Session Timer vs Routinely
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Session Timer
Enhance your concentration and build lasting focus habits with distraction-free work sessions. Utilize proven techniques, immersive soundscapes, and intelligent tracking to understand and improve your productivity without burnout.
- Customizable focus timers
- Work-break rhythm intervals
- Immersive ambient soundscapes
- Intelligent progress tracking
- Task management and assignment
- Data export for analysis
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DEEPFOCUS helps you reclaim your attention and build deep focus habits that last. Create distraction-free work sessions, stay productive without burnout, and see real progress over time. CORE FOCUS EXPERIENCE Turn any moment into a deep work session. Start focused timers from 5 minutes to 2 hours and match them to your goals: a 25-minute reading sprint, a 90-minute coding block, a 45-minute writing session, or a quick 10-minute review. DeepFocus gives every session a clear start and end so you can begin faster, avoid endless screen time, and stay locked in. FOCUS INTERVAL TECHNIQUE Use a proven work-break rhythm with minimal effort. Pick classic 25 minutes of focus with 5-minute breaks or fully customize your own intervals. DeepFocus automatically switches between focus and rest and prompts you when it is time to work and when it is time to recover. This helps you build long productive streaks while reducing mental fatigue and decision overload. IMMERSIVE SOUND ENVIRONMENT Block distractions with concentration-friendly soundscapes. Choose from carefully selected options like rain forest, urban cafe, silent library, ocean waves, and calm instrumental backgrounds to stay engaged without pulling your attention back to your surroundings. INTELLIGENT PROGRESS TRACKING Understand your focus habits so you can improve intentionally. DeepFocus shows: - Sessions completed today, this week, and this month - Total time spent in deep focus - Streaks of consecutive focused days - The time of day you are most productive - Trends and patterns over time Ask yourself practical questions like: When do I focus best? How many hours did I really study this week? Am I improving compared to last month? TASK MANAGEMENT Know exactly what you are spending your focus on. Assign each session to a category such as Work, Study, Coding, Reading, or create your own custom task. When the day or week ends, review which activities used most of your deep focus time and adjust your schedule so your effort matches your priorities. PREMIUM FEATURES Upgrade your focus system with deeper insights and more control: - Advanced analytics with deeper habit insights - Custom task creation and detailed task management - Apple Focus Mode integration to reduce interruptions while you work - A larger premium ambient sound library - Session effectiveness ratings to track quality, not only time - Data export to back up or analyze your focus results elsewhere Whether you are studying for exams, driving deep work at a job, or protecting uninterrupted creative time, DeepFocus gives you structure, feedback, and an environment built to keep you on task. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://marcn.app/privacy
Routinely
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Routinely builds your day around routines, not a wall of checkboxes. A routine is a short sequence you run at a set time. Morning. Post-work. Wind-down. You start it, work through it, and finish. That structure does the remembering for you, which is why it works when a plain habit list stops working. BUILT FOR ADHD BRAINS If open-ended lists make you freeze, this is for you. Routinely puts one thing on screen at a time, walks you through a routine step by step in a focus session, and lets you stack reminders as densely as you need. Miss a day and nothing resets to zero. FORGIVING BY DESIGN Most habit apps punish you. Miss one day, lose your 60-day streak, delete the app. Routinely scores each habit on strength from 0 to 100%. A missed day nudges it down. It never wipes it out. Freeze tokens protect a streak on the days life gets in the way. WHAT YOU GET Routines: time-blocked sequences of habits, with a guided focus session and a live timer. Build and quit: track habits you want to start and ones you want to stop. Quit habits count the days you've stayed clean. Flexible targets: yes/no, counts, minutes, or any unit you name. Reminders: as many times a day as you want, per habit, with a choice of sounds. Home Screen widgets: check habits off without opening the app. Lock Screen and Apple Watch too. Apple Health: link a habit to steps, exercise minutes, mindful minutes, sleep, active energy, stand hours or water, and it verifies itself. Mood tracking: one tap a day, then see how your mood lines up with the days you follow through. Habit diary: write a note on any day and read the whole history back. Focus sounds: rain, wind, waves or brown noise while you work through a routine. Analytics: a year-long consistency heatmap, 30-day trends, your best weekday, and habit strength for everything you track. Weekly recap: a shareable card summing up your week, month or year. Accountability partners: share a streak with a friend, nudge each other, and compare check-in counts on a weekly leaderboard. Photo proof: capture a photo to log a check-in when you want the extra push. Apple Calendar: your scheduled routines appear in the Calendar app, in a Routinely calendar of their own. Face ID lock, dark mode, and sync across your devices through your Routinely account. PRIVACY Your habits stay yours. No ads. No analytics SDKs. No data sold. Health data is read on-device to verify the habits you link, and never leaves your phone. Routinely is made by Kode Foundry. Questions or feedback: hello@kodefoundry.com https://routinely.kodefoundry.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Routinely at none against Session Timer's 3. Routinely also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, update cadence, 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. Session Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Routinely asks for nothing beyond the download.
Session Timer ships an update every 5 weeks, Routinely every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Session Timer | Routinely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcelo Nardone | joseph hamawi |
In-app purchases
Session Timer
- DeepFocus Monthly$1.991 Month
- DeepFocus Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- DeepFocus - Track your Time$19.99
Routinely
No in-app purchases









