Comparison

Bloom Focus Timer vs Levely

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bloom Focus Timer

This app uses a unique approach to time management by gamifying focus sessions. Grow a virtual forest by completing work or study periods, with your trees' survival depending on your commitment. It also offers a collaborative mode for shared focus sessions.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus timer
  • Virtual tree growth
  • Forest building
  • Unlock new tree species
  • Collaborative focus sessions
  • Track work history
Features
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A focus timer should be simple. Bloom is a timer for work and study, and not much else. Pick a tree, choose how long you want to focus, and start. The tree grows while you work, and joins your forest when the session ends. Longer sessions grow bigger trees. New species unlock as your hours add up. Give up early and your tree dies. Plant with a friend: share your code, start one countdown together, and if either of you gives up, both trees die. Over time you end up with a forest you built yourself as a quiet record of the work you've done.

About

Levely

This app gamifies skill development by using a focus timer that awards experience points for dedicated practice sessions. Track your progress with detailed stats and watch your skills level up over time, mirroring RPG progression.

Highlights
  • RPG-style skill progression
  • Focus timer with XP rewards
  • Detailed skill level tracking
  • No streaks or guilt mechanics
  • Weekly, monthly, yearly time views
  • Home screen widget
  • Private iCloud sync
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You know the feeling of starting a new character in your favorite RPG. You're weak. You have no idea what you're doing. Every skill is at level 1. Then you start playing. Levely brings that feeling to real life. It's a focus timer that turns the time you spend practicing real skills into RPG-style progression. Pick a skill, set a timer, and focus. When the session ends, you earn XP and your skill gets closer to the next level. Levely can't tell whether you practiced well, or hard, or at the right difficulty. No app can, not without watching you far more closely than you'd like. So XP doesn't measure how good you are. It measures that you sat down and gave something your full attention, and for how long. A CHARACTER SHEET FOR REAL SKILLS Every skill has a level, an XP bar and a history. Watch them climb slowly, unevenly, the way real progress actually goes. EARN YOUR TITLE Earned through hours of focus. Nothing is handed out. NO STREAKS No chains to break, no guilt, nothing to protect. Miss a week and your levels are exactly where you left them. Progress isn't linear, and an app that punishes you for that is measuring the wrong thing. SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT Week, month and year views show where your time actually went and which skills got it. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Your most recent skills, their levels and the week's practice — in three sizes. SYNCS PRIVATELY Your practice syncs across your devices through your own iCloud. No account, no sign-up, no server. I can't see any of it, and I don't want to. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Levely is free with up to three skills. One purchase unlocks unlimited skills, the Home Screen widget and extra themes. No subscription. No recurring charge. Pay once and it's yours.

Screenshots

Bloom Focus Timer4 screens
Levely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bloom Focus Timer at weekly against Levely's every 3 weeks. Bloom Focus Timer also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bloom Focus Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Levely sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bloom Focus Timer against 5.0 for Levely. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bloom Focus Timer ships an update weekly, Levely every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bloom Focus Timer versus Levely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBloom Focus TimerLevely
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMAXIMILIAN ANTON MICHLITSRadu-Adrian Constantin

Customer experience

Bloom Focus Timer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Levely

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bloom Focus Timer

One-time1
  • Buy me a coffee$4.00
2 purchases

Levely

One-time2
  • Amethyst Theme$2.99
  • Full Access$9.99

Questions

Is Bloom Focus Timer free?
Bloom Focus Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Levely free?
Levely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bloom Focus Timer or Levely?
Bloom Focus Timer and Levely are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Bloom Focus Timer or Levely have ads?
Neither Bloom Focus Timer nor Levely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bloom Focus Timer or Levely?
Bloom Focus Timer ships an update weekly, and Levely every 3 weeks. Most recently, Bloom Focus Timer was updated on November 6, 2026 and Levely on October 31, 2026.

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