Koku vs Jaz Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Koku
This app helps you focus on tasks with customizable work and rest intervals. It offers a simple, distraction-free interface and integrates with your home screen and Apple Watch for easy access and control. Enjoy deep work without accounts, streaks, or subscriptions.
- Customizable focus and rest sessions
- Classic Pomodoro rhythm option
- Home Screen widget for quick access
- Live Activities on lock screen
- Apple Watch companion app
- Minimalist, distraction-free design
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Koku is a focus timer for deep work. Focus. Rest. Repeat. Set your own session lengths or use the classic rhythm - twenty-five minutes of focus, five minutes of rest, a longer break every four sessions. Each minute is a dot. Watch them fill. - No accounts. - No streaks. - No subscriptions. Just time, and the work in front of you. Add Koku to your Home Screen for quick access - start, pause, and skip sessions right from the widget. Keep the timer visible on your lock screen with Live Activities. Koku also includes an Apple Watch companion app that works with the iPhone app, so you can check your timer and control sessions from your wrist. Designed for iPhone, with an Apple Watch companion. Light and dark mode. Works in any language. Koku (刻) is the Japanese word for a moment of time.
Jaz Chat
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Jaz is the companion app for your own Jaz assistant — a remote control surface for the personal AI platform running on your machine. Check in on live agent work, read long transcripts, and respond to threads from your phone, without needing the desktop app or a terminal in front of you. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See recent threads at a glance, with status, live activity, and pending questions readable in a second. • Stream sessions in real time as your assistant works. • Read long, noisy transcripts made mobile-friendly — tool calls and reasoning collapse into useful summaries, while your decisions and the assistant's answers stay front and center. • Send messages and interactive responses to steer work in progress. • Answer plan approvals and permission requests on the go. DESIGN A calm, focused companion — not a server dashboard or a generic chat clone. Light and dark themes that track your system, readable typography, and motion that only ever communicates state. REQUIRES A JAZ BACKEND Jaz iOS is a companion client. It does nothing on its own — it connects only to your own remote Jaz backend over a secure connection. You pair the app to your instance by scanning a QR code shown by your Jaz server. Without a running Jaz backend to pair with, the app has no data to display. PRIVACY Jaz talks only to the backend you pair it with. Device credentials are stored in the iOS Keychain on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Koku at every 3 days against Jaz Chat's every 6 weeks. 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.
Koku ships an update every 3 days, Jaz Chat every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Koku | Jaz Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.4 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rodolfo Alberto Lopez Terriquez | Augustinas Malinauskas |
In-app purchases
Koku
No in-app purchases
Jaz Chat
No in-app purchases









