Comparison

Flora vs Focus Traveller

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flora

This app helps you stay focused and build positive habits by growing virtual trees. It blocks distracting apps and allows you to collaborate with friends to stay on track. You can also choose to plant real trees in partnership with environmental organizations.

Highlights
  • Focus timer with app blocking
  • Virtual tree growth for motivation
  • Collaborative focus sessions with friends
  • To-do list and reminders
  • Habit tracking and garden building
  • Option to plant real trees
Features
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Flora is a new way to stay off your phone, clear to-do lists, and build positive, life-changing habits. Whenever you want to make progress towards your goals, plant a seed in Flora. As you work hard, the seed will grow into a healthy tree. Let the tree be your coach and grow yourself with it. You will be amazed by how great you can be. FOCUS TREES Have trouble putting down the phone? Flora blocks distracting apps in a pleasant way to help you focus on what’s more important in real life. If you cannot resist the temptation of using your phone and leave the app while growing a tree, the tree will be killed! But if succeeding, you'll unlock new trees. DOUBLE EFFICIENCY WITH FRIENDS Things get even more interesting when you challenge your friends to plant trees together—you will see who kills a tree (ouch). However, if you successfully stay away from your phones together, each of you will win an additional tree from a random friend. You can also chat and share your progress to motivate each other and keep everyone on track.* * Flora is the original app for multi-user tree planting and delivers the best features that help you and your friends be productive. TO-DO LIST & WIDGET Flora is a to-do list, and more. Simply create a to-do item and set a reminder, then you will never forget a thing. Even better, you can tag your trees with a to-do item to easily track the progress towards each of your life goals. No matter if your goal is daily, weekly, or monthly, Flora will help you follow it through and achieve it. HABIT TRACKER Enjoy a rewarding daily habit routine. If you grow trees regularly, you will earn yourself a beautiful, vibrant garden. Take a look at it and feel proud of yourself! Each tree records your perseverance and a step towards a healthy life. You can also view the daily, weekly, or monthly statistics of your activities in Flora to find opportunities to improve your time-management and planning skills. REAL TREES, REAL IMPACT Why not plant REAL trees while improving yourself? Flora proudly offers the opt-in Price and Care services that let you plant real trees on the earth if you kill or successfully grow a tree in the app. We partner with tree-planting organizations in Africa and East Asia, such as the Trees.org and Eden Reforestation Projects, to plant fast-growing soil rebuilding trees, fruit trees that diversify incomes and nutrition, and trees that can provide forage and fuel-wood. All these trees help make the earth greener and provide long-term financial aid to families who need it most. Sounds good? Download Flora and join our 2,000,000+ productive users now!

About

Focus Traveller

This productivity timer helps you stay focused with a unique gamified approach. Track your progress, collaborate with friends in real-time, and enjoy immersive environments to enhance concentration.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus sessions
  • Real-time group focus
  • Progress tracking
  • Customizable environments
  • Music integration
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Do you struggle to stay concentrated when you’re working alone? Do you find yourself wishing for a study buddy to keep you motivated late at night? Focus Traveller is a productivity timer designed to help you find your flow. The longer you focus, the higher your traveller climb. Together, we get things done. Invite up to 10 friends to form a Focused Travel Group. Support one another, hold each other accountable, and reach new heights together. Key Features: Seamless Transitions: Effortlessly switch between focus sessions and rest periods. Flexible Modes: Choose between a traditional countdown or an open-ended stopwatch. Group Expeditions: Start a journey with friends and stay focused in real-time together. Curated Audio: Connect to Apple Music to play your personal focus tracks. Progress Tracking: Comprehensive daily logs to help you monitor your growth. Quick Access Widgets: Start a session directly from your Home Screen. Immersive Environments: Choose from various seasonal scenes to match your mood. Dark Mode: Increase your immersion and reduce eye strain with a sleek dark interface. Multitask Friendly: Use "General Focus Mode" to stay productive even when switching to other apps. Focus Status: Keep the Focus Traveller screen visible to let classmates or colleagues know you’re focusing Behind the Scenes The stunning animations, illustrations, and character designs are crafted by award-winning artist Kuan Hung Chen. Follow his work on Instagram @jimmykuang and stay updated with us @focustravellerco. Focus Traveller Pro features are available as a monthly subscription or as a one-time purchase. Your iTunes account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the billing period. You can go to your iTunes Account Settings to manage your subscription & turn off auto-renew. To restore all your previous purchases use the "Restore Purchased" button located at the bottom of the subscription button in the Pro popup page or go to the Focus Traveller Settings to tap on "Restore Purchased" Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Flora4 screens
Focus Traveller4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Flora at fortnightly against Focus Traveller's every 2 months. Flora also leads on ratings volume (83K vs 4.1K). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Flora sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Focus Traveller sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Flora against 4.9 for Focus Traveller. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flora has 83K ratings behind it against 4.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Flora's written reviews are positive against 86% of Focus Traveller's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flora ships an update fortnightly, Focus Traveller every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flora versus Focus Traveller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFloraFocus Traveller
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (83K ratings)4.9 (4.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.1% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings83K — better4.1K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size661 MB566 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppFinca Inc.WEI JEN CHEN

Customer experience

Flora

All ratings82,938 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral1.8%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews3,829 reviews
Positive89.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.1%

Focus Traveller

All ratings4,053 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews909 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral8.7%
Negative5.6%

User reviews

Flora

From 83K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌳 Helps with focus and productivity
  • 🌱 Motivating to grow plants/trees
  • 🕰️ Useful timer and task management features
  • 🌳 Ability to plant real trees
  • 🤝 Collaborative study sessions with friends

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches (e.g. trees dying unexpectedly, progress not saving)
  • 🔒 Facebook login requirement
  • 🌱 Repetitive plant selection after a while
  • 📊 Lack of detailed progress tracking and statistics
  • 🔇 Notification issues (e.g. no alarm when timer is up)

Focus Traveller

From 4.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Calming and relaxing visuals
  • 🚀 Helps with focus and productivity
  • 💡 Unique concept of a hiking journey
  • 👍 Customizable characters
  • 👍 Ability to connect to music apps

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with data/time tracking
  • 🔋 Drains battery when screen is on
  • 🔒 Lack of cross-device sync
  • 👎 Expensive premium features

Bugs and requests

Flora

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login issues and account problems
  • Inconsistent timer behavior and progress tracking
  • Syncing and offline issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow login options other than Facebook
  • Add more plant/tree variety
  • Implement a pause feature without killing the plant
  • Provide more detailed progress tracking and analytics
  • Add lock screen timer and notification options

Focus Traveller

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Random data resets
  • Inconsistent time tracking
  • Landscape mode issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add pomodoro timer functionality
  • Introduce more background options
  • Allow manual time entry/editing
  • Implement Lock Screen widget
  • Add ability to block distracting apps

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Flora

One-time3
  • Amazon Rainforest Tour$0.99
  • Amazon Rainforest Tour$1.99
  • Drylands' Marvels Tour$1.99
10 purchases

Focus Traveller

Subscriptions3
  • Focus Traveller Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Focus Traveller Pro Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
  • Focus Traveller Pro Yearly3 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time7
  • Seal$0.99
  • Fox$0.99
  • Corgi$0.99
Show 4 more
  • Bear$1.99
  • Tiger$1.99
  • Caty$1.99
  • Life Time Access$14.99

Questions

Is Flora free?
Flora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Traveller free?
Focus Traveller is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flora or Focus Traveller?
Focus Traveller is rated higher. Flora averages 4.8 out of 5 from 83K ratings, while Focus Traveller averages 4.9 from 4.1K ratings.
Do Flora or Focus Traveller have ads?
Neither Flora nor Focus Traveller shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flora or Focus Traveller?
Flora ships an update fortnightly, and Focus Traveller every 2 months. Most recently, Flora was updated on November 3, 2026 and Focus Traveller on November 3, 2026.

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