Focus Timer vs Tessera 168
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Timer
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Stay focused, manage your time, and understand where your day goes with Focus Timer. Focus Timer combines a Pomodoro timer, task-based focus sessions, time tracking, and simple productivity insights in one distraction-free app. Whether you're studying, working, reading, exercising, or managing everyday routines, start a timer and focus on one task at a time. TASK-BASED FOCUS TIMER Create tasks and organize your time around what you actually do. Start a timer for Study, Work, Reading, Gym, or any custom activity and let the app keep track of your focused time. Switch between tasks whenever your priorities change without losing track of your progress. POMODORO TIMER Structure your work and study sessions using the Pomodoro technique. Use the classic rhythm: 25 minutes of focused work 5 minutes of short break 15 minutes of long break Focused sessions and regular breaks can make it easier to structure study, work, and deep-work routines throughout the day. TRACK YOUR TIME See how you're spending your time instead of guessing. Focus Timer automatically records your task sessions so you can review what you worked on and how long you spent doing it. DAILY & WEEKLY INSIGHTS Build better awareness of your routines with simple productivity statistics. Review your daily activity, compare weekly focus time, and understand which tasks receive most of your attention. ADHD-FRIENDLY FOCUS The clean, straightforward interface is designed to reduce unnecessary complexity and make starting a focus session simple. Short structured sessions can be useful for anyone who prefers breaking larger tasks into smaller, more manageable periods of focused time. MADE FOR STUDY, WORK & DAILY ROUTINES Use Focus Timer for: • Studying and exam preparation • Work and deep-focus sessions • Reading and learning • Personal projects • Exercise and routines • Task and time tracking • Pomodoro sessions • Building consistent focus habits WHY USE FOCUS TIMER? Start a task in seconds, track your focused time automatically, switch between activities without losing progress, and review your daily and weekly history—all from one simple productivity timer. Spend less time thinking about the clock and more time working on what matters. Start a focus session today.
Tessera 168
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A week is 168 hours. You only get it once. Tessera 168 is a board of 168 squares — one square for every hour of your week. Tap an hour, pick a purpose, and the hour takes that colour. Sweep across a run of hours to fill a whole morning at once. By Sunday the board is a picture of where your week actually went, not where you meant it to go. It plays like a puzzle and it reads like a mirror. THE BOARD • All 168 hours on one screen, no scrolling to see your week • Fourteen purposes to start with — Sleep, Work, Commute, Food, Exercise, Family, Myself, Upkeep, Study, Own work, Health, Friends, Fun and Rest — and the grey of hours you have not answered for yet • Add your own purposes, with your own names and colours • Grey squares are the point: they are the hours you cannot account for THE DAY • Turn the board to a single day and read it as a timeline • Write a note on any hour, or (with Pro) say it out loud and let the phone write it down • Keep side tasks inside the hour they belong to, and tick them off there • Set a sound for an hour that comes back every week • Count the small habits with one tap, right under the board WHAT IT ADDS UP TO • How the week divided, hour by hour, ranked • The change against last week at the same point, so a Wednesday is compared to a Wednesday • Hours of sleep a night, and the other things a full week can say PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account, no sign-in, no server of ours, no analytics and no advertising. Your week is one file on your iPhone, with a copy in your own iCloud that we cannot read — switch it off whenever you like. Voice notes are transcribed on the device itself — the app refuses a language whose on-device model is missing rather than sending your voice anywhere. Export a copy or delete everything, permanently, from inside the app. FREE, AND STAYS FREE The full 168-hour week, all fourteen built-in purposes, written notes on any hour, habits, every Insights page, sharing your week as an image, the iCloud copy, forty app icons earned as you go, and no ads or tracking, ever. TESSERA PRO Your own purposes with your own names and colours, voice notes written down for you, symbol and icon board styles, and every feature added next. Monthly, yearly, or one payment for life. Shareable with your whole family. Made for iPhone, in English, Tiếng Việt, Deutsch, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, Português, हिन्दी, 日本語, 한국어. Terms of Use: https://ioniclabs.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://ioniclabs.app/privacy/
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The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focus Timer at none against Tessera 168's 3. Focus Timer also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Tessera 168's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On price 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. Tessera 168 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Focus Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Focus Timer ships an update every 2 months, Tessera 168 every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Timer | Tessera 168 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Huzaib Sayyed | Tong Then Hung |
In-app purchases
Focus Timer
No in-app purchases
Tessera 168
- Tessera Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Tessera Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Tessera Pro Lifetime$29.99









