PomoGarden vs Thicket

PomoGarden is a focus timer that cares about both halves of deep work: the block where you concentrate, and the break where you recover. Focus better. Break better. ONE TAP TO FOCUS Open the app and start. Your last session length is remembered, two classic lengths (15 and 25 minutes) sit beside your own custom number, and a single tap on the Home Screen widget or the iOS 18 Control Center button launches a session instantly. No setup ceremony, ever. A DIAL YOU CAN READ AND PRESS Tap the timer to switch between time left, time elapsed, and the clock time your block finishes. Swipe it to change how much it shows: a single calm dial, or companion dials for what comes next, water you've drunk, and distractions you've logged. An optional ticking pulse beats quietly in your pocket, once a second or once every five minutes — your choice, silent, and off by default. A SESSION THAT CAN RUN ITSELF Turn on auto-start and a session flows hands-free: focus, break, focus. Leave it off and every phase waits for you. The next-phase dial lets you reshape what's coming without leaving the phase you're in. SMART BREAK COACH Breaks are where most timers abandon you. PomoGarden's coach reads the moment — how many blocks you've done, whether it's a long break, whether it's the afternoon dip — and puts the three most useful recoveries in front of you, fully on-device and offline: - Rest Eyes: the 20-20-20 rule, gently guided — included for everyone - Reset: one minute of guided breathing, with haptics that follow your lungs (Pro) - Deep Reset: three minutes, for the long breaks (Pro) - Move: three quick desk exercises for the sitting body (Pro) - Posture: shoulders, spine and screen height (Pro) An optional water nudge appears only on the break screen — never as a notification. PROTECT YOUR FLOW Deep in it when the timer ends? Flow protection keeps counting up and saves the extra minutes as overtime. Take the break when you are ready. A GARDEN THAT GROWS WITH YOU Every completed session grows a plant. Your garden is a quiet record of every focused hour — an achievement, not a game. Small stoic reminders keep you company along the way. UNDERSTAND YOUR FOCUS Insights tells you, in plain sentences, what your numbers mean: how this week compares to last, when your focus lands best, and how often you get pulled away. Log a distraction with one honest tap during any block. Every number is calculated on your device. PLAN YOUR DAY (PRO) Sketch your week into focus blocks; the timer surfaces what is next and starts it with one tap. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account, no tracking, no analytics, no third-party services, and it works completely offline. SEVEN DAYS, THEN YOU DECIDE Every Pro feature is unlocked the moment you open the app, for a full week. No card, no sign-up, nothing to cancel. When the week ends the timer, your garden, this week's insights, the widgets and guided eye rest stay free forever. PRO, ONCE The Break Coach, your full focus history, the Day Planner and the Full timer face are PomoGarden Pro: a single one-time purchase with Family Sharing. No subscription. No ads. No account. Nothing to cancel, nothing to remember. Most focus apps bill you every month for the rest of your life; PomoGarden asks once and every future update is included. Everything stays on your device, and the app works with no connection at all. Lock your phone, watch your garden grow, and let the app carry the rhythm. Focus better. Break better. ---------- Privacy Policy: https://tenisify.net/pomogarden/privacy-3/ Terms of Use: https://tenisify.net/pomogarden/terms-3/ Support: https://tenisify.net/pomogarden/support-3/

Plant a tree and leave your phone alone. Lock it, pocket it, put it face down — 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 — 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 — 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 — finished or given up on — 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 — 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 — and you get a warning with time to come back. QUIETLY BUILT · No account, no sign-up, no server · No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind · Backup to your own iCloud, so losing a phone is not losing a year · 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 — 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/