Aloe Garden

Lies dich in einen Garten — grow a garden by reading.

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Aloe Garden is a focus-reading app for iOS. Every distraction-free reading session waters a virtual garden that grows level by level. Pick up your phone mid-session and the growth pauses — the session won't count. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets let you start a reading session in a single tap.

The plant artwork is drawn entirely in SwiftUI — there are no image assets for the garden, just Shapes, gradients, and a little math.

Features

• A living garden — your aloe grows and blooms as your total reading time climbs through levels.
• Focus sessions — a calm, full-screen reading timer that gently discourages leaving the app.
• Honest by design — leave the app during a session and it won't be credited.
• Real progress tracking — current streak, weekly chart, and recent-session history, persisted locally.
• Home & Lock Screen widgets — small, medium, and all three lock-screen accessory sizes. Tap to start reading.
• Pure SwiftUI art — every leaf, bloom, and pot is vector-drawn.

📸 Screenshots

Launch	Onboarding	Your Garden

🧩 Widgets

A single widget adapts to every placement, and tapping any of them deep-links straight into a new reading session:

• Home Screen — systemSmall and systemMedium showing your aloe, level, minutes, streak, and progress to the next level.
• Lock Screen — accessoryCircular (level gauge), accessoryRectangular, and accessoryInline.

Every tap opens aloegarden://startSession, which the app handles to launch a focus session.

How it works

• Pure SwiftUI app, no third-party dependencies.
• The app and the widget extension share data through an App Group (group.aloeGarden).
• Completed sessions are stored as a session log in the App Group; totals, streak, and the weekly chart are derived from it, and the widget timeline is reloaded after every session.
• Widget taps reach the app via a custom URL scheme (aloegarden://).

Build & Run

Requirements: Xcode 26+, iOS 26 SDK.

git clone https://github.com/Tsuskov/AloeGarden.git
cd AloeGarden
open AloeGarden.xcodeproj

Pick the AloeGarden scheme and a simulator, then press ⌘R.

To run on a physical device (and get live data in the widgets):

1. Set your Team under Signing & Capabilities for both the AloeGarden and AloegardenExtension targets.
2. Make sure the App Group group.aloeGarden is enabled on both targets (requires a paid Apple Developer account).
3. Enable Developer Mode on the device (Settings → Privacy & Security).

A DEBUG-only seeder fills in a few sample sessions on first launch so the stats and widgets aren't empty while you explore. It is compiled out of Release builds.

Project layout

AloeGarden/            App target — SwiftUI app, garden art, focus session, stats
AloeGardenWidget/      Widget extension — Home & Lock Screen widgets
AloeGarden.xcodeproj/  Xcode project (two targets + App Group + URL scheme)
Screenshots/           Images used in this README

License

Released under the MIT License.