Comparison

LinkTalk vs Lockmode

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

Head to head
About

LinkTalk

This real-time communication app offers easy implementation for various scales. It demonstrates features like one-to-one video calls with screen sharing, multi-party audio and video calls, chatrooms, file transfer, and data transfer using the Skylink SDK.

Highlights
  • One-to-one video calls with screen share
  • Multi-party video and audio calls
  • Chatroom with custom messages
  • File and data transfer
  • Easy implementation for any scale
Features
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This app is a real-time communication solution which brings industry-leading ease-of-use, an unrivaled speed of implementation, and support for deployments of any scale – big or small, it uses the latest version of the Skylink SDK for iOS, demonstrates its use to provide embedded real time communication in the easiest way. Excluding 'Settings', this app has 6 distinct view controllers, each of them demonstrating how to build the following features: One to one video call with Screen Share: One to one video call with screen sharing supported Multi party video call: Most four participants in a call at this time Multi party audio call: Unlimited people in an audio call Chatroom and custom messages: People can send text messages here, public, private, server message, P2P message File transfer: You can send your local files to the others here Data transfer: This is for you to send binary data to the others

About

Lockmode

This app helps you stay focused by blocking distracting apps and websites until your tasks are complete. It offers customizable blocking methods, habit tracking, and challenges to build discipline. Visualize your progress and maintain streaks with detailed insights.

Highlights
  • App and website blocking
  • Customizable daily limits
  • Scheduled blocking
  • Habit tracking with goals
  • Multi-day challenges
  • Streak tracking
  • Progress visualization
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Your apps open when the day's work is done. Not before. Lockmode gives you the two things willpower does not: a list of what today is actually for, and a phone that stays shut until it is finished. THE LOCK Pick the apps, games and websites that take your day one by one, or a whole category at once. They stay shut while anything on today's list is still due, and they open the moment you tick the last thing off. There is no countdown to wait out and no timer to game. The only two ways past it are to finish, or to turn the lock off yourself one tap, in plain sight. It runs on Apple's Screen Time, so it holds when the app is closed, force-quit, or after a restart. Calls, messages and everything else keep working normally. THREE MORE WAYS TO SHUT AN APP Quick block: a saved set of apps, shut by a tap and opened by the same tap. Daily limit: thirty minutes of social media a day. Spend them whenever you like; when they are gone, those apps stay shut until midnight. Schedules: work hours, study blocks, mornings, nights. Set it once and it blocks and unblocks on its own, without you ever opening the app. Run all four at once if you want. They never fight each other an app stays shut while any one of them says it should be. HABITS THAT ASK SOMETHING OF YOU Choose which weekdays each habit is due, give it a number to hit four litres, ten pages, two sessions and a reminder at the hour you mean to do it. CHALLENGES When one habit at a time is not enough, take on a programme: 30, 75 or 90 days of a fixed standard. Its habits land on your list for the whole run, and a day only counts if you did every one of them — the run is a tally of days you earned, never a number that flatters you. A STREAK YOU CANNOT FAKE A day closes when everything due that day is done your own habits and any challenge you are carrying. A day with nothing due is stepped over. Anything less than a finished day sets the streak back to zero. SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR LIFE Every habit belongs to one of six pillars Physical, Health, Mental, Social, Career and Discipline and each is scored from what you have actually done, not what you intended. The chart shows the thin side of your life at a glance, and it is usually the one you have been avoiding. Below it, every day you have used the app, as a calendar you can scroll back through. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Seven widgets your streak, today's list, the state of the lock, a single habit you keep losing, the whole run as a grid, your six pillars, and a line worth reading first thing. While the lock is up it also sits on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account to create and no server of ours holding your habits. The blocking runs on Apple's Screen Time, Device Activity and Managed Settings frameworks which is why it holds when the app is closed, and also why we never learn which apps you chose. Apple hands the app sealed tokens, not names. WHAT PEOPLE USE LOCKMODE FOR Making the morning's real work the price of unlocking the phone. Getting through a 75-day challenge without quietly dropping a day. Studying and deep work that stay deep. Building a routine that survives the third week. Lockmode does not ask you to have more willpower. It makes the shortcut unavailable. —— Lockmode is an auto-renewing subscription. Yearly — $49.99 Weekly — $9.99 Prices are in USD and may vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://apps-website-nu.vercel.app/overwill/terms Privacy Policy: https://apps-website-nu.vercel.app/overwill/privacy

Screenshots

LinkTalk4 screens
Lockmode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LinkTalk at none against Lockmode's 3. LinkTalk also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). Lockmode's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 12 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Lockmode sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. LinkTalk asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LinkTalk against 5.0 for Lockmode. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LinkTalk ships an update every 12 months, Lockmode every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
LinkTalk versus Lockmode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinkTalkLockmode
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYuxi LiuCARLOS MANUEL ABELLA TORRES

Customer experience

LinkTalk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lockmode

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LinkTalk

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Lockmode

Subscriptions3
  • Lockmode Weekly$9.997 Days
  • Lockmode Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Lockmode Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is LinkTalk free?
LinkTalk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lockmode free?
Lockmode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LinkTalk or Lockmode?
LinkTalk and Lockmode are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do LinkTalk or Lockmode have ads?
Neither LinkTalk nor Lockmode shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LinkTalk or Lockmode?
LinkTalk ships an update every 12 months, and Lockmode every 4 days. Most recently, LinkTalk was updated on November 3, 2026 and Lockmode on October 31, 2026.

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