Focus To-Do vs Session

Focus To-Do combines task management with a Pomodoro timer for planning work and completing tasks in focused sessions. You can organize tasks and projects, set due dates and reminders, add subtasks and notes, and schedule repeating tasks. Timer controls include adjustable work and break lengths, pause and resume, skipped breaks, and continuous mode. The app can also help plan work or study, keep shopping lists, set birthday reminders, and arrange schedules. Its historical reports summarize work time, completed tasks, daily, weekly, and monthly time, and project time ratios. Focus To-Do syncs across Android, iOS, macOS, web, Windows, and other listed devices including iPad and Apple Watch. Local mode needs no registration, but its data cannot sync and is lost if the app is uninstalled. The free plan is available; the listed three-month Premium in-app purchase is $3.99 a month, billed for 3 Months. The privacy policy says personal information is stored in the People's Republic of China and synced task data is collected for synchronization.

Session is a focus app that blocks selected distractions and tracks work progress. It is built around uninterrupted 25-minute sessions: while a session runs, selected apps and websites are blocked, then restored when the session ends. Afterward, Session asks what the user learned and provides an end-of-day progress review. Its website blocker works with Safari, Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge, but not browsers such as Firefox. Session is available as an extension and on iOS and macOS. Progress syncs between iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with data saved and backed up on Session’s server. The Free plan is free and includes unlimited sessions and rests, analytics from the past two days, and calendar-event viewing. Pro adds custom session and break durations, full session logs, Mac app and website blocking, Slack status controls, calendar features, and AppleScript and Apple Shortcuts automation. Pro Yearly is $3.33 a year, billed at $39.99 per year; Pro Monthly is $4.99 a month. A seven-day trial is listed.