Comparison

Install by SmartSense vs Limit Screen Time

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

Head to head
About

Install by SmartSense

This enterprise tool simplifies the setup and status monitoring of environmental sensors, gateways, and assets. It's designed for efficient management of temperature and humidity tracking systems.

Highlights
  • Easy setup of SmartSense Assets
  • Check Gateway status
  • Monitor Sensor status
  • Temperature monitoring
  • Humidity monitoring
  • Environmental tracking
Features
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SmartSense Install is an enterprise tool that enables users to easily set up and check the status of SmartSense Assets, Gateways, and Sensors used to monitor the temperature and humidity in an environment.

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Limit Screen Time

Features
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You meant to read a book tonight. You opened your phone to check one thing. That was ninety minutes ago. Paradox puts a guardian between you and the apps that take the most, and gives the time you win back to something worth reading. GUARD THE APPS THAT PULL YOU IN Pick the apps, whole categories and websites you would rather not open, and the hours they are off limits. The wall goes up and comes down on schedule, even while Paradox is closed. Two rules come ready to use on weekdays, a block from 9 to 5 and a 45-minute daily limit, and both are yours to rewrite. A PAUSE BEFORE YOU GIVE IN Open a guarded app and the Paradox shield is there first. If you really do need in, you ask from inside Paradox: your guardian stands in the way, you wait out a short countdown, and you choose 2, 5 or 15 minutes. The pass closes itself when the time is up. FOCUS SESSIONS The Focus tab starts a session: an hour of deep work, half an hour, a quick fifteen minutes, or a length of your own. Your guardian rests by a campfire under the night sky, and the apps you chose stay blocked until the session ends, even while it is paused. Follow the clock on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, start a session from the Focus widget on your Home Screen, and look back on your week, month and year in the report. SOMETHING WORTH YOUR ATTENTION Grow is a library of short lessons to read or listen to, meant to leave you a little better than they found you. On the pause screen, one tap trades the pass for a read. YOUR NUMBERS, HONESTLY Where today, this week and this month actually went, app by app. Put a daily limit on your apps and watch today fill up. A JOURNEY YOU EARN Every day you keep a block on earns experience, and so does every focus session. Your guardian travels a map, place by place, and each new place becomes the scene of your block screen. Fill the bar to reach a new level and pick a new guardian or a new attack on the guardian tree. The first time you open Paradox each day, your guardian tells you what you earned. PARADOX PREMIUM Blocking, schedules, focus sessions, statistics and the whole library need no subscription, and there are no ads. Paradox Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, that opens the premium guardians and their attacks, the premium backgrounds, and Inferna, a second world with its own road that you reach by ferry. Subscribing needs an account, because the subscription belongs to your account rather than to one phone. Each plan shows its period and how it renews before you subscribe, and you can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. YOUR PRIVACY No ads, and nothing about you is sold to anyone. The per-app times in Stats are drawn by iOS inside a sandboxed extension that cannot hand them to us. We also measure how Paradox itself gets used, and the privacy policy says exactly what that means. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Blocking, focus sessions, statistics, the library, your level and your guardians all work without signing in. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your progress on any phone, or to subscribe. Paradox needs Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) permission, because it is the only way iOS lets one app hold another back. You grant it on your device, and you can withdraw it in Settings at any time. Paradox is made by two brothers. Write to us and one of us will answer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.tryparadox.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.tryparadox.app/privacy

Screenshots

Install by SmartSense4 screens
Limit Screen Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Install by SmartSense at none against Limit Screen Time's 4. Limit Screen Time's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Limit Screen Time sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Install by SmartSense asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Install by SmartSense ships an update every 6 weeks, Limit Screen Time every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Install by SmartSense versus Limit Screen Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInstall by SmartSenseLimit Screen Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB107 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDigi Smartsense, LLCParadox App SpA

In-app purchases

None

Install by SmartSense

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Limit Screen Time

Subscriptions4
  • Paradox Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Paradox Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Paradox Premium Yearly$63.991 Year
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  • Paradox Premium Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Install by SmartSense free?
Install by SmartSense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Limit Screen Time free?
Limit Screen Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Install by SmartSense or Limit Screen Time have ads?
Neither Install by SmartSense nor Limit Screen Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Install by SmartSense or Limit Screen Time?
Install by SmartSense ships an update every 6 weeks, and Limit Screen Time every 5 days. Most recently, Install by SmartSense was updated on November 3, 2026 and Limit Screen Time on November 5, 2026.

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