Block Screen vs HOKO Bitcoin
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.
HOKO Bitcoin
Visualize and track your Bitcoin investments with a personalized dashboard. Connect your holdings to see relevant metrics and understand their impact.
- Customizable Bitcoin dashboard
- Track Bitcoin metrics
- Connect Bitcoin holdings
- Visualize investment impact
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Design a custom dashboard with the Bitcoin metrics that you find the most compelling – and see how these are connected to your Bitcoin stack.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Block Screen at 40 against HOKO Bitcoin's 3. Block Screen also leads on device support (3 vs 1). HOKO Bitcoin's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
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 HOKO Bitcoin. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Block Screen has 40 ratings behind it against 3, 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 HOKO Bitcoin's.
Block Screen ships an update every 11 days, HOKO Bitcoin every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Block Screen | HOKO Bitcoin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Ramsden | Thorbjoern |
Customer experience
Block Screen
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In-app purchases
Block Screen
No in-app purchases
HOKO Bitcoin
No in-app purchases
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