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Pomodoro timer

  1. Market

    Installs
    60.9M

    Across 5 of 13 apps we could match.

    • Forest: 49,400,616 installs
    • Study Bunny: 8,815,800 installs
    • Focus Friend, by Hank Green: 2,052,484 installs
    • Focus Keeper: 383,339 installs
    • Flora: 220,245 installs
    • 81% leader share. Forest, by Google Play installs, across the 5 of 13 apps we could match
    • $2.99 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 11 apps that list one. 11 of 11 charge.
    • 8 of 13 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. Flora1 Oct83k ratings$0.99 to $1.99
    2. Forest2 Oct50k ratings$32.49 to $35.99 a year
    3. Focus Keeper17 Jul32k ratings$34.99 to $69.99 a year
    4. Study BunnyDec 202422k ratings$0.99 to $69.99
    5. Focus To-Do21 Sep15k ratings$1.99 to $11.99
    6. Pomodoro27 Aug11k ratings$0.99 to $9.99
    7. Focus Friend, by Hank Green26 Sep8k ratings$19.99 a year
    8. FocusPomo · Pomodoro Timer1 Oct8k ratings$5.99 to $24.99 a year
    9. Focus timer25 May2k ratings$2.99
    10. Flow10 Aug2k ratings$17.99 a year
    11. ChickFocus30 Sep1k ratings$9.99 to $12.99 a year
    12. Pomodoro23 Sep20 ratings
    13. Pomodoro Focus Timer3 Oct0 ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 4,211 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Wishlist+6.0%12 of 12 apps
    2. Ads+4.0%11 of 12 apps
    3. UX0.0%12 of 12 apps
    4. Sync & data−0.3%8 of 12 apps
    5. Limits & caps−0.7%10 of 12 apps
    6. Support−3.4%10 of 12 apps
    7. Login & auth−4.0%9 of 12 apps
    8. Performance−5.2%11 of 12 apps
    9. Billing−6.9%12 of 12 apps
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  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries
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  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 10 September 2026.

  6. Your test

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Is there a market for a new pomodoro timer app?

13 apps compete here. They hold 60,872,484 installs on Google Play, counted across the 5 we could match. We hold 4,211 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do pomodoro timer apps charge?

11 of the 11 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $2.99 or less. 2 more apps have no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want a pomodoro timer app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing pomodoro timer completes to “sand focus: pomodoro timer” in 41 of them. Then “flowfocus: pomodoro timer” in 38, “mochidoro: cat pomodoro timer” in 36. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in pomodoro timer apps?

1. Wishlist: in 12 of 12 apps, 15.3% of reviews (9.3% in Productivity apps); 2. Ads: in 11 of 12 apps, 7.7% of reviews (3.7% in Productivity apps). Counted from 4,211 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures for Productivity apps

  • the monthly-first category

    77% of subscriptions sold are monthly · 91% of revenue from monthly (different denominators, both true)

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 779 Productivity apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap.