Comparison

Fruitsful vs Tomato Hour

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

Head to head
About

Fruitsful

Features
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Fruitsful turns focus into something you can see. Every session you finish grows a hand-drawn fruit. It falls into the pile at the bottom of your screen, bounces, and settles among the others — real 2D physics, not a picture. Tilt your phone and the whole harvest rolls. Give up halfway and a rotten one drops instead. Nothing is hidden and nothing is punished: the pile just tells the truth about your week. A TIMER THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY • Pomodoro cycles with short and long breaks, or any length from 5 to 180 minutes • Overtime keeps counting past 0:00 while you're in flow — and stops before a forgotten phone becomes a nine-hour session • A real alarm that rings in Silent Mode and through Focus • The countdown survives the app being closed, killed, or the phone restarting • App Freeze: pick the apps that pull you away and they stay locked until the session ends SEE WHERE YOUR TIME WENT • Tag your sessions — Work, Study, Deep Work, or your own — and see the split • Day, week, month and year charts • A calendar timeline of every session you have run • Medals across five categories, from your first fruit to your thousandth EVERYWHERE YOU FOCUS • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, for the whole cycle • Home Screen widget with today's harvest • Apple Watch app: watch the session from your wrist, control it from there, or run one entirely on the watch with your phone in another room • Mindful minutes saved to Apple Health • Finished sessions exported to your calendar FRUITSFUL PLUS All 15 fruits, your real statistics, the full calendar timeline, iCloud sync across your devices, calendar export, and App Freeze. The annual plan starts with 7 days free — cancel any time. Fruitsful speaks 50 languages, and you can switch the app's language without touching your device settings. Plant your focus. Harvest your fruit. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Tomato Hour

This productivity app helps you stay focused using a Pomodoro timer that syncs across your iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac. It features real-time updates on your devices, including the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen, and allows you to track your focus time accurately.

Highlights
  • Real-time sync across iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac
  • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen integration
  • Watch face complications
  • Honest focus time tracking
  • To-dos convert to Pomodoros
  • Strict focus mode without pause
  • Privacy-first design with no servers
Features
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Tomato Hour is a focus timer that spans iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac. Start a pomodoro on your watch, and your iPhone's Dynamic Island and Mac's menu bar follow along. REAL-TIME SYNC ACROSS THREE DEVICES Built on Apple's private CloudKit sync — act on one device, all three follow instantly. No need to pull out your phone: a glance at your wrist or menu bar keeps your focus in sight. DYNAMIC ISLAND & LOCK SCREEN Time remaining shows live in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, so you always know where you are without opening the app. WATCH FACE COMPLICATIONS Put the countdown right on your watch face. Turn the Digital Crown to scroll through today's focus stats. HONEST FOCUS RECORDS Stretch a pomodoro to 30 minutes and it logs 30 minutes — the time that actually happened, not the time you planned. Grouped by day, with tag breakdowns. TO-DOS BECOME POMODOROS Tap a to-do to start timing. Change what you're working on mid-session without breaking your rhythm. STRICT FOCUS MODE No pause button by default. You get an alert when a pomodoro or break ends — when to move on is up to you. PRIVACY FIRST No account, no servers of ours. Every record lives on your own devices and in your private iCloud database. We cannot see what you're focusing on.

Screenshots

Fruitsful4 screens
Tomato Hour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tomato Hour at none against Fruitsful's 3. Tomato Hour also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads, device support 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. Fruitsful sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Tomato Hour asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fruitsful ships an update every 10 days, Tomato Hour every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fruitsful versus Tomato Hour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFruitsfulTomato Hour
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuilherme Quintero Lorenzi瑞玮 朱

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Fruitsful

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99
None

Tomato Hour

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fruitsful free?
Fruitsful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tomato Hour free?
Tomato Hour is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fruitsful or Tomato Hour have ads?
Neither Fruitsful nor Tomato Hour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fruitsful or Tomato Hour?
Fruitsful ships an update every 10 days, and Tomato Hour every 3 days. Most recently, Fruitsful was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tomato Hour on November 5, 2026.

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