Pomodoro apps for Apple Watch, compared

Facts about the other nine apps were verified on 12 November 2026.

This table lists ten Pomodoro apps for Apple Watch, in alphabetical order. We make Moment, which is one of them. The table shows which apps run on Apple Watch without the iPhone, which have a complication for the watch face, what each offers for breaks, how each tells you that time is up and what each costs.

Moment's row describes the app as it ships. Each of the other rows describes what its maker says on its App Store listing or its own site, and many listings say little about their Apple Watch apps. Where a maker doesn't say which device its breaks are on, the Breaks column describes the app as a whole. Each price cell starts with what the app costs to download, followed by what its listing sells inside the app, in US dollars.

Under Without iPhone, Yes means the maker says its watch app runs without the iPhone. Yes, once installed means the watch app comes with the iPhone app and can't be installed on its own, and from then on it runs without the iPhone. Watch only means the App Store lists the app for Apple Watch alone, with no iPhone app. In the Breaks column, Short and long means short breaks and a longer one after several sessions, auto-start optional means you can have the next session or break start on its own, and you start each means it never starts on its own. Alert is what the maker says reaches your wrist when a session or a break ends. With ads means the listing says the app contains advertising. Not stated means that we couldn't read the fact on the maker's own listing or site, not that the app lacks it.

Nothing Moment does on Apple Watch needs Moment Pro. Moment Pro adds features on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro, and Moment's row lists its prices as the other rows list what their apps sell.

Focus's listing sells nine plans: five yearly ones from $19.99 to $49.99, one monthly, one for 3 months, and an Early Bird plan and a Patron subscription whose periods it doesn't give. Flow's complication and its notifications on Apple Watch, and its auto-start, are described in the version notes on its listing, not in its description. Focus's page about Apple Watch says “your phone can stay wherever you left it”, but not whether a session runs with the iPhone out of range or switched off. Silo's version notes from 2017 say it works without the iPhone, but its description today doesn't say.

Choosing an app

Another app is the better choice if you want one of these things.

• No iPhone app. Pomodoro Timer: Focus Watch and TomatoWatch are only for Apple Watch and have no iPhone app. Moment for Apple Watch comes with Moment for iPhone.
• Sessions and breaks that start on their own. Simple Pomodoro Timer + Watch starts the next session or break on its own unless you turn that off, and Be Focused and Flow offer it as an option. In Moment, you start each one.
• An alert from the app itself. Pomodoro Timer: Focus Watch, Silo and Simple Pomodoro Timer + Watch describe a haptic on your wrist when time is up. TomatoFlex describes an alarm on Apple Watch, and TomatoWatch describes vibration and sound. In Moment, a notification taps your wrist when Moment isn't on screen.
• Tasks. Be Focused, Focus and Focus To-Do keep a task list alongside the timer, and Silo does with Silo Pro.
• One price, with nothing to buy inside. TomatoWatch costs $0.99 and Pomodoro Timer: Focus Watch costs $1.99, and neither sells anything inside the app. Moment is free on Apple Watch, and it sells Moment Pro inside the app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro.
• An older Apple Watch. Moment needs watchOS 11 or newer, and six of the other apps run on earlier versions: Silo from watchOS 8.7, Be Focused from watchOS 9, Focus To-Do and TomatoWatch from watchOS 9.6, and Simple Pomodoro Timer + Watch and TomatoFlex from watchOS 10.
• Double Tap. Simple Pomodoro Timer + Watch starts and pauses its timer with Double Tap on watchOS 11 or later, and Focus says Double Tap works within its watch app.

Session and Forest aren't in the table because their App Store listings show no Apple Watch app. They have their own pages, Moment and Session and A Forest alternative.

What Moment does not offer

• Moment for Apple Watch comes with Moment for iPhone and can't be installed on its own.
• The next session or break doesn't start on its own.
• When a session or a break ends, Moment doesn't play a haptic itself. A notification from Moment taps your wrist when Moment isn't on screen, and if you're looking at Moment when the time runs out, you see it end there.
• You can't type an intention on Apple Watch.
• App blocking is on iPhone and iPad, not on Apple Watch, and a session you start on Apple Watch doesn't block apps on your iPhone.

Moment on Apple Watch

Moment for Apple Watch comes with Moment for iPhone and needs watchOS 11 or newer. You set each session there with the Digital Crown, from 5 to 90 minutes, and start it with a tap on the dial. Everything Moment does on Apple Watch is free, including the complication, breaks, reflection, Stats and Apple Health, and the guide to Moment on Apple Watch explains how each of them works.

Facts about the other apps are from their App Store listings and their makers' sites, verified on 12 November 2026. If something here is out of date, email hi@momenttimer.com.

Moment for Apple Watch

Download Moment on your iPhone to use it on your Apple Watch. Everything Moment does there is free.