Focus Flower vs Been A Minute
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Focus Flower
This app uses a charming, minimal focus timer to help you stay on task and build consistent habits. Watch a flower grow in real-time as you complete focus sessions, unlocking new varieties through dedication and unique achievements. It offers a distraction-free, gamified approach to productivity.
- Minimal focus timer
- Customizable Pomodoro-style timer
- Real-time flower growth animations
- Unlockable flowers with achievement conditions
- Focus history calendar
- Distraction-free interface
- Dark Mode support
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Focus Flower is a charming minimal focus timer and productivity app designed to help you stay on task, beat distractions, and build consistent work and study habits. Start a session in seconds. Set your custom time from minutes to hours, stay focused, and watch your flower grow in real time. Gentle progress animations keep you aware of time without breaking your flow. Every focus session grows your collection. Unlock new flowers through consistency, patterns, and hidden conditions: some are easy, others take dedication. Can you discover them all? Great for achievement hunters: make your work into a game! (hints are in the gallery screen) No clutter. No ads. No subscriptions. No distractions. Just a clean, calm space to focus. Whether you’re studying, doing deep work, or building better daily habits, Focus Flower helps you stay in flow and turns your focus into something visible and rewarding. Key Features • Simple focus timer for productivity or relaxation goals • Custom pomodoro-style timer: minutes to hours • Real-time flower growth with soothing animations • Restart, pause, or quit timers anytime • Minimal interface with Dark Mode • Calendar with complete focus history and unlocks • Notifications to support your routine • Dozens of unlockable flowers through unique achievement conditions • ZERO ADS: completely distraction-free Focus Flower is the calm, gamified productivity timer that feels like a peaceful garden instead of another to-do list. Perfect for students, professionals, and anyone who wants an ad-free way to track focus time and build lasting habits. Download Focus Flower today and start growing your personal flower collection, one focused bloom at a time.
Been A Minute
This app helps you track the time elapsed since you last performed a specific action. Log an event once, and it will count the time until you reset it, providing a simple way to remember when things last happened. It offers widgets and optional gentle nudges for milestones.
- Track time since last event
- One-tap reset with visual feedback
- Detailed history and breakdown
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Optional milestone nudges
- No account or tracking required
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You know that thing you definitely did recently? It's been a minute. Been A Minute tracks the time since the last time anything happened. Watered the plant. Called your mom. Changed the air filter. Went to the gym. You log it once, and the app quietly counts up from there — no streaks to break, no daily nags, no guilt. Just an honest number and a calendar that remembers better than you do. Tap "I JUST DID IT" and the counter resets to zero with a satisfying comic BAM. The old stretch gets banked to your history, so you can finally answer the eternal question: wait… how long HAS it been? — TRACK ANYTHING — Habits you're proud of, chores you're avoiding, the oil change you keep postponing. Every entry is just "time since last reset." You decide whether that's a win or a wake-up call — pick an emoji and a color to set the mood. — I JUST DID IT — One tap resets the clock and bursts the screen. The elapsed stretch lands in your history, so the record builds itself. — SEE THE STORY — A full-bleed detail screen for every entry: the live counter, an exact breakdown ("1y · 2mo · 14d"), how many times you've reset, and a dry little voice line that has opinions about your life choices. — WIDGETS — Home screen and lock screen widgets put the count right where you'll see it. The plant doesn't water itself, but at least now you'll know. — GENTLE MILESTONE NUDGES — Optional notifications at 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year. No daily pestering — just the calendar tapping you on the shoulder when it's genuinely been a while. Off by default. — YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS — No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No ads. Everything stays on your device and syncs across your own Apple devices through your private iCloud. We don't collect your data because we never see it. Track the things. Forget less. It's been a minute — let's find out exactly how long.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Focus Flower at 7 against Been A Minute's 1. Focus Flower also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Focus Flower against 5.0 for Been A Minute. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus Flower has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Focus Flower | Been A Minute |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Silo Interactive LLC | Aditya Goswami |
Customer experience
Focus Flower
Been A Minute
In-app purchases
Focus Flower
No in-app purchases
Been A Minute
No in-app purchases
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