Rowan Timer vs Sprout Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable focus session lengths
- Visual progress timer
- Reward system with animated pointers
- Optional break timer
- Daily focus time tracking
- Calendar history and shareable logs
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Rowan Timer | Sprout Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 로완인터렉티브 | Coding Minds, Inc. |
Customer experience
Rowan Timer
Sprout Focus
In-app purchases
Rowan Timer
No in-app purchases
Sprout Focus
No in-app purchases









