Pomofocus and Flight are both focus timers that run in the browser. Pomofocus is a clean, task-driven Pomodoro timer: list your tasks, estimate them in Pomodoros, and work through them in 25-minute rounds. Flight turns a session into a real flight, so you choose its length by choosing a destination. If you live by your task list, Pomofocus is excellent. If 25 minutes keeps cutting your deep work short, Flight is built for the longer stretch.
Disclosure: Flight is our product, and this blog belongs to it. We've tried to be fair: what we say about Pomofocus 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 | Pomofocus | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A focus timer you fly | A Pomodoro timer with a task list |
| Runs on | Any modern browser | Any modern browser |
| Session style | One long session: the length of a flight | 25-minute Pomodoros and breaks, adjustable |
| Tasks and estimates | No | Yes, with an estimated finish time |
| Reports | No | Yes; more with Premium |
| Sounds | Nine real ambient recordings | Alarm and ticking sounds |
| Price | Free to start a flight | Free, with a paid Premium plan |
Where Pomofocus is stronger
It does the Pomodoro Technique properly. You add tasks with an estimate in Pomodoros, it tells you roughly when you'll finish, and it keeps a report of what you did. Premium adds project tracking, yearly reports and an integration with Todoist. For a structured day of many small tasks, that loop is hard to improve on.
Where Flight is stronger
- Long, deep sessions. Writing, design and code often need an hour or more before they pay off. Flight makes that block feel natural: book a flight as long as the work needs, and it lands when you're done.
- A picture of progress. A plane crossing the globe toward a real city is more motivating than a ring emptying, especially two hours in.
- Atmosphere. Flight plays a real airliner cabin recording, or rain, waves or a forest, so you don't need a second tab of background noise.
- The Pomodoro is still there. When you do want 25-minute rounds, our free Pomodoro timer and Pomodoro calculator cover it, with no sign-up.
A day with each
With Pomofocus, you'd start the day by typing in your tasks and how many Pomodoros each needs. It shows when you should finish. Then it's rounds: 25 minutes on, 5 off, a long break after four, ticking tasks off as you go, and a report at the end that shows where the day went.
With Flight, you'd pick the one task that matters most and book a flight as long as it needs: Paris for an hour of email triage, New York for an afternoon of writing. There are no rounds to manage; the plane flies at one steady speed and lands when the time is up. For the small stuff later, the free Pomodoro timer on this site does classic rounds.
Switching from Pomofocus to Flight
- Keep your task list where it is; Flight doesn't need one.
- Group two or three Pomodoros' worth of one task into a single flight of 60 to 90 minutes.
- Take a real break when you land: our post on breaks that work has ideas.
- Use the Pomodoro calculator if you still want an estimate of when the day will end.
Who should choose which
- Pomofocus if your day is a list of tasks and you want to estimate and track them in Pomodoros.
- Flight if you're after one or two long, uninterrupted blocks a day, and want them to feel like a trip rather than a chore.
Not sure which interval suits you? Our comparison of Pomodoro alternatives covers 25/5, 50/10, 52/17 and 90-minute blocks.
Try Flight
Open Flight in another tab, pick a destination about as far away as your next block of work, and take off.
