Comparison

LimitPulse vs Focus Timer

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

Head to head
About

LimitPulse

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LimitPulse puts your current AI account limits, public early-reset reports, service status, product updates, and local history in one native iPhone dashboard. Highlights β€’ Read-only usage and reset status β€’ Clear remaining time and data freshness β€’ Fixed 0–100% quota and token-activity trends β€’ Curated public reset reports, clearly separated from account verification β€’ Official service-status and product-update summaries with source links β€’ A public early-reset calendar that distinguishes reports, verification, and retractions β€’ Verified reset alerts when iOS permits background delivery β€’ Local history, disconnect, and delete controls β€’ A complete sample dashboard that works without signing in Public reports never prove that your account reset. LimitPulse checks the account's read-only usage on the iPhone before recording or notifying a verified reset. Your password is entered only on the provider's system-browser page. Authentication material stays in the iPhone Keychain, and usage history stays on this iPhone. Account data is never uploaded to a LimitPulse server. Public-source summaries contain no account data and link back to their source. Usage interfaces may change. When a request fails, LimitPulse keeps the last successful snapshot visible and shows its current freshness instead of hiding the limitation. Background delivery is best effort, so reset alerts cannot be guaranteed at an exact minute. LimitPulse is an independent third-party companion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI.

About

Focus Timer

Features
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A Pomodoro focus timer for study and work. Block selected apps, settle into cabin white noise and take a virtual flight across Earth. Flight Pomodoro turns completed focus sessions into boarding passes you can collect. Choose your destination, print a ticket and take off when you are ready. FIND A JOURNEY FOR YOUR TIME Pick your departure and destination or discover flights by focus time. Time-scaled mode keeps longer journeys longer. You can also match a session to the estimated flight duration provided for a route. BLOCK DISTRACTIONS, BUILD YOUR CABIN Choose apps to block while you study, work or read. Set the mood with cabin ambience and flight-inspired sounds. App blocking requires Screen Time permission. Haptics are available on supported devices. WATCH YOUR FOCUS CROSS THE EARTH Follow your aircraft over detailed continents, oceans, clouds, day and night. The camera tracks your flight, and you can rotate and zoom the globe to explore. PRINT YOUR BOARDING PASS Start with a paper-printing animation at the top of your device. On iPhones with Dynamic Island, the animation connects to the island. Printing a ticket and starting a flight are separate, so you decide when to take off. COLLECT THE TIME YOU COMPLETED Finished flights become boarding passes in your album. Complete a flight with app blocking maintained to receive your first passport stamp at that arrival airport. Turn the pages and zoom in to explore your collection. KEEP A JOURNAL OF YOUR FOCUS Review focus time, add journey notes and look back on your week. Export your records or save an encrypted backup file to restore later. ONE APP PURCHASE. EVERY FEATURE INCLUDED. No additional in-app purchases or subscriptions. Explore every available destination, keep adding album and passport pages, choose from three album designs, four cabin soundscapes and five app icons, and save your focus environments. Existing users also receive every feature when they update. Each page holds eight items, with new pages added as your collection grows. Flights and boarding passes are virtual experiences for focus. Flight Pomodoro does not issue real airline tickets, book flights or track live airline operations.

Screenshots

LimitPulse4 screens
Focus Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LimitPulse at Free against Focus Timer's $2.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

LimitPulse is free to download; Focus Timer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
LimitPulse versus Focus Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLimitPulseFocus Timer
PriceFree β€” better$2.99
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size14 MB164 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYONGHWAN PARKSnapWorks Lab

In-app purchases

None

LimitPulse

No in-app purchases

None

Focus Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LimitPulse free?
LimitPulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Focus Timer free?
Focus Timer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do LimitPulse or Focus Timer have ads?
Neither LimitPulse nor Focus Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LimitPulse or Focus Timer?
LimitPulse ships an update every 2 weeks, and Focus Timer every 2 weeks. Most recently, LimitPulse was updated on October 13, 2026 and Focus Timer on October 10, 2026.

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