Comparison

Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker vs DRIFT

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

Head to head
About

Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker

This app offers a minimalist approach to time management, featuring focus timers, Pomodoro sessions, and detailed productivity reports. It helps users stay focused on tasks like studying and work by tracking time spent on projects and breaks, all without requiring an account.

Highlights
  • Standard focus timer
  • Flow Sessions
  • Classic Pomodoro timer
  • Custom Pomodoro intervals
  • Projects and categories
  • Productivity insights
  • TXT and Excel export
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Focus, your way. Flowtime is a flexible, friction-free focus timer and time tracker designed around a simple idea: starting should be easy, and your timer should adapt to how you focus. Start with one tap. Choose how you want to focus. Stay aware of passing time without constantly watching the clock. When you’re done, see where your time went and celebrate the milestones along the way. FOCUS WITHOUT RIGID RULES Not every task fits into a 25-minute timer. Use a simple timer, Pomodoro, Flowmodoro, or your own custom setup. Flowtime gives you structure when you want it without forcing every focus session into the same routine. STAY AWARE OF TIME Deep in a task and suddenly an hour has passed? Gentle reminders help you notice passing time without automatically ending your session. They’re useful for deep work, long creative sessions, hyperfocus, and time blindness. REDUCE DISTRACTIONS App Shielding helps keep distracting apps out of reach while you focus. When you deliberately choose to open one, Flowtime adds a moment of friction before you continue. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES Your sessions become a record of how you spend your focus time. Explore your history, filter your statistics, organise sessions into projects, and discover your own patterns. CELEBRATE YOUR PROGRESS Unlock achievements as you use Flowtime and reach new focus milestones. Achievements are designed to celebrate progress without turning focus into a streak you have to maintain. Share the achievements you’re proud of, or simply keep them for yourself. BUILT FOR LESS FRICTION • One-tap focus timer • Pomodoro and Flowmodoro • Custom timer setups • Time-awareness reminders • App Shielding • Projects • Session history • Focus statistics and filters • Shareable achievements • Light and dark themes • Custom accent colours USE IT YOUR WAY Flowtime can be a work timer, study timer, deep-work companion, time tracker, Pomodoro alternative, or simply a way to make passing time easier to notice. Its time-awareness tools can also be useful for experiences such as hyperfocus and ADHD time blindness, without defining how or why you use the app. No account. No complicated productivity system between you and what you want to do. Open Flowtime. Start. Focus your way. Terms of Use (EULA) Flowtime uses Apple's Standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

DRIFT

Features
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DRIFT is a focus timer with no countdown — time falls like a tide across your screen, and you read it at a glance. No subscription, ever. Pick 15, 25, 45, or 60 minutes, or set a custom length up to 12 hours. Start a session, put the phone down, and watch the water fall. No digits unless you tap for them — just the level, dropping toward zero. While a session runs, DRIFT blocks the apps, categories, and websites you choose, using Apple's Screen Time. Open one by mistake and you'll meet the shield instead of the app. Every session carries exactly one 3-minute pass, for the one real interruption that can't wait. Use it and the block lifts; it re-locks itself automatically when the three minutes are up — even if you force-quit DRIFT in between. Five tide colors to choose from. Your history — completed sessions, abandoned ones, total time focused — stays on this iPhone in a simple log. No account, no sign-up. DRIFT is free, supported by a single ad shown after a session ends — never during one, never on the shield. A one-time purchase of $1.99 removes ads for good. No subscription, no recurring charge, ever. Built for iPhone.

Screenshots

Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker4 screens
DRIFT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker at none against DRIFT's shown. Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and DRIFT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker ships an update weekly, DRIFT every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker versus DRIFT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowtime° Focus & Time TrackerDRIFT
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAva ThalheimYUBIN HONG

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Flowtime Monthly Pro7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Flowtime Yearly Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Flowtime Founders Lifetime$59.99
1 purchases

DRIFT

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker free?
Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DRIFT free?
DRIFT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker or DRIFT have ads?
DRIFT shows ads; Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker or DRIFT?
Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker ships an update weekly, and DRIFT every 4 days. Most recently, Flowtime° Focus & Time Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and DRIFT on October 1, 2026.

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