Flora - Green Focus

Leaving the phone alone becomes a group game in Flora. Start a timer and a seed grows; open another app and the tree dies. Enough completed sessions open new species. That much is standard; AppFinca adds a social twist: friends plant together, a lapse by anyone is visible to all, and if everyone lasts, each person gains an extra tree from the group.

It also keeps a reminder-driven to-do list, and any tree can be tagged to one task so you can see what the focus was spent on. Statistics run daily, weekly and monthly. A paid, opt-in option funds real trees via Eden Reforestation Projects and Trees.org.

A study session begins with picking a duration and, optionally, inviting the friends you're meant to be revising with. Everyone's phone goes face down. Forty minutes later, if nobody broke, the group has a small forest and you've all earned a bonus tree.

Solo use is quieter: tag the tree to an essay or a work task, finish, and watch the stats accumulate. Students in exam season tend to run several sessions a day. The real-tree donation is a separate decision you make from the settings.

Flora comes up in searches for a free alternative to Forest, which is older and better known. The group mode is the reason to pick it specifically: peer pressure works, and Flora makes a lapse embarrassing in a way a solo timer can't. Students revising with friends and remote colleagues doing shared focus blocks are the typical searchers.

Five screenshots are listed, and growing trees will be the visual centrepiece. Apps in this niche favour flat, green-and-cream illustration with a large circular timer, and Flora's name signals the same. The to-do and stats screens will be plainer. The input doesn't specify the art direction, so treat this as an informed guess.

A 3.7.43 version string points to many small updates within a stable major release. The 4.8 rating from over 10,000 reviews is on par with Forest's in this batch. AppFinca Inc. is the publisher. The page links only the App Store, so the listing doesn't confirm an Android counterpart, which matters for mixed-platform study groups.

Free to install and rated 4+. The description doesn't mention a subscription for the core timer; the only payment described is the optional real-tree planting service, whose price isn't given.

Group sessions need a connection and some form of account or friend link, though the data doesn't detail it. Solo sessions should work offline. Storage, ads and regional limits aren't stated. Note that the tree only dies if you leave the app, so notifications alone won't kill it.