Comparison

Focus Flight Pal 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 Flight Pal

This app transforms productivity into a flight experience, allowing users to set goals and focus with friends. Engage in "Crash Mode" for higher stakes and real-time co-focus sessions.

Highlights
  • Set personal goals as flight destinations
  • Real-time focus sessions with friends
  • "Crash Mode" for increased accountability
  • Immersive flight-themed interface
  • Track focus progress
Features
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Ever wanted to fly away from distractions? FocusFly Friend turns your productivity into a high-altitude journey. Choose your seat, look out the porthole view, and let the world below fade away. Command Your Flight: Create your own flight and set your destination (your goal). Fly with Friends: Don’t travel alone! Invite friends to join your cabin and stay focused together in real-time. High Stakes, High Focus: Feeling brave? Enable "Crash Mode." If you leave the app, your flight goes down. Can you handle the pressure of a safe landing? Focus comes easy when you’re in the cockpit. Ready for takeoff? Terms of service & privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.html https://jcnqosk450hh.feishu.cn/wiki/IyDDwxSiEiAAKDkxkf0c3CdKnSb

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 Flight Pal4 screens
Focus Train4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus Train at every 6 days against Focus Flight Pal's every 3 weeks. Focus Train also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, 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 Flight Pal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Focus Train sells 5 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focus Flight Pal against 5.0 for Focus Train. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus Train has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Flight Pal ships an update every 3 weeks, Focus Train every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Focus Flight Pal versus Focus Train: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus Flight PalFocus Train
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—95.2% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer鹤雨 傅帅 陈

Customer experience

Focus Flight Pal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Focus Train

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Focus Flight Pal

Subscriptions2
  • Paid Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Paid Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • Paid Once$29.99
5 purchases

Focus Train

Subscriptions3
  • FocusTrain Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
  • FocusTrain Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • FocusTrain Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • FocusTrain Premium Lifetime$24.99
  • FocusTrain Premium$29.99

Questions

Is Focus Flight Pal free?
Focus Flight Pal 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 Flight Pal or Focus Train?
Focus Flight Pal and Focus Train are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Focus Flight Pal or Focus Train have ads?
Neither Focus Flight Pal nor Focus Train shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Flight Pal or Focus Train?
Focus Flight Pal ships an update every 3 weeks, and Focus Train every 6 days. Most recently, Focus Flight Pal was updated on October 12, 2026 and Focus Train on October 15, 2026.

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