Comparison

Popmodoro vs Roundi

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

Head to head
About

Popmodoro

This app helps you concentrate and build focus habits using the Pomodoro Technique. It offers customizable work intervals and breaks with a calm, distraction-free interface. Track your progress and build a consistent routine for studying or deep work.

Highlights
  • Customizable work and break intervals
  • Focus habit tracking
  • Daily streak and progress visualization
  • Calm, distraction-free design
  • Gentle completion sounds
  • Light and dark themes
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Popmodoro is a calm, beautifully simple Pomodoro timer and focus timer that helps you concentrate, beat procrastination, and build a study or work routine that sticks — one tomato at a time. Studying for exams, doing deep work, writing, coding, or just trying to stay off your phone? Popmodoro turns the proven Pomodoro Technique into an effortless daily focus habit. Start a session, work without distractions, take a well-earned break — then watch your focus minutes add up and your streak grow. THE POMODORO TECHNIQUE, MADE SIMPLE The Pomodoro Technique is a time-management method: you work in focused intervals — traditionally 25 minutes — separated by short breaks. Each interval is one "pomodoro." It's a simple, powerful way to manage your time, stay productive, and avoid burnout. Popmodoro makes it effortless: one tap to start the timer, and you're going. No setup, no clutter — just focus, break, repeat. A FLEXIBLE POMODORO TIMER - Set any length — tap the number to type it, or drag the slider from 1 minute to 4 hours - Use it as a 25-minute Pomodoro, a 30- or 45-minute study timer, or a 1-hour deep-work session - Great for quick 15-minute sprints, focused 60-minute blocks, or long 2-hour study sessions - A clean countdown with a calming progress ring keeps you in focus - See exactly what time your session ends - Automatic short breaks between sessions, with optional auto-start STAY MOTIVATED AND BUILD A FOCUS HABIT - Earn a tomato for every session you finish - Track daily tomatoes, total focus minutes, and your daily streak - A 7-day chart shows your week of Pomodoro sessions at a glance - A heatmap shows your momentum and study habit building over time - Turn focus into a daily habit that actually sticks — one Pomodoro at a time A POMODORO TIMER MADE TO BE CALM - Gentle completion sounds — pick the one you like best - Sounds play even when your phone is on silent, so you never miss the end of a session - Light and dark themes, day or night - A warm, minimal, distraction-free design built for deep focus PERFECT FOR - Students using a Pomodoro timer to study for exams or finish homework - Remote workers and professionals doing deep work - Writers, coders, designers, and other creatives who need distraction-free time - Anyone managing their time, beating procrastination, or building better focus and study habits WHY POMODORO WORKS Long, unbroken work drains focus and invites distraction. By breaking work into short Pomodoro intervals with regular breaks, the technique helps you start more easily, concentrate longer, and finish your day without burning out. Popmodoro brings that simple rhythm to your phone. Work, break, repeat. Download Popmodoro — the simple Pomodoro timer — and make your focus count, one tomato at a time.

About

Roundi

This app encourages single-task focus by visualizing time as a disappearing color disc. It enforces focus by making leaving the app before a round ends costly. Users can create custom focus rituals and control it hands-free with voice commands.

Highlights
  • Visual time tracking
  • Single-task enforcement
  • Customizable focus rituals
  • Voice control with Siri
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Multiple visual themes
  • Focus streak tracking
Features
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One round, one thing. Roundi holds you to a single task and shows the time as color: focus you can see. Turn the dial, press start, and a disc of color begins to disappear — like a kitchen timer for your attention. No numbers counting down, no notifications pulling you back. Just time, visibly running out. THE ONE RULE Leave the app — or lock the screen — before the round ends, and the round is lost, instantly. That's the whole trick: Roundi doesn't block anything, it just makes leaving cost something. (Too strict? There's a Lenient mode.) MADE FOR YOUR RITUALS • Meditate — 15 quiet minutes, watching the color fade • Study — a 50-minute block with no pings • Work — deep work sessions up to 2 hours • Train — planks, dead hangs, rest between sets Save each ritual as a tag and it becomes a one-tap start button with its own duration. SAY IT, DON'T TAP IT "Start Plank in Roundi." Between rounds, Siri sets the length, starts a tag, adds another round, or tells you your streak. Hands free — and once a round starts, nothing interrupts you. ON YOUR WRIST Roundi runs on Apple Watch too. Turn the Digital Crown, tap START, and the color sweeps away on your wrist; a tap and a chime mark the end. Watch rounds land in your iPhone's calendar, Siri works on the watch, and one rule carries over: unlock your iPhone during a watch round and the round ends. A TIMER YOU'LL WANT TO LOOK AT Choose how time drains: a clockwise disc, a color that falls or rises across the whole screen, or a spiral coil that unwinds from the outside in. Six soft colors. A chime and a soft blink of color when the round completes. EVERY ROUND, KEPT Finished rounds land as dots on your calendar, with your daily total and streak. Time becomes habit; habit becomes you. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Your rounds stay on your device. Set a time. Stay focused. One round at a time.

Screenshots

Popmodoro4 screens
Roundi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Roundi at none against Popmodoro's shown. Roundi also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Popmodoro against 5.0 for Roundi. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Popmodoro versus Roundi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPopmodoroRoundi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOzan GuzelkanYakppal, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Popmodoro

No in-app purchases

None

Roundi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Popmodoro free?
Popmodoro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roundi free?
Roundi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Popmodoro or Roundi?
Popmodoro and Roundi are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Popmodoro or Roundi have ads?
Popmodoro shows ads; Roundi does not.

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