Focus Train vs Fav Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Fav Timer
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Fav Timer — your fav, in the frame. Most timers sit on top of your wallpaper. Fav Timer puts the timer inside the picture — your image, GIF, or video and the analog dial become one scene. Spin to start, watch the time drain away, and focus with your fav right there. Make it a scene Any photo or GIF as your background — or video, with Premium. Crop it, position it, make it fit — your original file is never touched. Your favorite character. Your bias. Your fighter jet. That one photo that calms you down. If you love it, it goes on the dial. Spin, don't type A 48-tick analog dial. Spin to start, tap to pause, hold to end. Time drains as a gradient, so you feel it instead of reading it. Pomodoro for deep work, or any length you want. One tap, a whole new mood (Premium) Give each tag its own theme — #study, #workout, #reading. Then tap that tag on the main screen and the whole scene swaps before you start. A different fav for every part of your day. Nothing but the scene Double-tap the background and the interface disappears — just your fav and the time left. Nothing else to look at. That it makes a good screenshot is a side effect. Focus, rewarded Titles, tags, and notes on every session — tagging is free. A daily goal ring, weekly charts, and a Lock Screen Live Activity so you can start your break without opening the app. Yours, and only yours No account. No server. No ads. No analytics. Photos you set as a background are copied into the app's private storage on your device and never leave it. Free includes the full timer, image and GIF scenes, one custom theme, and your recent history. Premium is a one-time purchase — not a subscription — unlocking unlimited themes, Arc and Wedge dial styles, tag auto-swap, video backgrounds with loop trimming, and full history search.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Focus Train at every 6 days against Fav Timer's every 3 weeks. Focus Train also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Focus Train sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Fav Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Focus Train ships an update every 6 days, Fav Timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Train | Fav Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 帅 陈 | HYUNGKI KIM |
In-app purchases
Focus Train
- FocusTrain Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
- FocusTrain Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- FocusTrain Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- FocusTrain Premium Lifetime$24.99
- FocusTrain Premium$29.99
Fav Timer
- Fav Timer Premium$3.99









