Comparison

Focus Train vs 启动2分钟

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

Head to head
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

About

启动2分钟

Features
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你有没有试过——打开手机想查个东西,十分钟后发现自己刷了一屏短视频? 「启动2分钟」把专注变成了一次火箭发射。 滑动点火,倒计时两分钟。在这两分钟里,如果你没有切换 App、没有被打断,火箭就会成功入轨,你的专注时间开始累计。如果中途退出——连接中断,发射失败,你损失了一枚火箭。 我们把计时器做成了真实的太空体验: - 发射后,地球周围会出现两条轨道环,秒针在赤道面、分针在极轨面,随时间流动 - 你可以用手指拖拽旋转视角,从任意角度观察轨道运转 - 每颗成功入轨的卫星都会留在太空中,在卫星视图里组成你的星座 - 日历视图记录你每一天的专注,发射总数、在轨时长、成功率一目了然

Screenshots

Focus Train4 screens
启动2分钟4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 启动2分钟 at none against Focus Train's 5. Focus Train's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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 Train sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. 启动2分钟 asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Focus Train versus 启动2分钟: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus Train启动2分钟
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer帅 陈家辉 蒋

In-app purchases

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
None

启动2分钟

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Train free?
Focus Train is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 启动2分钟 free?
启动2分钟 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus Train or 启动2分钟 have ads?
Neither Focus Train nor 启动2分钟 shows ads.

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