Pondoro vs Thicket

Every focus session is a dive. Watch a living reef — and a whole ocean — grow with you. Pondoro is a calm Pomodoro study timer that turns each focus session into coins, XP, new cartoon fish for your own aquarium, and a sea creature for your Field Guide — calm, private, and never naggy. Made for students, deep workers, and busy ADHD minds. WHY PONDORO IS DIFFERENT Most focus apps punish you when you slip. Pondoro doesn't. No shame, no nagging, no streak guilt — just a calm, offline-first space where showing up is its own reward, and your reef remembers every session. DEPTH DIVE + FIELD GUIDE - Your session length picks the depth: the Shallows (under 20 min), the Reef (20–39 min), or the Twilight zone (40+ min) - The hour you start sets the scene — dawn, day, dusk, or night — and who's out - Stay undisturbed and the water stays crystal-clear, so shy creatures appear - Every session logs one of 24 hand-painted sea creatures in your Field Guide - 6 seasonal migrations return every year, plus 12 rare "while you were away" moments to discover GROW A LIVING REEF - Every focus session earns coins and XP - Hatch and collect cartoon fish — common & uncommon free, rarer species (rare, epic, legendary) with Plus - Breed rare new species and decorate habitats your way - Gentle fish care: a free daily sprinkle, soft hunger, and level-up pearls - Bred fish inherit a head start STAY IN FLOW - A reliable, timestamp-anchored timer — locking your phone never cheats a session - A Lock Screen Live Activity keeps your session in view - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your streak and today's progress at a glance - Works with iOS Focus modes — flip on Work or Study and a session is ready when you return - Optional Deep Focus app-blocking — block the apps that pull you away, only while a session runs (free, on-device) - Gentle, optional AirPods posture check-ins — on-device, foreground only - Race the fish your focus earned against in-app rivals — just for fun, no real money - Set a daily goal, and Keep flowing past the timer when you're in the zone - A breathing break with your fish after each session - A weekly tide that lights up your tank, and a streak that rests instead of breaking — one free rest day a week; a lapsed streak regrows with two sessions FOCUS WITH FRIENDS - Shared Ponds: focus alongside friends and see who's diving now - Pond rules, report, and block keep every pond a kind place CALM AND PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Offline-first — core focus works with no account or connection - No ads, no shame, no nagging - Optional Apple Health sync — completed sessions count as Mindful Minutes - Your data stays yours — export your full focus history as CSV anytime PONDORO PLUS Go further with Pondoro Plus: earn double coins, keep earning past the free daily cap, breed rare fish faster, unlock every fish and rarity, and claim member interiors, premium soundscapes, and Photo Mode. A progression boost — never a wall in front of the real app. Start your first focus session today. Your reef is waiting. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled 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://www.pondoro.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.pondoro.app/privacy

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/