Mav Hub vs Threestrand
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mav Hub
Manage your school schedules, view upcoming events, and track assignments. Stay updated on daily sports, lunch menus, and house leaderboards. Connect with your school community through social features.
- Schedule management
- Calendar preview
- Assignment access
- Leaderboards
- Social networking
- Lunch menu viewing
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Add, manage, and view your schedules. Preview upcoming days with the calendar. Look at daily sports, lunch, and house leaderboards. Access your assignments at the touch of your fingertips. Socialize with The Quad.
Threestrand
This app helps you overcome phone addiction by pairing you with an accountability partner. Together, you can block distracting apps and require approval for access, fostering mutual support and focus.
- Pair with an accountability partner
- Block distracting apps
- Request partner approval for blocked apps
- Mutual accountability with shared visibility
- Set daily limits and schedules
- Self-set PIN for solo use
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Less phone. More people. Put phones away together, block what pulls at you every day, and when you need an app back, ask someone you trust instead of flipping a switch. THREE WAYS TO USE IT Phones away with people. Hold your phone to a Threestrand card on the table, or tap Phones away together, and everyone's apps go quiet until the timer ends. Calls still work. Family time. One tap puts the whole house down, and the phones come back on their own. A partner for every day. Pick the apps that stay open. Everything else waits, and your partner says yes when you need one. Your phone is designed to win. Threestrand changes the odds by giving you a person. Every focus app eventually loses to the same thing: a weak moment and an off switch. That isn't a you problem. Your phone was built by thousands of people engineering that exact moment, and nobody outlasts it alone. Threestrand pairs you with someone you trust, so you don't have to. Threestrand gives you accountability partners, one or several. You block the apps that pull you in, like social media, games, and endless browsers, and everything else stays open. When you genuinely need a blocked app, you don't just flip a switch. You send a request to your partner, and they answer. No secret overrides. No "just this once" at midnight. Real accountability, built into your phone. BUILT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW YOU BEST Threestrand works best between people already in each other's corner: couples reclaiming their evenings, friends keeping each other honest, anyone who's tired of fighting their phone alone. You're not outsourcing your willpower to an app. You're borrowing some from someone who loves you. NO WILLPOWER REQUIRED • Block by default: pick what stays, not what goes, so new distractions can't sneak in. • Partner-approved unlocks: temptation becomes a conversation, not a tap. • Web browsing that actually holds: block Safari behind the same accountability. • Daily limits and schedules: set boundaries and let Threestrand keep them. FAMILIES Teens 13 to 17 can use Threestrand inside a family with a parent. The teen joins from their own phone, and a parent confirms they are the parent or guardian and that the teen knows Threestrand is on the phone. The parent picks one of two ways Threestrand runs on the teen's phone, and can change it later. Family time only. The phone works as usual. During family time, notifications and apps go quiet for everyone in the family until it ends. The phone app always works. Threestrand for everything. The teen's phone runs Threestrand the way a partner's does. Blocked apps stay blocked until the teen asks a parent and the parent answers. Parents see what a partner sees and nothing more: no messages, no browsing, no list of apps used. When a teen leaves the family, their phone goes back to normal on its own. PRIVACY AND CONSENT FIRST Threestrand is not a monitoring or "spy" app. Pairing requires both people to opt in by exchanging a code. Either person can unpair at any time, and the other is always notified. Both partners see identical information; there is no one-way surveillance. Everything Threestrand does is disclosed in our Privacy Policy. YOU'RE NEVER LOCKED IN Threestrand is a commitment you choose, not a trap. • Need a blocked app? Ask. Your partner can say yes in seconds, for exactly as long as you both agree. • Done with a partnership? Unpair any time. The other person is simply notified. • Done with Threestrand? Delete it. Every block lifts immediately, and no one can stop you. The lock only works because you could walk away, and choose not to. GOING SOLO FOR NOW? You can start blocking immediately and add your partner when they're ready. A self-set PIN keeps you honest in the meantime. Threestrand. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://anchorph.one/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mav Hub at none against Threestrand's 2. Mav Hub also leads on ratings volume (73 vs 10). Threestrand's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Threestrand sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mav Hub asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mav Hub against 5.0 for Threestrand. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mav Hub has 73 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Mav Hub's written reviews are positive against 100% of Threestrand's.
Mav Hub ships an update every 3 weeks, Threestrand every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mav Hub | Threestrand |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vindhya Koneru | Anchor Digital Limited Liability Company |
Customer experience
Mav Hub
Threestrand
In-app purchases
Mav Hub
No in-app purchases
Threestrand
- One person$4.991 Month
- Household$9.991 Month









