Curiosity Quench vs Brainrot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Curiosity Quench
This app helps you reduce endless scrolling and reclaim your time. It guides you to discover and act on your interests with personalized plans, curated content, and actionable steps. Spend less time on your phone and more time doing what you love.
- Discover interests
- Save topics
- Generate action plans
- Curated videos and articles
- Follow through with steps
- Reduce screen time
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Replace your screen time with life time. Bye bye endless scrolling, hello Curiosity Quench: Built to help you scroll less and do more of the things you actually enjoy. Discover what you love doing and do it using our custom curated, actionable plans for YOUR unique curiosities and interests. - Explore and find what interests you - Save the topic(s) that peak your curiosity - Generate a curated plan to help you take ACTION - Watch videos and read articles that were hand selected for you - Do the thing: follow the steps and watch content curated to help you follow through. - Do more of the things that you actually enjoy and forget about checking your phone 24/7 - Reduce screen time and scroll less in the process. Scroll less, live more. Terms of use and service: https://www.curiosityquench.com/tos READY TO QUENCH?
Brainrot
This app helps you regain control of your digital life by blocking distracting apps and websites. Utilize a focus timer and smart schedules to improve productivity, sleep, and reduce screen time. A visual indicator provides a playful nudge to encourage mindful usage.
- App and website blocking
- Focus timer
- Smart scheduling
- Mindful breaks
- Usage insights
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Reclaim your day with Brainrot, a playful screen time control, app blocker, and focus coach. Pick the apps and sites to block, set schedules, and watch your cute brain avatar decay as you doom scroll. The visual nudge helps you put the phone down. Save about 2 hours per day, feel less distracted, sleep better, and get more done. What you get: - Instant blocking for apps and websites - Focus timer for deep work and Pomodoro - Smart schedules for bedtime, mornings, and meetings - Mindful breaks so you reset without the guilt - Clear insights to spot Brainrot apps fast ### PRIVATE & SECURE Brainrot uses Apple’s Screen Time API; all monitoring and blocking run *entirely* on your device. Your browsing data never leaves your phone. *All features described above require a subscription.* Terms of Service: https://thebrainrotapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://thebrainrotapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Curiosity Quench at free with in-app purchases against Brainrot's subscription. Curiosity Quench also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 17%) and device support (3 vs 1). Brainrot's advantage is ratings volume (22K vs 210). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Curiosity Quench sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days and Brainrot sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Curiosity Quench against 4.5 for Brainrot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brainrot has 22K ratings behind it against 210, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Curiosity Quench's written reviews are positive against 17% of Brainrot's.
Curiosity Quench ships an update weekly, Brainrot every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on August 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Curiosity Quench | Brainrot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (210 ratings) | 4.5 (22K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 17.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 210 | 22K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jack ingram | Smolworks Inc |
Customer experience
Curiosity Quench
Brainrot
User reviews
Curiosity Quench
From 210 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app, clean UI
- 👍 Really enjoyed using the app
- 👍 Beautiful UI
- 👍 Helps to focus on more meaningful aspects of life
- 👍 Absolutely love the idea and how it's so encouraging
Room to improve
- 💰 Cool concept, but requires paid subscription
- 💰 a good portion of interests are locked behind a paywall
- 💰 Requires paid subscription
- 💰 I can't go any further without some payment or use one feature for a day
- 💰 Constantly brings up the subscription page to try to get you to sign up
Brainrot
From 22K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Reduces screen time
- 👍 Helpful for productivity
- 🥰 Great app
- 💯 Highly recommended
Room to improve
- 💰 Requires paid subscription
- 🙅♀️ No free version available
- 😤 Forced to pay to use
Bugs and requests
Curiosity Quench
Reported bugs
5 issues- Honestly really cool app, but the swipe right just doesn't seem to work
- Mine keeps saying that it'll give me a credit every 20 hours but it isn't
- The custom video generation doesn't work
- When setting up the app, I scrolled for so long trying to find anything related to motorsports in general, and anything motorsport related I have to pay for
- It gets you stuck there and I couldn't tap the button or anything to get past and had to reload the app
Requested features
2 requests- Add skateboarding to the list of interests
- Add filters when generating a plan like a free filter or an at home filter or a filter for activities with friends
Brainrot
Reported bugs
2 issues- Stuck on payment screen with no way out
- Requires re-entering info every time
Requested features
2 requests- Free version with limited features
- Free trial period
In-app purchases
Curiosity Quench
- Weekly Premium$1.497 Days
- Monthly Premium 2$2.991 Month
- Premium Access$3.991 Month
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- 3 Month Premium$9.993 Months
- Yearly Premium$17.991 Year
- Premium Access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- 10 Quench Credits$0.99
- 99 Quench Credits$3.99
- Lifetime Premium$44.99
Brainrot
- Unlimited (1 Month)$3.991 Month
- Unlimited (1 Week)$3.997 Days
- Unlimited (1 Week)$4.997 Days
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- monthly$8.991 Month
- Unlimited (1 Year)$9.991 Year
- Unlimited (1 Year)3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Unlimited (1 Year)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Unlimited (1 Year)$19.991 Year
- Brainrot (Full Access)$24.991 Year
- Unlimited (1 Year)3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Unlimited (1 Year)$29.991 Year
- Brainrot (Full Access)$29.991 Year
- Unlimited (1 Year)3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Brainrot Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Unlimited$49.991 Year
