RatherDo vs Scroll Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RatherDo
This app helps you manage screen time by blocking distracting applications and setting usage limits. It includes accountability features, progress reports, and a focus timer to encourage healthier digital habits and a better online-offline balance.
- App blocking and usage limits
- Strict accountability features
- Personalized progress reports
- Task and routine creation
- Focus timer for uninterrupted concentration
- Digital well-being support
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RatherDo helps you take control of your screen time, supporting not just your digital well-being but your overall wellness. ■ Select the apps that disrupt your well-being Select apps like Instagram or YouTube that disrupt your focus and set limits on their usage during specific times. ■ Built-in accountability With RatherDo’s strict accountability feature, once you’ve set restrictions, they’re locked in place and can’t be easily altered or deleted on a whim. This strict setup keeps you on track by preventing impulsive changes, ensuring you stay off distracting apps. The result? You wake up feeling refreshed and focused, knowing you stuck to your goals. ■ Report Track your progress with personalized reports on what you chose to focus on. Help you see the positive impact of choosing wellness over screen time. ■ Set Task (Rather Do) Create activities to focus on instead, like routines or tasks you usually don't have time for. ■ FOCUS TIMER When you need uninterrupted concentration, set a timer to block app usage and stay focused. Develop healthier digital habits and find the right balance between your online and offline life.
Scroll Control
This productivity app helps you manage app blocking on your device. It creates a deliberate pause when unblocking apps to help you break mindless scrolling habits and reclaim your time.
- App blocking and unblocking
- Habit-breaking interface
- Time management tool
- Clean user interface
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Scroll Control is a productivity management app, that gives you a clean and understandable interface to manage blocking apps on your device. You can block and unblock them, although it takes longer! This is intended to break the habit of mindlessly scrolling, to create enough of a pause to remind you that there are other things you want to do with your time. Its time to break a habit, and let this be a tool to help you do that!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scroll Control at 5.0 against RatherDo's 4.4. Scroll Control also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). RatherDo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Scroll Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of RatherDo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scroll Control's.
RatherDo ships an update every 3 days, Scroll Control every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RatherDo | Scroll Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dongsub Shin | Matthew Speller |
Customer experience
RatherDo
Scroll Control
In-app purchases
RatherDo
No in-app purchases
Scroll Control
No in-app purchases









