25 minutes vs Smart Sloth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
25 minutes
This app uses a timer to help you maintain high productivity while preventing burnout. It's designed to keep you focused and efficient during work sessions.
- Productivity timer
- Burnout prevention
- Focus enhancement
- Time management tool
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25 minutes helps you keep your productivity high avoiding burnout using the timer.
Smart Sloth
This productivity app combines a task manager with the Pomodoro Technique to help users stay focused and efficient. It offers customizable task lengths, notifications, and gesture-based controls to overcome procrastination and build routines.
- Pomodoro timer integration
- Task management
- Customizable task lengths
- Notification alerts
- Gesture-based controls
- Focus enhancement
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Give each task a time slot. Smart Sloth brings task planning and a focus timer together for work, study and everyday routines. Plan tasks, choose their durations and follow the current task from the Now screen. Use Plan to organize your task queue and Routines to manage reusable task lists. Start, pause and resume the timer, and receive a notification when a task’s time runs out. Choose the app language in Settings: English, Azerbaijani, Russian, Spanish, French, Turkish, German, Italian or Portuguese (Portugal). Pomodoro ™ and Pomodoro Technique ® are registered trademarks of Francesco Cirillo. This app is not affiliated with Francesco Cirillo. Privacy Policy: https://www.jafarnajafov.com/smart-sloth/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 25 minutes at 4.8 against Smart Sloth's 4.1. 25 minutes also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). Smart Sloth's advantage is review sentiment (79% vs 43%) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. 25 minutes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Smart Sloth sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
25 minutes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 33 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of 25 minutes's written reviews are positive against 79% of Smart Sloth's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
25 minutes ships an update every 6 weeks, Smart Sloth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 25 minutes | Smart Sloth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (71 ratings) — better | 4.1 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 79.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | 益 李 | Jafar Najafov |
Customer experience
25 minutes
Smart Sloth
In-app purchases
25 minutes
- Remove Pomodoro Ads$0.99
Smart Sloth
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$1.491 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$4.491 Year
- Lifetime$4.99
