Comparison

Birthday Countdown & Gift List vs Screen Time Control + Blocker

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

Head to head
About

Birthday Countdown & Gift List

Easily track upcoming birthdays and manage gift ideas with this app. Features include countdown widgets, personalized gift lists, budget tracking, and collaborative list sharing. Keep your gift-giving organized and stress-free.

Highlights
  • Birthday countdown widgets
  • Gift list creation
  • Budget tracking
  • Collaborative list sharing
  • Spending graphs
  • Passcode protection
  • Cloud backup
Features
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Stay on top of upcoming birthdays with the Birthday Countdown & Gift List app! Our app is packed with features that make remembering birthdays and organizing your gift giving a breeze. Features Include: - Birthday countdown widgets - Birthday reminder notifications - Create a gift list for each person - Add a yearly budget and track overall spending - Assign individual budgets for each recipient - Track your spending with various graphs - Share your list & collaborate with other users - Automatically sync devices (Ex. iPhone / iPad) - Passcode protect your list (optional) - View birthdays & gift lists from previous years - Back up your lists to iCloud - Print your list using AirPrint - Shop hand-picked gift ideas -- Collaborative List Making -- Seamlessly create and share your birthday list with other users. Updates are shared in real time. Need to keep certain gifts a secret? Mark gifts 'private' if needed.

About

Screen Time Control + Blocker

This app helps you reclaim your time by blocking distracting applications. It provides insights into your actual screen time and offers customizable blocking schedules and resistance levels to prevent unwanted usage. Reclaim your focus and achieve your goals with a system designed to support your intentions.

Highlights
  • Accurate screen time tracking
  • Customizable app blocking schedules
  • Adjustable exit resistance levels
  • Session pause functionality
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly usage views
  • Goal-oriented planning
Features
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You finally get a moment to yourself. ScrollDam helps keep it yours, blocking the apps that turn a little scrolling into an evening you never meant to spend on your phone. A few pages. An early night. A little time to feel like yourself again. You've done enough today. Let ScrollDam hold the line. Because you know how it starts. You pick up your phone to check one message. Forty minutes disappear, and you surface without a memory of what you saw. That's not weakness - it's apps built, on purpose, to keep you from letting go. You've tried Screen Time settings, maybe another blocker. Still, here you are - tired, but not giving up. ScrollDam won't talk down to you about willpower or pile on to whatever you're already feeling. You've carried enough of that on your own. What it will do is tell you the truth, gently - your real screen time, not the softer number you'd guess. Then hand you something stronger than willpower: a system that holds the line on the nights you're too tired to fight. FIND OUT WHERE YOU REALLY STAND Before anything else, ScrollDam asks you to guess your daily screen time, then shows you the real number next to it. That gap can be the moment it clicks: you can't change a habit you haven't had a chance to see clearly. TELL US WHAT YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR Better focus. Better sleep. Being present with the people in front of you. A calmer mind. Whatever pulled you here, ScrollDam builds your plan around that one thing. BLOCK YOUR WAY Start a block right now, set it to run on a schedule, or give yourself a daily time budget. Name your sessions whatever means something to you: "Sunday Reset," "Work Hours," "No Phone Before Bed." A gentle reminder before a scheduled block starts gives you a moment to wrap up. Small details, but it's yours. CHOOSE HOW HARD IT SHOULD BE TO QUIT Some days, a five-second breath before you open apps is enough to stop you. Other days it isn't. Set the resistance yourself: a short pause, a phrase you have to type to prove you mean it, or a completely locked session - no early exit, no bargaining with yourself at 1am. A REAL PAUSE, NOT A LOOPHOLE Something urgent comes up mid-block - it happens. When your chosen mode allows it, take a short pause instead of ending the session. Blocking resumes automatically when your pause is over. SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE Day, week, and month views of your screen time, your pickups, and exactly which apps are quietly eating your hours. No shame attached. Just the truth. WHO THIS IS REALLY FOR The person who sits down to work and the phone gets there first. The parent who realizes the walk to school, the bedtime story, almost slipped by unnoticed. The one whose mornings used to mean something quieter - a book, a prayer, silence - before a feed took that time. Anyone who misses sitting with a task or a conversation without a phone demanding attention. You didn't need another app to remind you that you have a problem with your phone. You needed one built to actually hold the dam. PRIVACY, HONESTLY We monitor and block the apps you choose - and that's the extent of it. We don't see what you're doing on your phone. Nothing about your activity ever leaves your device. Feel like yourself again. Your mornings, your evenings, every quiet hour in between - they never stopped being yours. ScrollDam just helps you keep them. Subscription Info: Prices depend on your country and are billed to your Apple ID once you confirm the purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before your current period ends. You can manage or cancel it anytime from your iTunes account settings. EULA: https://scrolldam.store/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://scrolldam.store/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Birthday Countdown & Gift List4 screens
Screen Time Control + Blocker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Screen Time Control + Blocker at Free against Birthday Countdown & Gift List's $4.99. Screen Time Control + Blocker also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Birthday Countdown & Gift List's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (312 vs 6). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Screen Time Control + Blocker is free to download; Birthday Countdown & Gift List costs $4.99 up front. Birthday Countdown & Gift List sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Screen Time Control + Blocker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Birthday Countdown & Gift List holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Birthday Countdown & Gift List has 312 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Birthday Countdown & Gift List's written reviews are positive against 100% of Screen Time Control + Blocker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Birthday Countdown & Gift List ships an update every 2 months, Screen Time Control + Blocker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Birthday Countdown & Gift List versus Screen Time Control + Blocker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBirthday Countdown & Gift ListScreen Time Control + Blocker
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (312 ratings) — better3.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings312 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB128 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLW Brands, LLCFocus Control Studio

Customer experience

Birthday Countdown & Gift List

All ratings311 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Screen Time Control + Blocker

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Birthday Countdown & Gift List

One-time3
  • Cup of Coffee Gift$0.99
  • Birthday Countdown Widget$0.99
  • Pot of Coffee Gift$2.99
4 purchases

Screen Time Control + Blocker

Subscriptions4
  • ScrollDam Access7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • ScrollDam Subs1 Month trial$19.991 Year
  • ScrollDam - Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • ScrollDam - Pro Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Birthday Countdown & Gift List free?
Birthday Countdown & Gift List costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Screen Time Control + Blocker free?
Screen Time Control + Blocker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Birthday Countdown & Gift List or Screen Time Control + Blocker?
Birthday Countdown & Gift List is rated higher. Birthday Countdown & Gift List averages 4.9 out of 5 from 312 ratings, while Screen Time Control + Blocker averages 3.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Birthday Countdown & Gift List or Screen Time Control + Blocker have ads?
Neither Birthday Countdown & Gift List nor Screen Time Control + Blocker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Birthday Countdown & Gift List or Screen Time Control + Blocker?
Birthday Countdown & Gift List ships an update every 2 months, and Screen Time Control + Blocker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Birthday Countdown & Gift List was updated on November 9, 2026 and Screen Time Control + Blocker on November 10, 2026.

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