Comparison

DaySpark vs Screen Time Control

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

Head to head
About

DaySpark

Visualize your year with a unique dot-matrix design on your desktop. This app helps you track each day, making time tangible and fostering mindfulness. It's ideal for those who need a visual aid to manage time and stay focused.

Highlights
  • Dot-matrix day visualization
  • Desktop widgets
  • Life progress view
  • Time mindfulness
  • Tangible time experience
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DaySpark is the spark that lights up your life! With a dot-matrix design, it displays every day of the year right on your desktop, making time feel tangible and within reach. Track each day and stay mindful of every moment. Perfect for people with ADHD, anxiety, or those who get easily distracted, offering a fresh way to experience the flow of time. Featuring a life progress view and desktop widgets, it brightens your day anytime, anywhere. Download DaySpark now and connect your unique moments with dots!

About

Screen Time Control

Features
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Pawse Pawse helps you pause before opening distracting apps on autopilot. When you reach for Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X, Safari, games, or another distracting app without thinking, Pawse adds a short moment to stop and choose. How Pawse works 1. Choose the apps, websites, or categories you want to protect. 2. Turn on Screen Time protection. 3. When a protected app opens, Pawse gives you a brief pause. 4. Notice why you reached for your phone. 5. Keep it blocked or open intentionally for three minutes. Pawse is designed for the moments when boredom, stress, tiredness, or habit turns into an automatic scroll. Build phone control one interruption at a time - Choose routines for bedtime, mornings, work or study, idle moments, anxiety, and procrastination. - Record whether you avoided an autopilot open or chose a brief intentional open. - See your daily and weekly saves, protected time, current streak, and common triggers. - Use prompts to identify whether you were bored, tired, anxious, lonely, procrastinating, or acting from habit. - Keep protection active with a simple stop challenge instead of turning it off automatically. - Optionally use movement and focus goals when they are configured for a protected app. Care for your cat Pawse gives your phone-control practice a small, living consequence: a cat that needs care. - Food arrives daily and is measured in spoons. - Feed your cat to extend its care window. - If your cat goes 24 hours without food, it dies and you can adopt a new cat. - Opening a protected app uses one spoon when food is available. - You can still open a protected app when the pantry is empty. - If you open with no food to deduct, the next day’s food grant is reduced by 30%. Repeated empty-food opens compound the reduction. You can buy optional food packs in the Pawse shop through the App Store: 1, 6, or 24 cans. One can equals six spoons. Screen Time Pawse uses Apple’s Screen Time and Family Controls features to protect the apps, websites, and categories you select. Who Pawse is for Pawse is for people who: - Open apps without thinking - Scroll when bored, anxious, or tired - Lose time before sleep - Want a calmer way to reduce social media use - Want more control over their attention - Prefer a quiet pause instead of another feed or focus timer Pawse helps you replace: urge → open app → scroll → regret with: urge → pause → choose → regain control Start with one pause today. Legal Privacy Policy: https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/c6b3b553-b590-4632-a2f3-1ae51cf6367a Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

DaySpark4 screens
Screen Time Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

DaySpark and Screen Time Control 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. DaySpark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Screen Time Control sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DaySpark ships an update every 11 days, Screen Time Control weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
DaySpark versus Screen Time Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaySparkScreen Time Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.617.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer巍巍 宋Rajesh Budhiraja

In-app purchases

1 purchases

DaySpark

One-time1
  • DaySpark Pro$0.99
2 purchases

Screen Time Control

Subscriptions2
  • Nomophobes Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Nomophobes Plus Annual$19.991 Year

Questions

Is DaySpark free?
DaySpark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Screen Time Control free?
Screen Time Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DaySpark or Screen Time Control have ads?
Neither DaySpark nor Screen Time Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DaySpark or Screen Time Control?
DaySpark ships an update every 11 days, and Screen Time Control weekly. Most recently, DaySpark was updated on November 4, 2026 and Screen Time Control on October 31, 2026.

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