Faves vs DumbScroller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Faves
Safely store and organize all your favorite videos in the cloud. Upload from your camera roll to free up device storage while ensuring your content is accessible anytime in HD quality. Easily find videos with search and custom stacks.
- Automatic cloud storage
- Upload from camera roll
- Free up device storage
- HD quality playback
- Organize with Stacks
- Search saved videos
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Faves is the best way to organize all your favorite videos in one place ● Never lose another video again When you save a video on Faves, it’s automatically stored on the cloud for you to watch forever, any time you want. ● Upload from your camera roll Already have a lot of videos cluttering up your storage? You can upload them to Faves and we’ll store them on the cloud for you. Now you can free up your storage without losing all your favorite content. Our average user saves more than 4 GBs of storage! ● HD Quality Unlike other apps, we give you the best possible quality for the most enjoyable viewing experience ● Organize your favorite videos with Stacks or search for them with keywords What’s the last time you tried to find something but couldn’t? We know how frustrating it is. Faves makes it easy to find your favorite videos by allowing you to search through your saved content to find videos faster. ● Give us feedback Have any questions, bugs, or ideas? We’d love to hear from you. Shoot us an email at contact@faves.media Terms of service - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
DumbScroller
This app offers a digital detox by simulating the familiar scrolling experience of social media without any engaging content. It provides placeholder feeds to satisfy the habit of scrolling, helping to break screen addiction by replacing harmful reflexes with harmless ones.
- Simulates social media scrolling
- Placeholder content feeds
- Targets scrolling habit
- No accounts or notifications
- Meaningless interactions (like, comment)
- Screen time solution
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Stop doom scrolling with Dumb Scroller! Like a decaf espresso, Dumb Scroller gives your brain the familiar ritual of scrolling through social media — without any of the hooks that keep you trapped. It's a digital detox that works with your habits, not against them. Choose from surrogate versions of the apps you can't put down — a photo feed, a short-form video stream, a microblog timeline, a friend feed, and a video platform — all filled with harmless placeholder content. No real posts. No outrage. No algorithm. Just the soothing muscle memory of mindless scrolling, minus the consequences. Your brain craves the pattern — the pull-to-refresh, the double-tap to like, the endless scroll. Dumb Scroller delivers that pattern in its most inert form. Over time, the compulsion fades. The itch gets scratched without the screen addiction getting fed. Why it works: • Targets the scroll habit itself, not just the content • Replaces your phone addiction reflex with a harmless alternative • No accounts, no notifications, no data collection, no feed algorithm • Multiple app styles reminiscent of popular social media platforms • Infinite scrolling, liking, bookmarking, and commenting — all completely meaningless • A screen time solution that doesn't lecture you or block your apps Dumb Scroller doesn't shame you with screen time reports or fight your willpower. It simply offers your restless fingers something to do while your brain quietly forgets why it needed to scroll in the first place. Break the cycle. Keep the ritual. Scroll dumb.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DumbScroller at 5.0 against Faves's 4.5. Faves's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 5) and chart position (#134 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Faves sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and DumbScroller sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DumbScroller holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Faves has 17K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Faves | DumbScroller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (17K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #134 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | The Hive Social Network, Inc. | Shaun Salzberg |
Customer experience
Faves
DumbScroller
Bugs and requests
Faves
Reported bugs
4 issues- Saved videos disappearing or not loading
- Forced to create new account, losing previous data
- Subscription issues and unexpected charges
- Inability to bypass subscription signup
Requested features
5 requests- Add folders/organization options
- Increase free daily save limit
- Offline viewing of saved videos
- Keyword search within saved content
- Ability to rename/edit saved stacks
DumbScroller
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Faves
- Faves+3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Faves+$1.997 Days
- Faves+7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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- Faves+7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Faves7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Faves+1 Month trial$7.991 Month
- Faves+7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Faves+7 Days trial$36.001 Year
- Faves+7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Faves+7 Days trial$49.991 Year
DumbScroller
- Unlock all styles$0.99









