Session vs Project Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Session
Track your progress towards mastering skills by logging dedicated practice time. Manually log sessions or use the automatic timer to record your efforts. Start making measurable progress on your goals today.
- Create custom activities
- Manual session logging
- Automatic timer
- Track progress towards goals
- Skill mastery tracking
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ty for 5+ years of Session! but it's time to start a new arc. search timespent on the app store to see what's next. —cal --- "The secret to getting ahead is getting started." ―Mark Twain They say it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill, but who's counting? Now, you can with Session. Create an activity, and log sessions manually or with the automatic timer. Whether it's for 10 hours, 100, 10,000 or more – start making progress towards your goals today.
Project Timer
Track your time and manage projects efficiently. Log tasks with descriptions, organize them by project, and estimate durations. Monitor your time spent and earnings with detailed analytics.
- Task timer with descriptions
- Organize tasks by project
- Estimate project durations
- Set billable projects and hourly rates
- Client management
- Time and earnings analytics
- Project breakdown by time spent
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Project Timer - Tracker" is the ultimate tool for managing your time and projects. With this app, you'll be able to: • Start a timer for any task with ease • Add detailed descriptions for each task • Organize tasks under specific projects • Estimate project durations and set them as billable • Set hourly rates and clients for billable projects The app also provides powerful analytics that give you insight into: • Total time spent on tasks and projects within a specified date range • Total gains made on billable projects • A breakdown of the projects you've worked on, with the percentage of time spent on each With "Project Timer - Tracker," you'll have full visibility into how you're spending your time and where your gains are coming from. And we're always looking to improve, so please feel free to share any feedback or suggestions with us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Session at 77% against Project Timer's 0%. Session also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (936 vs 1). Project Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Session holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Session has 936 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Session's written reviews are positive against 0% of Project Timer's.
Session ships an update every 4 months, Project Timer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Session | Project Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (936 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 936 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glasshouse Studio, LLC | mounir tajaouart |
Customer experience
Session
Project Timer
Bugs and requests
Session
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer inconsistencies when exiting the app
- Inability to add time manually (only minutes, not hours)
- App crashes when trying to add a session manually
Requested features
6 requests- Add delete and rename session functions
- Implement activity editing (color, icon, name, description)
- Provide activity reordering capability
- Include activity time tracking by day/week/month/year
- Add Pomodoro timer functionality
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- Integrate music playback or nature sounds
Project Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Session
No in-app purchases
Project Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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