focus timer that closes your distracting apps until the session ends, and learns how long you can actually concentrate so you stop guessing at twenty-five minutes. It shows you that session as an espresso shot. Set your dose โ€” the length you believe you can concentrate for โ€” and pull. The shot renders live, and nothing on the screen is decorative. The stream thins and pales as the puck gives up. Crema builds on the surface and holds. Run far past your dose and the stream blondes to straw, because that is what over-extraction looks like. Stop short and it is sour. Pick up your phone and the puck channels. The stream splits, the crema tears, and the tear stays for the rest of the shot and afterwards, on your wall. If you have used a pomodoro timer, this is the same shape of thing with one difference that matters: the length is yours rather than a fixed twenty-five. MATCH YOUR DOSE TO YOUR REAL ATTENTION SPAN Twenty-five minutes came off a paperback in the 1980s. It is not your number. Pull watches your clean sessions and reads back the dose you can actually hold โ€” and tells you honestly when your history is too scattered to call one yet. THE WALL Every shot you have ever pulled, kept. Day, week, month and year are one continuous object at four zooms: cups on lit shelves, in the colour they came out. A god shot lights its own rim. A dumped one lies on its side and stains the board, at the same size as a good one, permanently. AN INSTRUMENT, NOT AN ILLUSTRATION The extraction is drawn from live session state, sixty times a second. The pressure trace under the timer is the real curve. The gauge reads the real number. If the picture changes, something changed. BUILT TO BE TRUSTED ยท No account. No login. No sign-up wall. ยท No network. The app works in aeroplane mode, always. ยท No analytics SDK. No tracking. No ads, ever. ยท Your history is one file on your device and never leaves it. THE SHIELD Pull can hold the line for you. Arm the shield before a shot and nothing but Pull opens until the shot ends. It lifts itself the moment you cut, and it never outlives the session that armed it. ONE PURCHASE, FOREVER Not a subscription. Every dose is free, at any minute you like. Every origin, every machine part, the whole log, Live Activity, Dynamic Island โ€” free. The shield is free too, and free it closes everything. One optional purchase buys precision: name the handful of apps you cannot be trusted with, and leave maps, music and the rest exactly where they are. The paid version blocks less, not more. Nothing that works today will ever move behind it. Requires iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

NoMo4 screens
Pull4 screens

Verdict

The call

NoMo and Pull are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. NoMo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Pull sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NoMo ships an update every 3 weeks, Pull every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NoMo versus Pull: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoMoPull
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size52 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGleb Suchkov KalmykobELIZ TEKCAN ALAYGUT

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NoMo

Subscriptions2
  • NoMo Premium$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$69.99
1 purchases

Pull

One-time1
  • The Full Collar$4.99

Questions

Is NoMo free?
NoMo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pull free?
Pull is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NoMo or Pull have ads?
Neither NoMo nor Pull shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NoMo or Pull?
NoMo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pull every 2 weeks. Most recently, NoMo was updated on October 8, 2026 and Pull on October 4, 2026.

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