Comparison

Maratona.app vs Sit Still

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

Head to head
About

Maratona.app

Organize your reading life with virtual bookshelves and custom reading marathons. Track your reading habits and connect with other readers in a personalized literary community.

Highlights
  • Organize virtual bookshelves
  • Create custom reading marathons
  • Track reading habits
  • Connect with other readers
  • Humanized reading notes
Features
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Atenção: você não lê livros neste app e não somos substituto do Skoob, somos uma plataforma para organização de estantes e anotações de leitura de forma mais humanizada. Somos sua companhia literária. Encontre leituras coletivas de seus livros favoritos, organize maratonas literárias com outros leitores, monte estantes virtuais customizadas e registre seus hábitos de leitura, tudo em um só lugar. Crie seu perfil e tenha autonomia sobre seus dados literários, e lembre que sempre precisar de suporte é só entrar em contato com nossa equipe pelas redes sociais.

About

Sit Still

This app helps you focus by blocking distracting applications and providing a calming timer experience. Earn rewards to unlock cozy rooms and accessories for your virtual cat companion. Track your screen time and set daily goals to improve your productivity.

Highlights
  • App blocking modes (Open, Whitelist, Strict)
  • Customizable timer (Countdown, Open-ended, Pomodoro)
  • Virtual cat companion with unlockable accessories
  • Collection of illustrated rooms with unique soundscapes
  • Screen time tracking and analysis
  • Task list syncing with Reminders
  • Widgets and wallpapers
Features
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Sit Still is a focus timer and app blocker that gives you somewhere to be. Most focus apps punish you, Sit Still keeps you company. A cat sleeps in a painted room while you work, and the reward for sitting still is a collection you build. Blocking is real, and as firm as you want it to be. The rooms are the heart of it: watercolour illustrations painted like the pages of a childhood picture book, meant to feel cozy and nostalgic — to stir a memory of being small and safe somewhere — each with its own soundscape. APP BLOCKING FEATURES Three app blocking modes for a focus session: Open, Whitelist and Strict. App blocking rules put away the apps that keep distracting you throughout the day: on a schedule of your own, held to a daily limit, or right away with a quick block. You can also set a bedtime lock on a night schedule you choose. Before you switch off a lock that is running, take a moment with the cat — or turn on hard mode, and it holds until it ends. With the deletion lock on, no app can be deleted during a hard-mode block, so Sit Still can't be removed to end it early. YOUR SCREEN TIME, IN THE SHIELD TAB See where your time went, day by day and week by week: your most-used apps, each with its own chart, the categories your hours went to, and what a lifetime at this pace adds up to. Set a daily goal and the cat keeps an eye on your day. WALLPAPERS AND WIDGETS Any room you have can be saved to your Photos as a wallpaper, drawn at the full resolution of your phone or iPad, with your cat in the corner or without it. There are widgets too: the room you are sitting in with your focus stats under it, the collection with a different room every hour, a calendar of the month with your cat beside it, and your streak on the Lock Screen and in StandBy. A TIMER WITH THREE SHAPES Countdown, open-ended, or pomodoro. The pomodoro starts at the classic 25 / 5 / 15, and all three lengths are yours to change. A session carries on with the screen locked, and shows itself on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. A COLLECTION OF ROOMS A permanent collection of rooms, from a bookshop loft in Porto to a stilt house on the Mekong Delta, and two new rooms on the first of every month that leave with it. Every room has its own illustration and its own ambience loop, levelled against all the others so changing rooms is never a lurch. On iPad and iPhone Duo, every room opens out into a wide painting, upright or sideways. A CAT, AND THINGS FOR IT TO WEAR Six companions, hand-drawn and animated. Focusing earns whiskers, and whiskers buy cat accessories and the monthly rooms. Pet the cat and it notices. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, AND WHAT YOU DID A task list that stays in sync with your phone's own Reminders. A record of every session — hours, streaks, and the note you left about what you were working on. Sit Still Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in Settings › your Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://alteraapps.com/sit-still/privacy/

Screenshots

Maratona.app2 screens
Sit Still4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Maratona.app at none against Sit Still's 2. Maratona.app also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Sit Still's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sit Still sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Maratona.app asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maratona.app ships an update weekly, Sit Still every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Maratona.app versus Sit Still: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaratona.appSit Still
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB180 MB
Age rating+174+
DeveloperMaratona TecnologiaJohannes Butzke

Customer experience

Maratona.app

Written reviews47 reviews
Positive80.9%
Neutral6.4%
Negative12.8%

Sit Still

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Maratona.app

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Sit Still

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Maratona.app free?
Maratona.app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sit Still free?
Sit Still is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Maratona.app or Sit Still have ads?
Neither Maratona.app nor Sit Still shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maratona.app or Sit Still?
Maratona.app ships an update weekly, and Sit Still every 3 days. Most recently, Maratona.app was updated on November 11, 2026 and Sit Still on November 10, 2026.

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