Comparison

Nomodoro vs Tessera 168

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

Head to head
About

Nomodoro

Features
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Nomodoro is a cute visual pomodoro timer. Pick one task, tap Begin and focus with a doodle companion and your own slime cheering you on. Built for minds that need less noise. A big countdown, gentle nature sounds, soft charts and companions you unlock with focus gems. WHAT YOU GET - One task home with a big Begin button - Big visual countdown with focus and break rounds - Strict, Loose and Whitelist modes - Focus hours: distracting apps lock at the times you set and open during your break - Giving up takes a 3-second hold on End, and your buddy gets sad - Make your own slime: stretch it, color it, pick its face - Mood check in: your slimes feel tired, calm or excited with you - Gentle nature sounds and a soft completion chime - Task modes: Work, Study, Read, Create, Plan, Workout - Friends: earn gems by focusing and unlock doodle companions - Progress: today overview, weekly mood, activity map and weekly usage - Share your day as a cute card - Widgets: quick start your usual tasks, Pause or End from the Home Screen. Live Activities keep your session in view FREE - Unlimited focus sessions of any length - Strict, Loose and Whitelist modes - Focus hours: 1 daily window with up to 3 apps - 3 nature sounds - 1 custom slime - Full history, charts and mood - Gems to unlock companions - Data backup export and import NOMODORO PRO - More Focus hours: up to 5 windows on the days you choose, unlimited apps and whole categories - Slime squad: up to 3 slimes on screen, every color and face, exclusive patterns - 5 exclusive companions - 7 more nature sounds - Custom short break, long break and focus rounds - Monthly, yearly or lifetime Nomodoro is not a medical treatment, just a calmer way to begin. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tnson1307.github.io/freshair/privacy.html

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Tessera 168

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A week is 168 hours. You only get it once. Tessera 168 is a board of 168 squares — one square for every hour of your week. Tap an hour, pick a purpose, and the hour takes that colour. Sweep across a run of hours to fill a whole morning at once. By Sunday the board is a picture of where your week actually went, not where you meant it to go. It plays like a puzzle and it reads like a mirror. THE BOARD • All 168 hours on one screen, no scrolling to see your week • Fourteen purposes to start with — Sleep, Work, Commute, Food, Exercise, Family, Myself, Upkeep, Study, Own work, Health, Friends, Fun and Rest — and the grey of hours you have not answered for yet • Add your own purposes, with your own names and colours • Grey squares are the point: they are the hours you cannot account for THE DAY • Turn the board to a single day and read it as a timeline • Write a note on any hour, or (with Pro) say it out loud and let the phone write it down • Keep side tasks inside the hour they belong to, and tick them off there • Set a sound for an hour that comes back every week • Count the small habits with one tap, right under the board WHAT IT ADDS UP TO • How the week divided, hour by hour, ranked • The change against last week at the same point, so a Wednesday is compared to a Wednesday • Hours of sleep a night, and the other things a full week can say PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account, no sign-in, no server of ours, no analytics and no advertising. Your week is one file on your iPhone, with a copy in your own iCloud that we cannot read — switch it off whenever you like. Voice notes are transcribed on the device itself — the app refuses a language whose on-device model is missing rather than sending your voice anywhere. Export a copy or delete everything, permanently, from inside the app. FREE, AND STAYS FREE The full 168-hour week, all fourteen built-in purposes, written notes on any hour, habits, every Insights page, sharing your week as an image, the iCloud copy, forty app icons earned as you go, and no ads or tracking, ever. TESSERA PRO Your own purposes with your own names and colours, voice notes written down for you, symbol and icon board styles, and every feature added next. Monthly, yearly, or one payment for life. Shareable with your whole family. Made for iPhone, in English, Tiếng Việt, Deutsch, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, Português, हिन्दी, 日本語, 한국어. Terms of Use: https://ioniclabs.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://ioniclabs.app/privacy/

Screenshots

Nomodoro4 screens
Tessera 1684 screens

Verdict

The call

Nomodoro and Tessera 168 are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Nomodoro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Tessera 168 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nomodoro ships an update every 3 days, Tessera 168 every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Nomodoro versus Tessera 168: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNomodoroTessera 168
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNgoc Son TranTong Then Hung

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Nomodoro

Subscriptions2
  • Nomodoro Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Nomodoro Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Nomodoro Pro Lifetime$19.99
3 purchases

Tessera 168

Subscriptions2
  • Tessera Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Tessera Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Tessera Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Nomodoro free?
Nomodoro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tessera 168 free?
Tessera 168 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nomodoro or Tessera 168 have ads?
Neither Nomodoro nor Tessera 168 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nomodoro or Tessera 168?
Nomodoro ships an update every 3 days, and Tessera 168 every 6 days. Most recently, Nomodoro was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tessera 168 on October 29, 2026.

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