TodOne vs OpenFocus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TodOne
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TodOne is a simple to-do app for focusing on today. Only the few things today needs, laid out quietly — and you can add them just by talking to AI. Tired of to-do apps that keep growing? TodOne keeps the screen calm and lets the AI assistant take the fiddly parts off your hands. ■ Features 【Run your list by talking to AI】 "Add finish the slides for tomorrow's meeting." "How am I doing today?" Say it in plain words and the AI adds, completes, edits, reorders, searches and summarizes your tasks. No forms to tap through — today gets sorted in a conversation. 【Connect today to how you want to be (Vision)】 "Live healthier." "Hold a real conversation in Japanese." Register those as Visions and link your daily tasks to them, so you can see what today is actually for. Visions can be created and linked from the AI chat too, and in a check-in conversation the AI helps you put the current distance into words and turn the next single step into a task on the spot. 【Only today】 TodOne shows today's tasks and nothing else. No past or future noise — just what is in front of you. 【Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets】 See what is left of today without opening the app. Put it on your Home Screen, or on the Lock Screen before you even unlock. Tap to jump straight into that day's list. 【Send a task from anywhere】 Share to TodOne from any other app. An article you want to read, a note you want to keep — park it as one thing to deal with today, without switching apps and typing it again. 【Morning and evening reminders】 A quiet notification at the start and the end of the day: morning to pick today's few, evening to look back. Both times are yours to change in Settings. 【Carry unfinished work into today】 If something did not get done, TodOne tells you at the top of the screen. Pick from the sheet and move them into today together, instead of dragging tasks over one at a time. 【Activity log】 Every add, complete and edit is recorded. Filter and search by period or type to see how your days are actually going. 【Look back on a calendar】 Browse your past records on a calendar and see completed and unfinished days at a glance. 【Search everything you have done】 Search across all your past tasks by keyword, filter by completed or unfinished, and jump straight to the day you found. "Wait, when did I do that?" — answered in seconds. 【Note the outcome】 Leave a note when you complete a task. Recording what you did, and how, makes the handover to tomorrow's you far easier. 【English and Japanese】 If your device is set to English, TodOne starts in English. You can switch between English, Japanese and "match device" in Settings — screen text, date formats and even the AI's replies follow the language you choose. 【Easy from the very first launch】 The first launch walks you through a live sample: how to focus on today, and how to talk to the AI. You try it rather than read about it. ■ Privacy Your tasks are stored on your device. Only when you use the AI chat is your input sent to an AI service to generate a reply. See the privacy policy in the app or on our site for details. ■ Terms and Privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://2d1.app/en/privacy Put today in order.
OpenFocus
This minimal timer app starts counting down the moment it's opened, offering a distraction-free way to manage focus and break intervals. It provides customizable durations, multiple visual themes, and optional features like long breaks and daily goals, all without ads or in-app purchases.
- Instant start timer
- Customizable focus/break durations
- Optional long breaks
- 7 color themes
- 4 timer faces
- Lock Screen & Dynamic Island integration
- Reliable alarms
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OpenFocus is a minimal pomodoro timer that starts the moment you open it. Free, forever. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account. No subscription. Setup-free at launch — yet there when you want to tune it. — Features — Starts instantly The focus timer is already counting down by the time the screen appears. No start button. No mode to pick. Custom focus and break durations Default is the classic 25/5. Open the settings sheet (when stopped) to set focus (5–90 min) and break (5–30 min) independently, in 5-minute steps. Long break (optional) Pomodoro Technique–style long break. After every Nth completed focus (configurable, 2–8), the break extends to 3× its normal length. Off by default. 7 color themes Choose from mono, ink, sea, forest, sand, rose, dusk. The chosen theme applies app-wide and also to the Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island. 4 timer faces Pick how the countdown looks: ring (default hairline), digital (bedside-clock LCD), flip (mechanical split-flap tiles), or analog (single-hand). Digital and flip can rotate to landscape with a tap — handy when you prop the phone up on a desk. Adjust on the fly Settings open mid-session too. Color, face, daily goal, and keep-awake change instantly. Focus and break durations stay locked until you fully stop the timer, so the running countdown never desyncs from what you see. Daily session counter The app counts completed focus sessions per day (auto-resets at midnight). Optionally set a daily goal (1–20) to see progress like "today · 3 / 8" — leave it at 0 and only the count is shown. Keep screen awake (optional) When on, the screen stays on while the timer is in the foreground. Useful for the "place phone on desk and watch the countdown" workflow, without changing your device-wide auto-lock. Auto phase switching When focus ends, break begins. When break ends, focus begins. The cycle continues without you touching the screen. Lock Screen & Dynamic Island Built on iOS Live Activities. Check the remaining time from your Lock Screen or the Dynamic Island without opening the app. Beautifully animated Each theme has its own focus and break colors. Smooth color crossfades on phase change, subtle haptics, Apple-grade SF Symbol morphing — every transition feels native. Reliable alarms Powered by iOS 26 AlarmKit. Notifies you at the end of every focus and break interval, even in the background, even on silent. Privacy first We don't collect anything. Settings and timer state are stored only on your device. No network requests, no analytics, no tracking. — Best for people who — • Want to try the pomodoro technique without setup overhead • Like a single tap to start — but still want to tune their own cadence and look • Are tired of cluttered timer apps • Believe in minimal tools done well — Not for people who — • Need statistics or reports • Want task management built in OpenFocus is built by subtraction, not addition. Minimal at first. Quietly customizable when you ask for it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenFocus at none against TodOne's 1. TodOne's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, 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. TodOne sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. OpenFocus asks for nothing beyond the download.
TodOne ships an update every 2 weeks, OpenFocus every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | TodOne | OpenFocus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Takuya Saeki | YOSHIKI KOAKUTSU |
In-app purchases
TodOne
- Pro Plan$4.991 Month
OpenFocus
No in-app purchases









