Comparison

Make Time for Yourself vs Sumbi

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

Head to head
About

Make Time for Yourself

This app offers a peaceful fishing-themed focus timer to help you concentrate. Set your session duration, choose from calming waterside scenes and ambient sounds, and collect interactive fish after each completed focus. Your progress is saved locally, and optional features like app blocking are available.

Highlights
  • Fishing-themed focus timer
  • Ambient waterside scenes and sounds
  • Interactive fish collection
  • Focus session presets and custom steps
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
  • Optional app and category blocking
  • Focus history and daily totals
Features
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A little focus. A little wonder. Open a book, choose one task and cast your line at a quiet waterside. Spend the next few minutes on what matters. When your session ends, discover a fish to add to your collection. Make Time for Yourself brings a cozy fishing ritual to your focus timer, with gently moving scenery, nature sounds and small discoveries worth returning for. FIND YOUR OWN PACE • Set a session from 10 to 120 minutes: a 25-minute study block, a chapter of a book or time for deeper work. • Choose a river or sea, daylight or sunset, and the sounds that suit your mood. • Return to your last settings or prepare a waterside from a past session. • Optionally block apps and categories during focus. You choose the permission and what to restrict. MAKE FOCUSED TIME TANGIBLE • Discover 48 real-world fish and 16 fantasy fish in the base catalog. • Revisit the waterside, companion and focused time behind your discoveries. • See today's focused minutes and completed sessions, and keep your session history. TAKE YOUR FOCUS SOMEWHERE NEW Optional region packs bring four destinations to your waterside: Korea, Japan, Finland and Italy. • Each region has eight scenes: spring, summer, autumn and winter, in daylight and at sunset. • Seasonal outfits, changing scenery and regional ambience make each visit feel different. • Discover four fish in each region: 16 regional species to collect. • Choose a destination straight from Home, or find your next place in the Places tab. A LITTLE COMPANY The optional Waterside Guardians pack includes Noeul, Olive and Mongdol, time spent with your companions, Focus Sets, weekly and monthly reports, private share cards and Strict Lock. CHOOSE WHAT MAKES IT YOURS The timer, base watersides and nature sounds, base catalog, today's summary, session history and standard focus blocking are included without additional purchases. Region packs and Waterside Guardians are available as separate one-time purchases. All Waterside Pass includes every current feature and all future features and content released in this app, including new regions and Guardians. • Monthly or annual subscription: full access while your subscription is active. • Lifetime purchase: permanent access to all current and future features and content with one purchase. Your existing individual purchases remain yours. Discovered fish and session records stay with you even after a subscription ends. Prices and billing periods are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel through your Apple account. Restore Purchases and Manage Subscriptions are available in the app. Available in Korean and English on iPhone and iPad. Check remaining time with widgets and Live Activities. Some system features depend on your device and OS. Support: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/support Privacy Policy: https://timer.snapworkslab.com/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Sumbi

This app encourages users to spend less time on their phones by gamifying digital detox. Users engage in timed "dives" away from their devices, earning virtual sea creatures based on their focus duration. It offers a peaceful, non-punitive approach to building healthier digital habits.

Highlights
  • Timed phone-free dives
  • Unlock virtual sea creatures
  • Personalized ocean environment
  • Buddy dive feature
  • Night sea creatures
  • Diary-like dive log
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The longer you put your phone down, the deeper your life gets. Start the timer, set your phone down, and sea creatures come to your ocean. From exam prep to digital detox, dive with Sumbi. Sumbi is a study focus timer and digital detox app named after the "sumbisori," the whistling breath of Jeju haenyeo, Korea's legendary free-diving women. Start a dive when you want time away from your phone. While your phone rests, your ocean deepens, and sea creatures come to live in it. Who dives with Sumbi - Students who need a study timer for exams and deep focus - Anyone fighting phone addiction or doomscrolling - People who want to cut screen time and rebuild concentration - ADHD brains that need a gentle, visual reason to stay off the phone - Anyone who just wants to watch a calm ocean and breathe What makes Sumbi different 1. One dive = one focus session. Keep your phone down while the timer runs, and the dive succeeds. If you fail, nobody scolds you. 2. Your focus time becomes an ocean. Successful dives bring creatures from shallow water, deep water, even the abyss. 3. Collect and raise your sea creatures. The more you dive, the wider and deeper your ocean grows. 4. Gift creatures to your dive buddies. Focus is deeper together. 5. No ads, no noise. Sumbi never drags you back with notifications. Coming back is your choice. Study timer, pomodoro, or deep work Pick any length with the dial: a short pomodoro-style session or hours of exam prep. Every dive adds to your daily focus record. When haenyeo divers surface, they release a long whistling breath: "hooo-ee." Your day deserves a breath that deep. Have a good dive. Hoo-ee! Contact: sumbi@niceday.io

Screenshots

Make Time for Yourself4 screens
Sumbi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Sumbi at free against Make Time for Yourself's free with in-app purchases. On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Make Time for Yourself sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Sumbi sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Make Time for Yourself ships an update every 11 days, Sumbi weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Make Time for Yourself versus Sumbi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake Time for YourselfSumbi
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size522 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSnapWorks Lab나이스데이

Customer experience

Make Time for Yourself

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sumbi

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Make Time for Yourself

Subscriptions2
  • All Waterside Pass Monthly$0.991 Month
  • All Waterside Pass Annual$5.991 Year
One-time6
  • Finnish Waterside$1.99
  • Korean Waterside$1.99
  • Italian Waterside$1.99
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  • Japanese Waterside$1.99
  • Waterside Guardians$1.99
  • All Waterside Pass Lifetime$19.99
3 purchases

Sumbi

One-time3
  • Shallow Sea Creature$0.99
  • Deep Sea Creature$1.99
  • Abyssal Creature$2.99

Questions

Is Make Time for Yourself free?
Make Time for Yourself is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sumbi free?
Sumbi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Make Time for Yourself or Sumbi have ads?
Neither Make Time for Yourself nor Sumbi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Make Time for Yourself or Sumbi?
Make Time for Yourself ships an update every 11 days, and Sumbi weekly. Most recently, Make Time for Yourself was updated on October 25, 2026 and Sumbi on October 29, 2026.

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