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Pomodoro focus timer.

10 apps · 3,389 reviews held · 726 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

2.2star
How angry
21%
Negative reviews
63%
Room to enter
9 of 9
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: support. 7 of 9 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 5 of 10 still carry sync & data complaints.

5 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 726 negative reviews.

Sync & dataextreme

3.3% vs 0.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 24 reviews · 5 of 10 apps · 2.2star mean

What they said · 3 of 24
  • Forest: Focus for Productivity3star· Aug 12, 2026

    Good app but too many glitches — I love the concept of the app and have been using it for years, but there are just too many glitches, including times when my plus subscription was disabled, or cannot sync, or cannot open daily challenges. It’s just frustrating. The in-app support function was also unable to load when I have these issues, so there’s literally no help I can get. Already reconsid

  • Flow: Focus & Pomodoro Timer1star· Aug 5, 2026

    Serious Sync Issues Between Mac and iOS — I’m extremely disappointed with the synchronization reliability between the Mac and iOS versions. I enabled the option to sync data to Calendar, but the data never appeared in my calendar. Even worse, the data inside the Flow app itself became inconsistent — I originally had three records for today, but now only the middle one remains. There are also ser

  • Forest: Focus for Productivity1star· Aug 2, 2026

    Update ruined everything. — Updated the app and now all the features I already paid for is no longer there unless you pay for a plus version. No custom tag names for example. And all my history is gone, and I have to re unlock everything. Yeah no thanks. Off to a new app.

Named problems · 2
  • Sync fails between devices6 of 24
  • Everything gone at once4 of 24

Limits & capshigh

5.1% vs 1.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 37 reviews · 7 of 10 apps · 2.6star mean

What they said · 3 of 37
  • Focus Friend, by Hank Green2star· Aug 16, 2026

    nice app but — I feel like a lot of features are locked behind pay walls…

  • Forest: Focus for Productivity2star· Jul 17, 2026

    paywall ruined it — i’ve used this app since I was in middle school. I’m 26 now and it’s impossible to use without paying for something. sad to see you go.

  • Forest: Focus for Productivity3star· Jul 13, 2026

    New version is broken — Used to love this app and redownloaded on my new phone. It has a bug where you cannot exit the first challenge which limits your ability to participate in events or get new trees. Deleted the app and the subscription.

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall4 of 37

Adselevated

17.2% vs 10.2% typical store-wide.

Counted in 125 reviews · 8 of 10 apps · 2.8star mean

What they said · 3 of 125
  • Pomodoro - Focus Timer1star· Aug 22, 2026

    Why do I get ads on premium — I paid for the premium version. Still getting ads. I want a refund

  • Focus Keeper - Pomodoro Timer1star· Aug 11, 2026

    Used to be a great app — It just got way, way, way too busy and convoluted. More bells and whistles. I used to be able to compile a list and immediately adjust the duration. Now it immediately goes to a timer that starts clicking loudly without your permission. You have to take about 3 steps to go into the menu , edit, adjust the time or delete. More bells and whistles is not better. Also you get

  • FocusPomo · Pomodoro Timer1star· Aug 2, 2026

    Annoying — Millions of users! 4.7 star rating! Whatever. This is one of those apps - kind of like Tinder - that has so many pop ups and questions before you even get to use the app… then finally you’re on the timer page, but wait, how about this free trial? Me: No, Go away. Then just as I’m about to click on the timer, another pop up: how about THIS free trial? Me: How about I delete your app? I a

Billingelevated

39.9% vs 30.8% typical store-wide.

Counted in 290 reviews · 9 of 10 apps · 2.8star mean

What they said · 3 of 290
  • Pomodoro - Focus Timer1star· Aug 22, 2026

    Why do I get ads on premium — I paid for the premium version. Still getting ads. I want a refund

  • Pomodoro - Focus Timer1star· Aug 13, 2026

    I paid for premium and it never unlocked. Fix it please — I used to love your app, but I paid my annual fee to renew and it is still locked and useless. Fix it please

  • Forest: Focus for Productivity1star· Aug 12, 2026

    Rating changed from five stars to one. — This app used to be so good. Now they somehow think that anyone is going to pay for their subscription service when every update the app gets buggier and buggier. If I close the app, it crashes. I don’t mean close it and open something else. I mean if I go back to the home screen or literally any other app. When the timer hits zero… Nothing happens. The w

Named problems · 2
  • Price judged too high for the value22 of 290
  • Trial converted without clear consent3 of 290

UXelevated

6.6% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 48 reviews · 9 of 10 apps · 2.8star mean

What they said · 3 of 48
  • Flora - Green Focus2star· Sep 1, 2026

    New update changed it — I LOVED this app! I got a boost of dopamine every time I finished my studying and grew a tree, and I loved the little anticipation I got when wondering what kind of tree I was growing. It helped me SO so much with executive dysfunction and eliminating distractions. I was recommending it to everyone I knew and it was awesome. However, the new update has completely changed it

  • Forest: Focus for Productivity1star· Aug 14, 2026

    New update (Aug 2026) is unusable! — I usually avoid reviews, but the previous update(s) have made the app usability worse. This most recent one has made the app’s features extremely glitchy. I could get used to the new interface, but it doesn’t feel like any UX/UI improvement. Hoping there will be a new update soon to fix all the errors!

  • FocusPomo · Pomodoro Timer3star· Aug 6, 2026

    Nice app, but need to allow for cycle reset/stop — The app ui is nice, and lots of great features on plus to help keep you on the pomodoro cycle. However, it doesn’t appear possible to stop or restart a cycle if you need to interrupt. It is also annoying to have the this app stuck on live activities when you are not intending to use it. IE there should be a way to choose when you are in the cycle,

Also counted

ThemeOf 726 negatives
  • Performance124 · 17.1% · 9 apps
  • Support32 · 4.4% · 7 apps
  • Login & auth23 · 3.2% · 4 apps
  • Accuracy6 · 0.8% · 4 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after pomodoro focus timer, in their order.

Who they're for
study
Google
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App Store
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Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “pomodoro focus timer for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 23 · just a basic one 17 · it used to be simpler 733
  • Wants it to plug inApple Watch 4 · widgets 311
  • Outgrown itbulk entry 22

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 10 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Flora - Green Focus is the biggest app here that has stopped shipping. Last update 5 months ago, at 203,938 installs.

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 3 of 10 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play. Amber marks an app that has not shipped in over 90 days, the 90th percentile across every market we hold.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Flow: Focus & Pomodoro Timer$2.99–$39.99 · 3 tiers8.6% of 35
Focus Keeper - Pomodoro Timer$3.99–$199.99 · 7 tiers3.4% of 145
Pomodoro - Focus Timer$0.99–$9.99 · 5 tiers2.7% of 111
Forest: Focus for Productivity$0.99–$35.99 · 9 tiers2.1% of 191
Flora - Green Focus$0.99–$1.99 · 3 tiers0% of 22
Study Bunny: Focus Timer$0.99–$69.99 · 6 tiers0% of 87
Focus To-Do: Focus Timer&Tasks$1.99–$11.99 · 3 tiers0% of 66
FocusPomo · Pomodoro Timer$3.99–$59.99 · 10 tiers0% of 35
Focus Friend, by Hank Green$2.99–$39.99 · 10 tiers0% of 34

What each one owns, where each is exposed

Productive - Habit Tracker

Owns. Polish, habit-layer depth, 91,110 ratings reach

Exposed. 57% negative; forces $3.99–$79.99 paywall before any free trial; data loss on update

Forest: Focus for Productivity

Owns. Gamification, brand warmth, 48,647 ratings reach

Exposed. 47% negative; retroactively paywalled features users paid for; frequent session bugs and data resets

Study Bunny: Focus Timer

Owns. Cute aesthetic, loyal student base, 20,834 ratings reach

Exposed. 23% negative but ads now trigger on every app open — long-term loyalists publicly uninstalling

Focus Keeper - Pomodoro Timer

Owns. Classic pomodoro simplicity, 31,453 ratings reach

Exposed. 38% negative; post-update removed paid features, now demands subscription; notification UX regressed

Flora - Green Focus

Owns. Ad-lite, 82,370 ratings — largest reach in set; low 8% negative

Exposed. Monetization ceiling at $1.99 max IAP; thin feature set limits conversion upside

Focus To-Do: Focus Timer&Tasks

Owns. Task integration, 14,508 ratings, 18% negative — second cleanest anger score

Exposed. Paid lifetime buyers locked out of features; support silent on billing errors

The Deep Report on this market

Each rival’s exposed weakness, what not to build, and the call, argued from the same reviews counted above.

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Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

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Is there a market for a new pomodoro focus timer app?

10 apps compete on this shelf, holding 3,389 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, sync & data, runs in 5 of 10 of them at 3.3% of negative reviews against 0.9% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in pomodoro focus timer?

1. Sync & data: in 5 of 10 apps, 3.3% of negative reviews; 2. Limits & caps: in 7 of 10 apps, 5.1% of negative reviews; 3. Ads: in 8 of 10 apps, 17.2% of negative reviews; 4. Billing: in 9 of 10 apps, 39.9% of negative reviews; 5. UX: in 9 of 10 apps, 6.6% of negative reviews.

How many pomodoro focus timer app reviews did App Imp count?

3,389 US App Store reviews across 10 apps, 726 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap.