Screen Time & App Blocker vs Jolt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Screen Time & App Blocker
Take control of your digital life and boost productivity. Block distracting apps and notifications, set personal goals, and track your usage to build healthier habits and achieve more.
- Focus Mode to block apps and notifications
- App blocking for time-wasting apps
- Personal goal setting for screen time and productivity
- Usage tracking with weekly reports
- Reminders and alerts for time limits
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Are you overwhelmed by constant notifications and distractions on your phone? Do you struggle to stay focused on your tasks and find it hard to reach your personal goals? You’re not alone! Many people find managing their screen time challenging and maintaining productivity in a world filled with distractions. MyScreen - Screen Time Management for Focus is designed to empower you to control your screen time and enhance your focus. With innovative features that block distractions, set meaningful goals, and track your progress, MyScreen helps you cultivate healthier habits and achieve more with your time. Key Features of MyScreen: Focus Mode: Activate Focus Mode to temporarily block distracting apps and notifications. This feature allows you to concentrate fully on your work or study without interruptions. By minimizing distractions, you’ll find it easier to engage in deep work, leading to improved productivity and better results. App Blocking: Say goodbye to time-wasting apps! With just a single tap, you can block apps that drain your time and energy. This feature empowers you to make conscious choices about your screen time, ensuring you spend more time on activities that align with your goals. Goal Setting: MyScreen allows you to set personal goals tailored to your lifestyle. Whether you want to reduce screen time, improve your productivity, or create a better work-life balance, this feature guides you in defining clear, achievable objectives. You'll receive tips and reminders to help you stay on track and celebrate your progress along the way. Usage Tracking: Gain insights into your usage habits with our comprehensive tracking feature. Monitor how much time you spend on various apps and receive weekly reports that help you identify patterns and areas for improvement. By understanding your habits, you can make informed decisions to adjust your screen time and focus better on your priorities. Reminders & Alerts: Stay accountable with personalized reminders and alerts. Set time limits for app usage, and receive notifications when you exceed them. These gentle nudges help reinforce your commitment to staying focused and reaching your goals. MyScreen is your ultimate partner in managing screen time effectively and enhancing focus. With its powerful features, you’ll not only reduce distractions but also build healthier digital habits that support your personal and professional growth Download MyScreen today and start your journey towards better focus and productivity! We value your feedback and are here to support you in achieving your goals. Thank you for choosing MyScreen, and we look forward to helping you take control of your screen time! Terms of Use: https://bralyvn.com/term-and-condition.php Privacy Policy: https://bralyvn.com/privacy-policy.php Contact Us: support.myscreen@bralyvn.com
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.
- 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Jolt at none against Screen Time & App Blocker's shown. Screen Time & App Blocker's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Screen Time & App Blocker sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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.
Screen Time & App Blocker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 103 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Screen Time & App Blocker'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.
Screen Time & App Blocker ships an update every 2 weeks, Jolt fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 12, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Screen Time & App Blocker | Jolt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (79 ratings) — better | 4.3 (103 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews | 82.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 | 103 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 173 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Braly | ASAKIRA CONSULTANTS LLP |
Customer experience
Screen Time & App Blocker
Jolt
Bugs and requests
Screen Time & App Blocker
Reported bugs
2 issues- App freezes at launch on bad connections
- Can't always override blocked apps
Requested features
3 requests- Add more detailed scheduling options
- Improve tutorial and onboarding experience
- Introduce a dark mode option
Jolt
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Screen Time & App Blocker
- MyScreen Premium$2.997 Days
- MyScreen Premium2 variants$6.997 Days
- MyScreen Premium$19.991 Year
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- MyScreen Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium$29.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium7 Days trial$44.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium$44.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- MyScreen Premium$59.99
Jolt
- 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
- Hard Mode Sos$3.00
- Pro Plan | Lifetime$39.99
- Pro Plan | Lifetime$79.99
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- Pro Plan | Lifetime$199.99
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