Press kit

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Fact sheet

Name	Ponderer: Focus & Study Timer
Tagline	Ponder, not scroll.
Platform	iPhone
Release	Early 2027 (pre-order open)
Price	Free; Pond+ $2.99/month or $19.99/year (7-day free trial); lifetime $29.99 at launch (regular $39.99)
Made by	An independent maker in New York
Contact	press@pondererapp.com (press@pondererapp.com)

Short description

Ponderer is a calm focus timer for iPhone. Put your phone down and a koi grows in your own 3D pond. Finished sessions earn pearls for new koi and Japanese garden pieces, from stone lanterns to a teahouse.

Long description

Ponderer helps people break the doomscroll and build a calm focus habit. Each focus session, from 10 to 120 minutes, raises a little koi in a living 3D pond. Pick up your phone mid-session and the koi gently cheers you back; give up, and it swims away. Over time your pond fills with 27 koi varieties and a Japanese garden built from the pearls you earn. Pond+ adds waters such as Monet's Pond, Black Pebbles and Jade, and seasons from sakura to snow. There is no tracking: your pond and focus history stay on your iPhone.