Comparison

PomoGarden 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

PomoGarden

Features
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Turn focus into something you can see. Start a session and a plant grows on your timer; finish it and the plant joins your garden. PomoGarden is a calm Pomodoro timer for studying, deep work and everyday focus. Try everything for 7 days. No payment details, nothing to cancel. FOCUS YOUR WAY - Classic Pomodoro, Deep Work and Flowmodoro: work until you're done and the break scales with you - Custom timer lengths, three timer faces, a soft tick and haptics that work even in silent mode - Flow protection: deep in it when time's up? Keep going, the extra minutes are saved - Auto-start breaks and focus for hands-free sessions - Live Activity, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Control Center control and Siri Shortcuts DESIGNED FOR iPHONE DUO - Open it like a book: the timer on one page, today's progress and your plan on the other - Stand it half-open on the desk and it becomes a quiet desk clock - Tap a plant and read its story on the facing page; Insights spread across both pages GROW A GARDEN - 19 plants to collect, from daisy and clover to the legendary Ghost Orchid - See your garden as a grid, a collection or a timeline of your work BREAKS THAT RECHARGE - The Break Coach suggests the right recovery: guided breathing, desk stretches, posture resets or 20-20-20 eye rest - Water reminders and a longer break after a few sessions INSIGHTS THAT MEAN SOMETHING - Today, Trends and Sessions: focused minutes, streaks, focus score, mood, time away and the time between sessions - Daily goals in minutes or pomodoros, goal days, and where your time goes by mode PLAN AND FOLLOW THROUGH - Day Planner: shape your week into focus blocks in minutes or pomodoros, get a reminder as each one starts and load it with one tap - Goals with deadlines that show whether you're on track PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account, no ads, no tracking. Your data stays on your iPhone - Automatic daily backup to your own iCloud Drive; restore in one tap after a reinstall - Available in 15 languages POMOGARDEN PRO The timer, your garden and your daily goal are free, always. Pro adds Insights, the Break Coach, auto-start and flow protection, your own focus modes and goals, the Day Planner, the Full timer face and the Collection and Timeline garden views. Choose yearly or monthly, or buy Lifetime once. Yearly and Lifetime include Family Sharing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://tenisify.net/pomogarden/terms-3 Privacy Policy: https://tenisify.net/pomogarden/privacy-3

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

PomoGarden4 screens
Thicket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Thicket at every 3 days against PomoGarden's every 9 days. Thicket also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. PomoGarden sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Thicket sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PomoGarden ships an update every 9 days, Thicket every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
PomoGarden versus Thicket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPomoGardenThicket
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerumit uregunUros Gruber

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PomoGarden

Subscriptions2
  • PomoGarden Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • PomoGarden Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • PomoGarden Pro$29.99
3 purchases

Thicket

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

Questions

Is PomoGarden free?
PomoGarden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thicket free?
Thicket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PomoGarden or Thicket have ads?
Neither PomoGarden nor Thicket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PomoGarden or Thicket?
PomoGarden ships an update every 9 days, and Thicket every 3 days. Most recently, PomoGarden was updated on October 24, 2026 and Thicket on October 9, 2026.

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