Comparison

Sessions vs Brightway

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

Head to head
About

Sessions

This app helps you build focus and creativity by setting personalized timers for activities you want to turn into habits. Track your progress and get reminders to complete your sessions.

Highlights
  • Personalized activity timers
  • Habit formation tools
  • Session scheduling
  • Progress tracking
  • Activity reminders
Features
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It's time to reconnect with your focus, flow and creativity. Sessions are personalised timers for all your favorite activities you want to make into habits. How does it work? • Make a pledge - Enter your activity, choose how long and how often you want the sessions to happen. • Complete your sessions - Get notified when your sessions due and reminded when you finish. • Track your progress - Sessions keeps a track record of how you are getting on with your activities.

About

Brightway

Features
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Private, cross-platform, Brightway is uniquely designed both to keep track of your life and improve your mental wellbeing. WHAT MAKES BRIGHTWAY UNIQUE 1. Science-Based Brightway is the first journaling app based on the principles of integrative psychotherapy. It was created in collaboration with Dr Vlad Beliavsky – a mental health expert and author of The Pyramid Mind – to create not only a great journaling experience but help you with improving your mental wellbeing. 2. Life Review Framework Brightway contains a unique guided framework to do monthly and annual reviews. It is designed to help you reflect on your past month and year so that you can learn, find peace, and grow. TOP WAYS TO USE THE APP • Note taking (to organise ideas, create to-do lists) • Personal diary (to record private moments, safeguard your memories, keep track of your life) • Gratitude journal (to keep a gratitude list) • Travel journal (to keep track of the places you’ve ever been) • Mood tracker (to capture your feelings, track your mood or pour your feelings in a private and secure space) • Self-improvement journal (to analyse your thoughts, learn from your lowlights, identify and celebrate your highlights) FEATURES Preserve every moment • Unlimited journal entries • Attach photos, location, time • Text editing Learn • Monthly reviews to reflect on the past month • Annual reviews to summarise the whole year • Detailed statistics to gain insight from your entries Search & Organize • Templates to make your journaling easy and consistent • Tags to divide entries by type • Find entries by keywords • Filter entries by date, location, etc. • View your entries in timeline, calendar, world map, photo gallery Backup & Sync • Automatic backup to Google Drive or iCloud to keep your journal data safe • Access your entries on multiple devices • Export to JSON, TXT, DOCX, PDF to print or share your entries • Import data from other journaling apps. Customization • Beautiful wallpapers to personalize your diary layout • Dark mode to journal at night time • Multiple reminders to always remember to make a note

Screenshots

Sessions3 screens
Brightway4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sessions at every 5 days against Brightway's every 2 weeks. Sessions also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Sessions sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Brightway sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sessions ships an update every 5 days, Brightway every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sessions versus Brightway: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSessionsBrightway
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB59 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAdam MarcusVladyslav Bieliavskyi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sessions

One-time1
  • Unlimited pledges$0.99
2 purchases

Brightway

Subscriptions2
  • Premium subscription - Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium subscription - Annual7 Days trial$21.491 Year

Questions

Is Sessions free?
Sessions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brightway free?
Brightway is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sessions or Brightway have ads?
Neither Sessions nor Brightway shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sessions or Brightway?
Sessions ships an update every 5 days, and Brightway every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sessions was updated on October 20, 2026 and Brightway on October 14, 2026.

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