Block Screen vs Bitcoin Halving
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.
Bitcoin Halving
Track Bitcoin's halving events with real-time price monitoring and countdowns. Includes widgets for home and lock screens, and a US national debt tracker. Offers a privacy-first experience with no ads or data collection.
- Real-time Bitcoin price tracking
- Precise halving countdowns
- Multi-cryptocurrency support
- Home and lock screen widgets
- US national debt tracker
- Apple Watch app and complications
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Bitcoin Halving is the ultimate Bitcoin companion, completely redesigned from scratch: live cryptocurrency prices, the countdown to the next Bitcoin halving, the US national debt in real time, and two features you have to see to believe. PICTURE IN PICTURE (one-time unlock) A floating live price window that stays on top while you use any other app. Scroll, browse, watch, work: the price follows you. Works with every coin in the app, plus the halving countdown and the national debt. One purchase works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Buy once, yours forever. REAL-TIME PRICE TRACKING Live prices via WebSocket for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin, Solana, Cardano, XRP, Chainlink, Uniswap, Stacks, Zcash, Bitcoin Cash, and Bittensor. 7-day charts, all-time-high tracking with visual alerts, price-since-midnight stats, and per-coin toggles. ADVANCED HALVING COUNTDOWN A dynamic countdown to the next Bitcoin halving driven by the real blockchain: current block height, blocks remaining, block reward schedule, average daily Bitcoin mined, circulating supply, and a visual progress bar through the epoch. COMPREHENSIVE WIDGET COLLECTION Home Screen widgets: Halving Countdown (Small/Medium/Large), Bitcoin Price, Price + Debt Combo, Compact Countdown, US National Debt. Lock Screen widgets: Bitcoin Price, Bitcoin + Debt Combo, Days Until Halving, National Debt Counter, Debt + Bitcoin Circular. US NATIONAL DEBT TRACKER A real-time debt counter with live growth calculation, updated daily from US Treasury data. COMPLETELY REDESIGNED New card-based interface across every screen, an iPad layout rebuilt from the ground up, and a sharper, bigger Apple TV experience. ALSO INCLUDED, FREE Apple Watch app and complications, OLED-friendly dark design, optional celebrations, and multiple API fallbacks (Coinbase, CoinGecko, Kraken, Blockstream, US Treasury) for reliable data anywhere in the world. No ads. No accounts. No tracking. We collect no personal data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Block Screen at none against Bitcoin Halving's 1. Bitcoin Halving's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Bitcoin Halving sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Block Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Block Screen against 5.0 for Bitcoin Halving. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Block Screen's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bitcoin Halving's.
Block Screen ships an update every 11 days, Bitcoin Halving every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Block Screen | Bitcoin Halving |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Ramsden | Naveen Hothi |
Customer experience
Block Screen
Bitcoin Halving
In-app purchases
Block Screen
No in-app purchases
Bitcoin Halving
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