Comparison

Shift vs Clearhour

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

Head to head
About

Shift

This app helps you regain focus by blocking distracting applications with a single tap. It offers unbreakable focus sessions, tracks your screen time, and provides analytics to help you take back control of your attention from social media algorithms.

Highlights
  • Block any app instantly
  • Unbreakable focus sessions
  • Screen time tracking and analytics
  • Daily streaks and progress sharing
  • Optional physical commitment device
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Block Instagram, TikTok, Reddit - one tap and they're gone. Shift is the app blocker that doesn't negotiate. Set focus sessions that stick, track your screen time, and take your attention back from the algorithm. Free to download. Your phone was built to keep you hooked. Shift is how you take it back. HOW IT WORKS Pick the apps stealing your time - Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, anything. Start a Shift. The apps lock instantly. Stay locked. No "ignore limit" button. No five-minute snooze. No negotiating with yourself. MAKE IT PHYSICALLY UNBREAKABLE The app works on its own. But if you want zero chance of caving, add the Shift Puck or NFC Card — a physical device that lives off your phone. Tap it to lock. Now the off switch isn't on your phone at all. When the device isn't near you, neither is the temptation. This isn't a productivity hack. It's a commitment device — the kind that works because it doesn't rely on willpower you've already spent. WHAT YOU GET, FREE Block any app, any time - one tap Daily streaks and screen-time analytics Win Cards to share your progress FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DONE Done doomscrolling. Done losing hours. Done feeling owned by a feed. Shift is for people who choose clarity over noise, presence over scrolling, real life over the algorithm. You own your phone. Not the other way around. Download Shift free. Join the resistance. iPad version works only without device. Terms of service: https://nobrainrot.com/pages/shift-app-terms-of-use

About

Clearhour

Features
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The meeting ends. You have eight minutes and four things you just promised out loud. Clearhour is for that moment. Say the four things into your phone as the call closes. Clearhour turns them into short commitments; the ones you swipe to keep land in the real gaps in your afternoon, around your actual meetings, inside your working hours. At 15:52 an alarm pulls you out of what you are doing and into the 16:00 call. That is the product: the ninety seconds before and after a meeting, handled. Built for people who work with ADHD, in the language of a work day rather than a routine. FIVE LINKS, IN ORDER See. One timeline for the day: your real meetings, read from your calendar, with your own task blocks between them. A Live Activity keeps the countdown on your Lock Screen. Alarm. Transition alerts on your offsets, not your calendar's. Ten minutes, five minutes, two minutes before every meeting, yours to change. If the meeting has a video link, the alarm has a Join button. Wrap. When a meeting ends, one screen opens. Speak or type. You get one to five commitments back, each with a rough estimate. Nothing is ever added to your day silently; every item needs a swipe. Place. Clearhour proposes slots in today's or tomorrow's genuine free gaps, honoring your working hours and a recovery buffer after long calls. You tap Accept. Reschedule. For the days that go sideways: push the rest of today, re-fit what's left into the remaining gaps (you approve the plan), move it to tomorrow, or mark it "didn't happen". At the end of the day, close it: see what got done, move the rest, stop. Unscheduled and carried-over work sits in a real backlog. Nothing is ever auto-completed. YOUR ALARMS FIRE Every time-critical alert is a local notification pre-scheduled on your phone. They fire even if you haven't opened the app in a week. No background refresh, no server, no push. A Reliability Check screen shows what's scheduled and fires a test alarm in ten seconds. YOU DECIDE WHAT RINGS One switch turns every alarm off. Pause for an hour or the rest of the day, pick which alerts you want, and mute a meeting straight from its notification. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No login. No cloud copy of your work. Speech is transcribed and commitments are parsed on device. Your tasks stay in local storage. No analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifier. One exception: if you write a message in Settings > Send feedback and tap Send, that message and your app version reach the developer — anonymously, with no name, email, account or device identifier. Clearhour never records meetings. Your colleagues are not part of this. Writing to your calendar is off until you turn it on. When you do, Clearhour writes only into a separate calendar it creates for you, and one button removes every block it ever added. WORK STAYS AT WORK Choose which calendars are work calendars. Set your hours and your days. Outside them, Clearhour is quiet. WHAT IS NOT IN HERE No streaks. No points. No pet. No chat assistant. No feed. Nothing rearranges your day without your confirmation. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Clearhour Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: - Yearly - $69.99 per year, with the first month free for new subscribers - Monthly - $9.99 per month, no free trial Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends; renewal is charged within the 24 hours before that. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Prices are U.S.; your local price is shown before you buy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://clearhour.app/privacy Designed with ADHD in mind. Not a medical device. Clearhour makes no health claims and gives no medical, diagnostic or therapeutic advice.

Screenshots

Shift4 screens
Clearhour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shift at none against Clearhour's 3. On price, update cadence, 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. Clearhour sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Shift asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Shift versus Clearhour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShiftClearhour
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWojciech FilipowiczKjetil Dyrland

In-app purchases

None

Shift

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Clearhour

Subscriptions3
  • Clearhour Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Clearhour Pro Founder Year1 Month trial$49.991 Year
  • Clearhour Pro Yearly1 Month trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Shift free?
Shift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clearhour free?
Clearhour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shift or Clearhour have ads?
Neither Shift nor Clearhour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shift or Clearhour?
Shift ships an update every 2 months, and Clearhour every 2 months. Most recently, Shift was updated on October 28, 2026 and Clearhour on October 8, 2026.

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