Dopamine Menu vs RetroScreens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dopamine Menu
This app offers personalized activity suggestions to combat boredom, anxiety, or feeling stuck. It helps users rediscover enjoyable activities, especially beneficial for those with ADHD, executive dysfunction, or burnout.
- Personalized activity collection
- Combats boredom and anxiety
- Supports ADHD and executive dysfunction
- Healthier alternatives to doomscrolling
- Rediscover enjoyable activities
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Some days, even deciding what to do feels exhausting. Dopamine Menu helps you create a personalized collection of activities so you always have something to turn to when you're feeling bored, overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. Whether you have ADHD, struggle with executive dysfunction, are recovering from burnout, or simply want healthier alternatives to doomscrolling, Dopamine Menu helps you rediscover the little things that make you feel like yourself again.
RetroScreens
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RetroScreens is a library of classic-inspired ambient motion visuals, rebuilt as modern native scenes for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac. Open the app, pick a visual, and let your device become a quiet piece of motion design: morphing geometry, 3D pipes, color fields, starfields, flip clocks, split-flap boards, plasma waves, sand-table paths, cellular patterns, and more. The launch catalog includes 24 visuals: - Test Pattern - Departures - Lorenz - Rosette - Lifelike - Flip Clock - Neon Grid - Plasma - Flocks - Flying Microwaves - Starfield - Mystique - Lake - Pipeworks - 3D Text - Tunnel - Shapeshifter - Ribbons - Green Rain - Bubbles - Cradle - Filament - Bounce - Sand Table RetroScreens is built for the Apple devices you already have: - Play immersive foreground visuals on iPhone and iPad - Use the Apple TV app as a living-room visual library - Use the Mac app directly - Unlock the full v1 catalog once and use it across supported Apple platforms with the same App Store account Some visuals are precise and minimal. Some are bright, strange, and nostalgic. All of them are rendered on-device and tuned for foreground playback, ambient presentation, and slow visual texture. RetroScreens includes free starter visuals. Full Unlock opens the full premium catalog and premium settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dopamine Menu at none against RetroScreens's 1. RetroScreens's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). On price and iOS requirement 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. RetroScreens sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dopamine Menu asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dopamine Menu ships an update every 3 months, RetroScreens every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dopamine Menu | RetroScreens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rachael Strauss | Dave Davis |
In-app purchases
Dopamine Menu
No in-app purchases
RetroScreens
- Unlock All$1.99









