Comparison

Breakly vs Moth

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Breakly

This app enforces mandatory screen time breaks by locking your phone, eliminating the need for willpower. It offers customizable break durations and integrates eye-saving techniques.

Highlights
  • Unbreakable breaks with phone locking
  • Strict Mode to block all apps
  • Configurable mini and long breaks
  • Intelligent timer pauses on lock
  • 20-20-20 rule reminders for eye health
Features
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You don’t need a harder lock. You need a break your body can accept. Breakly uses mini breaks and long breaks while you scroll — short enough that your body doesn’t rebel, strong enough that awareness comes back. When the loop breaks, self-control returns. That’s how doomscrolling actually ends — not by turning your phone into a prison. • Mini breaks: snap out before “one more swipe” wins • Long breaks: let the urge fade when you’re stuck deep • Day or night: same rhythm on the couch or in bed • Optional Strict Mode: holds a break if you want a firmer guardrail • Track bedtime and unlocks so progress stays visible Other tools lock the day or delay the open. Breakly works in the moment you’re already scrolling. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Breakly4 screens
Moth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Moth at every 5 days against Breakly's fortnightly. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Breakly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 3 months 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Breakly against 5.0 for Moth. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Breakly ships an update fortnightly, Moth every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Breakly versus Moth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreaklyMoth
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGood Orbit Labs LLCPeter Mascheroni

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Breakly

Subscriptions2
  • quarterly member3 Days trial$9.993 Months
  • annual member7 Days trial$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Moth

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Breakly free?
Breakly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moth free?
Moth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Breakly or Moth?
Breakly and Moth are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Breakly or Moth have ads?
Neither Breakly nor Moth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Breakly or Moth?
Breakly ships an update fortnightly, and Moth every 5 days. Most recently, Breakly was updated on October 30, 2026 and Moth on October 31, 2026.

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