Tonight,
take an
 overnight train.

A focus timer disguised as an overnight European sleeper carriage. Pick your session length, choose a destination, and let the rails do the rest.

Step aboard →

Coming soon to the App Store · iPhone

✦ THE RITUAL ✦

Book a journey.
Tear the ticket.
Watch the night go by.

Three motions, every night. The cabin is the focus session; the rest is the metaphor doing its work.

1

Pick your session

25 minutes. 90 minutes. Overnight. Any length from 15 minutes to six hours, in five-minute steps.

2

Choose a destination

Eight historical sleeper routes — the Orient Express, the Caledonian Sleeper, the Carpathian Night. Or any destination on Earth.

3

Stay in the cabin

The brass-framed window animates. Rails roll under you. The clock counts down. You focus.

✦ THE COMPARTMENT ✦

Every detail of a real sleeper car.

The window
A brass-framed parallax landscape that drifts past in real time. Eight painterly variants — Alpine, coastal, steppe, polar — picked to match your destination.
The sound
Real rail rhythm, cabin creaks, rain on the glass, station bells as you cross checkpoints. Layered, mastered, ready to take a Sony WH-1000XM5 seriously.
The passport
A stamp for every journey completed — even the half-finished ones. Streaks, route plans, the conductor's log on arrival.
Multi-night journeys
If you only have 25 minutes on a London-to-Inverness run, your train stops where it would actually be — somewhere south of Crewe — and tomorrow night you pick up the same journey where you left off.
iOS Focus filter
Optional integration silences your other apps for the length of the journey. A gentle "you stepped off the train" cue if you tab away — no punishment, just a noticed-but-forgiven detail.
Lock-screen aware
Live Activity on the Dynamic Island so the train keeps running on a locked phone. Open your eyes seven hours later and see how far you've come.

Focus that feels less like a stopwatch and more like crossing the Alps in a wagon-lit.

— The point

✦ WAGON-LIT ✦

One subscription. Every cabin.

Couchette is supported entirely by your subscription. Start with seven nights free.

MOST CHOSEN

Wagon-Lit Annual

$0

today, then $34.99/yr

7 days free · cancel anytime

Lifetime

$79.99

one-time · yours forever

No subscription. No renewal.

Monthly

$6.99

per month

Billed monthly · no trial

Annual subscription billed at $34.99 (USD) per year, with a 7-day free trial. Subscription auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in App Store → your account → Subscriptions. Lifetime is a one-time purchase, non-consumable, restored across your devices via your Apple ID.

✦ QUESTIONS ✦

You probably want to know.

Is there a free version?

No. Couchette is subscription-required. The first seven days on the annual plan are free; after that, you're billed $34.99/yr (or $6.99/mo, or $79.99 once). We don't want to run an ad-supported tier, and a free tier with feature locks would compromise the experience for everyone.

What happens if my focus session is shorter than the full journey?

You arrive at whatever station the train would actually be at when your session ends. A 25-minute slice of a five-hour Carpathian Night leaves you "south of Sibiu, on the way to Vienna." Tomorrow night the run picks back up from where you left off — multi-night journeys are first-class citizens.

Will my passport survive uninstall and reinstall?

Your subscription will (it lives with your Apple ID via RevenueCat). Your local passport will not — uninstalling wipes the on-device data. We don't currently sync passports to a server. Cross-device sync is on the roadmap; cancellation will not erase your stamps before then.

Does Couchette track me?

No advertising tracking, no third-party SDKs that share data with brokers, no IDFA. Anonymous diagnostics (crash reports, basic funnel events) are sent to help us fix bugs and improve the app. See the Privacy Policy for the full list and how to opt out.

iPhone only, or iPad and Mac too?

iPhone at launch. iPad and Mac (Apple silicon) are planned for a follow-up release.

Why French names for the tiers?

The wagon-lit (sleeping car) and the couchette (the bunk itself) are the canonical European rail vocabulary for overnight travel. The product is a love letter to that tradition; using the words it grew up with is the smallest gesture of respect.