Comparison

Garda vs Been A Minute

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

Head to head
About

Garda

This app gamifies focus sessions by growing a virtual garden. Completing focus periods plants and nurtures digital flora, while neglect causes them to wither. Collect over 40 unique plant species and track your progress with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Virtual garden growth
  • Focus session timer
  • Plant collection (40+ species)
  • Detailed statistics
  • Garden customization
  • Distraction-free focus
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Garda is a productivity app that turns your concentration into a living garden. Every focus session you complete plants and grows a real plant in your personal garden — neglect your focus and your plants wither away. With over 40 unique plant species to collect and grow, every session feels rewarding. Discover rare flowers, towering trees, lush succulents, and more as you build the garden of your dreams — one focused minute at a time. Pick the plants you want to grow, set your focus timer, and watch your garden come to life. Detailed statistics track your total focus time, daily streaks, session history, and overall progress so you always know how far you've come. Your garden is yours. Arrange it, expand it, and fill it with the plants you've unlocked through real, distraction-free focus. Privacy Policy: https://healthwellnessapps.com/garda/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Garda4 screens
Been A Minute4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Been A Minute at none against Garda's 2. Garda's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Garda sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Been A Minute asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Garda against 5.0 for Been A Minute. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garda ships an update daily, Been A Minute every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Garda versus Been A Minute: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGardaBeen A Minute
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHealth & Wellness Apps LimitedAditya Goswami

Customer experience

Garda

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

Been A Minute

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Garda

Subscriptions2
  • Garda Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Unlimited Annual Access7 Days trial$34.991 Year
None

Been A Minute

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garda free?
Garda is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Been A Minute free?
Been A Minute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Garda or Been A Minute?
Garda and Been A Minute are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Garda or Been A Minute have ads?
Neither Garda nor Been A Minute shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garda or Been A Minute?
Garda ships an update daily, and Been A Minute every 3 weeks. Most recently, Garda was updated on October 31, 2026 and Been A Minute on October 23, 2026.

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