Comparison

TimeGuard vs Jolt

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

Head to head
About

TimeGuard

This app helps you regain control of your time by blocking distracting apps and websites. It offers personalized screen time reports, smart reminders, and custom focus sessions to improve concentration and productivity.

Highlights
  • Real-time app blocking
  • Personalized screen time reports
  • Smart reminders
  • Custom focus sessions
  • Deep focus mode
  • Rewards and milestones
Features
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TimeGuard: Regain Control of Your Time, Stay Focused, and Be Productive Imagine having the power to optimize your day with less time spent scrolling through distractions. TimeGuard helps you do just that by providing real-time app-blocking, personalized screen time reports, and smart reminders, allowing you to achieve your goals with clarity. With TimeGuard, you can: • Maximize Focus: Block social media and other distractions during critical hours or whenever you need deep concentration. • Smart Sessions: Schedule focus sessions throughout your day with timed blocking of specific apps and websites, so you stay on track without temptation. • Daily Reports: Track your screen time, measure your productivity, and compare progress with insightful reports. • Stay Mindful: With TimeGuard’s prompts, get reminded of your intention each time you try to access a blocked app. • Unplug and Reconnect: Set dedicated hours for family, work, or personal time without interruptions from your device. TimeGuard is trusted by users who want to reclaim hours of their day, reduce stress, and improve their overall focus. Whether you’re working on personal projects or simply trying to reduce mindless scrolling, TimeGuard empowers you to stay in control. Features: • Custom Block Sessions: Tailor specific time slots where apps or websites are blocked, perfect for work or downtime. • Detailed Focus Insights: Get personalized statistics on your screen usage, with actionable insights to help you adjust your habits. • Deep Focus Mode: Need a serious break from distractions? Use TimeGuard’s strict focus mode to lock yourself out of certain apps completely. • Rewards & Milestones: Unlock rewards as you hit focus milestones, boosting your motivation to reduce screen time. • Community Challenges: Compete with peers on a leaderboard to see who maintains the best focus. Take back control of your time, improve your mental clarity, and achieve more with TimeGuard. Whether you’re battling procrastination, managing ADHD, or just want to use your phone more mindfully, TimeGuard has the tools to help. Enjoy all features with a subscription for the best experience. Terms of Service (EULA): https://www.mindfusion.app/tos Privacy Policy: https://www.mindfusion.app/privacy

About

Jolt

This app helps you reduce screen time and build healthier phone habits by blocking distracting apps and setting usage limits. It offers personalized insights, focus sessions, and challenges to keep you motivated and in control of your device.

Highlights
  • Block distracting apps and websites
  • Set daily duration and open limits for apps
  • Focus sessions with optional breaks
  • Customizable schedules and prebuilt templates
  • Deep Focus Mode with non-bypassable timers
  • Personalized habit insights and progress tracking
  • Join global challenges and earn rewards
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You know exactly what you should be doing right now. So does your phone - and it's betting you'll check it anyway. Jolt is built for people who are done losing that bet. —— KNOW IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY IMPROVING Attention Forecast - New Before your day starts, Jolt tells you how it's likely to go. One predictive score built from last night's sleep, your 28-day usage trend, your streak, and your blocking discipline. Attention Score: One number. Every day. Your Focus, Sleep, and Discipline combined. It rises when all three do - it won't let one good habit carry the weight of two bad ones. Watch it over 7, 14, 30 days. The direction it moves is the most honest feedback you'll get. Discipline Score: The gap between the limits you set and the limits you actually held. Not whether you blocked Instagram - whether you stayed blocked when it counted. Most people are surprised by this number. That's the point. Focus Score: Most people think they're focused. The Focus Score measures whether they actually were - how much deep work you completed, how many sessions you finished without quitting, how little you touched your phone mid-session. The score doesn't round up. Sleep Score: Your last pickup before bed. Your first reach in the morning. How many times you interrupted your own sleep. Tracked, scored, shown back to you every day. —— SET LIMITS THAT ACTUALLY HOLD Duration Limit: Daily time cap on any app - 30 minutes on Instagram, 20 on YouTube. When it hits, it locks. No snooze, no exceptions. Open Limit: Cap how many times you open an app each day. Three opens on Twitter. Five on Reddit. Once you've hit the number, it's done. Blocking Modes: Easy: a breathing pause before the app opens. Medium: rapid taps or a timed challenge - your brain earns the unlock. Hard: nothing gets through. Hard Mode: Set it once. Can't edit, delete, or override it until the next day. Your morning self makes the rules. Your evening self lives with them. —— FOCUS SESSIONS Focus Flights - New: You don't start a timer anymore. You book a flight. Pick a destination reachable in your focus window. Choose your seat: First Class seals the cabin - no early exit. Business puts a challenge between you and the door. Economy lets you tap out. Board, take off, block your apps. Land and it logs as a completed flight. Quit early and it goes down as a crash - distance credited for how far you got. Every flight lives in your Flight Wallet. Focus Sessions Block every distracting app for a set window - deep work, exam session, meeting hour. 20+ templates or build your own. Everything else disappears until you're done. Quick Sessions: One tap. Immediate block. Zero setup. Focus right now, not after configuring anything. —— CLOSE EVERY LOOPHOLE Sleep Schedule: Set your bedtime and wake-up time. Every distracting app locks automatically. You choose which essentials stay on - everything else is off until morning, with full tracking of every pickup. Accountability Partner: A real person who sees your screen time and must approve every override. Not an algorithm. A human who will actually push back. GPS Blocking: Set your office, library, or gym. The moment you arrive, Jolt activates. The environment does what willpower can't. Good Apps First: Use your journal, reading app, or workout tracker first. Once you do, the distracting apps unlock. Focus becomes the price of entry. Block 18+ One toggle. Every adult site and app - off. Shield Customisation - New: The screen that blocks you now looks how you want it. Choose a persona or build your own: custom text, colors, and icon. Turn on Randomized Experience, and it changes every time a block fires. —— PRIVACY FIRST: All blocking runs locally via Apple's Screen Time API. No personal data leaves your device. Download free. Block your first app in 30 seconds. Support: hello@thejoltapp.com Terms: thejoltapp.com/terms & https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: thejoltapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

TimeGuard4 screens
Jolt4 screens

Verdict

The call

TimeGuard and Jolt both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 82% of Jolt's written reviews are positive against 0% of TimeGuard's. Jolt also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (101 vs 7). TimeGuard's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. TimeGuard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Jolt sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TimeGuard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jolt has 101 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of TimeGuard's written reviews are positive against 82% of Jolt's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeGuard ships an update weekly, Jolt fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimeGuard versus Jolt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeGuardJolt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better4.4 (101 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews82.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7101 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB207 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRMGOASAKIRA CONSULTANTS LLP

Customer experience

TimeGuard

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Jolt

All ratings101 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral4.0%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews157 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative14.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

TimeGuard

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly Subscription$9.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • TimeGuard Yearly With Trial3 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Yearly Subscription$99.991 Year
28 purchases

Jolt

Subscriptions24
  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pro Plan | Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
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  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial2 variants$7.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Pro Plan - Monthly - Discounted3 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Monthly - T3 D03 Days trial$13.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Monthly$15.001 Month
  • Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T3 D23 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T3 D0$45.001 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T3 D13 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - NY503 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - NY253 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - 753 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T1 D0$51.001 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T1 D23 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly$60.001 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T2 D03 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Pro Plan - Yearly - T1 D13 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time4
  • Hard Mode Sos$3.00
  • Pro Plan | Lifetime$39.99
  • Pro Plan | Lifetime$79.99
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  • Pro Plan | Lifetime$199.99

Questions

Is TimeGuard free?
TimeGuard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Jolt free?
Jolt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TimeGuard or Jolt?
TimeGuard is rated higher. TimeGuard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Jolt averages 4.4 from 101 ratings.
Do TimeGuard or Jolt have ads?
TimeGuard shows ads; Jolt does not.
Which is updated more often, TimeGuard or Jolt?
TimeGuard ships an update weekly, and Jolt fortnightly. Most recently, TimeGuard was updated on August 19, 2026 and Jolt on September 21, 2026.

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