PlanMate vs Focus Train
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlanMate
This academic management app helps high school students organize classes, track assignments, monitor grades, and log volunteer hours. It provides tools for creating study notes and flashcards, keeping all school-related information in one structured system.
- Class organization
- Assignment tracking
- Grade monitoring
- Volunteer service hour logging
- Study notes creation
- Flashcard generation
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PlanMate is an academic management app designed specifically for high school students. It helps students organize classes, track assignments, monitor grades, and log volunteer service hours in one connected system. Unlike generic planner apps, PlanMate focuses on real academic requirements. Assignments connect to a calendar timeline, grades are tracked by class, and service hours are organized for school and college applications. Students can also create study notes and flashcards tied to their coursework, helping keep everything related to school in one place. PlanMate is built to support students throughout the school year by keeping academic information structured, accessible, and easy to manage.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlanMate at none against Focus Train's 6. PlanMate also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Focus Train sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. PlanMate asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PlanMate against 5.0 for Focus Train. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
| Parameter | PlanMate | Focus Train |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 95.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RUPALI GUPTA | 帅 陈 |
Customer experience
PlanMate
Focus Train
In-app purchases
PlanMate
No in-app purchases
Focus Train
- 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
- FocusTrain Premium Lifetime$24.99
- FocusTrain Premium$29.99









