Forfeit vs Neutral Scroll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forfeit
This app helps you build habits by creating accountability contracts. Set tasks, deadlines, and consequences for failure, with various verification methods to prove completion. Achieve your goals with a high success rate.
- Set habit contracts with deadlines
- Define consequences for missed habits
- Multiple verification methods (photo, timelapse, GPS, health data)
- AI and human verification options
- Track habits by day or specific days of the week
- Appeal failed forfeits
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Forfeit is an app that adds accountability to your habits. We're based on the scientifically backed concept of Habit Contracts - popularised by Atomic Habits - that adding accountability to completing habits is massively effective. Our 20k+ users have achieved a 94% success rate on over 75k forfeits. HOW IT WORKS 1. Set your forfeit Set the task/habit that you want to complete, when you want to complete it by, and how you'll be held accountable if you don't complete it. This can be sending an accountability buddy a text or email! 2. Submit your evidence Verify that you completed your habit using any of the methods defined below. This can be in the form of a photo, timelapse, self-verify, friend verify, GPS check-in, a web tracking limit, an Apple Health activity, a Strava run, a Whoop activity, a MyFitnessPal meal or anything else. 3. Or you fail If you don't send evidence in time, your accountability method is triggered. This rarely happens - only 6% of forfeits fail. If you do fail, you can appeal the failed forfeit - we only want you to fail if it's a willpower issue, not if life gets in the way! VERIFICATION METHODS • Photo Take a photo of the task that you completed, and an AI will verify if your photo matches your description. Examples: At the gym, inbox zero, Duolingo completed, homework submitted, taking medication. • Timelapse Record a timelapse of you completing the tasks that you completed, and a human will verify if your timelapse matches your description. Examples: Meditating, nighttime routine, stretching, working for 1hr. • Self-Verify Simply verify if you completed this task. No need for evidence! Examples: No smoking, no drinking, no vaping, absolutely anything! • Friend-Verify Have an accountability buddy testify to whether you did or didn't complete a task. Examples: No drinking, no phone in the house, no eating junk food. • Apple Health Set a threshold that you must cross in Apple Health (eg, 10,000 steps). Thousands of apps sync to this. Examples: 10,000 steps, 20 mins meditation, 30 min bike ride, less than 2000 calories consumed. • GPS Check-in Set a GPS location that you must be within 100m of by the deadline. Examples: Check into the gym, work on time, home by a certain time. • Location Reminders Get a reminder when you arrive at or leave a place you've saved, even when Forfeit is closed. Background location is optional. Examples: "You're home - time to walk the dog", "At the gym - log your workout". • GPS Avoid Set a location that you won't be within a certain radius of at the deadline. Examples: Not being at a bar on the weekends, leaving the house at a certain time. • RescueTime integration We sync with RescueTime, a web time-tracking app. You can use this to set thresholds on websites/desktop apps. Examples: Max 30 mins on reddit.com, minimum 2hrs on VSCode, max 30 mins on gmail.com • Pomodoro timer This is a timer that if you click off, you fail. Examples: Working for 30 mins, meditating for 20 mins, studying for 45 mins. OTHER FEATURES • X days/week: Set forfeits to be due a certain number of times per week (eg, work out 3x/week) • Certain days/week: Set forfeits only to be due on certain days (eg, weekdays, or Mo/We/Fr) • Appeal anything: If you have to skip a submission, simply send in an appeal, and it'll be reviewed in a few hours by a human. • Varying leniency modes: Depending on your leniency mode (lenient, normal, hard), you may or may not be required to justify your appeal with evidence. Hard mode doesn't allow appeals. • Screen Time integration: If you go over your limit, you're held accountable. Terms & Conditions: https://www.forfeit.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.forfeit.app/privacy-policy
Neutral Scroll
This app offers a sensory pause from habitual phone use. It provides a calming, content-free experience with haptic feedback and visual gradients to help you disengage from endless scrolling. It also acts as a gentle reminder when you attempt to open other apps.
- Content-free scrolling experience
- Haptic feedback for engagement
- Visual gradients and color shifts
- Time-boxed usage periods
- Optional app opening reminder
- Privacy-focused, no tracking
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A sensory pause for the moment your hand reaches for the feed. The urge to scroll isn't really about content. It's about regulation - a fidget, a friction, something to hold. Neutral Scroll gives you that, without the algorithm underneath. You open it. You stay for a time boxed period of time. The screen quietly winds itself down, and you put your phone away. — TWO MODES — Scroll A paged gradient of muted hues. Each swipe snaps cleanly to the next color, with one soft haptic pulse per page. No content. No counter. Just rhythm. Find A target somewhere on the screen, invisible. The closer your finger gets, the faster and heavier the haptic feedback. Land it, and the colour collapses to your fingertip and washes in a new hue. — A SOFTER DOOR — Pick the apps you reach for out of habit. When you open them, Neutral Scroll catches you at the door with a gentle reminder, and points you here instead. Built on Apple's Screen Time framework. Always opt-in. Always your choice. — WHAT IT DOESN'T DO — No likes, no streaks, no scores. No notifications, ever. No tracking, no analytics, no account. No social features, no sharing, no leaderboards. No reason to come back besides the experience itself. — PRIVACY — Neutral Scroll collects nothing. No analytics, no telemetry, no account. The optional shield runs entirely on-device through Apple's Family Controls. Nothing leaves your phone. — REQUIREMENTS — iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Uses the Taptic Engine, so iPhone only — no iPad, no Mac. One-time purchase. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No ads. neutralscroll.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Neutral Scroll at none against Forfeit's 12. Neutral Scroll also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Forfeit's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). On price and device support 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. Forfeit sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Neutral Scroll asks for nothing beyond the download.
Forfeit ships an update every 9 days, Neutral Scroll every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forfeit | Neutral Scroll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (360 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 360 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 256 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forfeit, Inc | ProfoundLabs Ltd |
Customer experience
Forfeit
Neutral Scroll
Bugs and requests
Forfeit
Reported bugs
3 issues- Screen blocking feature not working on iOS
- Inconsistent verification and approval process
- Occasional app crashes or freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to donate forfeited funds to charity
- Integration with more third-party apps and services
- Customizable notification and reminder system
- Improved user interface and design
Neutral Scroll
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Forfeit
- Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
- Pro Weekly$5.997 Days
- Forfeit Premium$7.991 Month
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- Forfeit Pro$12.991 Month
- 1 Month Overlord Subscription$12.991 Month
- Forfeit Premium Yearly$59.991 Year
- 6 Month Overlord Subscription$59.996 Months
- Forfeit Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
- 1 Year Overlord Subscription$99.991 Year
- 500 Forfeit Points$4.99
- 1000 Forfeit Points$9.99
- 2000 Forfeit Points$19.99
Neutral Scroll
No in-app purchases









