Comparison

TimeOut App vs Vowlock

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TimeOut App

Transform your smartphone or tablet into a badge reading terminal for time tracking. Record check-ins with geolocation for single users or foremen, sending data directly to the TimeOut management application.

Highlights
  • Badge reading terminal
  • Geolocatable check-ins
  • Single user or foreman mode
  • Direct data sync to TimeOut
  • Free demo version
Features
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TimeOutApp è l’applicazione di Progetto 6 che consente di trasformare uno smartphone/tablet in un terminale di lettura badge. Installa gratuitamente la versione dimostrativa. Timbrature di presenza geolocalizzabili come utente singolo o come capocantiere usando il tuo smartphone o tablet come un terminale di timbratura. TimeOutApp registra le timbrature e le invia direttamente al'applicazione di gestione delle presenze TimeOut.

About

Vowlock

Features
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Vowlock is a strict app blocker for people who are done negotiating with themselves. Block apps behind Apple's Screen Time shields, seal the block with a vow, and make breaking it cost something real. Less brain rot, more evenings that are actually yours. Most app blockers are a toggle you flip off the moment an urge hits. No iOS blocker is unbreakable, so Vowlock is built on a harder truth: breaking one should cost something. With Vowlock you do not just block distracting apps. You seal a vow. SEAL A VOW, BLOCK APPS FOR AS LONG AS IT RUNS Choose the apps that eat your evenings: the feeds, the games, the one you open without deciding to. Choose how long the vow runs, from fifteen minutes to a full day. Then seal it with a short ritual: one line that is true for you, one spoken plea recorded on camera, and a heartbeat pulsing through the phone as you commit. From that second, your chosen apps go dark behind Apple's Screen Time shields. Think of it as a focus mode you cannot swipe away. AN APP LIMIT THAT ACTUALLY HOLDS Vowlock is an app limiter without a daily allowance to renegotiate. The app limit holds for the whole window you chose, not until you tap Ignore. That is the difference between a screen time app that asks you to stop scrolling and a screen time blocker that keeps its word. BREAKING COSTS SOMETHING An app blocker you can switch off in two taps is only a suggestion. Want out early? Vowlock will not shame you, but it will not make it easy. You sit through the break ritual, feel that same heartbeat again, and watch the recording of yourself asking you not to. Most urges do not survive that mirror. Willpower is easier to find when the version of you who made the promise is looking back. STOP DOOM SCROLLING, STAY FOCUSED Use Vowlock as a distraction blocker to stop doomscrolling at night, to stay focused through a work block, or as a social media blocker for the whole weekend. Doom scrolling ends when the feed is simply not there. Self control is a muscle. Every kept vow is one more rep, and every rep teaches your thumb that the feed can wait. THE PROMISE WALL Every vow becomes a glass pane on your wall. Kept vows shine. A broken pane does not shame you; it reforges after seven kept days. Over weeks, the wall becomes a quiet record of who you are becoming: discipline you can look at, rather than a streak you dread losing. DOPAMINE DETOX ON YOUR OWN TERMS Run a phone detox for one evening, a dopamine detox for a weekend, or a longer digital detox to reduce screen time for good. Vowlock is a digital detox app for phone addiction that does not pretend the cure is a chart of your usage. Recurring schedules seal the same vow on the days and hours you choose, a home screen widget keeps your progress in sight, a Lock Screen countdown keeps the running vow in view, and weekly patterns show when your urges cluster so the next vow covers that hour. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE Vowlock is a self control app, not a surveillance app. Your pleas and your app list stay on this device. No account. No upload. Apple's Screen Time technology means Vowlock cannot even see the names of the apps you block. Vowlock is the app blocker for people who are done negotiating with themselves. Seal the vow. Keep it. Watch the wall fill. Requires iOS 17 or later and Screen Time permission. Free to download; some features are available through an optional subscription, with details shown in the app before any purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vowlock-app.web.app/privacy Support: https://vowlock-app.web.app

Screenshots

TimeOut App4 screens
Vowlock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimeOut App at none against Vowlock's 3. TimeOut App also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Vowlock's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 months). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Vowlock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. TimeOut App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeOut App ships an update every 10 months, Vowlock every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimeOut App versus Vowlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeOut AppVowlock
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProgetto6Eren Demirkesen

In-app purchases

None

TimeOut App

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Vowlock

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Plus Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Plus Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is TimeOut App free?
TimeOut App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vowlock free?
Vowlock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TimeOut App or Vowlock have ads?
Vowlock shows ads; TimeOut App does not.
Which is updated more often, TimeOut App or Vowlock?
TimeOut App ships an update every 10 months, and Vowlock every 4 days. Most recently, TimeOut App was updated on October 7, 2026 and Vowlock on October 4, 2026.

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