Comparison

Jolt vs Screen Time Tracker

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

Head to head
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

About

Screen Time Tracker

This app helps you reduce unproductive screen time by blocking distracting apps and websites. It provides visual charts of your usage and allows you to filter out essential productive applications. Keep your data private and track your progress over time.

Highlights
  • Block unproductive apps and websites
  • Filter productive apps
  • Visualize screen time with charts
  • Track usage progress
  • See app time consumption
  • Private data storage
Features
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Your new screen time companion to stop using unproductive apps and block distracting websites. Completely free with no ads or in-app purchases. KEY FEATURES Some apps are productive! Filter them out to help you decrease your unproductive screen time. Apple’s default app blocker is too easy to override! Choose apps and websites to block completely. Visualise your screen time on beautiful, interactive charts. Review your screen time usage progress over last four weeks. See exactly which apps consume your time. All your screen time data is kept completely private and only visible to you - not even the developer. PERFECT FOR STUDENTS - Allow productive study apps and block entertainment and social media PROFESSIONALS - track your work vs personal device usage ANYONE who wants to decrease the amount of time they spend on their device.

Screenshots

Jolt4 screens
Screen Time Tracker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Jolt at 4.3 against Screen Time Tracker's 3.3. Jolt also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (103 vs 3). Screen Time Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 29) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On price, ads and device support 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. Jolt sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Screen Time Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Jolt holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jolt has 103 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Jolt's written reviews are positive against 100% of Screen Time Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jolt ships an update fortnightly, Screen Time Tracker every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Jolt versus Screen Time Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJoltScreen Time Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (103 ratings) — better3.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperASAKIRA CONSULTANTS LLPJack Finnis

Customer experience

Jolt

All ratings103 ratings
Positive82.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews157 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative14.0%

Screen Time Tracker

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

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
None

Screen Time Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jolt free?
Jolt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Screen Time Tracker free?
Screen Time Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Jolt or Screen Time Tracker?
Jolt is rated higher. Jolt averages 4.3 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while Screen Time Tracker averages 3.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Jolt or Screen Time Tracker have ads?
Neither Jolt nor Screen Time Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jolt or Screen Time Tracker?
Jolt ships an update fortnightly, and Screen Time Tracker every 5 months. Most recently, Jolt was updated on September 25, 2026 and Screen Time Tracker on September 16, 2026.

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