Flora review: price, free version and privacy

Our verdict

Flora is an easy pick for students who want a Forest-style timer without paying, especially with friends. People who want no tracking at all should choose a timer with a cleaner privacy label.

What Flora is

Flora turns focus time into a tree: plant a seed, stay off your phone, and it grows, but it dies if you leave to use another app. The description says Flora blocks distracting apps, lets you plant with friends and chat, and adds a to-do list with reminders, a widget, a habit tracker that builds a garden, and statistics. Opt-in services let you fund real trees planted by partner organizations.

Who it suits

• Students who want a free phone-free focus timer
• Study groups that want to focus together

Strengths

• No subscription: the price list holds only two low-cost tour items
• Group planting with friends, where everyone wins an extra tree if all succeed
• To-do list, reminders, home screen widget and habit garden in the same app
• Rated 4.8 from about 82,900 ratings and updated in October 2026

Limits

• The privacy label declares usage data used for tracking and links five data types to you, including contact info
• Age rating of 13+, so it is not aimed at younger students
• Interface in only 3 languages
• The description mentions opt-in real-tree services but the price list does not show what they cost

What the free version does

The core timer, group planting, to-do list and habit garden are described without any paywall, and the price list has no subscription. The only purchases are optional tour items.

Price

On the US App Store in November 2026, the price list holds Amazon Rainforest Tour items at $0.99 and $1.99 and a Drylands' Marvels Tour at $1.99. There is no subscription or lifetime plan.

Privacy

The developer declares that usage data may be used to track you across other companies' apps and websites. Purchases, contact info, user content, identifiers and usage data are linked to your identity; diagnostics are not.

What the screenshots show

The screenshots show a shared 25-minute tree timer named for two friends with a Start button, and a home screen widget with 27 hours 40 minutes of focus this week and a list of upcoming tasks.