Comparison

Flora vs Focus Trainer / Timer

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 off your phone, manage tasks, and build positive habits. Grow virtual trees as you focus on your goals, with options to block distracting apps and challenge friends. You can even plant real trees with partner organizations.

Highlights
  • Focus timer with app blocking
  • Gamified habit tracking
  • Virtual tree growth
  • Collaborative focus challenges
  • To-do list management
  • Real tree planting option
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 Trainer / Timer

Features
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Focus Trainer is a timer with auto-adjusting focus intervals. Start small with short focus sessions that you can easily master and work yourself up to ever-increasing lengths of focus time. Get better at resisting distractions by immediately writing them down instead of letting them nag at your attention. Get them out of your head and follow up on them later (or not). If you do break your session take a second to note the cause. Over time, Focus Trainer will show you the most common interruptions so that you know what you need to work on. SET A FOCUS TIMER Decide for how long you want to focus and start the timer. Focus on your task until the time runs out. You need to reset the timer if you allow yourself to get distracted. IMPROVE YOUR FOCUS - ONE STEP AT A TIME Just like with other skills, start small and work yourself up. Begin with an easily manageable focus time. Focus Trainer will then gradually increase the length of your sessions. DUMP DISTRACTIONS Sooner or later a distraction will ask for your attention. A tangent thought, a shoutout from a coworker, or just a random idea. Before you let yourself get distracted by it, braindump it directly in the app. Write it down and forget about it - for the moment. Once your focus session is complete, you can pick it back up. REFLECT ON INTERRUPTIONS If you do let yourself get distracted, quickly note what caused it. Every once in a while, take a look at your collected notes. Focus Trainer will show you the most common reasons for interruptions. Tackle those first. Terms of use: https://www.focustrainer.app/en/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

Flora4 screens
Focus Trainer / Timer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Focus Trainer / Timer at none against Flora's 3. Focus Trainer / Timer also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price 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. Focus Trainer / Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flora versus Focus Trainer / Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFloraFocus Trainer / Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (83K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings83K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size664 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppFinca Inc.Florian Sander

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 Trainer / Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Flora

One-time3
  • Amazon Rainforest Tour$0.99
  • Amazon Rainforest Tour$1.99
  • Drylands' Marvels Tour$1.99
None

Focus Trainer / Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flora free?
Flora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Trainer / Timer free?
Focus Trainer / Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flora or Focus Trainer / Timer have ads?
Neither Flora nor Focus Trainer / Timer shows ads.

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