Focus Timer vs Mochidoro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Timer
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Every session from now on is a step toward a more mindful life. Focus Timer is a simple way to see where your time actually goes. Make a handful of categories for anything you want to measure, good or bad: Work, Reading, Studying, Meditation⦠or Gaming and Scrolling, if you're up for it. Then start a timer with a default track and break time whenever you start one of them. That's the whole habit. After a few days the numbers start talking, and most people are surprised by what they hear. HOW IT WORKS ⒠Pick a category, tap Start. ⒠Pause when life gets in the way. Pauses are saved too, so your history stays honest. SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES ⒠Your day as a timeline, in each category's colour. Pinch to zoom in, all the way down to the minute. ⒠Every past day and week is there too. ⒠Filter by category to see just your Work, or just your Gaming. ON YOUR WRIST ⒠The Apple Watch app runs sessions on its own. Turn off your iPhone, leave it in another room, and keep tracking from your wrist. ⒠Start on your iPhone, pause on your Watch. They stay in sync. JUST TELL SIRI ⒠"Start Work in Focus Timer." Any category works, no setup needed. ⒠Pause, resume, stop, take a break, or ask for today's summary without touching a thing. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY ⒠Everything syncs between your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch through your own iCloud. ⒠Export your whole history to CSV or SQL anytime, with a README that explains every column. Hand it to your spreadsheet, your analytics app or your AI and ask things like "Which hour of the day do I get the most tracked time, and is it different on weekends?" ⒠Import it back whenever you like. ⒠No accounts, no ads, no tracking. We never see your data. OUR PROMISE Create a handful of categories and keep tracking your sessions through the week. This one simple change will save you hours of your life, every week. We know from our testing that this works for most people, but certainly not everyone. If the experiment doesn't save you real time after a few days, please feel free to delete the app.
Mochidoro
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Focus. Earn a sticker. Fill your jar. Mochidoro is a cute Pomodoro focus timer for study and work, with a glass jar that fills up with the days you showed up. Pick a length (5 to 90 minutes), press start, and your cat doodles a little picture while you concentrate. Every finished session drops a hand-drawn shape into the jar. Reach your daily goal and a cat sticker falls in too. Tilt your phone and the stickers slide. Shake it and they tumble. A year from now, the jar is a year of days you actually sat down for. NO GUILT No streaks to lose. No red warnings. No "you failed". Stop a session early and nothing is taken away. Blank days are just blank. Made for anyone who gets distracted easily and does better with a gentle nudge than a nag. 80+ HAND-DRAWN CATS Coffee cats, box cats, sleepy loaves, a cat with a bouquet. Every goal you reach brings a new one, and milestones at 7, 30, 50, 100, 200 and 365 cats bring special ones. Tap "only cats" to see just your cats in the jar. A JAR YOU CAN PLAY WITH Real physics. Tilt, shake, tap the glass, drag a sticker. Tap any sticker to see the day it was earned and the note you wrote. A PAGE FOR EVERY DAY Your book has a page for each day. Paste your stickers, doodle with coloured pens, and write one line about what you worked on. Share a page as a picture. PAW COINS AND A LITTLE SHOP Earn a paw coin for every 25 minutes of focus, plus one to collect each day. Spend them on extra copies of the stickers you love, for your journal. A CAT TO SIT WITH YOU A bobblehead cat keeps you company on the Today screen. Tap its head and it wobbles. Poke it a few times and it might meow back. ALSO β’ Tags to see where your focus goes each month β’ Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Live Activity while you focus β’ Apple Watch: start, pause, see the time left, feel the finish β’ Monthly and yearly recaps you can share β’ Soft rain sound while you focus, and optional background music β’ Dark mode, like a desk lamp at night β’ Syncs between your devices with iCloud β’ English, ηΉι«δΈζ, ζ₯ζ¬θͺ, νκ΅μ΄ Free to use: the timer, the daily stickers, the jar, the journal, paw coins and the rain sound. MOCHI CLUB Join the club for the extras: seasonal cats, three more companion cats, four jar looks, nine app icons, six more focus sounds (wind, fireplace, library, cafΓ©, summer outdoors, street), more paper for your book, unlimited tags, a yearly insights page, five paw coins a day, and a printable journal of each month. Monthly or yearly membership, or once for a lifetime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://chi0313.github.io/mochidoro-site/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mochidoro at every 6 days against Focus Timer's monthly. Mochidoro also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Focus Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Mochidoro sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus Timer ships an update monthly, Mochidoro every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Timer | Mochidoro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 6 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.4 | 18.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cododev Technology Inc. | VCVC |
In-app purchases
Focus Timer
- 7-day TrialFree
- Full Version$7.99
Mochidoro
- Monthly Membership3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly Membership7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- 20 Paw Coins$0.99
- 70 Paw Coins$2.99
- 200 Paw Coins$6.99
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- Lifetime Membership$24.99
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