Comparison

Koku vs Jaz Chat

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Jaz Chat

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Koku4 screens
Jaz Chat4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Koku versus Jaz Chat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKokuJaz Chat
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.4 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRodolfo Alberto Lopez TerriquezAugustinas Malinauskas

In-app purchases

None

Koku

No in-app purchases

None

Jaz Chat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Koku free?
Koku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jaz Chat free?
Jaz Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Koku or Jaz Chat have ads?
Neither Koku nor Jaz Chat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Koku or Jaz Chat?
Koku ships an update every 3 days, and Jaz Chat every 6 weeks. Most recently, Koku was updated on October 11, 2026 and Jaz Chat on October 28, 2026.

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