TILT vs Doro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TILT
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A focus timer you tilt, not tap. No buttons and no setup between you and the work. TILT TO FOCUS The screen splits into a FOCUS timer and a BREAK timer. Turn your phone LEFT and FOCUS starts. Turn it RIGHT for a break. SHAKE to reset. Your phone becomes the timer. BUILT FOR BRAINS THAT STRUGGLE TO START Starting is the hard part, so TILT removes every step between deciding and doing. Begin with intention: one slow breath and one clear task before every session. A reminder can nudge you at the time you usually begin. BLOCK DISTRACTIONS Pick the apps and sites that steal your attention. TILT blocks them while you focus and unblocks them during your breaks. KEEP GOING Continuous mode rolls focus into a break and back again, with a longer break every few sessions. Tap the dots to add a session or stretch the long break. ON YOUR WRIST TILT on Apple Watch works with simple, intuitive gestures: turn the Crown to set the time, tap to start, swipe to switch. It runs on its own or stays in step with your iPhone, and complications and the Smart Stack keep the time left in view. ON YOUR MAC TILT for Mac keeps your timer in the menu bar. With TILT Plus, a session you start on your iPhone shows on your Mac within seconds, and the other way round. ON IPHONE DUO Closed, tilt it. Open, tap it. Fold it on your desk and each half holds a timer: tip it over to switch. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A live countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never have to open the app to check the time. Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen show today's focus, your week and your deep work. Tap Start on a widget and a focus session begins. SOUNDSPACES Set the mood with rain, forest, ocean, café, deep calm, singing bowls or ASMR, or play a playlist, album or song from Apple Music. Pick a different sound for focus and for break. SEE YOUR DEEP WORK Insights tracks your deep work: every focus session of 20 minutes or more. Set a weekly goal, get a Monday recap, find the session length you actually finish and the times of day you focus best, and see where your hours go across labels like STUDY and WORK. MAKE IT YOURS Save a preset for each kind of work, with its own label, length, colors and sound. Make a palette from any two colors, use your own photos, or choose Aura, a mesmerizing gradient that drifts while you work. Then pick a timer font. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Everything stays on your devices, and syncing goes through your own iCloud. ACCESSIBLE Touch mode lets you tap to start and swipe to switch when tilting isn't handy. VoiceOver, Reduce Motion and high-contrast palettes are supported too. FREE, WITH TILT PLUS WHEN YOU WANT MORE TILT is free with 25-minute focus and 5-minute break sessions, touch mode, the Apple Watch app, the Today widgets, the Live Activity and reminders. TILT Plus adds sessions up to 120 minutes, continuous mode, the App Blocker, Insights, soundspaces and Apple Music, the start ritual, live sessions with your Mac, every palette, font and photo, plus presets and labels. Try Annual free for 7 days, or pay once for Lifetime. Prices are shown in the app. Privacy Policy: https://code.roydsantiago.com/tilt/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Doro
This app helps you stay focused by using the Pomodoro technique. It provides adjustable timers for work and break periods, running in the background with notifications to keep you on track. Designed for simplicity, it requires no sign-up or tracking.
- Adjustable focus and break lengths
- Clean timer interface
- Background operation
- End-of-session notifications
- No sign-up or tracking
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Doro is a focus timer that does one thing. You start it, you work, and it tells you when to stop. The method behind it is simple. Work in a focused block, take a short break, repeat, then take a longer break after a few rounds. That rhythm has kept people writing, studying, coding, and drawing for decades. Doro just keeps time for it. Everything is where you expect it. One tap starts a session, one tap pauses. Set your focus and break lengths once and forget about them. The timer keeps running when you leave the app and a notification brings you back when the block ends, so you can put your phone face down and actually work. There is no sign-up, no streak to protect, and no dashboard of charts telling you how you felt about Tuesday. Nothing you do in the app leaves your device. What you get: Adjustable focus, short break, and long break lengths A clean timer screen with no clutter Notifications when a session or break ends Runs in the background so you can lock your phone No account, no ads, no tracking Doro is for students working through a reading list, developers holding a thread of logic, writers facing a blank page, and anyone who has ever opened a productivity app and closed it because setting it up felt like more work than the work. Start the timer. That's the whole app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doro at none against TILT's 5. On price, update cadence, ads 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. TILT sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Doro asks for nothing beyond the download.
TILT ships an update weekly, Doro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TILT | Doro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AVE ROYD SANTIAGO | Riyan Mohammed |
In-app purchases
TILT
- TILT Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Quarterly Access7 Days trial$6.993 Months
- TILT Plus Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$19.99
- TILT Plus Lifetime$29.99
Doro
No in-app purchases









