Focus - Deep Work Timer
71
Quality Score
Strong
Focus - Deep Work Timer
by Meaningful Things GmbH & Co. KG
Medium confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Focus - Deep Work Timer is an iOS app from Meaningful Things GmbH & Co. KG in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.4★ across 1,782 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 71: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tier
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Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
119 snapshots on record
Rating
4.4
Reviews
1,782 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
119
since Apr 2015
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$170K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $130K – $230K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~2.8y at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (311 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$9K |
| ⚙ 11.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$69K |
Total estimate
$170K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 21× MRR multiple
💸
~0.6× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 11.6y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
21× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
93K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
11K
Daily active
5.1K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 311 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-22 · 17 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 17 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 50/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.4
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.44★ across 1,782 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $90K-$160K. Portfolio play ($27K/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| subscriptionREVIEW | +$2,500 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Low install base (1,782 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (23 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| free trialREVIEW | +$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v2027.1.1
Focus for iPhone Duo
This update brings Focus to iPhone Duo: discover a well-thought-out design with lots of small and big refinements to make Focus feel at home on this new class of iPhone.… Full release notes →
This update brings Focus to iPhone Duo: discover a well-thought-out design with lots of small and big refinements to make Focus feel at home on this new class of iPhone.… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Focus - Deep Work Timer
- Developer
- Meaningful Things GmbH & Co. KG
- Bundle ID
- com.laser-focused.focus-ios
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Productivity
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth1,844 ratings+1199% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Do your best work.
Focus helps you concentrate with timed focus sessions built on the Pomodoro technique, track your tasks and projects, and see real progress — across all your Apple devices. A calm, proven rhythm: plan, work, break, review.
“[…] a tool that can genuinely make people more productive” – MacStories.net
“[…] a must-have for anyone who finds themselves easily getting distracted or forgetting to take occasional breaks.” – iDownloadBlog.com
I always use Focus when…
… I need to start a deep-work session
… I want to stop procrastinating and finally begin… View full description on the official store →
Focus helps you concentrate with timed focus sessions built on the Pomodoro technique, track your tasks and projects, and see real progress — across all your Apple devices. A calm, proven rhythm: plan, work, break, review.
“[…] a tool that can genuinely make people more productive” – MacStories.net
“[…] a must-have for anyone who finds themselves easily getting distracted or forgetting to take occasional breaks.” – iDownloadBlog.com
I always use Focus when…
… I need to start a deep-work session
… I want to stop procrastinating and finally begin… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 311 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v2027.1.1🔄 updated 2w ago🌐 AR, CS, DA, NL, EN +18📂 Productivity💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
22 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-10
🔧
Shipped update — v2027.0.2 → v2027.1.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +6 high confidence
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.2.1 → v2027.0.2
→ 30 days after: reviews +12 high confidence
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.2 → v2026.2.1
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.2K/mo · reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.1 → v2026.2
→ 30 days after: revenue +$21.2K/mo · reviews +19 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.15 → 4.44 (improved 1.29★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +14 high confidence
2026-05
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +14 high confidence
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.50 → 3.15 (dropped 1.35★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.9K/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +1,736 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$4.9K/mo · rating −0.06★ · reviews +1,736 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.15 → 4.50 (improved 1.35★)
2020-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$62/mo high confidence
2020-02
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$142/mo · reviews +5 medium · co-occurring
2018-05
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$66/mo · rating +0.06★ high confidence
2015-10
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.18 → 3.60 (improved 0.42★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$61/mo · rating +0.05★ high confidence
2015-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$130/mo · rating +0.42★ high confidence
2015-09
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.50 → 3.18 (dropped 0.32★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$130/mo · rating +0.42★ high confidence
2015-09
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$208/mo · rating +0.10★ · reviews +7 high confidence
2015-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.50 (improved 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$78/mo · rating −0.32★ high confidence
2015-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.00 → 3.40 (improved 0.40★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$66/mo · rating +0.50★ high confidence
2015-07
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.33 → 3.00 (improved 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$89/mo · rating +0.67★ high confidence
2015-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 3.00 → 2.33 (dropped 0.67★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$89/mo · rating +0.67★ high confidence
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #19Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
focus timer·#19🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.3491★ | 169 | 4.3491★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.16327★ | 49 | 4.16327★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.2266★ | 203 | 4.2266★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.17982★ | 456 | 4.17982★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 3.83626★ | 171 | 3.83626★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.33438★ | 317 | 4.33438★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.14286★ | 63 | 4.14286★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.36322★ | 870 | 4.36322★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.4436★ | 1,844 | 4.4436★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Focus - Deep Work Timer: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 1,782 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Focus - Deep Work Timer make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Focus - Deep Work Timer earns approximately $5.0K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Focus - Deep Work Timer profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $170K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Focus - Deep Work Timer looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 2.8 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Focus - Deep Work Timer have?▴
Estimated audience: ~93K lifetime downloads, ~11K monthly active users, and ~5K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Focus - Deep Work Timer?▴
Browse the full Productivity category catalog to find similar apps with revenue, build cost, audience and tech stack data. Each /p/{slug} page also shows a Compare side-by-side widget with three peer apps from the same niche.
What is Focus - Deep Work Timer built with?▴
Our heuristic places Focus - Deep Work Timer on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Focus - Deep Work Timer still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 17 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Focus - Deep Work Timer sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 21× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Focus - Deep Work Timer last updated?▴
Focus - Deep Work Timer last shipped a new version on 2026-10-22 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Focus - Deep Work Timer?▴
Focus - Deep Work Timer is published by Meaningful Things GmbH & Co. KG on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Focus - Deep Work Timer's BU Score?▴
Focus - Deep Work Timer has a BU Score of 71/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.