Comparison

Rowan Timer vs Sprout Focus

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

Head to head
About

Rowan Timer

This app helps you focus on studying with customizable session lengths and visual progress tracking. Earn rewards by completing sessions and personalize your timer experience with animated pointers and gentle sounds. Track your progress over time with detailed logs.

Highlights
  • Customizable focus session lengths
  • Visual progress timer
  • Reward system with animated pointers
  • Optional break timer
  • Daily focus time tracking
  • Calendar history and shareable logs
Features
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Rowan Timer makes it easy to start studying, reading, or working. Choose a 15, 25, 45, or 60-minute focus session and follow your progress on a visual timer. Finish a session to earn seeds. In your new rooftop garden, water and feed a tree to help it grow through four stages. Use seeds to collect flowers, a bench, and other decorations, arrange them on the rooftop, and share a snapshot of your garden. Need a few more seeds? You can choose to watch a rewarded ad for 3 seeds, up to twice a day. Ads are optional; focus sessions also earn seeds. • One-tap focus presets and a hands-on timer dial • Optional 5-minute break after a completed session • Today’s focus time and completed sessions • Calendar history and shareable study logs • Animated timer pointers to collect with seeds • Rooftop tree care, decorations, and garden sharing Build a small daily focus habit and watch your garden grow.

About

Sprout Focus

Transform deep work into a rewarding gardening experience. Set a timer and lock your phone in a special planter to watch a seed grow into a blooming plant. Successfully completing focus sessions cultivates your virtual garden, while interruptions prevent growth.

Highlights
  • Physically lock phone to prevent distractions
  • Watch plants grow in real-time during focus sessions
  • Tag sessions for different activities
  • Track focus time, streaks, and daily goals
  • Set daily growth goals and reminders
Features
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Grow your focus, one session at a time. Sprout Focus turns deep work into a garden. Set a timer, lock your phone in your Sprout Focus planter, and watch a seed grow into a blooming plant while you stay focused. Pick up your phone too early and it never blooms — finish the session and your garden grows. Features • Pair with your Sprout Focus device over Bluetooth to physically lock away distractions • Watch your plant grow in real time as your focus session counts down • Tag sessions — studying, work, reading, exercise, meditation and more • Track your garden: total focus time, streaks, daily goals, and a breakdown of what you grew • Set a daily growth goal and gentle reminders to keep your streak alive Plant a session, stay present, and let your focus bloom.

Screenshots

Rowan Timer4 screens
Sprout Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sprout Focus at none against Rowan Timer's shown. Sprout Focus also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Rowan Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rowan Timer ships an update every 4 days, Sprout Focus every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rowan Timer versus Sprout Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRowan TimerSprout Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer로완인터렉티브Coding Minds, Inc.

Customer experience

Rowan Timer

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sprout Focus

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Rowan Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Sprout Focus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rowan Timer free?
Rowan Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sprout Focus free?
Sprout Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rowan Timer or Sprout Focus have ads?
Rowan Timer shows ads; Sprout Focus does not.
Which is updated more often, Rowan Timer or Sprout Focus?
Rowan Timer ships an update every 4 days, and Sprout Focus every 4 months. Most recently, Rowan Timer was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sprout Focus on October 25, 2026.

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