Flora is a free phone app in the same family as Forest: plant a seed, stay off your phone, and it grows into a tree; leave the app and it dies. Flight takes a different picture of progress, a plane flying a real route, and puts it in your browser. Flora wins on phone-blocking and friends; Flight wins when the work happens on a computer and the sessions are long.
Disclosure: Flight is our product, and this blog belongs to it. We've tried to be fair: what we say about Flora comes from its own site and app listings, checked in October 2026. Apps change, so check prices there before you decide.
At a glance
| Flight | Flora | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A focus timer you fly | A focus timer that grows a tree while you stay off your phone |
| Runs on | Any modern browser | iPhone and Android |
| Account | Not needed to start | Asks you to sign in |
| Friends and challenges | No | Yes: grow trees together |
| To-do list and stats | No | Yes |
| Real trees | No | Optional pledges to fund real planting |
| Price | Free to start a flight | Free, with in-app purchases |
Where Flora is stronger
On the phone, and with friends. Challenging friends to grow a tree together, with everyone seeing who killed theirs, is real accountability. Flora also has a simple to-do list with reminders, statistics by day, week and month, and an optional pledge to fund real trees through planting partners. And it's free to start.
Where Flight is stronger
- Your computer. If you write, code, design or study on a laptop, a phone app can only guard the phone. Flight runs on the screen you're actually working on, in any browser.
- No sign-in. Open the page and fly. Nothing to create, nothing to remember.
- Sessions you choose by place, not number. “Fly to Rome” is a more inviting commitment than “two hours fifteen”, and the plane shows exactly how far you've come.
- Sound to work to. A real airliner cabin, rain on a tent, waves: steady background that covers a noisy room.
A day with each
With Flora, you might start a challenge with two friends at 9 AM: everyone plants a seed, and if anyone picks up their phone, the group sees whose tree died. Your to-do list sits in the app, and the stats fill in through the day. It's social, playful and very good at keeping the phone down.
With Flight, the session happens on the laptop: you open a tab, choose a destination as long as the morning's work, and the cabin hum comes up as the plane leaves. There's no one to let down, which some people find calmer, and no tree to lose, just a city getting closer on the map.
Switching from Flora to Flight
- Keep Flora for phone-free challenges with friends, if they work for you.
- For solo desk work, open Flight and set your home airport so every session starts from the same place.
- To work with a friend, start the same route at the same time and land together.
- Put the phone in another room for the flight; Flight can't guard it the way Flora can.
Who should choose which
- Flora if you want a free phone-blocker with a social side, and your work happens on the phone.
- Flight if your work happens at a desk and you want long sessions with a sense of journey.
Working beside friends helps whichever you use; see body doubling. For background sound without an app, try our free rain sounds.
Try Flight
Open Flight, put the phone in another room, and take off.
