Social Limits vs Moth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Social Limits
This app helps you break screen time addiction by blocking social media until you meet a daily step goal. It encourages healthier morning routines, boosts productivity, and reduces anxiety by combining physical activity with digital wellness.
- Block chosen social media apps
- Unlock apps with daily step goal
- Promotes healthier morning routines
- Improves focus and productivity
- Reduces screen time addiction
- Digital wellness and mental health
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Social Limits is a digital detox that blocks social media apps to help break your morning screen time addiction. (Paid features) Block the apps you choose until you reach your daily step goal. Start your day walking, not scrolling, and build healthier morning routines. By staying off social media in the morning, you avoid the dopamine boost from scrolling which can make you crave more throughout the day. Instead, focus on being more productive, reduce your screen time and start your day off better. How It Works: Morning App Lock: Choose the apps that you want blocked when you start your day Step Goal Challenge: Set your daily step count target to unlock blocked apps Digital Wellness: Combine physical activity with screen time management for better mental health Focus Booster: Start each day with movement instead of mindless scrolling Proven Benefits: Better Sleep Quality - Break the cycle of late-night scrolling Increased Productivity - Start your day with intention, not distraction Improved Focus - Reduce digital overwhelm and mental clutter Enhanced Mood - Morning exercise naturally boosts energy and happiness Reduced Anxiety - Less social media comparison and FOMO Stronger Habits - Build consistent morning routines that stick Why Social Limits Works: Our digital detox approach combines behavioral psychology with fitness tracking. By requiring physical movement to unlock social apps you naturally: • Avoid dopamine spikes from early morning scrolling • Establish healthier sleep-wake cycles • Create positive associations between exercise and reward • Develop sustainable self-control habits Join thousands of users gaining back their screen time. Download Social Limits and experience the difference of starting the day without your phone. --- Privacy Policy: https://www.social-limits.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Moth
This app tracks your screen time and assigns a monetary value to it based on your hourly rate. It helps you understand the cost of unproductive app usage and encourages focus through gamified challenges and progress tracking.
- Monetize screen time with custom hourly rate
- Categorize apps into positive, negative, or neutral
- Focus Score based on 14-day habits
- Gamified challenges and leaderboards with friends
- Streak tracking for consistent usage
- Goal setting and progress visualization
- Quiet Hours and home-screen widgets
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Your time has a price. Moth shows you what you're paying - and helps you stop. Set your hourly rate, sort your apps into three buckets, and watch the meter run. Time in apps you've marked Negative costs money. Time in apps that move you forward earns it back. YOUR FOCUS SCORE - One number for the last 14 days, built from five tiles: Scroll Control, Habits, Balance, Body and Progress - Ten levels from Doomscrolling to Untethered, so you always know where you stand - Tap any tile to see what it measures, its 14-day history and the fastest way to move it - Judged against your own settings, never against other people FRIENDS AND CHALLENGES - Make a profile, add friends by @username or from your contacts, and compare Focus Scores, streaks and badges on a leaderboard - Everyone gets the same challenge on the same day - call a friend, read a book, a walk without your phone. Fitness challenges count from Apple Health once you tap Start, and some are timed - Seventeen badges earned from your days, kept on your account HOW IT WORKS - Every day you get scroll time you choose - guilt-free minutes for scrolling - Past it, your blocked apps lock behind a pause screen showing exactly what the time cost: pages of your book unread, words of a language unlearned - Want in anyway? One honest tap buys a few more minutes - but it tells you it will end your streak first - Streaks count your days inside your scroll time. A flame for every day, a ring past six, and new colours at 25, 50, 90 and 100 - Alerts on the whole day's screen time against a daily target you set MONEY, NOT GUILT - Your own hourly rate turns minutes into dollars, earned and lost - Big totals also read as business time: 8 hours is a work day, 40 a work week - A daily breakdown shows every app's time, money, and how it compares to yesterday - Turn on True cost to price your scroll time too GOALS THAT PUSH BACK - Pick goals - read a book, learn Spanish, get fit - and see what wasted time could have bought - Link positive apps to a goal (Audible to reading, Duolingo to Spanish) and time in them earns real progress automatically - Pages roll into chapters and books; words roll into subjects QUIET HOURS AND WIDGETS - A Focus Filter for your Do Not Disturb schedule, and Start and End Quiet Hours shortcuts - Home-screen widgets built around your score, today's challenge, your friends' leaderboard, your buckets and your top goal YOUR HISTORY, KEPT - Week, month, year and all-time views with tappable charts - green, red and neutral time for every day - Weekly, monthly and yearly reviews that tell the story of your days - On iPhones in the EU, Apple lets Moth read your Screen Time directly, so your full history syncs to your account. Elsewhere, Apple draws your numbers inside the app and your score builds from the apps you pick PRO Moth Pro unlocks Year and All-Time history, month-by-month browsing, Earn Scroll Time by moving, the In-Flight Pass, and per-app App Intentions - open limits with a mindful pause and per-app streaks. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO It never polices anyone else's phone - this is a tool you point at yourself. Your data is never sold and never shared with advertisers. Blocking only ever applies to apps you choose, and you can pause it any time. Friends see your score, streak and badges - never your apps, minutes or money, and your sleep and movement figures only if you choose to share them. An account is optional. Without one, everything stays on your device. Privacy Policy: https://mothflame.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://mothflame.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Moth at 5.0 against Social Limits's 4.6. Moth also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Social Limits's advantage is ratings volume (68 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Social Limits sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Moth sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Moth holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Social Limits has 68 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Social Limits ships an update fortnightly, Moth every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Social Limits | Moth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (68 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Social Limits LTD | Peter Mascheroni |
In-app purchases
Social Limits
- New User Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Monthly (1 week intro)7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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- New User Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
- Premium Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Monthly No Trial$9.991 Month
- Discount Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Monthly Plan3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- New User Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
Moth
- Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$59.991 Year









