Comparison

Focus Study Timer vs DayChain Timetable Management

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Focus Study Timer

This app transforms study and focus sessions into immersive flights with ambient sounds and dynamic maps. It combines a focus timer with distraction-free habits to support deep concentration for students, professionals, and individuals with ADHD.

Highlights
  • Immersive focus flights with ambient sounds
  • Virtual flights to chosen destinations
  • Detailed productivity stats tracking
  • Dynamic maps for real-time route following
  • Gentle app blocker for distraction-free focus
  • Customizable study trip planning
Features
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FlightMode transforms your study sessions and focus time into peaceful, immersive flights. It helps you stay focused, calm, and productive in a natural and effortless way. Built for students, professionals, and creatives, including people with ADHD, FlightMode combines a focus timer with a distraction-free environment and app blocker–like habits to support deep concentration. Whether you are studying, working, reading, or coding, FlightMode offers a unique focus and productivity experience inspired by real in-flight moments. Take off, stay focused, and land with a real sense of accomplishment. Download FlightMode today and make deep focus feel simple. Why choose FlightMode? • Immersive Focus Flights Start a focus timer that feels like boarding a real airplane, with engine ambience, authentic cabin sounds, and smooth transitions designed for long deep focus sessions. • Choose Your Destination Select an airport anywhere in the world. The longer you stay focused, the farther you fly, turning study time and work sessions into motivating virtual flights. • Track Your Focus Journey View detailed productivity stats including total focus time, distance flown, number of flights, destinations visited, and personal bests. • Beautiful Dynamic Maps Follow your route in real time with clean, distraction-free maps powered by Apple Maps. • A Gentle App Blocker for Distraction-Free Focus FlightMode helps reduce interruptions by encouraging app blocking behaviors and limiting distractions through an airplane-like focus mode. This approach is especially helpful for studying, deep work, and ADHD-friendly routines. Take off into deep focus and make studying feel effortless. What you can do with FlightMode • Plan Your Study Trip Pick your arrival airport, set your study timer or work session, and enter a distraction-free focus mode. • Experience Authentic Focus Sounds Enjoy takeoff ambience, cabin noise, and carefully crafted looping audio designed for long focus and study sessions. • Build Progress With Every Flight Complete routes, unlock detailed stats, and reinforce productive habits through consistent focus sessions. • Celebrate Your Achievements After landing, enjoy a smooth end-of-flight animation that highlights your progress and milestones. Built for students, creators, and professionals Whether you are preparing for exams, working remotely, journaling, reading, or managing ADHD-related focus challenges, FlightMode works as a focus timer, productivity tool, and app blocker alternative within a calm and immersive experience. Join thousands of travelers taking off every day to reach deep focus, better productivity, and meaningful progress. Download FlightMode and start your next focus journey today. Terms : https://www.getflightmode.app/terms Privacy Policy : https://www.getflightmode.app/privacy

About

DayChain Timetable Management

Features
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DayChain is a project based planning system designed for people who manage multiple goals at the same time. Traditional scheduling apps often force users to arrange everything directly on a timeline. This creates a common problem: important tasks get forgotten, priorities become unclear, and daily plans quickly become unrealistic. Project management tools have the opposite issue. They organize tasks by category, but often ignore execution order and practical feasibility. DayChain bridges these two worlds. Instead of forcing you to choose between project planning and time scheduling, DayChain separates them and reconnects them in a smarter way. Core Features: • Project-based organization Create independent projects for work, study, research, personal growth, health, or daily life. • Time-chain execution Arrange tasks into morning, afternoon, and evening action chains that create realistic execution sequences. • Difficulty and priority weighting Assign different weights and levels of difficulty to tasks, helping optimize workload and execution order. • Multi-project coordination Perfect for students balancing multiple subjects, researchers handling parallel workstreams, professionals managing multiple projects, or anyone juggling different responsibilities. • Work and life integration Daily life events can be planned alongside academic and professional goals in one unified system. • Daily completion tracking Monitor your progress and review how much you achieved each day. • Consistency goals Build long-term habits and maintain momentum over time. DayChain is designed for people who think in projects but live in time. Whether you are a student preparing for several subjects simultaneously, a researcher balancing multiple deadlines, or someone trying to coordinate work and life without losing track of priorities, DayChain helps transform complex plans into structured action chains. Turn projects into action. Build consistency one chain at a time.

Screenshots

Focus Study Timer4 screens
DayChain Timetable Management4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DayChain Timetable Management at none against Focus Study Timer's 11. DayChain Timetable Management also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Focus Study Timer sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. DayChain Timetable Management asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Focus Study Timer versus DayChain Timetable Management: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus Study TimerDayChain Timetable Management
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (76 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings76 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLohan SerreJIACHENG ZHENG

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Focus Study Timer

Subscriptions7
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
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  • Annual Subscription3 Days trial$17.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription$17.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time4
  • Lifetime Subscription$24.99
  • Lifetime Promo Payment$24.99
  • Lifetime Subscription$49.99
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  • Lifetime Payment$49.99
None

DayChain Timetable Management

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Study Timer free?
Focus Study Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayChain Timetable Management free?
DayChain Timetable Management is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus Study Timer or DayChain Timetable Management have ads?
Focus Study Timer shows ads; DayChain Timetable Management does not.

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