ScreenZen vs Deck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScreenZen
This app offers multiple strategies to help you reduce screen time and control app usage. Features include delayed app opening, timed scrolling interruptions, and customizable app limits. It also provides options for strict blocking, settings protection, and encourages mindful breaks.
- Delayed app opening
- Scrolling interruption
- Set app goals and limits
- Configurable daily schedules
- Strict app blocking
- Screen time tracking for distracting apps
- Settings protection locks
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Multiple strategies to reduce your screentime 1. Delay before opening your app: A bit of time before choosing if you need to open your distracting app. You can have the wait time increase each time you open your app. 2. Interrupt your scrolling: Check your distracting apps for short periods of time so you don't get sucked in. 3. Set an app goal and optionally block when you reach your limit. 4. Configurable for different days of the week and time by app. 5. Messages like "Is this important" before opening your app. 6. See your screen time for only your distracting apps. Don't worry about Google Maps bloating up your time. 7. Strict block your apps: Either for time ranges, after a certain number of opens or ScreenTime. 8. Locks on Settings to prevent you from changing your settings when you want to open an app. 9. Breathing and other activities to encourage you not to need to open the app while waiting for it to unlock. 10. Streaks to encourage you not to exceed your limits or override your settings.
Deck
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Save a link in one tap. Read it later, when you actually have time. No account, ever. Deck is a tidy, personal place for the links you keep meaning to come back to. Tap Share in Safari, Messages, or any other app, pick a folder, and it's saved. That's the whole thing. NO ACCOUNT. NO SERVER. NO SUBSCRIPTION. There is no sign-up screen, because there is nothing to sign up for. Your saves live in your own iCloud, synced across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Deck has no server, collects nothing, and tracks nothing so there is no service here that can be shut down and take your links with it. SAVE ANYTHING, FROM ANYWHERE • Links, images, text, and PDFs, straight from the share sheet • "Save to Deck" in the Actions row for one-tap saving • Add a link, note, or photo by hand from inside any folder • Paste a link you just copied Deck offers it before you ask FOLDERS THAT WORK LIKE YOU DO • Make your own folders a color and an icon each, dragged into the order you want • Duplicate a folder, rename it, or clear it out whenever • Four ways to look at a folder: List, Cards, Masonry, and Headlines • Search inside a folder to find that one link again KNOW WHAT YOU HAVEN'T READ Unopened saves get a quiet dot, and folders show how many are waiting. Tap the row on the home screen and everything unread comes up as a stack of cards you flip through one at a time. BUILT FOR iOS, NOT PORTED TO IT Written in SwiftUI for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Links open in their own app when they have one YouTube in YouTube, a recipe in its app and in a fast built-in browser when they don't. Photos keep their details. PDFs open in a real reader. Available in nine languages, with light, dark, and system themes, plus a second app icon. DECK PRO ONE PAYMENT, KEPT FOREVER Saving, folders, search, and iCloud sync are free and stay free. Pro is a single small purchase, not a subscription, and unlocks: • Summarize any save with on-device AI private, offline, nothing sent anywhere • Share a folder with family or friends, with no account needed on either side • Reopen your last save in one tap Recipes with your partner. Gift ideas with your family. Trip links with whoever you're travelling with. Everyone sees the same folder, nobody makes an account. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Deck collects no data. There is no analytics SDK, no tracking, no advertising, and no company database holding your links. Everything is in your iCloud, under your Apple Account, where it stays. Download Deck, save the first link that's been sitting in a tab for a week, and close the tab.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: ScreenZen at #126 against Deck's unranked. ScreenZen also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. ScreenZen sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Deck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ScreenZen ships an update every 3 weeks, Deck fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScreenZen | Deck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (52K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #126 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ScreenZen LLC | Anatoli Petrosyants |
Bugs and requests
ScreenZen
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unlock button not working as expected
- App stops working after some time
- Compatibility issues with iOS 16 update
Requested features
4 requests- Add more customization options
- Integrate with productivity/to-do apps
- Add more pause/break options
- Improve website blocking functionality
Deck
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ScreenZen
- Kind Tip$5.00
- Generous Tip$10.00
- Amazing Tip$20.00
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- Fantastic Tip$40.00
Deck
- Savedock Pro$1.99









