10,000 hours vs Session
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
10,000 hours
This app helps you track and accumulate the time spent working towards your goals. By actively recording your efforts, you can visualize your progress and stay motivated to achieve mastery in any field.
- Time tracking for goals
- Record time spent working
- Visualize time accumulation
- Goal progress monitoring
- Motivation for skill development
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The key to success in any field is hard work. The more time you can dedicate to a goal, the more successful you'll likely to become. This app aims to help you keep on track, encouraging you to invest time into what you want to become. By actively recording the time you spend working towards your goal, you can watch the time add up. And who knows, you might just reach 10,000 hours... Use this app to help keep you on track with what you want to become. Record the time you spend working and press the save button to add it to your total. Have fun!
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Session at 4.7 against 10,000 hours's 4.3. Session also leads on ratings volume (937 vs 33) and review sentiment (77% vs 67%). 10,000 hours's advantage is iOS requirement (7.1 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 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Session has 937 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of 10,000 hours's written reviews are positive against 77% of Session's.
10,000 hours ships an update every 5 months, Session every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 10,000 hours | Session |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (33 ratings) | 4.7 (937 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 76.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 | 937 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 13.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eat More Pixels | Glasshouse Studio, LLC |
Customer experience
10,000 hours
Session
Bugs and requests
10,000 hours
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
10,000 hours
No in-app purchases
Session
No in-app purchases
