Block Screen vs BASIO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block Screen
Personalize your lock and home screens with live Bitcoin data. Access real-time block height, mempool fees, price, news, and mining difficulty across all your Apple devices. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with customizable themes and widgets.
- Live Bitcoin widgets for lock and home screens
- Real-time block height and price tracking
- Mempool fee recommendations
- Mining difficulty and hashrate
- Curated Bitcoin news feeds
- Customizable color themes and widget selection
- Apple Watch complications and StandBy mode support
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Turn your lock screen and Home Screen into a personalized bitcoin screen with live Bitcoin widgets. Block Screen puts real-time block height, mempool fees, price, news, and mining difficulty (and more!) on every Apple device you own: iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, CarPlay. No accounts, no ads. –––– KEY WIDGETS & VIEWS –––– • Lock-Screen Widget – glanceable block height and bitcoin prices • Home-Screen Widget – small, medium and large sizes • StandBy Mode – full-screen clock-style display while charging • Apple Watch Complication & Smart Stack – stats right on your wrist • iPad and macOS – adaptive layouts for Stage Manager and desktop • CarPlay – widgets on your vehicle dashboard –––– BITCOIN STATS YOU CARE ABOUT –––– • Block height & next halving countdown • Mempool fee recommendations (high / medium / low) • Mining network hashrate & difficulty in real time • Live BTC price in USD, EUR & more • Curated Bitcoin-only news feeds –––– BUILT FOR CUSTOMIZATION –––– • Custom color themes • Choose which widgets appear in Smart Stack rotation –––– PRIVATE BY DESIGN –––– Block Screen talks directly to public Bitcoin APIs—no log-ins, tracking, or analytics SDKs. “Everything you need and nothing you don't." Download Block Screen free today and keep with the Bitcoin network at a glance: price, mempool, or countdown to the next halving.
BASIO
This app displays real-time Bitcoin statistics with a retro watch aesthetic. It provides up-to-date information on price, market cap, and block height, along with stats for the Lightning Network. Stylish widgets offer quick access to this data.
- Real-time Bitcoin price
- Market cap tracking
- Block height display
- Lightning Network stats
- Customizable widgets
- Retro watch theme
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BASIO is a Bitcoin statistics application themed in your favorite retro styled watch of the past. It shows up to date info like price, market cap, block height, etc. As bonus it also shows stats for Bitcoin's Lightning Network. And lastly, but surely not least, it offers stylish widgets for quick up to date views!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Block Screen at every 11 days against BASIO's every 5 weeks. Block Screen also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 7). BASIO's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Block Screen against 5.0 for BASIO. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Block Screen has 40 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Block Screen's written reviews are positive against 100% of BASIO's.
Block Screen ships an update every 11 days, BASIO every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Block Screen | BASIO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Ramsden | Galaxoid Labs, LLC |
Customer experience
Block Screen
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In-app purchases
Block Screen
No in-app purchases
BASIO
No in-app purchases
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