# ScrollCop: Block Apps & Focus — Screen Time Limit & Control

> Screen Time Limit & Control (iPhone/iPad app by Jashandeep Singh.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scrollcop-block-apps-and-focus/id6810957416 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jashandeep Singh](https://appshunter.io/developer/1858438700)
- Category: Productivity, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-12
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is ScrollCop?

Every app blocker has an off switch. At 11 p.m. you will find it. ScrollCop is a friendly cop for your phone: you decide, before the urge, who gets to let your apps out.

BLOCK APPS IN TWO TAPS
Tap the apps that eat your time: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, X, or any app on your phone, plus whole categories and websites. Pick how long. They won't open until time's up. It runs on Apple's Screen Time, so it holds even if you close ScrollCop. Try to open one and you get pulled over.

Or flip it: block everything except the few apps you keep.

YOU CHOOSE WHO CAN END IT EARLY
Pick who holds the key, with one tap:
• Me: end it whenever you want, after a ten-second pause.
• Nobody: not even you. It opens when time's up.
• A friend: ScrollCop texts them a one-time PIN, and only that PIN ends it. They don't need the app.
• A key at home: a code on your fridge or an NFC sticker. You have to get up and go to it.
• Walk it off: 1,000 real steps end the block.

The lock other apps sell as Pro is free here, and a friend can hold it. Locks hold even if you change the date or time, and ScrollCop can't be deleted while a locked block runs.

BLOCK WITH A FRIEND
Phones down together. Send a link, and your friend taps to join on their own phone with their own apps. No account, no server.

SCHEDULES AND DAILY LIMITS
Block apps at the same time every day, even with ScrollCop closed. Give each schedule its own apps: games during study time, social apps at dinner, everything at bedtime. Or set a daily limit: about 30 minutes of an app, then it closes until tomorrow. Start from Bedtime, Mornings, Work hours, Study time or Dinner, or make your own, and see your whole week at a glance.

WIDGETS, SIRI AND CONTROL CENTER
See the time left, your clean days and how the cop is doing right on your Lock Screen. Start a block with one tap from a widget, Control Center or Siri, or let a Shortcut start one when you get to work.

A COP WHO RANKS UP
Every block you finish is a case, stamped CASE CLOSED. Your cop climbs from Rookie to Chief, and the rank never goes down. Earn new app icons along the way. Over 5,000 short, original lines turn up around the app: jokes and pep talks, all on your side.

WHEN THE URGE HITS
Tap "I feel the urge" and ScrollCop asks what you actually need: bored, stressed, tired, lonely, avoiding something. You get one small thing to do instead. Decide your plan once, and it shows up on the screen a blocked app opens to. There are 165 small things to do, picked for the time you have. The Boredom Gym trains the opposite of scrolling: sitting with nothing, thirty seconds first, then longer.

YOUR WEEK AS A CITY
Your last 7 days as a little city at night, the time you got back shown as books, walks and nights of sleep, and a case file you can share. Need a day off? Your run can wait. Counted on your phone. A slip is data, not failure. No guilt notifications.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No server. No ads, no analytics, no subscription. Apple's Screen Time gives ScrollCop opaque tokens, so it can't see which apps you use. Export or delete everything whenever you like.

Every feature is free. Optional tips only say thanks. Made in Canada. A behavior-change tool, not medical advice.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Coffee for the cop | $1.99 | one-time |
| Lunch on patrol | $9.99 | one-time |
| Box of donuts | $4.99 | one-time |


## Is ScrollCop safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess ScrollCop.

## Is ScrollCop legit?

ScrollCop: Block Apps & Focus appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ScrollCop is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.0.0 — 2026-11-08

ScrollCop 4.0 is the biggest update yet, and all of it is free.

New locks
- A key at home: a code on your fridge or an NFC sticker. You have to get up and go to it.
- Walk it off: 1,000 real steps end the block.

More ways to block
- Block everything except the apps you keep.
- Daily limits: about 30 minutes of an app, then it closes until tomorrow.
- Add any website by typing it.
- Take one five-minute break in a block you can end yourself.
- Block with a friend: send a link, they tap to join on their own phone with their own apps.
- A bedtime kit that sets up your nights in one go.

Your cop
- Your cop has a rank now, from Rookie to Chief, and it never goes down.
- The cop naps, has a coffee and salutes your blocks. Tap to say hi.
- Finished blocks get stamped CASE CLOSED.
- Earn new app icons as you rank up.

Insights
- Your week is now a small city at night.
- See your time back as books, walks and nights of sleep.
- Share your week as a case file.
- Take a day off. Your run can wait.

Widgets and shortcuts
- New Lock Screen and large Home Screen widgets, and StandBy.
- Start a block from a widget, Control Center, Siri or a Shortcut.
- Press and hold the app icon for quick actions.

Stronger and easier
- Locks keep your phone on automatic date and time.
- Blocking covers websites in the categories you pick.
- If Screen Time gets turned off, the app tells you.
- Made for iPad, with a sidebar, keyboard shortcuts and a week view of your schedules.
- Every screen works at the largest text size.

### 3.2.0 — 2026-10-25

ScrollCop 3.2 is easier to use and a little more fun.

• Every block you finish is a numbered case. Close one and the cop salutes.
• Tap the cop for a new line. It wiggles.
• Keys you hold for friends fold into one tidy row on Home, with Send right there.
• Ending a block early asks a different question each time, so the pause stays fresh.
• The 30-Day Rebuild shows steps done, then days to go.
• Schedules can switch on Screen Time right from the Schedules page.
• Turning on a locked schedule during its hours now asks first.
• Long blocks show the date they end, not just the day.
• Rate ScrollCop after your first finished block, if you like it.
• Clearer words throughout: "Same apps as Home", "Day off the loop", "Skip for now".
• Big headings follow your text size.

Fixes:
• A "Nobody" schedule stays Nobody when you add a friend key later.
• "Thank your friend" now appears after every block a friend held.
• Delete everything also removes your plan and weekly goal.
• The weekly goal waits for your first block to finish.
• "Welcome back" only shows after a few days away from the app.

### 3.1.0 — 2026-10-19

ScrollCop 3.1 is kinder and easier, built on what research says actually helps people put the phone down.

• Make a plan for the moment the urge hits ("drink a glass of water", "text a friend"). It shows up on the screen a blocked app opens to.
• Set a weekly goal in Insights and watch the bar fill as you block apps.
• Your first block is 30 minutes, so it's easy to finish.
• Ending a block early now takes ten seconds and one question first. "Keep going" is the big button. Most urges pass in that time.
• "Case closed" tells you what you did: your first block, or your total for the week. Thank the friend who held your key in one tap.
• Schedules ask "Who can switch it off?" like blocks do: Me, Nobody, or your friend. Nobody means no way out until it ends.
• Long locks ask before they start, and so does a locked schedule that would begin straight away.
• A fresh-start hello on Mondays, the 1st of the month, and when you come back after a few days away.
• ScrollCop's lines got gentler where it matters: calm at night, kind when you're stressed or lonely, and no more bossy orders.
• SOS has a Back button and shows your plan first.
• Blocks that end on another day show the day on the blocked-app screen and widgets.
• Clearer words everywhere and no more zeros.
• Rate ScrollCop from More whenever you like. It helps other people find it.

Plus fixes: Insights no longer says "No blocks yet" while one is running, and deleting and reinstalling no longer brings back old keys.

### 3.0.0 — 2026-10-11

Reset is now ScrollCop: a friendly cop who pulls you over before the scroll does. Same app, same data, all new.

• Simpler everywhere: Home, starting a block, Insights, More and Schedules each fit on one screen.
• Blocks and schedules start as "Nobody can end it early", so a block really holds. Pick "Me" or "A friend" with one tap.
• Insights you can read at a glance: one sentence about your week, a simple chart and three plain numbers. Everything else is one tap away in "All the details".
• Over 5,000 quotes from ScrollCop on Home, while a block runs, when you open a blocked app ("Pulled over!") and when a block is done.
• 165 things to do instead of scrolling, picked for the time you have and the time of day.
• A new look: a city skyline that lights up at night, and a new icon.
• Tap SOS on Home any time the urge hits.

Plus lots of fixes.

### 2.4.0 — 2026-10-03

Locks with no back doors.

• Changing the date or time no longer ends a locked block early or skips a locked schedule.
• While something locked uses your block list, you can add apps but not remove them.
• Reset can't be deleted while a locked block runs.
• A friend's key can't be swapped, and its wait can't be shortened, while something is locked to it.
• A friend's PIN can't be saved to Notes or Files from the share sheet.
• Wrong passcode guesses slow down after a few tries.
• More → Make it stick shows how to shut the last doors iOS leaves open.

A cleaner look
• Flat buttons and cards, softer edges, less clutter.
• More is simpler: three groups, with Settings at the top.

Easier to use
• Home is one clear card: what's blocked, and one button to start.
• "I feel the urge" is on Home, and SOS takes fewer steps.
• Notifications open the right screen.
• Numbers are never cut off, and screens work better on small iPhones and at large text sizes.

Faster
• Insights and widgets load faster and wake your phone less.
• The Live Activity says "Finished" when time's up, and stays gone when you swipe it away.
• Widgets look right on tinted and clear Home Screens.

Plus lots of small fixes.

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All apps by Jashandeep Singh: https://appshunter.io/developer/1858438700

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