Comparison

Tomato Timer Pro vs Sift

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

Head to head
About

Tomato Timer Pro

Features
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Title: Tomato Timer Pro: Minimalist Pomodoro Timer & Study Clock Description: Boost your productivity and reclaim your focus with Tomato Timer Pro, the ultimate minimalist Pomodoro timer. Designed for students, professionals, and creatives, our app eliminates digital clutter so you can concentrate on what truly matters. Whether you're tackling deep work or studying for exams, FocusFlow uses the proven Pomodoro Technique to help you manage your time effectively. Say goodbye to burnout and hello to peak performance. Key Features: Clean, Ad-Free Interface: A beautiful, distraction-free design. Customizable Intervals: Set your focus sessions and break times to fit your workflow. Progress Tracking: Monitor your daily focus sessions and stay motivated.

About

Sift

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Sift is a notes app built around one question: can you find what you wrote? Most note apps can't. Their search matches text exactly, so it misses "lightbulb" when you typed "light bulb", misses "running" when you searched "run", and gives you nothing at all when your thumbs put an extra letter in a word. Sift is built the other way round. FIND WHAT YOU HALF REMEMBER • Typo tolerance — "meting notes" finds "Meeting notes" • Word endings — "run" finds "running", "city" finds "Cities" • Compound words, both directions — "light bulb" finds "lightbulb", and the other way round too • Accents ignored — "resume" finds "résumé" • Results as you type, with the matching words marked so you can see why something matched • Filters when you want them: tag:work/clients, is:todo, "exact phrase", -exclude, updated:>2026-01-01 NOTHING IS EVER LOST Every save is a revision. Open the history of any note, read any earlier version, and bring it back with one tap. Restoring is itself just another revision, so it can't destroy anything either. Notes are written one file at a time, and the history is written before the file is replaced — so even an interrupted write leaves your words recoverable. Deleted notes wait 30 days in the trash. NOTES THAT KNOW ABOUT EACH OTHER Type [[ to link one note to another. The link works both ways: the note you point at shows everything that points back. A connections view draws the shape of what you've been thinking about, and notes you've mentioned but not written yet become an invitation to write them. WRITING THAT FEELS RIGHT • Live Markdown — headings, bold, highlight, quotes, code, checklists • Lists continue themselves; Return on an empty item ends the list • Tap any line to put the cursor exactly there • Tick checkboxes without entering edit mode • Nested tags like #work/clients/acme • Pin, archive, and lock notes behind Face ID • Light and dark, six accent colours, three writing fonts, four text sizes YOUR NOTES ARE YOURS Every note is a plain Markdown file stored on your device. No account. No server. No sync that can fail, because there is nothing to sync. Export any note, or all of them, whenever you like. Sift is free. There is no subscription, no advertising, no note limit, and no paid tier holding features back.

Screenshots

Tomato Timer Pro3 screens
Sift4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tomato Timer Pro and Sift are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tomato Timer Pro versus Sift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTomato Timer ProSift
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer荷芬 赵Muhammad Hasan Zafar

In-app purchases

None

Tomato Timer Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Sift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tomato Timer Pro free?
Tomato Timer Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sift free?
Sift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tomato Timer Pro or Sift have ads?
Neither Tomato Timer Pro nor Sift shows ads.

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