Pomodoro Timer vs Focus Train
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pomodoro Timer
Transform study sessions into global journeys. Earn flights to new cities with every 25-minute focus block, building a unique travel record. Offers a gamified approach to productivity with customizable goals and break notifications.
- 25-minute focus blocks
- Virtual flights to new cities
- Passport of visited destinations
- Live Activity on lock screen
- Streak and stats widgets
- Break notifications
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Flight Focus turns your study sessions into journeys around the world. Every 25 minutes of focused work powers a flight to a new city on a beautiful 3D globe. Build streaks. Collect a passport of visited destinations. See your weekly focus hours stacked into a real, tangible record of progress. This isn't another generic Pomodoro timer. It's a Pomodoro timer where every session takes you somewhere. THE FLIGHT MECHANIC • 25 minutes of focus = one flight • Your journey routes city to city across a 3D globe • Live Activity on your lock screen tracks the current flight • Streak small, medium, and Insights large iOS widgets • Break notifications when each flight lands VISIT THE WORLD • Pick a home city to start from • Each session adds a new destination to your Passport • Insights screen shows your weekly hours and most-visited regions • Build a real travel record from real focused work DESIGNED FOR DEEP WORK • 25-minute focus blocks (the proven Pomodoro interval) • 5-minute breaks between flights • Daily focus goal you set during onboarding • Notifications that respect your concentration PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account required • No ads, no account needed • Location is optional and used only for your home city • Everything stays on your device WITH FLIGHT FOCUS PRO • Long-haul flights: every country, every city • Insights: your weekly focus hours and top destinations • Every Earth style and color theme for the globe • Cabin-window videos during your breaks • Home Screen widgets with your streak and stats Start your first flight today. Focus that takes you places. SUBSCRIPTION & PRICING • Flight Focus Pro Monthly: billed monthly (auto-renewable) • Flight Focus Pro Annual: billed yearly (auto-renewable) • Flight Focus Pro Lifetime: one-time purchase Prices are shown in the app before you buy and may vary by country or region. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://polar-blanket-f7a.notion.site/Flight-Focus-Privacy-Policy-357767e65704816090aad82b195f45f1 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://polar-blanket-f7a.notion.site/Flight-Focus-Support-357767e6570481a89d96fa227c5e8b60
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 rating: Focus Train at 5.0 against Pomodoro Timer's 4.0. Focus Train also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Pomodoro Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Pomodoro Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month 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.
Focus Train holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pomodoro Timer's written reviews are positive against 95% of Focus Train's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pomodoro Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, Focus Train every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Pomodoro Timer | Focus Train |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 95.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | 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 | 67 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Creary | 帅 陈 |
Customer experience
Pomodoro Timer
Focus Train
In-app purchases
Pomodoro Timer
- Flight Focus Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Flight Focus Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Flight Focus Pro Lifetime$49.99
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








