Comparison

FocusCamp 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

FocusCamp

This app provides a shared focus timer experience, allowing users to concentrate on tasks alongside friends in a virtual campfire setting. It offers ambient sounds and a diary to record focus sessions, fostering a sense of companionship without competition.

Highlights
  • Shared focus sessions
  • Ambient focus sounds
  • Camp Diary for memories
  • Guestbook for encouragement
  • Home screen widgets
  • No competition or leaderboards
Features
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FocusCamp is a cozy campfire to rest by on the way to wherever you're headed a place to gather your thoughts and settle into the work that matters. Some days, focusing on your own just isn't easy. On those days, put down the apps that pull you away and pull up a seat by the same campfire as a friend. No talking. No competing. Just knowing someone's there beside you is enough to focus a little longer. ------ Features [Lock apps with a friend] When you start a focus session, Campy holds onto the apps that tend to distract you. On your own they're easy to unlock again โ€” but make a pact with a friend, lock in together, and you'll last a little longer. When your session ends, Campy hands them right back. [Focus together] When a friend starts focusing at their camp, their campfire lights up. Take an open seat, set your timer, and focus alongside them. [Focus without competition] No rankings, no competition. Instead of measuring who focused longer, it's a place where you simply keep each other company. [Camp journal] When a session ends, your time is saved as a single polaroid. Leave a short note and keep the day's focus โ€” and the friends who shared it โ€” as a memory. [Guestbook] Leave a short message at a friend's camp. A small word of encouragement can be what starts their next session. [Animal friends] Roast skewers with a whole cast of animal friends โ€” bears, pandas, ducks, and more. [Focus sounds] Crackling firewood, falling rain, deep forest, a camp by the sea. A range of natural sounds to help you settle in and focus more comfortably. [Right from your home screen] With widgets and Live Activities, see your current focus time and time remaining at a glance. Exam days. Deadline days. The long walk toward a dream you've held onto for years. Some of them feel endless when you face them alone. On those days, lock away the apps that distract you and take a seat by the same campfire as a friend. Just being there for each other can be enough to take one more step forward. ------- [FocusCamp Pro] Subscribe to FocusCamp Pro to unlock: - Exclusive animal characters - Exclusive skewers - All focus sounds - Full stats history - Full camp journal Contact focuscamp.team@gmail.com Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Thicket

Features
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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

FocusCamp4 screens
Thicket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Thicket at every 3 days against FocusCamp's every 11 days. 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. FocusCamp sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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

FocusCamp ships an update every 11 days, Thicket every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
FocusCamp versus Thicket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFocusCampThicket
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size125 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkyujin yumUros Gruber

In-app purchases

3 purchases

FocusCamp

Subscriptions2
  • FocusCamp Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • FocusCamp Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • FocusCamp 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 FocusCamp free?
FocusCamp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thicket free?
Thicket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FocusCamp or Thicket have ads?
Neither FocusCamp nor Thicket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FocusCamp or Thicket?
FocusCamp ships an update every 11 days, and Thicket every 3 days. Most recently, FocusCamp was updated on November 5, 2026 and Thicket on October 31, 2026.

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