Session is a polished focus timer for Apple devices: Pomodoro-style intervals, a website and app blocker on the Mac, notes after each session and reports on where your time went. Flight is a focus timer you fly, in any browser. On a Mac, Session's blocker and reflections make it a serious productivity tool. On Windows, Linux, a Chromebook or a work laptop where you can't install apps, Flight works and Session doesn't.
Disclosure: Flight is our product, and this blog belongs to it. We've tried to be fair: what we say about Session 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 | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A focus timer you fly | A focus timer with blocking and reflections |
| Runs on | Any modern browser, on any system | Mac, iPhone and iPad |
| Blocks sites and apps | No | Yes, on the Mac |
| Notes and reports | No | Yes |
| Install | None | An app on each device |
| Price | Free to start a flight | Pro is $39.99 a year on its pricing page |
Where Session is stronger
Session goes beyond the timer. On the Mac it can block distracting websites and apps during a session, set your Slack status, and ask you for a short note on what you did after each interval, which builds a useful record over time. Pro adds a full session log and sync across your Apple devices. If you live on a Mac and want a disciplined, reflective workflow, it's one of the best.
Where Flight is stronger
- Every platform. Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Android or a locked-down work computer: if it has a browser, it has Flight.
- Nothing to install or pay to start. Open a tab and fly.
- Long blocks with a destination. Session runs in intervals; Flight makes a single long block feel like a journey, with your plane crossing the map toward a real city.
- Atmosphere. The real hum of an airliner cabin is one of the best sounds there is to work to.
A day with each
With Session, you'd start an interval on the Mac, and distracting sites and apps are blocked until it ends. When it does, Session asks what you did, and over a week those notes build a useful picture of your work. Your iPhone and iPad stay in sync with Pro.
With Flight, you'd open a browser tab on whatever machine you're on, including the work laptop that won't let you install anything, choose a destination, and work until the plane lands. There's no blocker, so the discipline is yours: close the other tabs and put the phone away. In exchange you get a calm, visual, long session anywhere.
Switching from Session to Flight
- On a Mac, keep a blocker if you depend on it; Flight works alongside it.
- On Windows or Linux, use Flight with your system's focus or do-not-disturb mode.
- Keep a notebook by the keyboard for a one-line note when you land, if you miss Session's reflections.
- Turn on landing notifications so the end of a session reaches you in any tab.
Who should choose which
- Session if you're all-in on Apple and want blocking, notes and reports.
- Flight if you work on Windows or Linux, can't install software, or simply want a calmer session with a sense of journey.
No blocker? A few habits do most of the job: see the cost of context switching. For intervals in the browser, the free deep work timer does 52/17, 50/10 and 90/20.
Try Flight
Open Flight on whatever computer you're on, and pick somewhere to fly.
