Donera vs Scroll Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Donera
This app helps you focus on your most important task by locking distracting applications until your goal is completed. It encourages single-tasking and provides a calm focus mode, with a widget for constant visibility. Designed for simplicity and guilt-free productivity.
- Lock distracting apps
- Focus on one task (Highlight)
- Calm Focus mode
- Home Screen widget
- Goal planning
- Mood and streak tracking
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Most of us don't struggle with knowing what to do. We struggle with starting — because the phone is always easier. Donera flips the order: finish today's one important thing first. Until then, your distracting apps stay locked. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick one Highlight — the single task that matters most today. 2. Choose the apps that steal your attention. Donera locks them. 3. Hold to finish. Your apps unlock, and the day is closed. WHY IT WORKS • One thing a day. Your home screen shows only this one — no lists, no counts, no overwhelm. • Blocking that holds you to your word. Built on Apple's Screen Time framework — no VPN, and nothing leaves your device. • Something urgent? Open it anytime. Take a 30 or 60 minute break, as many per day as you allow yourself — or unlock on purpose, with nothing recorded and no guilt trip. • Multi-day plans. Split a goal into days; each morning the next step becomes your Highlight. Or let an AI draft a plan for you and import it. • Ranks. Finished days add up — from Mortal to Eternal — and only ever go up; a missed day never drops you. Four built-in systems, or make your own. • Widget and Live Activity. Today's one thing, in sight on your Home and Lock Screen. DESIGNED FOR QUIET Warm paper, ink, and serif type. No tags, folders, or dashboards. No guilt. Your tasks stay on your device. Donera doesn't ask you to become disciplined. It simply helps you begin more easily — and finish with more care.
Scroll Timer
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You did not decide to spend forty minutes there. That is the whole problem: the minutes were never said out loud, so nothing ever compared them to anything. Scroll Timer is a ledger for phone sessions. Before you open something, you say what it is and how many minutes you mean to spend. When you stop, it shows the one number it exists for: the gap between what you said and what happened. HOW IT WORKS • Pick a context — social, video, news, shopping, games, messages, work, reading, other. • Say the minutes. A short pause runs first — a few seconds you choose, or none at all. • Stop when you stop. The gap gets written down. • Decided not to open it after all? Log a pass. Not opening is an entry too. THE DAY AS ONE STRIP Your day is drawn as a single 24-hour strip: the minutes you planned in one colour, the part that ran over in another. One look tells you where the day actually went. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO • Blocks nothing. No app is hidden, locked or delayed against your will. • Asks for no permissions. Not Screen Time, not Family Controls, not location. • Reads no system data. It cannot see which apps you open or for how long — every minute in the ledger comes from a session you started yourself. That is the design, not a missing feature. A lock you can uninstall in a weak moment measures nothing. A written record does. WHAT ELSE IS IN IT • Rest of day: where today lands if it carries on like your last two weeks did, with your daily budget drawn as a line. • Trends: day streak, weekly average, monthly total and contexts used, plus a month calendar showing which days stayed inside your budget. • Challenges that refresh every day, week and month. • 80 achievements across bronze, silver and gold, with levels and XP. • A session you forget to stop is closed at the length you planned and marked as an estimate — never a silent six-hour entry. You can correct the end time afterwards. • CSV export of every entry. • Works offline. No account, no sign-up, no analytics; nothing leaves your phone. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS This is a record of what you told it, not a measurement of your phone. It makes no health claims and promises no reduction. It shows the difference between what you said and what happened, in minutes, and leaves the decision to you. PRICING Recording sessions is part of Scroll Timer Pro: • A recurring subscription, with the first period at a reduced price • Or a one-time purchase that never renews Reading your ledger and exporting it stay free. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://doesonejob.com/scrollledger/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://doesonejob.com/scrollledger/privacy/ Questions or ideas: scrollledger@doesonejob.com
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Verdict
Donera and Scroll Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Donera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Scroll Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Donera ships an update weekly, Scroll Timer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Donera | Scroll Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 雄志 夏 | YUSUF OCAL |
In-app purchases
Donera
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Pro Annual1 Month trial$7.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime Unlock$14.99
Scroll Timer
- Scrollledger Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Scrollledger Pro Lifetime$13.99









