AEA Institute vs ScrollKeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AEA Institute
Access all your therapy and self-care videos in one convenient app. Receive notifications for the latest news and updates, and save your favorite content for quick access.
- Access all videos in one app
- Push notifications for news
- Password-free video access
- Save favorite posts
- Easy to use interface
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Inside the AEA Institute app, you can: Access all of your videos in one easy to use app Receive push notifications with the latest news and updates Access to all of your videos without having to remember your password Save your favorite posts so you can quickly find them later END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ScrollKeep
This app acts as a digital 'Do Not Disturb' sign for your phone, allowing you to block distracting apps and feeds until a set time. It provides a brief pause before opening blocked apps and offers curated content to engage with instead of endless scrolling.
- Block chosen apps and feeds
- Set 'shut down' times
- Pause before opening blocked apps
- Track abandoned opens
- Curated evening content
- Mindful breathing exercises
- Track sleep-disrupting habits
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Stop doomscrolling. ScrollKeep shuts the apps you choose, TikTok, Instagram, Reels, Shorts, any feed, from morning until tonight with Apple's Screen Time shield, and counts every reach you don't open. No account. No ads. The sign, the door, the count and the cards are free; Plus is $19.99 a year, $4.99 a month, or $49.99 once. It is the Do Not Disturb sign you hang on your own door. Hang it in the morning and the apps you name, the feed, the shorts, bed scrolling, are shut until tonight. Reach for one and the sign is there: not now, or open it anyway for a few minutes. Every reach you don't open is a pencil mark on the sign. Take it down at night to close the day. THE SIGN A card on a brass knob. Drag it up to hang it; the door goes dark and a clock counts the hours. Drag it down at night. Under a locked pledge it stays up until tonight. THE DOOR ScrollKeep shields your chosen apps with Apple's Screen Time. Inside a shut app you see the same sign with your own reason on it and two choices: Not now, or Open anyway for five minutes. That pause is the best-evidenced thing in this whole category. In a 2023 study in PNAS of a pause like this one, 36% of attempted opens were abandoned and attempts fell 37% over six weeks (Grüning, Riedel and Lorenz-Spreen). THE COUNT The only number in the app is honest: reaches you didn't open, counted from what you did, not from a usage total. Hours shut today. A month at a glance. The hour the pull is strongest, and the hour you open most, so you know when to plan for. TONIGHT'S CARDS The thing to open instead. A finite deck of things worth knowing, printed on card stock, one per screen, dealt once a night from behind the sign. Twenty cards, then it ends, on purpose. Five of last night's come back as questions. Keep the ones you want. SIT A MOMENT When the pull is strong: a breath, a two-tap answer to what you were reaching for, and two minutes for your hands. THE CLOSE Take the sign down at night. Say whether the phone sleeps outside the bedroom, the hour that costs the most sleep. Tomorrow's pledge is the hang. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No analytics. Apple never tells ScrollKeep which apps you picked, and ScrollKeep never reads your usage history. Everything lives on your iPhone. SCROLLKEEP PLUS The sign, the door, the count, the cards and the SOS are free. Plus hangs the sign for you each morning, locks it until tonight, takes every vice, and keeps every month. Yearly with a free week, monthly, or once for life. ScrollKeep is a personal companion, not a medical device. If your phone use is hurting your sleep, work, or relationships and you can't change it alone, a doctor or therapist can help.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ScrollKeep at 5.0 against AEA Institute's 1.9. ScrollKeep also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). AEA Institute's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ScrollKeep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. AEA Institute asks for nothing beyond the download.
ScrollKeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AEA Institute has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
AEA Institute ships an update every 3 weeks, ScrollKeep every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AEA Institute | ScrollKeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emily Sudduth | NICHOLAS DANIEL MINIERI |
Customer experience
AEA Institute
ScrollKeep
In-app purchases
AEA Institute
No in-app purchases
ScrollKeep
- Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- ScrollKeep Plus Lifetime$49.99
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