Comparison

Focus Garden vs DayLoad

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

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Focus Garden

Features
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Plant your focus. Grow your discipline. Focus Garden is a Pomodoro-style focus timer wrapped in a calming garden world. Start a session, and a plant grows. Build a streak. Watch your garden expand. Three lush biomes, smart streak shields, and a Lock Screen widget that keeps you in the zone, even when your phone is in your pocket. Built for students cramming for finals, writers chasing deadlines, professionals fighting distraction, and anyone who would rather grow a small forest than scroll one more time. WHY FOCUS GARDEN Three Garden Biomes Mystic Grove (free), Sun Oasis, and Monsoon Canopy. Each biome has its own plants, palette, and ambience. The plants you grow are saved per biome, so your garden grows in three different worlds at once. Wall-Clock Timer Lock the phone, switch to music, take a quick call. Your session keeps going. We track real time, not screen time, so the moment you start is the moment that counts. Streak Shield (Premium) One slip should not undo a month of consistency. Premium gives you a daily shield that protects your streak when life gets in the way. Use it when you need it. Let it stack when you do not. Detailed Insights (Premium) A 12-week activity heatmap, hour-of-day breakdown, week-over-week comparison, and a per-biome time split. See exactly when you do your best work and where your time really goes. Custom Alarm Sounds Pick from four hand-picked tones, including Garden Bell, Forest Whisper, Morning Dew, and Twilight Chime, that play when your session completes, even with the app fully closed. Live Activity Widget (iOS 16.1 and later) Your active session lives on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with a live countdown, plus Pause, Resume, and Cancel buttons right there. No more unlocking just to check the timer. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick your biome. 2. Set the duration, from 1 to 240 minutes. 3. Tap Start. A plant begins to grow. 4. When the alarm rings, the plant joins your garden. Build a streak. Watch your heatmap fill in. Premium unlocks the streak shield and detailed insights to keep you going. PRICING Focus Garden is free forever in Mystic Grove. Premium unlocks the other two biomes, the streak shield, and detailed insights. Weekly: 1.99 USD per week. Monthly: 2.99 USD per month. Annual: 19.99 USD per year, which is about 1.66 USD per month and a 50 percent saving over Monthly. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the rate of the selected plan. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions. PRIVACY-FIRST No accounts, no emails, no ads. Your focus history is stored only on your device. We do not sell your data. Ever. Privacy Policy: https://www.zenbyte.app/focus-garden/privacy-policy.html Terms of Service: https://www.zenbyte.app/focus-garden/terms-of-service.html A NOTE FROM US Focus Garden is a productivity companion, not a clinical or medical tool. Streaks, shields, and insights are motivational gamification, not diagnostic or scientifically validated measurements. Made with care by ZenByte. Questions or feedback: support@zenbyte.app

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DayLoad

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Most planners show you appointments. DayLoad shows you how full a day really is โ€” before you say yes. PLAN โ€” YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE A fixed week strip on top, the day's hour-by-hour timeline below. "Focus Today" highlights up to three key tasks. Habits with streak counters underneath โ€” check them off, done. A WORKLOAD THAT'S HONEST Every task counts toward the day's load by its duration: green (light), yellow (full), red (overloaded). Decide per activity whether it counts โ€” and set your own daily capacity. A FAMILIAR MONTH VIEW The whole month with your events as an overview. Tap a day to open its plan, long-press to create an event right there. FUTURE INBOX Something comes to mind? Tap, save, move on โ€” it lands in your inbox first, not on the calendar. Drag it onto a time or a day when you're ready, and see what the day already holds. APPLE CALENDAR Your existing events fold into the workload, read-only โ€” nothing is changed. FAST & QUIET No visual overhead, no icon clutter, text before icons. Instant feedback on every check. Light and dark mode. DayLoad is for people who don't want to forget things โ€” and want to notice a day is full before it's too late.

Screenshots

Focus Garden4 screens
DayLoad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DayLoad at none against Focus Garden's 3. DayLoad also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). Focus Garden's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Focus Garden sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. DayLoad asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Focus Garden ships an update every 6 weeks, DayLoad every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
Focus Garden versus DayLoad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocus GardenDayLoad
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 10 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size81 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZENBYTE DIJITAL TEKNOLOJILER LIMITED SIRKETIBen Dam

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Focus Garden

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Plan$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Plan$2.991 Month
  • Annual Plan$19.991 Year
None

DayLoad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Focus Garden free?
Focus Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayLoad free?
DayLoad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Focus Garden or DayLoad have ads?
Neither Focus Garden nor DayLoad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Focus Garden or DayLoad?
Focus Garden ships an update every 6 weeks, and DayLoad every 10 days. Most recently, Focus Garden was updated on October 28, 2026 and DayLoad on October 31, 2026.

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