Comparison

Pomodoro Buddy vs Domato

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

Head to head
About

Pomodoro Buddy

Enhance your concentration with a beautifully designed focus timer. It utilizes structured work sessions and breaks to help you achieve deep focus for studying, coding, or professional tasks. Track your progress and visualize your achievements with engaging features.

Highlights
  • Dual timer modes (focus sessions or Pomodoro cycles)
  • Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
  • Immersive fullscreen focus mode
  • Visual tomato plant growth tracker
  • Customizable work and break durations
  • Session statistics and progress tracking
  • Home Screen widget for at-a-glance progress
Features
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Boost your productivity with Pomodoro Buddy — a beautifully designed focus timer built for iOS.   Pomodoro Buddy brings the proven Pomodoro Technique to your iPhone with a polished, glass-inspired interface. Whether you're studying for exams, coding a project, or tackling important work, this elegant timer helps you maintain deep focus through structured work sessions and strategic breaks. Key Features: - Dual Timer Modes — Choose simple focus sessions or full Pomodoro cycles with automatic breaks - Live Activities — Track your timer right from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island without opening the app - Focus Mode — An immersive fullscreen timer with beautiful gradient backgrounds for distraction-free sessions - Growing Tomato Plant — Watch your tomato plant grow from seedling to harvest as your session progresses - Customizable Durations — Set work, short break, and long break lengths to match your workflow - Smart Notifications — Gentle alerts let you know when sessions complete, even in the background - Session Statistics — Track your daily progress, weekly trends, and streaks with detailed charts - Home Screen Widget — See your daily focus progress at a glance without opening the app - Haptic Feedback — Subtle tactile responses keep you connected to your session Perfect For: - Students preparing for exams or working on assignments - Software developers maintaining coding flow states - Writers and content creators managing creative sessions - Professionals tackling deep work and complex projects - Anyone looking to improve focus and time management Privacy First: Your productivity data stays completely private. Pomodoro Buddy stores everything locally on your device — no accounts, no data collection, no online tracking. Your habits and statistics remain yours alone. Transform scattered work time into productive, focused achievement. Download Pomodoro Buddy today and experience the power of structured productivity.

About

Domato

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Domato is a focus timer built around one idea: work in a stretch, then take a real break, and keep what you finish. FOCUS AND BREAKS Set a focus length that suits you, or leave it unlimited and stop whenever you're done. Short and long breaks follow automatically if you want them to, or turn breaks off entirely and just work in stretches. A gentle sound marks the start and end of a session; ambient waves build quietly in the background the longer a session runs, giving a felt sense of how deep into it you are. SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT Every session is kept, even one you stop early, and rolls up into a GitHub-style contribution grid, so a week, a month, or a year of focus is one glance instead of a guess. Filter by task, see your longest streak, your best day, and when during the day you actually focus best. TASKS, NOT JUST A CLOCK File pomodoros under tasks and subtasks so the count means something beyond a number: see exactly what a stretch of focus went toward, on the day and over time. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Five colour palettes for the contribution grid, all shared between the app and the widget, so your home screen matches how you like to look at your own data. Widgets show the running clock, today's count, or the task picker, without opening the app. ON THE MAC TOO A menu bar app that starts, pauses, and stops a session in one click, with a global keyboard shortcut so you never have to reach for the mouse. Everything syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through iCloud: start a session on one device, see it everywhere else. DAILY GOALS Set a target number of pomodoros for the day, and the grid, the ring, and the widget all measure against it. A target, not a quota: nothing is withheld for missing it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your sessions and tasks sync through your own iCloud account. Nothing is sent anywhere else. FREE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Every feature above is unlocked from the start, no trial, no paywall, no subscription. If Domato is useful to you, an optional tip is always appreciated and never expected.

Screenshots

Pomodoro Buddy4 screens
Domato4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pomodoro Buddy at none against Domato's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Domato sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pomodoro Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Pomodoro Buddy versus Domato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomodoro BuddyDomato
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDanial BegEkim Basoglu

In-app purchases

None

Pomodoro Buddy

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Domato

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99

Questions

Is Pomodoro Buddy free?
Pomodoro Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Domato free?
Domato is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pomodoro Buddy or Domato have ads?
Neither Pomodoro Buddy nor Domato shows ads.

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