Comparison

Focus Study Timer vs Focus Train

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

Focus Train

This app transforms focus sessions into engaging train journeys. Stay concentrated to travel farther, collect trip stamps, and unlock new routes. It offers a visually appealing and rewarding alternative to traditional timers.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus sessions with train journeys
  • Collect trip stamps and unlock new routes
  • Live Ticket on Lock Screen
  • One-tap widget for instant boarding
  • Customizable themes and train colors
  • Baggage blocking for distraction management
  • Native iOS design with haptics and Live Activities
Features
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Stop negotiating with yourself about when to start. FocusTrain turns every focus session into a train journey. You board, the train rolls while you work, and the deeper you go the farther it travels. By tonight you won't have "tried to focus" — you'll have a route on a map showing exactly where your attention took you. NOTHING DIES IF YOU LOOK AWAY Most focus apps motivate you with guilt: leave the screen and your tree withers, your streak burns, a number shames you. FocusTrain is built the other way around. Glance away and your train simply waits at the platform. Come back and it rolls on. It is the rare focus timer with no punishment mechanic at all — which is exactly why people who quit every other timer stay with this one. YOUR CONCENTRATION BECOMES SOMETHING YOU CAN SEE Every session you finish prints a boarding pass and inks a stamp in your book. Stations multiply, new routes and scenery unlock, the streak grows. Six months from now you won't have a bar chart you never open — you'll have a railway you built yourself, one session at a time. No other Pomodoro timer leaves you holding something worth keeping. IT STARTS AT YOUR STATION, NOT A GENERIC ONE During setup FocusTrain finds the real station nearest you and makes it your home stop. Add your own stations for the places that actually matter — your desk, your library, your café. The map is yours, not stock artwork. A TIMER YOU ACTUALLY OPEN 25 minutes, 50 minutes, or any length you set. Board in one tap from a Home Screen widget, keep a live ticket running on your Lock Screen, and see how far you have left without unlocking. Calm, quiet, no nagging. MAKE THE RIDE YOURS Unlock the full set of themes and train color palettes, dial in any custom HEX, add your own stations, and ride the Silent Car. Baggage blocking keeps distractions off the train, so the only thing on board is your attention. IT FEELS GOOD, AND THAT IS THE POINT 120Hz scrolling, haptics, Live Activities, a Home Screen widget, full Dark Mode, complete Dynamic Type. A true native iOS app, not a web wrapper. An app that feels this good is an app you will still open tomorrow — and tomorrow is the only thing that makes focus compound. IF ANY OF THIS IS YOU • You sit down to study and lose the first forty minutes to your phone. • Your best work only happens in long blocks, and every interruption costs you an hour. • ADHD makes starting the hardest part, and shame-based apps make it worse. • You've deleted three focus timers already because opening them felt like one more chore. WHAT STAYS YOURS Your trips, stats, and records never leave your device. No account required. No data collection. Location is used exactly once, during setup, to suggest your nearest station. Free to download. Available in English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, French, and German. The platform is clear. All aboard. Privacy Policy: https://elevenapril.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://elevenapril.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Focus Study Timer4 screens
Focus Train4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Focus Train at 95% against Focus Study Timer's 50%. Focus Train also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Focus Study Timer's advantage is ratings volume (98 vs 5) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Focus Train sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus Train holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus Study Timer has 98 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Focus Study Timer's written reviews are positive against 95% of Focus Train's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Study Timer ships an update every 8 days, Focus Train weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Focus Study Timer versus Focus Train: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus Study TimerFocus Train
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (98 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews95.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings98 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLohan Serre帅 陈

Customer experience

Focus Study Timer

All ratings98 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

Focus Train

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Focus Study Timer

Subscriptions7
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Annual Subscription$17.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Subscription$24.99
  • Lifetime Subscription$49.99
6 purchases

Focus Train

Subscriptions4
  • FocusTrain Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
  • FocusTrain Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
  • FocusTrain Premium Quarterly$14.993 Months
Show 1 more
  • FocusTrain Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • FocusTrain Premium Lifetime$39.99
  • FocusTrain Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Focus Study Timer free?
Focus Study Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Train free?
Focus Train is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Focus Study Timer or Focus Train?
Focus Train is rated higher. Focus Study Timer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while Focus Train averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Focus Study Timer or Focus Train have ads?
Focus Study Timer shows ads; Focus Train does not.
Which is updated more often, Focus Study Timer or Focus Train?
Focus Study Timer ships an update every 8 days, and Focus Train weekly. Most recently, Focus Study Timer was updated on November 12, 2026 and Focus Train on November 13, 2026.

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