Jolt vs Vault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Vault
This app turns digital detox into a competitive game. Lock distracting apps, set challenges with friends, and compete for the highest rank. It leverages social accountability and competition to help users break phone addiction.
- Lock specific apps or categories
- Group challenges with friends
- ELO-style ranking and leaderboards
- Unlockable avatars
- Temporary unblock tokens
- Matchmaking with strangers
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Beat phone addiction by making it a competition. Vault locks your worst apps for the duration of a challenge you set with friends. How it works Pick your worst apps. Pick a duration. Invite friends. The moment everyone's in, the apps are gone. Your streak goes live. Your friends watch. So do you. If you crack and use an unblock token to escape the vault, the leaderboard knows. Caving costs you real points. If you perform better than your friends, you climb the ranks. Why it works when willpower doesn't Phone addiction is loneliness on a loop. Vault breaks the loop by replacing the dopamine of scrolling with the dopamine of competition. Your streak isn't a private number, it's something your friends can see. Relapsing costs you something real, in front of everyone. That's why it sticks. Features — Block specific apps or whole categories — Lobbies from 2 to 8 players — ELO-style ranking + streak leaderboards — 20 Unlockable avatars achieved from completing challenges — Unblock tokens that replenish every few hours, which grants you temporary escape from the vault — Matchmaking with strangers for the days your friends just aren't up for it. Privacy by default We don't track you. No analytics SDKs. No advertising IDs. No email harvesting — Vault is phone-only sign-in. Per-app screen-time data stays on your device. Account deletion is one tap and immediate. Vault Premium Unlimited challenges, lobbies up to 8 players, premium avatars, and a +15% XP boost. Monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings — when you do, you keep premium until the period ends, no trickery. The pitch in one line Stop scrolling. Start competing. Terms of Use: https://vaultdetox.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://vaultdetox.com/privacy Contact: cuilabsltd@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vault at 5.0 against Jolt's 4.3. Vault also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Jolt's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 2). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Jolt sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Vault sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Vault holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jolt has 107 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Jolt's written reviews are positive against 100% of Vault's.
Jolt ships an update every 2 weeks, Vault every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jolt | Vault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (107 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 107 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ASAKIRA CONSULTANTS LLP | Christopher Cui |
Customer experience
Jolt
Vault
In-app purchases
Jolt
- Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$7.997 Days
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- Pro Plan - Weekly3 Days trial$8.997 Days
- Pro Plan - Monthly3 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Pro Plan - Monthly$15.001 Month
- Pro Plan - Yearly3 Days trial$45.001 Year
- Pro Plan - Yearly3 Days trial$51.001 Year
- Pro Plan - Yearly$60.001 Year
- Hard Mode Sos$3.00
Vault
- Monthly Premium$3.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$19.991 Year
- Bail Tokens (4)$0.99









