# LockMyApps Screen Time Control — user reviews > 142 indexed App Store user reviews of LockMyApps Screen Time Control by Andrew Lee, rated 4.60/5 from 287 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lockmyapps-screen-time-control/id6502597150/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lockmyapps-screen-time-control/id6502597150.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 237 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of LockMyApps Screen Time Control? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helps with productivity and focus - 🚀 Easy to use and set up - 💰 Free app with no ads - 🔒 Effectively locks apps to limit usage **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional freezing or glitches - 🔒 Limited ability to select multiple apps to lock at once - 🕰️ Issues with recurring lock schedules not working as expected **Commonly reported bugs** - App thinks it's a different day, affecting lock schedules - Inability to select apps to lock on certain days **Most requested features** - Add option to hide/make locked apps invisible - Allow setting different lock schedules for different apps - Include a widget for quick access to locking features ## Newest reviews (13 of 142) ### 2/5 — Why *2026-07-04, version 1.13* Said it was free but it was spamming me with adds to buy a subscription ### 2/5 — Not free *2026-06-13, version 1.13* The app says its free but thats only for the 3 day trial without signing up for that, the app is useless. ### 4/5 — Good but *2026-06-12* The app has definitely helped. However, you can still delete the sessions and unlock all the locked apps, pretty quickly. I understand that there would need to be some sort of allowance for an emergency unlock but it’s too easy and, for those that have a real problem lifting their phone, will just simply delete the session within 1 minute ### 2/5 — Locking apps before time requirement met *2026-05-08* I have it set up to lock after an hour on social media. For the second day in a row it locked my social media apps while I wasn’t using my phone. I picked it up from the charger and found my social media apps locked. I’d love for this to work properly. ### 4/5 — Locked in *2026-04-05* This app is amazing and really helped me dial in on study without constantly stopping to be on my phone. When you say you have a goal it hold you accountable. ### 2/5 — On boarding is awful and you are forced to choose 3 apps *2025-10-17, version 1.09* I had high hopes…high hopes I tell you! But after playing 20 questions during the onboarding for 5 minutes I was close, or so I thought, to locking down the app I wanted… Only to be blindsided by the fact you have to block at least 3 apps or an entire category. This app is disappointing ### 4/5 — Nice i guess *2025-04-15* Nice i guess. Didn’t try yet but I want it to remain free. (It doesn’t work for the twitter website but its fine, tho) ### 5/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-04-09* Can’t access the apps I want to block. Screen just turns white. ### 3/5 — Ok *2025-03-30, version 1.05* Ok ### 5/5 — I LOVE ANDREW *2025-03-29* WE ALL LOVE ANDREW ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-02-22, version 1.04* It is easy to use and it helped me reduce the amount of time I spent on social media. ### 5/5 — Works as intended *2025-02-14* Works well - 5/5 as of now. Will update if anything changed ### 5/5 — Awesome application *2025-02-08, version 1.04* We should have this one on our phone ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t download this app it is a scam *2026-05-17, version 1.13* I tried to do it for like 1day or like 20 hours it didn’t work it is a scam ### 1/5 — Idiotic app *2026-03-16* I downloaded this app to put a time limit on my social media usage. I was even willing to pay. First thing it makes me do is answer a tonne of pointless unskippable questions about my screentime and goals and age etc. Then when I go to add my timers, it demands I select at least THREE different apps. I wanted to select just Twitter and Reddit. What the hell is up with that? I will now uninstall the app and cancel the free trial. ### 1/5 — Would be better off as a paid app. *2025-11-29* This app requires that you have premium for most of the features you'd want to use -- Scheduled app locking, sessions, anything! It would be better off if you just marketed it as an app that you had to pay for rather than a free one. ### 1/5 — All these good reviews lie *2025-05-11, version 1.05* EVERYTHING on app is a pay wall.. pushes you to a free trial for everything. Can’t set schedule, can’t lock apps, can’t set time limit it’s all payed lol what is this app ### 1/5 — Bugs *2025-04-06* Paid for premium features but doesn’t consistently work, bugs out a lot leading to having cancel the schedule completely and manually setting. No response on feedback and no refunds allowed **Developer response:** Hi trt1705, I’m Andrew Lee, the creator of Lock My Apps, and I’m really sorry to hear that the app hasn’t been working consistently for you. This is definitely not the experience I want anyone to have, especially after upgrading to premium. It sounds like there may be a bug affecting your scheduling features, and I’d really appreciate the opportunity to look into this with you. Please feel free to reach out to me directly at: Andrew@AndrewLee.Ventures (Or on social media @AndrewLeeReal) Thank you for your patience and for sharing your feedback. I want to make sure we get this resolved. - Andrew ### 1/5 — Do not see lifettime free *2025-03-01, version 1.04* Do not see lifettime free ### 1/5 — Free version useless *2025-02-28* I have to write this review to unlock the free version, however I haven’t been able to start or explore the app yet since you first have to wrote this review. Hope it works. Update: you can set a specific time to update apps in the free mode which makes it useless. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-01-30, version 1.03* It works for each individual time you set it but the recurring feature doesn’t actually work the next day…deleted ### 1/5 — Deserves zero star *2025-01-28, version 1.03* Asks for a review before first use! ### 1/5 — So far a disappointment *2024-12-13* I was hoping this app would limit the amount of time I spent on certain apps. I scheduled it to lock some apps at a certain time. It did that one day but hasn't done it since then. I did not change any of the settings. Also, for another app I set a maximum time per day I could use the app. I reached the limit one day but the time did not reset for the next day. **Developer response:** Hi Oli Ben Zani, I’m Andrew Lee, the creator of LockMyApps, and I’m really sorry to hear that the app didn’t function as expected for you. LockMyApps is meant to help users stay focused by limiting app usage both by time and schedule, so it sounds like there may have been a bug or system related issue that prevented the settings from sticking. Would it be possible for you to reach out to me at: Andrew@AndrewLee.Ventures (Or on social media @AndrewLeeReal) So I can get a better understanding of what happened and work to fix this for you. (I’d be super appreciative if so) Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, and I hope we can fix this for you soon. Best, Andrew Lee ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very user friendly *2026-07-10* Tried this app, it’s helped greatly in increasing my focus and productivity. ### 5/5 — Lock screen *2026-05-20, version 1.13* Great app ### 5/5 — Good *2026-04-16, version 1.13* I had to post this to get the stupid message asking to review to go away every time I open the damn app. It’s good. Some bugs but for $20 for the year I’m happy with it. Helps me stay off social media. ### 5/5 — Easy *2026-04-14* Super easy to use ### 5/5 — I like this app *2026-03-17, version 1.13* Easy to use and appreciate the app ### 5/5 — Love *2025-07-19, version 1.07* Great ### 5/5 — Lock myapp *2025-07-10, version 1.07* Good ### 5/5 — Review *2025-06-23, version 1.06* A really good way to focus on studying and keep distractions aside well done with this app 🙌🏽 ### 5/5 — Best app *2025-05-22, version 1.05* Simple and practical to use ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-05-07* Great app, does the Job --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*