Comparison

Pomodoro Focus Timer vs Breathe Easy

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

Head to head
About

Pomodoro Focus Timer

This app combines timed work intervals with guided breathing exercises to improve focus and reduce stress. It offers distraction-free work sessions and calming 4-7-8 breathwork breaks, helping users stay sharp and avoid burnout throughout the day. Track your progress with focus charts and build consistent habits with daily reminders.

Highlights
  • Timed Pomodoro focus blocks
  • Guided 4-7-8 breathing breaks
  • Standalone breathing sessions
  • Focus progress charts
  • Daily habit reminders
  • Offline functionality
Features
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A focus timer that finally gives you real breaks. Work in timed Pomodoro blocks, then let a guided 4-7-8 breathing break slow you down — so you start the next block calm instead of wired. Most timers just count down and drop you into a scroll-hole between sprints. BreathBeat replaces the dead break with a paced breathing exercise: a calming orb leads you through inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8, lengthening your exhale to settle a racing mind in under a minute. Focus blocks and breathing breaks alternate automatically, so you stay sharp all day without burning out. WHAT YOU GET - Deep, distraction-free work in Pomodoro focus blocks with Classic, Long Haul and Sprint presets - A guided 4-7-8 breathing break after each block that actually resets you - Standalone breathing sessions any time you feel wound up — 2, 4 or 8 breaths - Focus charts for the last 7, 14 or 30 days so you can watch momentum build - Streaks, levels and a full session history that reward showing up daily - A gentle daily reminder so the habit sticks PERFECT FOR - Students grinding through study sessions who need to stay calm under deadlines - Developers and makers doing long stretches of deep work - Anyone who ends breaks more stressed than they started - People who want focus and stress relief in one simple, offline app WHY NOT JUST USE A PLAIN POMODORO TIMER? A bare countdown recovers nothing — you spend the break tensing up or doomscrolling. BreathBeat turns every break into a real reset with paced breathing, so your energy lasts through the whole day instead of crashing by mid-afternoon. PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no ads, no tracking — ever. FULL ACCESS Unlock standalone breathing, every focus preset and your full stats and personal records with Premium. Choose weekly or yearly access, or pay once for lifetime. Start your first focus block and breathe your way through the break — download BreathBeat and feel the difference today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com

About

Breathe Easy

Features
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Breathe Easy is a breathing timer for iPhone and Apple Watch that keeps going with the screen off: the session stays on the Lock Screen, and on your wrist the watch taps out every phase. Pick a rhythm, lock your iPhone, put it face down and breathe: the sound cues carry on, and the Lock Screen shows the phase. FREE, FOREVER • Box breathing (4·4·4·4) and 4-7-8, unlimited sessions • Singing bowl sound cues, gentle haptics, sessions of 1, 3, 5 or 10 minutes • Start your last practice from a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget. • An optional daily reminder, off until you switch it on. • Works offline. No account, no ads, no analytics: the app collects nothing. PRO, ONE PAYMENT • All 12 practices, box and 4-7-8 plus: coherent breathing, calming exhale, triangle, equal breathing, pursed-lip pacing, long exhale, slow resonance, extended box, physiological sigh and a custom pattern • Your own rhythm: breaths 1 to 20 seconds, holds 0 to 20 seconds • Kalimba, chimes, guitar, handpan and voice sound themes, four more color themes, and every theme added later No subscription, no renewals, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours. ON YOUR WRIST On Apple Watch, Breathe Easy taps out every phase: a rising tap to breathe in, a falling one to breathe out, so you can breathe with your eyes closed. Start it from a watch face complication or, on Apple Watch Ultra, the Action button. The free practices work on the watch on their own; Pro, your custom pattern, your color theme and your preparation length come from your iPhone. WHY IT KEEPS GOING Breathe Easy runs the session like a music player, so your iPhone keeps it going with the screen locked: the Lock Screen shows the phase, Pause and Play, and an End button. CALM BY DESIGN One screen, one orb that breathes with you, a countdown you can read from across the room, and nothing that nags: no streaks, no pop-ups, and the daily reminder stays off unless you turn it on. In English, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Screenshots

Pomodoro Focus Timer4 screens
Breathe Easy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Breathe Easy at every 4 days against Pomodoro Focus Timer's monthly. Breathe Easy also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Pomodoro Focus Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Breathe Easy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pomodoro Focus Timer ships an update monthly, Breathe Easy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Pomodoro Focus Timer versus Breathe Easy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomodoro Focus TimerBreathe Easy
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhuc PhamYevhen Kalahanov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pomodoro Focus Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$29.99
1 purchases

Breathe Easy

One-time1
  • Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Pomodoro Focus Timer free?
Pomodoro Focus Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Breathe Easy free?
Breathe Easy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pomodoro Focus Timer or Breathe Easy have ads?
Neither Pomodoro Focus Timer nor Breathe Easy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pomodoro Focus Timer or Breathe Easy?
Pomodoro Focus Timer ships an update monthly, and Breathe Easy every 4 days. Most recently, Pomodoro Focus Timer was updated on October 31, 2026 and Breathe Easy on November 1, 2026.

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