Comparison

QuietSession vs Sessions

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

QuietSession

This app provides a discreet haptic timer for sessions and meetings, offering silent cues on your wrist as time elapses. It tracks overtime and offers features like presets, pause/resume, and Live Activity integration for focused work without audible interruptions.

Highlights
  • Discreet wrist haptic cues
  • Session presets and custom durations
  • Overtime tracking and signal
  • Live Activity and Lock Screen widget
  • Pause and resume functionality
  • Multi-language support
Features
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QuietSession is a discreet haptic time-boundary tool for sessions, meetings, talks, coaching calls, consultations, and focused work. It helps you keep track of time without sound, alarms, or visible interruption. Create or choose a preset on iPhone, start a session from iPhone or your paired watch, and receive quiet haptic cues on your wrist as the session approaches its end. If a conversation runs long, a gentle overtime signal repeats until you confirm — and the extra minutes are tracked in your history. QuietSession is useful for: • therapists, coaches, and counselors running client sessions • consultations and 1-on-1 meetings • interviews, presentations, and talks • focused work blocks • any situation where checking a timer would feel distracting Core features: • built-in session presets • discreet wrist haptic cues • 5 min reminder, 1 min reminder, and end signal • pause and resume a running session • optional overtime signal with overtime tracked in History • start sessions from iPhone or your paired watch • start your last preset right from the watch face (complication & Smart Stack) • Live Activity on iPhone: time left on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Lock Screen widget for one-tap start • optional notifications • quiet running screen with Invisible Mode • local session history • available in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian • no account, no ads, no tracking QuietSession Pro unlocks custom presets, custom durations, profession preset templates (Therapist, Coach, Consultant), adjustable haptic signal setup, signal intensity controls, full history calendar, and CSV export for billing and timekeeping. QuietSession is not a generic timer. It is designed for moments where time boundaries matter, but interruptions do not.

About

Sessions

This discreet timer helps professionals manage session times without disrupting client flow. It syncs with your calendar and provides subtle notifications on your watch and phone, with a visual timer display for your desk.

Highlights
  • Calendar sync for automatic session setup
  • Discreet Apple Watch notifications
  • Visual timer display with color cues
  • Lock screen and Dynamic Island integration
  • Manual session entry option
  • Session count tracking
Features
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You're in the middle of a session and you can't check the clock without breaking rapport. Or perhaps you're between clients, and suddenly realize you've fallen behind schedule. Sessions is a simple timer app built around this problem. Your appointments sync from your calendar and turn into automatic timers to help keep you on schedule, discreetly. ON YOUR DESK Your iPhone displays a calm, full-screen timer, shifting color as the session winds down. It's big enough to read from across the room and subtle enough to leave sitting out. Don't want a number in front of you? Hide the countdown and keep only the full-screen color shift. ON YOUR WRIST • A tap when the session begins • One tap at the halfway point • Two taps at five minutes left • Three taps when time is up FROM YOUR CALENDAR Point the app at your calendar and the day fills itself in. It reads start times and nothing else. Titles, notes, and the people on the invite are never stored. Anything marked as supervision can be left out, and you can set the session length your practice actually runs. Prefer to add them by hand? That works too. YOUR CASELOAD, OVER TIME The app keeps a count of every session you finish. Your lifetime total, today, and this week are free. SESSIONS PRO A one-time purchase, not a subscription, and Family Sharing is included. • Home screen and lock screen widgets • Set goals, like the sessions you need toward licensure • How today compares to your usual Tuesday, and the hours you actually work • A heatmap of every day you've worked • Milestones and personal records • A rolling weekly average, and which way it's heading PRIVACY No account, no ads, no tracking, no server. Client names never enter the app, because there's nowhere to type one. Sessions stores times and nothing else. Your history stays on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud if you want it there. Built by a marriage and family therapist in training, in the evenings and between clients.

Screenshots

QuietSession4 screens
Sessions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sessions at fortnightly against QuietSession's every 3 months. QuietSession's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. QuietSession sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sessions sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 QuietSession against 5.0 for Sessions. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuietSession ships an update every 3 months, Sessions fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
QuietSession versus Sessions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuietSessionSessions
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex NaumovPresently Reading LLC

Customer experience

QuietSession

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

Sessions

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

QuietSession

One-time1
  • QuietSession Pro$7.99
1 purchases

Sessions

One-time1
  • Sessions Pro$9.99

Questions

Is QuietSession free?
QuietSession is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sessions free?
Sessions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, QuietSession or Sessions?
QuietSession and Sessions are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do QuietSession or Sessions have ads?
Neither QuietSession nor Sessions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuietSession or Sessions?
QuietSession ships an update every 3 months, and Sessions fortnightly. Most recently, QuietSession was updated on October 28, 2026 and Sessions on October 25, 2026.

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