Thicket vs LaxasHear AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Thicket
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Plant a tree and leave your phone alone. Lock it, pocket it, put it face down β 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 β 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 β 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 β finished or given up on β 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 β 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 β and you get a warning with time to come back. QUIETLY BUILT Β· No account, no sign-up, no server Β· No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind Β· Backup to your own iCloud, so losing a phone is not losing a year Β· 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 β 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/
LaxasHear AI
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LaxasHear AI helps you prepare for real conversationsβnot just translate words one at a time. Its focus is the Conversation Plan: a practical workspace for one meaningful exchange. Define the goal, language direction, participants, preparation checklist, and key phrases before you begin. When you are ready, use the tools that fit the moment and keep the resulting context organized around the same purpose. With LaxasHear AI, you can: - Create conversation plans for meetings, visitor welcomes, travel, and study - Prepare language directions, people, goals, checklists, and bilingual phrases - Use headset-assisted live interpretation modes when compatible Bluetooth earbuds are connected - Record meeting notes and capture voice memos - Keep reusable bilingual phrases in an on-device phrasebook - Ask the AI Assistant for wording, explanations, and follow-up ideas - Review local plans and saved phrases in one library - Access signed-in cloud session records separately when available LaxasHear AI is designed for people who want to arrive prepared, communicate with more clarity, and keep what matters after the conversation ends. Some features require network access, microphone permission, optional AI data-sharing consent, a signed-in account, or compatible Bluetooth hardware. Feature availability may vary by device, language, and region.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LaxasHear AI at none against Thicket's 3. Thicket's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Thicket sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LaxasHear AI asks for nothing beyond the download.
Thicket ships an update every 3 days, LaxasHear AI every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thicket | LaxasHear AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days β better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 16.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uros Gruber | η£ ζ |
In-app purchases
Thicket
- Thicket Monthly$2.991 Month
- Thicket Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Thicket Forever$34.99
LaxasHear AI
No in-app purchases









