PomoTrain vs Årshjul
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PomoTrain
Enhance your focus with a unique timer that blends the Pomodoro Technique with a virtual train journey across Japan. Complete focus sessions to advance through real railway routes, explore stations with Street View during breaks, and enjoy immersive ambient sounds. Gamified elements like collecting stamps and bento boxes keep you motivated.
- Virtual Japanese railway routes
- Pomodoro Technique timer
- Station exploration with Street View
- Immersive ambient sounds
- Collect station stamps and bento boxes
- Daily focus logs and streak tracking
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■ Every time you focus, a train departs. PomoTrain is a completely new kind of focus timer that combines the Pomodoro Technique with a virtual rail journey across Japan. When your focus session begins, the train departs. During breaks, you arrive at real stations and can explore the surroundings with Look Around and Street View. Travel iconic Japanese railway lines while staying effortlessly focused. FEATURES ▶ Real Japanese Railway Routes Ride the Yamanote Line, Chuo Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line, and more. Each station is faithfully recreated — advance to the next one every time you complete a focus session. ▶ Pomodoro Technique Built In 25-minute focus + 5-minute break cycles, backed by science. Customize both focus and break durations to match your workflow. ▶ Explore Stations During Breaks Enjoy Look Around and Google Street View at each station you arrive at. Recharge with a mini virtual trip. ▶ Immersive Ambient Sounds Mix train sounds, rain, thunder, and more. Weather-sync mode automatically matches sounds to real conditions. ▶ Collect Stamps & Ekiben Earn station stamps and collect bento boxes as you travel. Build your collection with every session. ▶ Track Your Focus Automatic daily logs and streak tracking keep you motivated to maintain your focus habit. PERFECT FOR - Students and professionals who want to stay focused - Anyone interested in the Pomodoro Technique - Train and travel enthusiasts - People who love gamified productivity Grab your ticket and depart. Terms: https://focus-train.vercel.app/terms-of-service Privacy: https://focus-train.vercel.app/privacy-policy
Årshjul
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Plan a whole year, then explain it in ten seconds. Årshjul lays the twelve months out as a wheel, so the shape of the year is visible before anyone has read a word: the quarter that is overloaded, the empty stretch in July, the two campaigns landing in the same week. Built for consultants, project managers, marketing and communications leads, school and nonprofit teams, and anyone who has to walk a room through next year on an iPad and then look it up on an iPhone afterward. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create tracks for projects, teams, or areas of responsibility, and place activities across the year • Switch between the wheel and a chronological list: the same plan, read two ways • Present straight from the iPad in the meeting, with no sign-in and no browser tab • Hand the plan over as a PDF or PNG for the board packet, the staff handbook, or the wall IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open versioned Årshjul files and JSON • Import and export CSV and iCalendar • Export to PDF and PNG • Warnings appear before an import changes your plan. Nothing is altered silently. FOURTEEN DAYS OF FULL ACCESS Everything is open from the first launch. No account, and no payment request before you have tried it. After fourteen days, creating and editing require a subscription. Reading and exporting your own wheels keeps working either way, so you never lose access to work you have already done. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. INSTEAD OF A BROWSER TOOL OR A TEMPLATE A browser-based year wheel wants an organization account and a login — in the meeting, from every colleague, every time. A PowerPoint or Miro template looks right once and then has to be redrawn by hand every time a date moves. Årshjul is a real app on all three Apple platforms: it opens immediately, needs no account, keeps the plan on your own device, and lets the same plan leave as CSV or iCalendar when someone else needs the dates. LOCAL FIRST No account. No tracking. Your plans stay on your device unless you choose to share them or save an export yourself. ACCESSIBILITY Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and WCAG 2.2 AA. The plan can be read and understood without relying on color. LANGUAGES English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Dutch. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://annualwheel.pages.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PomoTrain at every 4 days against Årshjul's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. PomoTrain sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Årshjul sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PomoTrain ships an update every 4 days, Årshjul fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PomoTrain | Årshjul |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 303 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tatsuya Kawauchi | Jesper Sachmann |
In-app purchases
PomoTrain
- Pro Montyly$3.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime 24$14.99
- Pro Lifetime$29.99
Årshjul
- Annual Wheel Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual Wheel Pro – Annual14 Days trial$34.991 Year









