Comparison

Kyugo vs Focus Bloom

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

Head to head
About

Kyugo

This app reimagines daily scheduling with a unique circular, layered canvas. It offers an intuitive and human-centered approach to visualizing time, helping users understand their day at a glance and regain control.

Highlights
  • Circular timeline visualization
  • Layered time representation
  • Google & Apple Calendar sync
  • One-handed gesture controls
  • Seamless event rescheduling
  • Visual distribution of life layers
Features
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A new way to experience time. Kyugo 3.0 reimagines the calendar from the ground up. Instead of boxes, grids, and scattered task lists, Kyugo presents your day as a circular, layered canvas—clear, intuitive, and deeply human. It helps you see your time the way you feel it: in cycles, rhythms, and interconnected moments. This major release marks the official relaunch of Kyugo after its acquisition by Anders (andersbuilds.com). Version 3.0 brings a renewed commitment to craftsmanship, clarity, and calm. Every interaction has been refined, every gesture polished, every layer made more readable. The result is a seamless, mobile-first calendar that adapts to the reality of modern life. Time, visualized in layers Kyugo transforms your schedule into a living, circular representation of your day. Each event becomes part of a larger flow. Each layer—work, personal life, routines, commitments—combines into a unified whole you can understand at a glance. No zooming, no hunting for information. Everything is right there, beautifully arranged around your clock. Designed for clarity and presence Kyugo isn’t just another productivity tool. It’s a calmer, more intuitive way of relating to time. • Understand your day instantly with a circular timeline • Reveal how your energy, priorities, and commitments stack together • Create a sense of balance by visually distributing the layers of your life Kyugo helps you step back, see the whole picture, and make space for what matters. Seamless Google & Apple Calendar sync Connect your existing calendars in seconds. Whether you use Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or both, Kyugo stays perfectly in sync—without duplicates, complexity, or manual work. Everything remains aligned across your devices and your ecosystem. Natural gestures. Fluid controls. Thumb-first design. Kyugo is thoughtfully optimized for one-handed use. Interactions feel effortless: • Drag events around the circle to reschedule • Resize durations with precise snapping • Shift your day in seconds when plans change • Glide between views smoothly thanks to polished motion Your schedule becomes tactile, visual, and intuitive. Built for modern life Kyugo adapts to how your day actually unfolds. Meetings run long. Plans shift. Free time appears and disappears. Kyugo helps you navigate change gracefully with a visual flow that always stays coherent. More than a calendar—your life, in one view Kyugo merges functionality and beauty to help you: • Make intentional choices • Regain control of your time • Reduce overwhelm • See the shape of your day and the space inside it • Build a calmer rhythm for work, rest, and everything in between Kyugo 3.0 is the beginning of a new chapter—crafted to help you design your day with clarity, intention, and flow. Your time. Your rhythm. Your life. Begin your new way of living today. The app is free to download, but requires a paid subscription to use. Terms of Use: https://app.kyugo.app/Grace/Projects/Kyugo/Docs/kyugo-tos-2025.pdf

About

Focus Bloom

Cultivate a unique digital garden by dedicating time to focus, mindfulness, or sleep. Each completed session grows a one-of-a-kind flower, creating a visual record of your dedication. The app offers insights into your progress and allows for collaborative gardening with friends.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated unique flowers
  • Focus, breathing, and sleep session types
  • Earn coins to unlock rare flowers
  • Customizable garden with pot upgrades
  • Collaborative garden with friends
  • Focus insights and heatmaps
  • Immersive dark mode
Features
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Bloom — Grow a Garden with Your Focus Bloom turns focus, mindfulness, and sleep into a calm garden you tend over time. Every session you finish blooms into a flower that is entirely its own: its kind, colour, petal form, and rarity are all shaped by your intention, your duration, and the moment you were in. No two flowers are ever alike. Try everything free for 14 days New users get a 14-day full-feature free trial — all flowers, the full garden, every scene. Once the trial ends, choose a subscription or a one-time purchase to keep going. To focus is to plant When you want to settle in and concentrate, plant a seed in Bloom, name what you're focusing on, and begin. Stay with it and the seed grows, until at last it blooms. Every flower stays in your garden for good — a real record of each stretch of time you gave your all. A gentle cost If you leave a session early, the flower doesn't simply vanish. It withers into a soft grey bud and remains in your garden all the same. It doesn't punish you. It just quietly remembers that this was where you stopped. More than focus alone Beyond deep focus, you can grow different flowers through mindful breathing and good sleep. Three ways to grow, three families of blooms, all gathering into a garden that is yours alone. Flowers are earned, never bought. Bloom never sells a single flower. Rare, epic, and legendary blooms are unlocked with coins earned from focus, mindfulness, and sleep — as are garden scenes, pot tiers, and how many pots you have. A subscription unlocks the ability to keep planting, not which flower you plant. The most striking flowers stay a reward for effort. Features Procedurally generated flowers — every one unique, never repeated Three modes: focus, mindful breathing, and sleep, each growing its own family of flowers A coin economy: unlock rare, epic, and legendary flowers through your own effort — coins can't be bought. Tend your garden your way: expand from 9 pots to 36, change pot tiers, switch between 6 garden scenes Share a garden with up to 8 friends, pooling focus hours together — reach 150 hours as a team to unlock an achievement flower that can't be bought. Focus insights: heatmaps, time-of-day distribution, and rarity composition, so you can see how far you've come Soft, spare design with an immersive dark mode that never gets in your way Every flower you've grown and your full garden history is never deleted, in any state. Bloom Plus Subscribe or buy once after the trial to keep using everything, and to unlock your full garden history, all garden scenes, and premium share cards. Bloom never rushes you and never interrupts. It quietly turns every stretch of time you give in earnest into a living garden — one that keeps growing, and is wholly your own. Start now, and plant your first flower. About pricing This app includes a 14-day full-feature free trial. After the trial, a monthly ($3.99/month), Yearly ($17.99/year), or one-time Lifetime purchase ($44.99) is required to continue. Subscriptions renew automatically within 24 hours before the end of the current period and can be cancelled anytime in your App Store account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase, not a subscription and does not auto-renew. Terms of Use: By using this app, you agree to the Apple Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/apple-eula/

Screenshots

Kyugo4 screens
Focus Bloom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Focus Bloom at 100% against Kyugo's 45%. Focus Bloom also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Kyugo's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Kyugo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Focus Bloom asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Focus Bloom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Kyugo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Focus Bloom's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kyugo ships an update every 2 months, Focus Bloom every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Kyugo versus Focus Bloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKyugoFocus Bloom
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (9 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnders LaederichSwiftPass Technologies Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Kyugo

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral9.1%
Negative45.5%

Focus Bloom

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Kyugo

Subscriptions4
  • 1 month1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Kyugo Premium Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • 1 year subscription1 Month trial$24.991 Year
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  • Kyugo Premium Annual14 Days trial$99.991 Year
None

Focus Bloom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kyugo free?
Kyugo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focus Bloom free?
Focus Bloom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kyugo or Focus Bloom?
Focus Bloom is rated higher. Kyugo averages 3.7 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Focus Bloom averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Kyugo or Focus Bloom have ads?
Neither Kyugo nor Focus Bloom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kyugo or Focus Bloom?
Kyugo ships an update every 2 months, and Focus Bloom every 6 weeks. Most recently, Kyugo was updated on October 24, 2026 and Focus Bloom on October 8, 2026.

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