Smokes vs Pull‑Free
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smokes
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Smokes helps you build awareness of your smoking habits — without judgment, complexity, or distractions. Whether you’re aiming to quit entirely or just get a clearer picture of your behavior, Smokes gives you the tools to track, reflect, and improve: • One-tap logging • Beautiful charts by day, week, and month • Fully offline and private — nothing leaves your device • No accounts, no ads, no paywalls The app is designed to stay out of your way while supporting meaningful change. Just open it, log it, and carry on. Simple. Focused. Yours.
Pull‑Free
This app uses your iPhone's camera to detect when your hands approach your face or hair, providing real-time alerts to help break habits like hair-pulling, skin-picking, and nail-biting. It focuses on building awareness and tracking progress privately on your device.
- Real-time hand-to-face detection
- Customizable alerts (haptic, sound, flash)
- On-device private processing
- Adjustable sensitivity and cooldown
- Progress tracking and streaks
- Support for trichotillomania, dermatillomania, nail-biting
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You touch your face dozens of times an hour without noticing. FaceFence helps you break the habit. Prop up your iPhone, and its front camera watches for the moment your hand drifts toward your face or hair — then gives you an instant buzz so you can catch yourself in real time. Whether you're working through hair-pulling (trichotillomania), skin-picking (dermatillomania), nail-biting, or any body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB), awareness is the first step to change. REAL-TIME DETECTION Powered by Apple's on-device Vision framework, FaceFence tracks your hands and face and alerts you the instant they get too close — a gentle haptic buzz, a sound, and an on-screen flash. 100% PRIVATE All processing happens on your iPhone. Your camera feed is never recorded, stored, or uploaded. Ever. BUILT FOR REAL USE - Prop your phone up facing you while you work, study, scroll, or relax - Adjustable sensitivity to match how close is "too close" - Cooldown control so you're nudged, not nagged - Pause anytime, plus a quick Test button to feel how it works TRACK YOUR PROGRESS - Daily detection counts and trends - Detections-per-hour and total monitoring time - Pull-free streaks and achievements to keep you motivated MADE FOR THE BFRB COMMUNITY - Hair-pulling (trichotillomania) - Skin-picking (dermatillomania) - Nail-biting and cheek-biting - Building awareness of unconscious face-touching and fidgeting A note: FaceFence watches while the app is open with the screen on — prop your phone up facing you and let it keep an eye out. It's a gentle awareness tool, not a medical device. Hands off. Pull-free. FaceFence is your gentle reminder.
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Verdict
Smokes and Pull‑Free are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Smokes | Pull‑Free |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leopold Lemmermann | Derinbogaz Ventures |
In-app purchases
Smokes
No in-app purchases
Pull‑Free
No in-app purchases









