Comparison

PTimer vs Pomodoro

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

Head to head
About

PTimer

Features
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Focus matters. But so does rest. PTimer is a Pomodoro timer that supports both โ€” your way. ใ€Sound the shiftใ€‘ Mark every work-to-break and break-to-work moment with a sound you actually like. Choose from 20 system sounds or bring in your own music or audio files. Set a different sound for each transition. ใ€Make the time yoursใ€‘ Change the timer font to any typeface you like, including your own font files. ใ€Honor your restใ€‘ Breaks you spend quietly โ€” without touching or lifting your device โ€” can be saved to Apple Health as mindful minutes (opt-in in Settings). ใ€More featuresใ€‘ ยท 5 color themes: Green, Silver, Blush, Indigo, Citrus ยท Widget support (Home Screen / Lock Screen) ยท Live Activity support ยท Control support โ€” launch from Control Center, Lock Screen, or the Action button (iOS 18+) ยท Apple Watch support ยท Low power mode ใ€About Pomodoroใ€‘ 25 minutes of focused work, followed by a short break โ€” repeated. Session length and break duration are fully adjustable.

About

Pomodoro

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์‹ฌํ”Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๋ฝ€๋ชจ๋„๋กœ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 25๋ถ„ ์ง‘์ค‘, 5๋ถ„ ํœด์‹ โ€” ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋œ ๋ฝ€๋ชจ๋„๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. โ€ข ์ง‘์ค‘ / ์งง์€ ํœด์‹ / ๊ธด ํœด์‹์„ ํ•œ ํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ „ํ™˜ โ€ข ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ์›ํ˜• ์ง„ํ–‰ ํ‘œ์‹œ์™€ ํผ์งํ•œ ๋‚จ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ โ€ข ๊ธด ํœด์‹๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚จ์€ ์„ธ์…˜์„ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ดํด ํ‘œ์‹œ โ€ข ๋ฐฑ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ์—์„œ๋„ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์•Œ๋ฆผ โ€” ์ž ๊ธˆํ™”๋ฉด๊ณผ ๋‹ค์ด๋‚˜๋ฏน ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ(Live Activity) โ€ข ์„ธ์…˜ ์™„๋ฃŒ ์‹œ ์•Œ๋ฆผ์Œ + ํ–…ํ‹ฑ โ€ข ์ง‘์ค‘ยทํœด์‹ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ์ž๋™ ์‹œ์ž‘ ๋“ฑ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์„ค์ • โ€ข ๊ตฐ๋”๋”๊ธฐ ์—†๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ๋ฉ€ ๋””์ž์ธ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์—†์Œ. ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ ์—†์Œ. ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ผœ๊ณ  ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

Screenshots

PTimer4 screens
Pomodoro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pomodoro at Free against PTimer's $0.99. Pomodoro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (daily vs every 6 days). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Pomodoro is free to download; PTimer costs $0.99 up front. PTimer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pomodoro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PTimer ships an update every 6 days, Pomodoro daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
PTimer versus Pomodoro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPTimerPomodoro
Price$0.99Free โ€” better
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size21 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerakira kawakamiSeongil Park

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PTimer

One-time3
  • Coffee$3.99
  • ใƒฉใƒณใƒ$9.99
  • ใŠๅฏฟๅธ$19.99
None

Pomodoro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PTimer free?
PTimer costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Pomodoro free?
Pomodoro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PTimer or Pomodoro have ads?
Neither PTimer nor Pomodoro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PTimer or Pomodoro?
PTimer ships an update every 6 days, and Pomodoro daily. Most recently, PTimer was updated on October 14, 2026 and Pomodoro on October 3, 2026.

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