Comparison

TigerMom vs Limit Screen Time

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

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TigerMom

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Every screen-time app asks you to promise. tiger.mom asks you to prove it. Choose distracting apps and set a daily allowance. When it runs out, tiger.mom shields them until you check in on your goals. START WITH FREE • Select apps with Apple's Screen Time picker and set a daily limit. • Set a goal and the days you want to work on it. • When your limit is reached, confirm the work you completed to unlock. PROOF WITH PRO Free takes your word for it. Pro asks for evidence. Attach a screenshot or use activity records from Apple Health, GitHub, Duolingo, or a music practice recording. On compatible iPhones with iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence available, proof is extracted on your device and reviewed using Apple Private Cloud Compute. Google Gemini is available with your separate Cloud AI permission. The review checks your proof against your goals and responds with a verdict or a request for more evidence. Pro also includes unlimited goals and additional blocking controls. AI review requires Pro and internet access. Apple-private review requires a compatible iPhone with iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence available. Google review requires your separate permission to send selected proof and review context to Google Gemini. Sign in with Apple is optional and adds account sync. You can decline or revoke Google Cloud AI consent. When Apple-private review is unavailable, manual check-in remains available; your goal requirements and any hard daily ceiling still apply. AI can make mistakes. YOUR CHOICES • Screen Time selections stay on your device. • Apple Health is optional and read-only, limited to workouts and daily steps. Review the selected Health details before sending them. • Cloud AI, Health access, and the optional improvement contribution are separate choices. • No ads or tracking. Delete your account from the app. SUBSCRIPTIONS Pro is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription. Both plans include the same Pro features. Local prices and any eligible trial are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel through Apple's subscription settings. Restore purchases from the Pro screen. Buying Pro does not require a tiger.mom account; account sync does. Requires iPhone with iOS 26 or later. Support: https://tiger.mom/support Privacy Policy: https://tiger.mom/privacy Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Limit Screen Time

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You meant to read a book tonight. You opened your phone to check one thing. That was ninety minutes ago. Paradox puts a guardian between you and the apps that take the most, and gives the time you win back to something worth reading. GUARD THE APPS THAT PULL YOU IN Pick the apps, whole categories and websites you would rather not open, and the hours they are off limits. The wall goes up and comes down on schedule, even while Paradox is closed. Two rules come ready to use on weekdays, a block from 9 to 5 and a 45-minute daily limit, and both are yours to rewrite. A PAUSE BEFORE YOU GIVE IN Open a guarded app and the Paradox shield is there first. If you really do need in, you ask from inside Paradox: your guardian stands in the way, you wait out a short countdown, and you choose 2, 5 or 15 minutes. The pass closes itself when the time is up. FOCUS SESSIONS The Focus tab starts a session: an hour of deep work, half an hour, a quick fifteen minutes, or a length of your own. Your guardian rests by a campfire under the night sky, and the apps you chose stay blocked until the session ends, even while it is paused. Follow the clock on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, start a session from the Focus widget on your Home Screen, and look back on your week, month and year in the report. SOMETHING WORTH YOUR ATTENTION Grow is a library of short lessons to read or listen to, meant to leave you a little better than they found you. On the pause screen, one tap trades the pass for a read. YOUR NUMBERS, HONESTLY Where today, this week and this month actually went, app by app. Put a daily limit on your apps and watch today fill up. A JOURNEY YOU EARN Every day you keep a block on earns experience, and so does every focus session. Your guardian travels a map, place by place, and each new place becomes the scene of your block screen. Fill the bar to reach a new level and pick a new guardian or a new attack on the guardian tree. The first time you open Paradox each day, your guardian tells you what you earned. PARADOX PREMIUM Blocking, schedules, focus sessions, statistics and the whole library need no subscription, and there are no ads. Paradox Premium is an optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, that opens the premium guardians and their attacks, the premium backgrounds, and Inferna, a second world with its own road that you reach by ferry. Subscribing needs an account, because the subscription belongs to your account rather than to one phone. Each plan shows its period and how it renews before you subscribe, and you can cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. YOUR PRIVACY No ads, and nothing about you is sold to anyone. The per-app times in Stats are drawn by iOS inside a sandboxed extension that cannot hand them to us. We also measure how Paradox itself gets used, and the privacy policy says exactly what that means. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Blocking, focus sessions, statistics, the library, your level and your guardians all work without signing in. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your progress on any phone, or to subscribe. Paradox needs Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) permission, because it is the only way iOS lets one app hold another back. You grant it on your device, and you can withdraw it in Settings at any time. Paradox is made by two brothers. Write to us and one of us will answer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.tryparadox.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.tryparadox.app/privacy

Screenshots

TigerMom4 screens
Limit Screen Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Limit Screen Time at every 5 days against TigerMom's fortnightly. Limit Screen Time also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. TigerMom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Limit Screen Time sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TigerMom ships an update fortnightly, Limit Screen Time every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
TigerMom versus Limit Screen Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTigerMomLimit Screen Time
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB107 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTheodor SteinerParadox App SpA

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TigerMom

Subscriptions2
  • tiger.mom Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • tiger.mom Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
4 purchases

Limit Screen Time

Subscriptions4
  • Paradox Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Paradox Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Paradox Premium Yearly$63.991 Year
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  • Paradox Premium Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is TigerMom free?
TigerMom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Limit Screen Time free?
Limit Screen Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TigerMom or Limit Screen Time have ads?
Neither TigerMom nor Limit Screen Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TigerMom or Limit Screen Time?
TigerMom ships an update fortnightly, and Limit Screen Time every 5 days. Most recently, TigerMom was updated on October 31, 2026 and Limit Screen Time on November 5, 2026.

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