Remote Café vs Cadence
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Remote Café
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RemoteCoffee helps you settle into focused work by turning each session into a quiet cafe visit. Choose a city, pick a cafe scene, and start a simple focus timer with immersive ambient sound. Whether you want rainy Tokyo, soft Paris daylight, a Portland table, or a calm Seoul coffee bar, RemoteCoffee gives your work session a place to live. As you complete focus blocks, you can unlock collectible drinks and treats tied to the cafe worlds you visit. Over time, your collection becomes a small record of the moments you showed up, stayed with it, and finished. RemoteCoffee is built for remote workers, students, makers, and anyone who wants focus to feel a little more inviting. Features: Immersive cafe scenes from cities around the world Ambient coffee shop and weather soundscapes Simple focus sessions with flexible durations Lock Screen Live Activity support during active sessions Collectible rewards after completed sessions Local progress tracking with no account required A calm, visual alternative to plain productivity timers Open RemoteCoffee, choose your table, and give the next block of work a place to begin.
Cadence
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Cadence is a calm, beautifully simple way to keep up with the things you do again and again — the tasks that don't have a single due date, but a rhythm. Instead of one-off reminders that nag you at a fixed time, Cadence todos reset on the clock. Tick one off and it moves to Completed. When its interval's next boundary passes, it quietly returns to your active list, ready to do again. No streaks to break, no guilt — just a clear picture of what's due right now. WHY CADENCE IS DIFFERENT Resets happen on absolute clock boundaries, not relative to when you finished. "Every 6 hours" always resets at 00:00, 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 — not six hours after you happened to tap it. "Every day" resets at midnight. So your whole list stays in step with the actual time of day. SEVEN SIMPLE INTERVALS • Every hour • Every 6 hours • Every 12 hours • Every day • Every other day • Every week • Every two weeks • Custom A todo is just two things: what it says, and how often it repeats. That's the whole idea. EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE • Active and Completed sections, so you always know what's left • Tap to complete — and tap a completed item to bring it back early • Drag to reorder your active list; your order is remembered • Swipe to delete A HOME-SCREEN WIDGET Add the Cadence widget in three sizes to see what's due at a glance. It shows as many of your active todos as will fit; tap it to jump straight into the app. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Cadence keeps everything on your device. There's no account to create, no iCloud, no sign-in, and no internet connection required. It collects no data, shows no ads, and contains no trackers and no third-party integrations. Your todos are yours alone. MADE FOR EVERYDAY RHYTHMS Perfect for hydration and stretch breaks, medication and supplement routines, chores and cleaning, pet care, watering the plants, posture checks, and any healthy habit you want to keep on a steady cadence. Download Cadence and find your rhythm.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cadence at every 4 days against Remote Café's every 10 days. Remote Café's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Remote Café ships an update every 10 days, Cadence every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Remote Café | Cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kai Kang | Max Skupch |
In-app purchases
Remote Café
No in-app purchases
Cadence
No in-app purchases









