BetterPomo vs flat.social

BetterPomo is a shared Pomodoro and focus timer for friends, classmates, and remote teams. Focus rooms synchronize timers, breaks, and room state so participants follow the same schedule. Rooms can use Pomodoro intervals or a general running timer. Participants can keep private notes and to-do lists, while session history and analytics show activity and consistency over time. Ambient sounds can be mixed from built-in or personal audio and saved as presets. Social features include friends, group conversations, communities, and session chat. Creator tools add scheduled rooms, rankings, private analytics, and OBS widgets. Browser Sources support OBS or Streamlabs overlays, and rooms can include a shared YouTube livestream. BetterPomo is free during its open beta and offers live coworking rooms, private rooms, a focus timer, accountability tools, and a mobile app. It runs in web browsers and as a native iPhone app; the native Android app is in development. The privacy policy says there are no ads or personal-data sales, and direct messages are deleted after 24 hours.

flat.social is a browser-based virtual meeting and events space where people move around shared rooms and talk with nearby participants. Audio volume and video connection respond to proximity. A flat can combine Open Spatial rooms for mingling, Conference rooms for presentations, and Chat rooms for text. Participants can draw, write and add images to shared whiteboards and sticky notes; built-in activities include football, chess, surfing, dice and arcade cabinets. Conference rooms support screen sharing and speaker or gallery layouts. Guests can join from a link, and the service runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. The Free plan costs nothing and allows up to five people at once with unlimited session length. A Day Pass costs $2, paid once, billed at $2 per seat for 24 hours, requires at least 10 seats and supports up to 100 people. Monthly costs $6 a month, billed at $6 per seat per month, with 10 to 100 seats, attendance insights, branding removal, roles and advanced access control, and priority support. Larger capacity can be discussed with the company. Slack users can start a flat with /flat and schedule recurring weekly events.