Deep Work Timer vs To Do Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deep Work Timer
This app gamifies deep work sessions by allowing users to build and manage a virtual startup. Earn in-game currency, unlock rewards, and collaborate with others in shared virtual offices to stay focused and productive.
- Gamified focus sessions
- Virtual startup building
- App and website blocking
- Network collaboration
- Customizable virtual office
- Scheduled focus sessions
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Stop scrolling. Start shipping. FocusCorp is a focus timer, app blocker, and productivity game built for founders. Turn deep work into visible progress: complete focus sessions, earn in-game cash, and grow your virtual startup one focused block at a time. MEET YOUR CO-FOUNDER Meet Bob, your virtual co-founder. Start a focus session and your office gets to work. Stay focused to complete challenges, hire employees, unlock rewards, and build a company that reflects the work you put in. BUILD YOUR FOCUS SYSTEM - Run flexible deep-work and Pomodoro-style focus sessions - Block distracting apps and websites using Apple Screen Time controls - Create scheduled sessions and app time limits - Build streaks and complete daily challenges - Earn in-game cash without artificial XP systems - Unlock furniture, decorations, employees, and office upgrades - Create your own founder character - Customize a virtual office that grows with your progress FOCUS WITH YOUR NETWORK Create or join a Network for your startup, fund, hacker house, or founder community. - Compete in weekly Network and global standings - See when members are online or actively focusing - Enter a shared cowork office with your founder character - Focus alongside other Network members - Decorate and expand your shared cowork space together MADE FOR PEOPLE BUILDING SOMETHING Whether you are shipping an MVP, writing, designing, fundraising, or working through your next difficult task, FocusCorp makes focused time feel meaningful. This is not another checklist. It is a focus game where showing up builds something. Your company will not build itself. Start the timer and get back to work. Terms of Use: https://focuscorp.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://focuscorp.app/privacy
To Do Machine
This productivity app allows users to fully customize their to-do list and workflow using natural language commands. It offers AI-powered task creation, project management, and calendar integration, syncing seamlessly across Mac and iOS devices.
- Natural language interface for customization
- AI-powered task creation and triage
- Multiple project views (list, kanban, calendar)
- Customizable statuses, fields, and automations
- Two-way calendar sync (Apple/Google)
- Real-time sync across Mac and iOS
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The only productivity app you design yourself. Most to-do apps make you bend to their rules. To Do Machine flips the workshop on its head — open the back panel, swap the parts, paint it your color. Talk to it in plain English and watch your task inbox, your projects, and your entire workflow rebuild themselves in real time. Built natively for Mac and iOS. Perfectly in sync. — WHO IT'S FOR — For the people who've tried every to-do app and bounced off them all. For the ones who keep building systems in Notion, then abandoning them. For anyone whose brain works a specific way and is tired of apps that don't. To Do Machine isn't another opinionated workflow. It's a workshop where you build the one that fits you. — DESIGN IT YOURSELF — Tell To Do Machine what you want and it remakes the app around you. "Make the inbox darker and put due dates on the right" — done. Switch any project to list, kanban, calendar, focus, or blueprint view. Invent your own statuses, fields, and automations, project by project. Every tweak syncs to all your devices instantly. — AI THAT DOES THE TYPING — Just say what's on your mind. To Do Machine writes the tasks, breaks them into projects, sets reminders, and finds time on your calendar — no tapping the + button. "Plan my Q3" → full project with milestones, weekly check-ins, and time blocks. Auto-triage your inbox: priority, due dates, parent project. A daily standup that drafts your day before you've finished your coffee. — CALENDAR IN, DAY OUT — Connect Apple or Google Calendar and your tasks thread themselves between your meetings. Two-way sync with Apple or Google Calendar. Time-blocking that respects your meetings, focus blocks, and breaks. Move a meeting and your tasks move with it. — INSTANTLY SYNCED BETWEEN iOS AND MAC — Tasks, projects, and calendars sync in milliseconds. Custom layouts and themes travel with you. Redesign your inbox on Mac at lunch — it's waiting on your iPhone by the time you stand up. Assembled in Brooklyn, NY. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: To Do Machine at none against Deep Work Timer's 5. To Do Machine also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). Deep Work Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Deep Work Timer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. To Do Machine asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Deep Work Timer against 5.0 for To Do Machine. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: To Do Machine has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Deep Work Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, To Do Machine every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deep Work Timer | To Do Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Buddy app, MB | Electric Lantern LLC |
Customer experience
Deep Work Timer
To Do Machine
In-app purchases
Deep Work Timer
- FocusCorp Weekly$3.997 Days
- Founder Offer1 Year trial$9.991 Year
- FocusCorp Annual1 Month trial$19.991 Year
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- FIRSTPICK Exclusive7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- FOCUSCORP Exclusive1 Month trial$19.991 Year
To Do Machine
No in-app purchases
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