Flora vs Focus Keeper

Flora

• Students who stay off their phone better with a visual reward
• Friends or study groups focusing together in a shared session
• People who want a timer, to-do list and habit tracker in one free app

Focus Keeper

• Students timing study sessions and exam preparation
• People who want a plain Pomodoro timer with progress charts
• Keeping one timer history across a phone and a browser

Flora

• The App Store lists the iOS app for iPhone only, and no Mac, Windows or web version is offered.
• Statistics are not stored on Flora's servers, so they are lost if the app is reinstalled.
• The Price and Care tree-planting services cost money, and their amounts are not published on the site; Google Play lists in-app items up to $134.99.
• The homepage shows a Chrome Extension button, but it carries no link in the page source and no store listing could be confirmed.

Focus Keeper

• Focus Keeper publishes no price list; the US App Store shows Pro purchases at seven different amounts.
• The vendor does not say which features are limited to Focus Keeper Pro.
• There is no Mac or Windows app; on a computer it runs in the browser.
• The pages read describe a timer and tracker only, with no blocking of apps or websites.

Flora

Focus trees

Pick a duration and press Start to grow a tree. Leaving the app for social media or games kills it, and finished sessions unlock new plants on the Grand Tour.

Group focus

Host or join a room with friends or by passcode. If everyone stays off their phone, each person wins an extra tree; if the host leaves, every tree in the room dies.

To-do list and goals

To-do items can carry reminders and a time goal. Tagging a tree with a to-do adds that session's time to the goal, which can reset daily, weekly or monthly.

Habit tracker and statistics

A to-do can track a streak of successive days with a tagged tree, and the app compiles daily, weekly, monthly and yearly focus statistics.

Real tree planting

The opt-in Price and Care services plant real trees through partners such as Trees for the Future. A Price is charged only if you kill a tree and confirm it.

Pause and allowed apps

A session can be paused to use another app unless a Price is set, and on iOS 16.1 or later chosen apps can stay available during focus.

Focus Keeper

Pomodoro timer

Runs the classic cycle of 25-minute focus sessions and 5-minute breaks, with a longer break after four sessions, and can start the next session automatically.

Custom session lengths

The length of focus sessions, short breaks and long breaks can each be changed to fit your own way of working.

Charts of focus time

Work sessions are logged automatically, and charts show focus time and work patterns so you can spot trends.

Tasks alongside the timer

Tasks are kept with the timer and its analytics, so sessions can be tied to what you are working on.

History saved to an account

Focus sessions and tasks are saved automatically, and the history can be opened from any device.

Web, phone and watch

A timer runs in the browser at focuskeeper.co, with apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android.

Flora

• Flora$0

  The whole app: focus trees, group sessions, to-do list, goals, habit tracker and statistics.

• Tours$0.99 to $1.99

  one-time in-app purchase per tour

  Extra sets of plants to unlock. The US App Store lists the Amazon Rainforest Tour at $1.99 and $0.99 and the Drylands' Marvels Tour at $1.99.

Focus Keeper

• Free$0

  The apps are free downloads and the web version has a free sign-up. What the free version leaves out is not published.

• Focus Keeper Pro 1 Month$3.99 or $12.99

  per month, US App Store; two purchases listed

  The listing shows two monthly Pro purchases without saying how they differ or which one a new subscriber is offered.

• Focus Keeper Pro 1 Year$34.99 to $69.99

  per year, US App Store; three purchases listed

  Yearly Pro purchases appear at $34.99 and $69.99, with a third named 1 Year Standard at $49.99.

• Focus Keeper Pro$99.99 or $199.99

  US App Store in-app purchase; billing period not shown

  Two purchases are named only Focus Keeper Pro. The listing does not say whether they are one-time unlocks.