Thicket vs Sundae

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/

Time you can't see is time you can't feel. Sundae turns it into something you can watch — an ice cream that melts, a candle that burns down, a train that rides home. Start a session, set your phone down, and just glance. MADE FOR TIME BLINDNESS • Every second is visible: the scene is consumed smoothly in real time, on screen and on your Lock Screen • Live Activity + Dynamic Island: the melting sundae stays with you even when the phone is face up on your desk • Start in three seconds: two taps, no setup, no account NO GUILT. EVER. • Step away anytime — your session just naps. Nothing withers, nothing breaks, nothing is lost • Streaks only celebrate. Miss a day and the app simply says nothing • Rest counts: Lounge Mode is an official do-nothing timer. A sun sets over the sea while you lie flat. Finishing a rest keeps your streak alive A FRIEND, NOT A COACH • Pebble the sea otter waits with you, naps with you, and floats in the dessert lake when you finish • Write one thing ("Reply to Sam's email") and the whole app becomes about just that — even on your Lock Screen • Finished time becomes a collection of little dioramas ONE THING A DAY • Tell Sundae what you're working toward, and roughly how you'd get there • Each day it puts a single step on your Lock Screen — tap it and you're focusing • Skip one and it rotates to the next. Nothing is ever overdue, nothing accumulates • Never a list, never a checkbox, never a nag TWELVE SCENES, THREE UNIVERSES • Dessert: Sundae, Popsicle, Hot Cocoa, Cotton Candy • Flame: Candle, Campfire, Sparkler, Firefly Jar • Journey: Night Train, Sailboat, Balloon, Snail SOUND THAT ACTUALLY HELPS • Real rain and ocean recordings, crackling fireplace, summer crickets, brown noise • Gentle music-box chime when you finish — never an alarm PAY ONCE. YOURS FOREVER. • Free: full timer, Pebble, and three scenes • Sundae Full ($9.99, one-time): every scene, Lounge Mode, the full collection • Never a subscription PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Works completely offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, no data collected — the app has no networking capability at all