Scroll Control vs *slash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scroll Control
This productivity app helps you manage app blocking on your device. It creates a deliberate pause when unblocking apps to help you break mindless scrolling habits and reclaim your time.
- App blocking and unblocking
- Habit-breaking interface
- Time management tool
- Clean user interface
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Scroll Control is a productivity management app, that gives you a clean and understandable interface to manage blocking apps on your device. You can block and unblock them, although it takes longer! This is intended to break the habit of mindlessly scrolling, to create enough of a pause to remind you that there are other things you want to do with your time. Its time to break a habit, and let this be a tool to help you do that!
*slash
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Slash is a minimal to-do list designed for your Dumb iPhone. Focus on what matters today without noise, streaks, or unnecessary features. Key Features • Quick tasks: add, check off, done • Home and Lock Screen widgets for instant access • Looping tasks for simple habit tracking • Built-in Pomodoro timer for deep focus • Gentle nudges you control with custom frequency and duration • Light and dark themes with adjustable text size • Works offline. No accounts. No tracking. • Daily reset keeps your list clean and intentional Open. Write. Close. Stay focused, on purpose.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: *slash at fortnightly against Scroll Control's every 2 months. *slash also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Scroll Control ships an update every 2 months, *slash fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scroll Control | *slash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Speller | param kalaria |
In-app purchases
Scroll Control
No in-app purchases
*slash
No in-app purchases
