Comparison

Bloom Focus vs Thicket

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

Head to head
About

Bloom Focus

Features
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Turn your time into progress with a simple and calming focus timer. Every session helps your plant grow, rewarding your consistency and helping you build better habits.

About

Thicket

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Plant a tree and leave your phone alone. Lock it, pocket it, put it face down โ€” the tree keeps growing. Open something else and it dies. That is the whole idea, and it works because the stake is real. WHAT GROWS Every finished session becomes a tree in your grove. Days fill up, months fill out, and a year of attention turns into somewhere you can actually look at. Twenty species across six regions, and you cannot buy a single one. Each is earned by focusing โ€” some by total hours, some by finishing long sessions, some found by chance in the ones over ninety minutes. Your trees, your garden, all of it earned. Pinch a grove to look closer. Everything is drawn again as you go, so it stays sharp all the way in, and the shapes you earned are worth looking at. A GARDEN YOU ARRANGE Seeds come from finishing sessions, and they buy things to put in your grove โ€” a bench, a pond, a fire pit, a deer that only visits a forest left alone. Eighteen of them. A thing you place belongs to the day you placed it, so every grove ends up different, and you can buy the same bench again next week for another day. Hold anything to pick it up and move it wherever you like. It stays where you put it. THE APPS THAT ALWAYS WIN Pick the ones you cannot be trusted around. While a tree is growing they do not open, and the moment the session ends โ€” finished or given up on โ€” they open again. No schedules, no standing block, nothing left switched on behind you. You choose them in Apple's own picker, which means Thicket is never told which apps you picked. It only knows how many. Free, like everything else here that matters. DAY AND NIGHT After dark the grove gets a moon, stars and moonlight on the leaves. Not a dark mode โ€” a time of day. It follows your phone, or you can hold it at night all day if you like. LOCKING YOUR PHONE IS FOCUSING Most focus apps cannot tell putting your phone down apart from picking up another app. Thicket can. A locked screen is exactly what it asks of you, so nothing is lost. Wandering into another app is what it is there to stop โ€” and you get a warning with time to come back. QUIETLY BUILT ยท No account, no sign-up, no server ยท No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind ยท Backup to your own iCloud, so losing a phone is not losing a year ยท Your whole history and every statistic, free forever THE FULL VERSION Free gives you the timer, deep focus, app blocking, the lock screen timer, all your statistics, iCloud backup, and four species to plant. The full version opens the rest of the catalogue: all twenty species, all six regions, the whole garden. You still earn every one of them by focusing โ€” buying opens the catalogue, it never plants a tree for you. Thicket is made by one person. If something is wrong, write in and a real person answers. Privacy Policy: https://urosgruber.github.io/thicket/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bloom Focus3 screens
Thicket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bloom Focus at none against Thicket's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Thicket sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bloom Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Bloom Focus versus Thicket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBloom FocusThicket
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size29 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio RaiaUros Gruber

In-app purchases

None

Bloom Focus

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Thicket

Subscriptions2
  • Thicket Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Thicket Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Thicket Forever$34.99

Questions

Is Bloom Focus free?
Bloom Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thicket free?
Thicket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bloom Focus or Thicket have ads?
Neither Bloom Focus nor Thicket shows ads.

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