Focus To-Do is two apps in one: a Pomodoro timer and a full task manager, on almost every platform there is. Flight is a single idea done simply: your focus session is a real flight. If you want one place to plan, track and time everything, Focus To-Do has more features. If you want the session itself to be calmer, longer and more motivating, Flight is the better place to spend it.
Disclosure: Flight is our product, and this blog belongs to it. We've tried to be fair: what we say about Focus To-Do comes from its own site and app listings, checked in October 2026. Apps change, so check prices there before you decide.
At a glance
| Flight | Focus To-Do | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A focus timer you fly | A Pomodoro timer with a task manager |
| Runs on | Any modern browser | iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, web and a browser extension |
| Tasks, projects, reminders | No | Yes |
| Blocks apps | No | A strict mode, with Premium |
| Reports | No | Yes; detailed with Premium |
| Session style | One long session, chosen by destination | Pomodoros attached to tasks |
| Price | Free to start a flight | Free, with Premium (including a lifetime option) |
Where Focus To-Do is stronger
Breadth. It syncs your tasks and Pomodoros between phone and computer, links every focus session to the task it was for, and reports where your time went. Premium adds things like projects, repeating tasks, reminders, more detailed reports and a strict mode. If you want your to-do list and your timer to be the same app, few do it as thoroughly.
Where Flight is stronger
- Less to manage. A task manager is also a place to procrastinate: tidying lists, adjusting tags. Flight has nothing to set up. Pick a destination and start.
- Sessions that fit deep work. Pomodoros attached to tasks reward many small pieces; a flight rewards one long block on the thing that matters.
- An experience, not a dashboard. A plane crossing a dark globe, a cabin hum, a chime when you land. It makes sitting down to work something to look forward to.
- No install, no account. It runs in the browser you already have.
A day with each
With Focus To-Do, your phone and laptop share one list. You open a task, start its Pomodoro, and the minutes are logged against it; reminders nudge you about what's due, and the weekly report shows which projects took your time. It's a complete system, and it rewards people who like keeping one.
With Flight, the list lives wherever you already keep it, on paper, in Notion, in your email. You pick the item that matters, open Flight, choose a flight about that long and work until you land. Nothing to maintain, no projects to set up, no reports to review: just the session, done well.
Switching from Focus To-Do to Flight
- Keep Focus To-Do's list if you rely on its reminders; use Flight for the focus blocks themselves.
- Each morning, pick your one or two most important tasks and give each a flight.
- Batch the small tasks into a single short hop, so they don't break up the long ones.
- Write a one-line note of what you did when you land, if you miss the reports.
Who should choose which
- Focus To-Do if you want one app for planning, timing and tracking everything, on every device.
- Flight if you already have a to-do list you like and want the focus time itself to be better.
You can keep your list anywhere and still plan in Pomodoros: our free Pomodoro calculator turns a list into a timed plan, and the Eisenhower matrix sorts it by what matters. Then fly the top item.
Try Flight
Open Flight, choose a flight about as long as your most important task, and give it your whole attention until you land.
