StepBloc vs Wikilayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepBloc
This app helps you reduce screen time by requiring physical activity to unlock distracting apps. Earn your app access by completing workouts like push-ups, squats, or reaching step goals. Take control of your digital habits and improve your health simultaneously.
- Earn app access through push-ups, squats, or steps
- Block distracting apps until goals are met
- App blocking scheduler
- Set daily usage limits
- Track focus minutes
- Digital habit insights and reports
- HealthKit integration for step tracking
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StepBloc lets you earn your screen time by doing Push-ups, Squats and other workouts. For example, you need to do 10 push-ups to use instagram for 10 mins. Just follow 3 simple steps: +Choose the distracting apps. +Set your goal (Push-ups, Squats, or Steps). +Move! Apps stay blocked until your goal is hit. Why should you download StepBloc? + Control how much time you spend on distracting apps. + Reduce your screen time. + Stay healthy by staying active. + Reclaim your focus. Key Features: + Steps to unblock: Distracted apps are blocked unless you completed required number of steps. + Push-Ups to unblock: Distracted apps are blocked unless you completed required number of Push-Ups. + Squats to unblock: Distracted apps are blocked unless you completed required number of Squats. + App Blocking Scheduler: Set specific times to block distracting apps, ensuring uninterrupted focus during work, study, or leisure time. + Usage Limits: Define daily usage limits for your distracted apps. + Focus Tracker: Measure your daily focus minutes and block distracting apps until you complete your focus minute target. + Insights: Gain valuable insights into your digital habits with detailed analytics and reports. + Secure and Private: Rest assured that your data is safe with StepBloc. All of your data stays in the device. Take control of your digital distractions, reclaim your focus, and unlock your full potential with StepBloc. Download now and experience the transformative power of mindful device management! The Monthly Pass Subscribe to monthly pass to get unlimited access to blocks. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - When you cancel a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. - While cancelling, Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded By using the app, you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: Terms: https://hamsters.tech/stepbloc-t-c Privacy: https://hamsters.tech/stepbloc-privacy-policy HealthKit Integration: StepBloc accesses your step count data from HealthKit to incentivize healthy habits. By linking your daily step count with app usage, StepBloc rewards you with app access based on your physical activity level. This integration encourages movement and ensures that you strike a balance between screen time and physical wellness. Note: HealthKit data is used only if user decides to use Step Block as the blocking method in app.
Wikilayer
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Wikilayer is a wiki that an AI assistant can read and edit on your behalf. You and your agent work on the same tree. The agent writes through MCP tools: it adds a node, rewrites one, moves a subtree, and reads back by outline instead of loading everything into its context. You read the result here, as ordinary pages. Every block has an address of its own. Rename it, rewrite it, move it under another parent, and links to it still land. Pages that lead to a block are listed under it, and nobody maintains that list by hand. History is kept per node, so a change to one paragraph is a change to one node, not to a whole document. WHAT PEOPLE KEEP HERE Personal notes: a second brain the agent reads selectively instead of holding a whole vault in context. Adding is a message in chat, not an app switch. Project memory: long-running context the agent writes and you audit. Hierarchy and full-text search across titles and bodies, without a separate vector store. Team workspace: decisions, context and meeting digests, written by the team and refactored by the agent. Public reference: guides, handbooks, fan wikis. Readers arrive from search and never touch the editing surface. VISIBILITY A wiki can be open to everyone, private to a team, or run on your own machine. Public wikis are crawlable the day you write them: server-rendered pages, Open Graph, sitemap, structured data, and addresses that survive a rename. WHAT IT IS NOT Not a block editor: bodies are plain markdown edited through MCP, not click-to-edit blocks, and the tree is hierarchical nodes rather than a relational document store. Not a real-time co-editor: each edit lands atomically, and conflicts resolve at write time rather than by merging keystrokes. Not an approval workflow: edits land on the live tree, and the audit trail is a snapshot of each node as it stood before the change. Bodies are markdown and the tools are MCP. Both are public formats, so a wiki reads out as plain documents whenever you want it somewhere else.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wikilayer at none against StepBloc's 3. Wikilayer also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). StepBloc's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. StepBloc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Wikilayer asks for nothing beyond the download.
StepBloc ships an update weekly, Wikilayer daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepBloc | Wikilayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (496 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 496 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hamsters Technology | Maxim Oransky |
Bugs and requests
StepBloc
Reported bugs
12 issues- Push-up counter can be cheated
- Squat counter can be cheated
- App keeps blocks after deletion
- Push-up system is faulty
- Squats not registered correctly
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- Screen time rate incorrect
- Analytics tab blank
- Freezes phone
- Push-up tracking measures face distance
- App still blocks after exercise
- Screen time shown is incorrect
- Lifetime unlock price high
Requested features
14 requests- Accumulate screen time
- Start day with screen time
- Reset banked steps daily
- Widget for progress tracking
- Macbook app
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- Nose detection mode
- More exercise options (sit-ups, pull-ups)
- Edit workouts for specific days
- Bank minutes/time
- Face-on push-up tracking
- Camera tracking for exercises
- Set multiple rules for exercise/time
- See time left until next exercise
- More free features
Wikilayer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StepBloc
- Monthly Pass$3.991 Month
- Premium Pass7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99
Wikilayer
No in-app purchases









