Comparison

Jolt vs Gaman

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

Gaman

Features
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ou have never lost money by waiting. Gaman puts a wall in front of your trading apps. Open one and it asks the only question worth asking before you touch a position: what changed — the fundamentals, or your mind? There are only two answers. Picking the second one is its own reply. THE WALL Choose the apps that pull at you: your broker, your exchange, whatever you open at red lights. Gaman stands in front of them. No countdown to sit out, no lecture to scroll past, nothing to argue with. One question, one tap, and the impulse is behind you. WHAT IT KEEPS Every stop is counted, and after a few weeks the habit stops being a feeling and becomes a number you can look at. • How many times you reached today, against how many times you guessed you would • Which symbol keeps bringing you back • Whether the urge came from Twitter, a video, a friend, or nobody but you • What you were thinking, in your own words, if you want to write it down Nothing here can be cleared. A record you can erase on a bad day is not a record. WHAT IF The trades you didn't make, priced. Every urge you walked away from is kept with the price it had that day, and set against today's — so the habit stops being an argument and becomes an average. You can add the ones you never opened an app for, and mark them spot or leveraged: a leveraged position is checked against the whole path since, so one that was closed out on the way is shown as closed out rather than as a profit it never lived to make. STRICT MODE No passes at all, once you mean it. FREE, AND PAID The wall is free. Not fifteen minutes of it, not a trial — the block, the question and the record it keeps, for as long as you want them, without paying anything. If all you need is something standing between you and the app, that is the whole product and it costs nothing. What a subscription buys is reading it back: the rates, the ranked excuses, the ledger, and What If. The app keeps collecting either way; the numbers are there waiting whenever you decide you want to see them. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE: A SYMBOL No account. No sign-up. No analytics. Nothing you answer at the wall ever leaves the device, and iOS hides the identity of the apps you block even from the app itself. The one exception is What If, which has to ask what a price was: it sends a symbol and a date, nothing else, with no identifier attached and no log kept. Never open that screen and nothing leaves at all. Delete the app and every trace goes with it. WHO IT IS FOR People who already know what they should do and do the other thing anyway. Overtrading is not a thinking problem — nobody churns an account on purpose, it happens one impulse at a time — so Gaman does not try to talk you out of anything. It just stands in the way. If your problem is finding better ideas, this is the wrong app. If your problem is sitting still, it is the only one you need. Gaman is not a broker and gives no investment advice. It does exactly one thing: it makes you wait. 我慢 — the Japanese word for enduring what is hard, quietly, without complaint. Gaman is $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year, with a 3-day free trial. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gaman.kicks.studio/privacy.html

Screenshots

Jolt4 screens
Gaman4 screens

Verdict

The call

Jolt and Gaman are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 27 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Gaman sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Jolt versus Gaman: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJoltGaman
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (104 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings104 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperASAKIRA CONSULTANTS LLPMert Arman

In-app purchases

27 purchases

Jolt

Subscriptions23
  • 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 - Monthly3 Days trial2 variants$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 - Yearly3 Days trial$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 - Yearly3 Days trial$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
1 purchases

Gaman

Subscriptions1
  • Gaman Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Jolt free?
Jolt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gaman free?
Gaman is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jolt or Gaman have ads?
Neither Jolt nor Gaman shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jolt or Gaman?
Jolt ships an update every 2 weeks, and Gaman every 2 weeks. Most recently, Jolt was updated on October 20, 2026 and Gaman on October 7, 2026.

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