Focus Pet vs Critter Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Pet
This app combines a focus timer with a virtual pet to help you stay productive. Earn coins during focus sessions to grow and customize your pet, and build a world for it. It offers various focus modes, ambient sounds, and motivational tools.
- Focus timer with Pomodoro, deep work, and stopwatch modes
- Virtual pet growth and customization
- Habitat and room design for pets
- Streaks, goals, and progress tracking
- Ambient focus sounds
- Coin rewards for focus sessions
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Focus for 25 minutes. Come back to a pet that grew because you did. Focus Pet Study Timer turns study sessions into progress you can see. Start a Pomodoro, put the phone down, and every focused minute earns coins, XP and a streak worth protecting. A POMODORO TIMER THAT STICKS • Pomodoro (25/5), free timer or stopwatch • Your own focus and break lengths • Tag every session by what you're working on • Link a session to a task and tick it off the moment you finish • Daily goals, reminders and a full screen with nothing to tap • Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island STUDY WITH FRIENDS, IN REAL TIME Focus Rooms let you work next to people instead of alone. • Start or join a room of up to 4 people • Shared sessions with synced Pomodoro rounds and breaks • Everyone's pets sit together in the same habitat • Bonus coins when you finish together • Invite by link or straight from your friends list A PET THAT NOTICES • A growing cast of pets to unlock, each with its own animations • Raise one from baby to young to adult • Rare color variants and a shop full of accessories • Focus and it's happy. Disappear for days and it isn't. BUILD A PLACE WORTH COMING BACK TO • Habitats from a cozy room to a space station • Backgrounds and furniture for every mood • Drag anything anywhere, flip it, resize it • Better habitats pay bigger coin and XP bonuses on every session THE REST OF YOUR DAY • Calendar with tasks, repeats and reminders • Habit tracker with streaks and milestones • Journal with mood tracking and daily prompts • Meditation and breathing exercises for the gaps in between PROOF YOU'RE IMPROVING • Focus time by day and week • Your peak hours, best days and completion rate • Records for your longest session and best day • Achievements, streaks and streak freezes for the day life gets in the way SOUNDS THAT SHUT THE WORLD OUT Rain, forest, cafe, lo-fi and more pick one and let the room disappear. FOCUS PET PREMIUM • No ads • Bonus coins every day and after long sessions • Exclusive pets, backgrounds and ambient sounds • A full-year focus heatmap, monthly summaries and mood insights • Your complete session history, not just the last few • Unlimited pauses mid-session WHO IT'S FOR Students and exam prep, remote workers, developers, designers, writers and researchers — anyone working in Pomodoro rounds, time blocks or deep work sessions. Syncs to the cloud, in light or dark mode. Download Focus Pet Study Timer and turn every focused minute into something you can see. Terms of Use: https://www.mooderbaylabs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.mooderbaylabs.com/privacy-policy
Critter Timer
This app provides a cozy focus timer experience on your Apple Watch with charming, hand-illustrated woodland companions. Engage in focused work sessions while your critter friend studies alongside you, then enjoy gentle break animations that shift the scene to twilight.
- Standalone watchOS app
- Animated woodland companions
- Customizable focus and break lengths
- Time-sensitive notifications
- Daily session tracking and streaks
- Auto-start option for seamless transitions
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Critter Timer is a cozy focus timer for your Apple Watch, starring hand-illustrated woodland companions that move and work alongside you. Tap to start a focus session, and your chosen critter settles into their tiny world — a rabbit by candlelight in a cozy hut, a fox curled up in an English library, or a cat working at a cottage desk. They study while you study. Then it's break time. Your companion stretches, looks out the window, sips tea, gazes at the stars. The scene shifts to twilight. Two minutes, five minutes, however long you set — and back to focus when you're ready. DESIGNED FOR THE WRIST • Standalone watchOS app — no iPhone needed once installed • Beautiful animated scenes optimized for Apple Watch displays • Digital Crown to adjust focus and break lengths • Simple tap-to-start, tap-to-pause controls • Time-sensitive notifications keep you on schedule, even during Focus mode • Subtle haptics throughout — never jarring THREE COMPANIONS, ONE WORLD • A rabbit in a quill-and-ink study, candle flickering, cozy hut at dusk • A fox in a Victorian library, leather chairs and stacked books • A cat at a cottage writing desk, surrounded by warm lamplight FOCUS SESSIONS • 5 to 60 minutes, in 5-minute increments • Choose your length per session BREAK SESSIONS • 1 to 30 minutes • Different scene tone — softer light, looser poses • A gentle reminder to actually rest BUILT FOR DEEP WORK • Track your daily session count and watch your streak grow • Auto-start option flows you straight from focus into break, and back again — no taps, no friction • Resume gracefully if you switch wrists, get pulled away, or your watch sleeps mid-session • Distinct visual tone for focus vs. break so you always know where you are WHY YET ANOTHER TIMER? Most focus timers feel like productivity software. Critter Timer feels like a window into a small, kind world. Whether you're working, studying, reading, journaling, meditating, or just trying to be present for 25 minutes — your companion is right there, doing their thing alongside you. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No subscription. Just you, your watch, and a small woodland friend. Built with care for people who love their Apple Watch and want a focus tool that respects both their attention and their aesthetic.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Focus Pet at Free against Critter Timer's $1.99. Focus Pet also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Critter Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On rating 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
Focus Pet is free to download; Critter Timer costs $1.99 up front. Focus Pet sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Critter Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focus Pet against 5.0 for Critter Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Pet | Critter Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Orhun Arda Kaya | Todd Seabrook |
Customer experience
Focus Pet
Critter Timer
In-app purchases
Focus Pet
- Focus Premium$3.991 Month
- All premium. Save 58% vs monthly.$24.991 Year
- Focus Pet - Study Timer$0.99
- Focus Coins 1200$1.99
- Focus Coins 3000$3.99
Critter Timer
No in-app purchases









