Indistractable vs Perimeter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Indistractable
This app helps you regain focus by blocking distracting applications and notifications. It aims to combat bad habits and improve concentration, allowing you to be more present. Access to blocked apps requires an accountability partner or a QR code.
- Block distracting apps
- Silence notifications
- Improve concentration
- Accountability partner access
- QR code unlock method
- Take control of time
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Indistractable: App Blocker You don't need more willpower. You need a phone that respects your focus. Indistractable is a commitment device for your attention. Pick the apps that actually matter, lock your phone into a focus session, and unlike Screen Time, you can't just tap "ignore" to get back in. To unlock early, you have to mean it. Try it free: download, pick the apps that pull you away, and run a real blocking session before you pay anything. No account needed. HOW IT WORKS - Build a mode. Save a set of the only apps you want available (just your maps, music, and messages, say), or pick exactly what to block. - Lock in. Start a session and everything else is blocked, phone-wide. - Choose how hard it is to quit: Normal, Strict, or Hardcore. THREE WAYS TO UNLOCK, ALL OF THEM ON PURPOSE - Scan a QR code you've stashed across the room, so quitting means physically getting up. - Ask your accountability partner, who approves the unlock from their own phone. - Spend an emergency unlock, a limited few, for when you truly need out. MORE FOCUS, WHERE IT COUNTS - Schedule focus sessions to start automatically: mornings, work hours, bedtime. - Block whole categories, not just single apps. - Unlock with a tap of an NFC tag. - Watch the time you win back add up. WHO IT'S FOR Deep workers, students, makers, and anyone tired of reaching for their phone and losing an hour. If Screen Time never stuck because it was too easy to bypass, Indistractable is built to actually hold. Focus you can trust. Your first blocking session is free, with no account and no payment. An in-app subscription unlocks everything else: unlimited sessions, multiple modes, Strict and Hardcore locks with QR, NFC and partner unlocks, scheduled sessions, and emergency unlocks. Available yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Perimeter
This app automatically pauses distracting applications when you enter designated locations like home or work. It allows your phone to function normally when you're on the go, offering a context-aware approach to screen time management.
- Location-based app pausing
- Customizable app blocking per location
- Automatic app re-enablement
- Strong locking mechanisms
- Fail-safe design for location changes
- Optional short breaks
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Perimeter is the first comprehensive location-based screen time app. Set a rule once and forget about it: Perimeter turns distracting apps off where you want to be present and focused, and leaves them on when you're on the go and need your phone to work in our fast-paced world. A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER I'm Jack, founder of Perimeter, and I have been dreaming of building this app for over 10 years. I'm passionate about finding and developing solutions to help people regain balance with their devices. Perimeter is made by a small team that shares that mission. THE PROBLEM: CONSTANT CONNECTION We used to have TVs with a few channels that were on for an hour or two per day, and they stayed in the living room. We had a landline phone at home connected to the wall and a desktop computer in our office. Now we have all three combined into one device, with an infinite catalog of entertainment, news, and communication that follows us everywhere: into our kitchens, our bedrooms, our offices, and our friends' and family's homes. Our brains naturally respond to the environments we are in, good or bad. We think differently at the office vs. at home vs. out on the street. Until now, our smartphone has been configured the exact same way in all of those places. A DIFFERENT PHONE FOR EVERY PLACE Perimeter blocks distractions inside or outside the places where you want to be focused or present. It turns your phone into a different device at home vs. the office vs. in public, returning each place to what it's meant to be: home for rest and family time, the office for work. - Draw a perimeter around a place: home, the office, the bedroom - Choose the apps that don't belong there - Walk in and they pause. Walk out and they're back No more scrolling Instagram at work or at home. No more checking work email at home. SET IT ONCE. IT JUST WORKS. Unlike other screen time apps or Apple's built-in Screen Time, Perimeter doesn't block apps all the time or on a set schedule. Those lead to problems: needing apps when traveling or at work, rules that are easy to bypass, and the same blocking everywhere you go. Perimeter is context-aware. No more setting limits and then not being able to check in for a flight, authenticate a login, or find a taxi. Your full phone works on the go, and keeps things in check where it matters most. MORE THAN WILLPOWER For people who want more than willpower to regain control of their screen time, Perimeter has strong locking mechanisms: - A settings passcode, or hand your phone to someone you trust and let them set one you don't know - Turning Perimeter on never needs the passcode. Turning it off always does - Fail-safe by design: if location is switched off or permission is changed, apps stay blocked - Optional short breaks that can't be extended by quitting the app or changing the clock ONE STEP ON THE JOURNEY TO FREEDOM Perimeter is a first step. The goal is to keep taking steps toward more freedom from screens, going far beyond Perimeter: leaving your phone outside of your bedroom, setting Downtime for better sleep, having an accountability partner, rediscovering other hobbies, and starting to prefer time off the device to time on it. Pair it with a less distracting screen (a black and white filter) and a Downtime that reduces your phone to the basics while you sleep. Combine it with iOS Screen Time limits for the most comprehensive system, with Perimeter providing the context for what should be blocked when. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. Your location never leaves your iPhone. Apple's Screen Time pauses the apps, and Perimeter never sees what you do inside them. FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME We're providing Perimeter free of charge for a limited time, in the hope of introducing the world to a new paradigm of context-aware screen time: like having different devices tuned for the different places you go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Perimeter at none against Indistractable's 2. Indistractable's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Indistractable sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Perimeter asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Indistractable | Perimeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Red Kite 9 Ltd | For Purpose Labs |
In-app purchases
Indistractable
- Indistractable Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Indistractable Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Perimeter
No in-app purchases
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