Comparison

Lemio vs AlphaBell

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

Head to head
About

Lemio

This app helps you regain control of your attention and reduce screen time. It encourages intentional usage with session limits and provides tools to combat procrastination and build healthy habits. Achieve greater focus, productivity, and well-being by mastering your digital life.

Highlights
  • Session time limits for apps
  • Lock distracting apps after session
  • Neuroscientific breathing exercises
  • Attention Masterclass content
  • Combats phone procrastination
  • Builds healthy habits
Features
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Attention is the most important skill and resource of the 21st century. Lemio helps you master it! Make every minute of your life intentional and let Lemio help you reduce your screen time. More focus, health, productivity, and time. Less procrastination, stress, depression, and anxiety. **Finally a screen time app that is effective without being annoying.** **With Apple's features I used to subconsciously click "one more minute". Lemio solves that with session times!** **My favorite app to embrace being offline and living in the moment!** **Lemio holds me accountable to create more than I consume. The instant feedback I get from the app helps me to be more active and motivated.** **Not only has it helped me to get rid of my phone addiction, it has inspired me to start 3 new daily habits! Thanks Lemio.** OUR FEATURES Focus on: - Saving you time - Being in control of your life - Starting doing what you've been putting off We all struggle with our smartphone addiction. Lemio stops you in the moments of unconscious, impulsive and compulsive phone use and transitions you from mindless doomscrolling to useful & healthy habits. Time limit per session - Each app should be used with intention, but at the same time remain easily accessible. That is why Lemio forces you to choose a session time for each entry. Your brain will learn that this choice has consequences, because Lemio will kick you out of the app when your session time is up. No more doomscrolling - When your session time ends, we will lock the distracting app again and bring you back to reality in case you got distracted and sucked in. Neuroscientific Breathing - There is a way to de-stress and calm your brain in a matter of seconds. It's called the physiological sigh, a breathing exercise based on the science of how crying babies calm down. We introduce it every time we detect abusive behavior. The Attention Masterclass - Attention is both a skill and a mental resource. It allows us to navigate life efficiently, learn, build relationships, and have successful careers. It can be trained, and Lemio teaches you how. WHY LEMIO IS NEEDED There are several reasons for this: Focus and attention span are constantly decreasing: Attention span has dropped from 12 seconds (2000) to 8.25 seconds (2021), below the level of a goldfish. Studies also show that humans need about 20 minutes for deep focus, while the average phone pickup time for GenY and younger is about every 7 minutes. Phone procrastination is real: Research shows that 32% of screen time during work hours and 57% at home is completely unintentional procrastination. Smartphone addiction is a disease: Excessive smartphone use has been linked to impaired cognitive function and mental health issues such as stress, depression, and self-harm. Lemio is on a mission to stop all of this. We increase your productivity, help you overcome phone distractions, and take back control. At the same time, Lemio is a place for inspiration, motivation, accountability, and social interaction with like-minded people. We want to teach you useful and healthy habits and prove that science and biohacking can be fun! Our mission is complete when Lemio becomes your place for personal development, growth, goal setting and goal achievement. Our dream is to change the way people think & live. Our vision is that people will only pick up their phones when they have a good reason to do so. At the same time, we want to help people accelerate in life by building know-how, identity and real-life relationships with the phone as an enabler, not a time parasite. Start today and turn screen time into life time! Available Subscription Options: Lemio Premium (Monthly / Annual / Lifetime) Terms (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.lemioapp.com/privacy-policy

About

AlphaBell

Features
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AlphaBell turns webhook POST requests into loud, persistent push notifications on your iPhone — alerts you actually wake up to. Built for on-call engineers, active traders, and anyone who needs a reliable way to be paged from their own systems. — HOW IT WORKS — 1. Create an alert in the app, give it a name 2. Copy your unique webhook URL 3. POST any JSON to it from your monitoring system, trading bot, or backend 4. Your iPhone rings — even when locked or in silent mode (alarm mode) — THREE DELIVERY MODES — • Off — alert disabled, webhook ignored • Chime — single push notification (standard) • Alarm — full-volume siren that re-fires every 10 seconds for up to 5 minutes, until you stop it — FEATURES — • Up to 20 named alerts per device • Per-alert quiet hours (silence overnight, page during the day) • 7-day webhook history with full payload preview • Custom alarm sounds (Pro) • Master kill-switch for vacation mode • Anonymous — no account required, no tracking, no analytics — ALPHABELL PRO — • $2.99/month or $19.99/year (7-day free trial on yearly) • Unlimited webhook payload size • Custom alarm sounds • Priority delivery — PRIVACY — We don't collect names, emails, contacts, or location. Webhook payloads are stored for 7 days then auto-deleted. No third-party analytics or ad networks. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy: https://thealphastack.app/alphabell/privacy Terms: https://thealphastack.app/alphabell/terms Support: https://thealphastack.app/alphabell/support

Screenshots

Lemio4 screens
AlphaBell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: AlphaBell at 3 against Lemio's 1. AlphaBell also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Lemio sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $8.49 per month and AlphaBell sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lemio versus AlphaBell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLemioAlphaBell
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (87 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings87 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlatobros, IncAlphastack pte. Ltd.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Lemio

Subscriptions9
  • Monthly$8.491 Month
  • Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
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  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Annual$19.991 Year
  • Annual Lemio Subscription$24.991 Year
  • Annual1 Month trial$59.991 Year
  • Annual1 Year trial$59.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime AccessFree
2 purchases

AlphaBell

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Lemio free?
Lemio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AlphaBell free?
AlphaBell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lemio or AlphaBell have ads?
Neither Lemio nor AlphaBell shows ads.

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