Flora plants a seed when you start working; leaving to open a distracting app kills the tree, you can grow trees with friends, and an opt-in Price service turns a killed tree into real money that plants real trees. Paused is a different shape of app, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — the table starts with what Flora does better.
| Flora | Paused | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | Flora plants a seed when you start working; leaving to open a distracting app kills the tree, you can grow trees with friends, and an opt-in Price service turns a killed tree into real money that plants real trees. | Block Schedules that switch your chosen apps off at set times and back on afterwards, one-tap Focus sessions for right now, and a streak that counts the days you kept the block. |
| Genuinely better at | Social stakes. Flora’s shared sessions and the optional Price service add peer pressure and skin in the game to a focus block. | Paused has no session to start — the apps switch off on schedule — and no one to disappoint but your streak. |
| Day to day it feels like | Focus time grows something or scores something — trees, plants, points, a character, a leaderboard — so the reward for staying off the phone is visible. | A small, boring wall. You pick the apps, pick the hours, and they stop opening — no coins, no plants, no hardware, no reasons to type. A calm Paused screen where the app used to be. |
…working alongside friends is what keeps you off the phone.
We would rather you kept an app that fits than switched and quietly turned it off after a fortnight. A blocker you have disabled is not a blocker.
Said up front, because this is the part comparison pages usually leave out.
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