Comparison

Pomica vs Tiempo

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

Head to head
About

Pomica

Features
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Pomica is a customizable Pomodoro timer that lets you focus with your favorite images, colors, and number fonts. Choose a photo or illustration, crop it into a square, and turn it into your own timer design. The live number timer runs separately from the image, keeping time clear while preserving your chosen look. MAKE IT YOURS • Create an original timer with any image • Crop images inside the app • Choose a number font • Change timer colors and designs • Save your designs for quick access STAY FOCUSED • Set work and break durations • Manage tasks from the timer screen • Automatically record work and break time • Add long breaks where you need them • Turn countdown sounds on or off Build a timer that fits your style and make daily focus easier to continue. Some features require an in-app purchase.

About

Tiempo

Features
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Watch your focus take shape. Choose a full-screen canvas and start a session. Sand gathers grain by grain, water rises and sways, tiles assemble into a mosaic, and a painting appears stroke by stroke. When the time is up, the picture is complete. CANVASES • Sand, drawn live grain by grain as your session runs • Minimal, a quiet line that traces the time around the screen • Clock and Flip Clock, for timed or untimed sessions • With Tiempo Unlock: Water, Mosaic and Painting, drawn live as your session runs; Meditation, a guided breathing practice with optional sound and gentle haptics; and the Hourglass. Each has a 20-second preview. FOCUS YOUR WAY • Set your own focus and break lengths, pause when you need to, or end early and keep the time you focused • Take the break Tiempo offers when a session ends, or skip it • Soundscapes: white, pink and brown noise, Garden and Zen, and with Tiempo Unlock recorded rain, rain with thunder, ocean and fire • Finish with a completion card, and share or save a picture of a finished canvas • Alarms on iPhone and iPad, and a stopwatch, kept apart from your focus time PLAN AND LOOK BACK, WITH TIEMPO UNLOCK • Plan with reusable topics and time blocks • Keep written or voice notes with your sessions • History and Insights show your days, your rhythm and where your time went • Your sessions keep saving before you unlock, and Export my data is always free EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • iPhone: widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen, and a Live Activity while a session runs • iPad and Mac: every canvas fills the window, with keyboard shortcuts • Apple Watch: start a session on your wrist, even with your iPhone away, or follow the one on your iPhone; it joins your History • Apple TV: your canvases on the big screen, as channels TIEMPO UNLOCK One payment, no subscription. It adds the Water, Mosaic, Painting, Hourglass and Meditation canvases; Plan, Notes, History and Insights; painting your own photos; four recorded soundscapes; and more looks (Sand colorways, Water palettes, Mosaic designs and frame colors). It works on all your devices, and Family Sharing is on. Sand, Minimal, Clock, Flip Clock, Alarms, the Stopwatch and every timer feature stay free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no advertising and no tracking. Your sessions and notes stay on your devices. Meditation can save to Apple Health as mindful minutes, if you turn it on. Tiempo never reads your Health data. Works with VoiceOver, larger text and Reduce Motion.

Screenshots

Pomica4 screens
Tiempo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tiempo at none against Pomica's shown. Tiempo also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and device support (4 vs 1). Pomica's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Pomica sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tiempo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pomica ships an update weekly, Tiempo daily. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
Pomica versus Tiempo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomicaTiempo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB127 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSota NinomiyaMARCO ANTONIO GONZALEZ

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pomica

One-time1
  • PomoRoom PRO$4.99
1 purchases

Tiempo

One-time1
  • Tiempo Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is Pomica free?
Pomica is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tiempo free?
Tiempo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pomica or Tiempo have ads?
Pomica shows ads; Tiempo does not.
Which is updated more often, Pomica or Tiempo?
Pomica ships an update weekly, and Tiempo daily. Most recently, Pomica was updated on November 9, 2026 and Tiempo on November 10, 2026.

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