Session vs SkillTracker One
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.
SkillTracker One
Log your progress in hobbies and skills to gain insights and unlock achievements. This app offers a gamified experience to help you improve and reach mastery. Back up your data seamlessly with iCloud.
- Track any hobby or skill
- Automated insights and charts
- Earn achievements and level up
- iCloud backups for seamless syncing
- Gamified progress tracking
- Personal goal setting
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Track all your skills in one place, view automated insights and charts for the hobbies you love, and earn yours and our achievements as you progress to mastery. - Track anything - Hobbies, skills, anything you do over time. - Easy to use - Just tap in hours for the day towards skills you've worked on. The app does the rest for you. - No account creation - Backups are uploaded to iCloud, so you can continue where you left off when you switch devices. - Learn better - Improve the things you love, while finding the things that hold you back, so you can adapt giving you your best chance at success. - Gamified - Level up your skills to 100+, earn achievements, find collectibles, and accomplish personal goals and milestones. - Other hidden features waiting for your discovery. What will you track?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Session at 4.7 against SkillTracker One's 4.0. Session also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (937 vs 13). SkillTracker One's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads and device support 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. SkillTracker One sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Session asks for nothing beyond the download.
Session holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Session has 937 ratings behind it against 13, 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 67% of SkillTracker One's.
Session ships an update every 4 months, SkillTracker One every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Session | SkillTracker One |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (937 ratings) — better | 4.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.8% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 937 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glasshouse Studio, LLC | Steven Sullivan |
Customer experience
Session
SkillTracker One
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
SkillTracker One
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Session
No in-app purchases
SkillTracker One
- Monthly Access$6.991 Month
- Annual Access – Save 53%$39.991 Year
- Monthly Access$6.99
- Annual Access – Save 53%$39.99
- Lifetime Unlock$249.99
