Focus Kitten vs Forest

Forest runs on your phone to keep you off mobile apps. Focus Kitten stays on your Mac desktop where you work, turning completed sessions into a furnished room for your kitten.

	Focus Kitten	Forest
Timer location	✓In the Mac menu bar, visible without switching apps	On your phone or browser, not native to Mac desktop
Work companion	✓A named kitten with six colors, sitting beside you	A tree that grows and dies if you leave
Gamification	✓Coins for finished sessions, building a room over time	✓Virtual trees collected into a forest
Session length	✓1 to 180 minutes, fitting short or long tasks	✓Selected preset lengths
Break length	✓0 to 30 minutes, or no break at all	✓Set before starting a session
Session finish	✓A chime and a spoken response from your kitten	✓The tree joins your forest view
Statistics	✓Daily, weekly, and monthly totals in the popover	✓Daily, weekly, and monthly totals
Stopwatch	✓Counts up for work without a set length	Countdown only, requires a set length first
Built-in music	✓Lo-fi, deep focus, and jazz tracks built in	No audio tracks listed
Account	✓No sign-up or account needed, opens instantly	Account required to sync data