Comparison

Focus Travel 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 Travel

This app transforms focused work sessions into a calming, immersive travel experience. Select a destination and embark on a timed journey designed to minimize distractions and enhance concentration. Track your progress and build a personal collection of visited cities.

Highlights
  • Immersive focus sessions
  • Destination-based timers
  • Distraction-free environment
  • Progress tracking
  • Collectible city stamps
  • Personal travel book
Features
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Focus Travel turns deep work into a calm, immersive journey. Choose a destination, board your train, and let steady motion guide you into distraction-free focus. Each ride is a timed session designed to help you settle in, stay present, and finish what matters. No pressure. No flickering timers. Just a quiet trip from one city to the next. How it works: • Pick a city as your next destination • Start the ride and follow the train into deep focus • Stay on track with a smooth, steady animation • Watch your progress grow after every arrival • Collect unique stamps for each city you visit • Build a personal travel book of your focus journey Whether you’re studying, working, or creating, Focus Travel gives you a structured way to stay consistent and motivated. Every session becomes a trip. Every arrival is a win. And over time, your travel book becomes a map of what you’ve achieved. Focus Travel, stay on track, one journey at a time. Terms of Use: https://www.focus-travel.com/user-agreement

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 Travel4 screens
Focus Train4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Focus Train at 5.0 against Focus Travel's 4.5. Focus Train also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). Focus Travel's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Focus Travel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Focus Train sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 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 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Travel ships an update fortnightly, Focus Train every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Focus Travel versus Focus Train: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus TravelFocus Train
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—95.2% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXYZ GROUP帅 陈

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Focus Travel

Subscriptions2
  • Pro$3.997 Days
  • Pro$39.991 Year
6 purchases

Focus Train

Subscriptions4
  • FocusTrain Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
  • FocusTrain Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • FocusTrain Premium Quarterly$9.993 Months
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  • FocusTrain Premium Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time2
  • FocusTrain Premium Lifetime$24.99
  • FocusTrain Premium$29.99

Questions

Is Focus Travel free?
Focus Travel 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 Travel or Focus Train?
Focus Train is rated higher. Focus Travel averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Focus Train averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Focus Travel or Focus Train have ads?
Neither Focus Travel nor Focus Train shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Travel or Focus Train?
Focus Travel ships an update fortnightly, and Focus Train every 6 days. Most recently, Focus Travel was updated on October 25, 2026 and Focus Train on October 31, 2026.

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