Scrolly User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience56.3% of reviews
Neutral12.5% of reviews
Negative experience31.3% of reviews

~ Based on 16 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Scrolly Safe?

Scrolly–Your Screen Time Buddy appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Scrolly is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 129 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 129 App Store ratings for Scrolly.

Is Scrolly Legit?

Scrolly–Your Screen Time Buddy appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Scrolly is 70/100.

Based on 70 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Manipulative design

Don’t trust the Star rating. They have implemented a manipulative design to intercept bad reviews and filter the good reviews to the app storefront. If a company’s first instinct is to gaslight its potential users, it’s probably best not to trust them in any capacity

I love this app

I love this app but in the latest version of IOS it seems that there is a glitch, when using schedules the cellphone overheats and it drawn the battery really fast, please fix this issue because this is an amazing product

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Super 😊

SUX

I hat this app!!! I am losing all my streaks and I MISSED THE NEW EPISODE OF DANCING WITH THE STARS:THE NEXT PRO*!!!😩😩😩 Please add a hack to get out of focus time!

* Go Allen Go Adele*😀

Been absolutely loving this

I love the Scrolly so far. I’ve been doom scrolling way less. I’ve tried other apps but they ended up killing my battery so I ultimately had to delete them. This one doesn’t kill your battery & does a great job reducing your screen time!

Not worth the money

Often fails to block the apps you set it to block, doesn’t
follow the schedules you set, freezes a lot and is glitchy as hell, hardcore mode doesn’t work. It’s good when it occasionally works but is so unreliable that you’d be better off buying a different NFC blocker that actually does what it’s supposed to.
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LIFE CHANGING!

LIFE CHANGING! With Scrolly I have been able to reduce my screen time and feel my present around my friends and family. Everyone should have one in their home.

Scrolly Had Saved My Life

I was addictively doom scrolling like everyone is. I’d tried other apps to block apps but the key was in the app so I’d always unlock it.

Having a cute little vinyl toy in my art studio is so rad. I’ll never take it anywhere so once it’s locked I’m locked out. I love it.

Buy this guy and get your life back!
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Thanks Scrolly!

Literally the only thing that has helped me stop scrolling!!!

So far so good

Giving it 4 stars for now because I wish that it allowed me to separate my screentime statistics from my son’s iPad, which has its own AppleID. They said they’d work on it. So I will update.

working

not the most intuitive ui but it working

So much money

You have to first download the app then go to a website and buy it for like 30 bucks a month I would give a 0 if I could.

Works great

I love that it is a one time purchase. The app is simple and straight forward. There is a current limit on the number of apps it can block, but that’s more of an Apple limitation (50).

I hope the app developer makes an update to block more apps. Here is something I have found about that.

Apple limits one ManagedSettings store to 50 app tokens. But Apple allows multiple named ManagedSettings stores simultaneously since iOS 16. So one tag tap triggers your app to activate multiple stores at once programmatically.
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Seriously flawed

Scrolly presents itself as a premium solution for digital wellbeing, yet technically it is nothing more than a 25p NFC tag artificially locked behind a proprietary app. The £50 price tag is not a reflection of manufacturing costs or advanced technology, but a premium charged to cover the developers' high business overheads. While the team argues this price ensures longevity and support, it is fundamentally the creation of a "walled garden" designed to extract money from customers who may not realise that identical functionality is available for free using standard tags and alternative apps that use iOS’s built-in Screen Time API.

The inevitable failure of this business renders the specific device you purchased completely useless. The business model relies entirely on restricting an open standard to enforce a high margin, rather than competing on the quality of the software. Considering free alternatives exist that perform the exact same function without the vendor lock-in, paying this premium feels less like an investment in better habits and more like a penalty for technical ignorance.
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A great tool

I’ve had my Scrolly a few months now, and it does genuinely help build that extra barrier if you have a constant habit of checking of the phone and keep getting distracted. I lock it before bed and leave it downstairs so i have no choice but to get up to unlock the distracting apps in the morning instead of getting sucked into scrolling. Having no way to bypass it without getting up is more helpful than you may think at first. You still need a personal drive to keep up the habit of locking it yourself, but it becomes a routine and my screen time is way down. It got to a point where I left in the morning without unlocking, and didn’t realize until hours later. That’s when I realized it was indeed helping, and keeping me living in the moment

App itself works as intended, animations are cute and it does what I need. No compilations, plain and simple. I recommend
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Great tool, but why are users now forced to login?

I love the scrolly device and it helps me use my phone less pretty much everyday. The simplicity of it is part of the appeal.

The most recent update requires me to have an account that tracks my usage, supposedly for my own benefit. It feels unnecessary and invasive - and there’s no option to skip it.

Please don’t track users like this, it’s just not necessary.
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