Comparison

Breakr vs Scrollmates

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

Head to head
About

Breakr

This app helps you reduce screen time and improve focus through gamified techniques. It uses a unique battery mechanic, rewards, and a personal focus bot to encourage intentional phone use and build self-control.

Highlights
  • Gamified focus mechanics
  • App blocker for students and professionals
  • Battery mechanic rewards time away from phone
  • Breakr Bot for emotional accountability and coaching
  • Screen Time integration and analytics
  • ADHD-friendly design
Features
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Take Control of Your Scrolling with Breakr: Gamified Focus & Screen-Time Mastery Breakr helps you build real self-control and reduce doomscrolling by turning phone-down focus into satisfying progress. An app blocker designed for students, professionals, and ADHD users, Breakr makes intentional phone use feel REWARDING. So you stay on task, study better, and feel calmer with your phone. How It Works - A unique battery mechanic rewards time away from distracting apps and recharges while you stay focused - Earn Power Points, gain Momentum, and maintain streaks to reinforce healthy habits - The more you concentrate, the more your productivity battery fills and your momentum compounds Breakr Bot: Your Personal Focus Friend - Emotional Accountability: Breakr Bot lights up happy when you stay focused and gets sad when you start scrolling, keeping you mindful in the moment - Adaptive Challenges: The bot adjusts difficulty levels to match your current concentration and stamina - Real-Time Coaching: Get supportive nudges and precision tracking whenever your attention starts to slip - Friendly Boundaries: Breakr Bot helps you choose allowlists and soft limits, keeping you on track without harsh app blocking Personalized Intelligence - Screen Time integration for clear usage analytics and trend insights - Efficiency scores that visualize concentration quality over time - Daily/weekly stats on study time, deep-work consistency, and streaks Beautiful, Intuitive Design - Eye-friendly dark mode, fluid animations, and interactive 3D elements - Clean, minimal interface that keeps attention on your task, not on your phone - Built to feel motivating, calm, and ADHD-friendly Why Breakr Works Most tools rely on hard blocking or guilt. Breakr uses positive reinforcement and game design to make self-control feel natural. By rewarding intentional, off-screen focus, the app adapts to your patterns and helps you sustain digital wellness without stress. Perfect For - Students who want better study habits, exam prep, and retention - Remote workers & professionals who need deep work without constant pings - ADHD & neurodiverse users seeking structure, streaks, and external rewards - Anyone ready to reduce screen time, improve focus, and build productive routines Start mastering your attention and reclaiming your time. Download Breakr and turn phone-down focus into real-world results. It’s time to start your digital detox journey. PRIVACY AND SECURITY: Your data stays private and secure. We use industry-standard encryption and never share your personal information with third parties. Start your journey to better digital wellbeing today. Download Breakr and discover how strategic breaks can transform your productivity and peace of mind. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION: A BREAKR SUBSCRIPTION is required to unlock full access to all features and premium content. If you choose a Breakr. subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription will automatically renew unless canceled in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal anytime in iTunes Account Settings. Your iTunes Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the selected plan’s cost. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, any unused portion of the trial will be forfeited once your purchase is confirmed. DISCLAIMER: Breakr is designed as a digital wellness and productivity tool. It should not be relied upon as a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice. Always consult a qualified professional for medical or mental health concerns. Terms of Use - https://www.breakrrapp.com/terms-of-use Privy Policy - https://www.breakrrapp.com/privacy-policy

About

Scrollmates

This app helps you manage screen time by sharing a pool of minutes with a friend. When the shared time runs out, access to blocked apps becomes restricted, encouraging mutual accountability. Features include shared quests and a journal to track usage.

Highlights
  • Shared minute pool
  • Mutual accountability
  • App blocking
  • Breach recording
  • Hardcore Mode
  • Shared quests
  • Usage journal
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Ever tapped Ignore Limit without really thinking about it? Most of us have. Scrollmates turns your screen time limit into something you share with a friend, because doomscrolling is easier to tackle when you're not doing it alone. You and your scrollmate share one pool of minutes each day for the apps that pull you in. When either of you scrolls, the pool goes down. You're on the same team, so every minute you leave in the pool is one your friend can use, and the other way round. PICK YOUR PERSON It could be your best friend, your partner, a sibling or your gym buddy. Together you agree on the size of the pool and when your day resets. You each choose your own apps privately, and one pool covers you both. HOW A DAY GOES Your day starts with a full pool, and your apps open like normal. When the pool runs low, Scrollmates shields the apps you picked, and getting back in means choosing to claim a short session. Once the pool is empty, your apps stay shielded until your new day starts. You can still get in, but it counts as a breach and your scrollmate will know about it. Scrollmates won't pretend to be an unbreakable lock, because no app on your own phone honestly can be. What it gives you is a speed bump and someone in it with you. WHAT YOUR SCROLLMATE SEES They see your daily minutes, your share of the pool and whether you're scrolling right now. They never see which apps you picked or anything you do inside them. You both see the same things about each other, so neither of you is in charge. DISCIPLINE MODE For the days you'd rather not have the option. With Discipline Mode on, an empty pool stays shut until your new day, and you can't end the day's contract early. If you're bonded, a pass you've earned together will get you back in. For real emergencies there's a 15-minute way in, and it still counts as a breach. QUESTS YOU PLAY AS A TEAM Shared Quests give the two of you one level and one streak. Keep the day under your ceiling and the late nights clear, and you level up together. Passes you earn along the way help on the days that don't go to plan. If the day breaks, the streak resets for both of you. YOUR WEEK IN THE JOURNAL See how the week went for both of you: how much each of you used, how the pool was split, how each day ended and whether you beat last week. SCHEDULES THAT RUN THEMSELVES Set Focus Schedules for the hours you want to keep clear, like your first hour awake, a work block or winding down before bed. They switch on and off by themselves. START SOLO IF YOU LIKE No scrollmate yet? Solo mode is free and doesn't need an account. You get your own daily pool and the same shields, and you can invite someone whenever you're ready. ONE SUBSCRIPTION FOR TWO When you pair up, one subscription covers both of you, and either of you can hold it. GOOD TO KNOW Scrollmates is for iPhone with iOS 18 or later, and both people in a bond need an iPhone. It uses Apple's Screen Time to shield the apps you choose, and Apple never shares their names with us. Privacy Policy: https://scrollmates.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Account terms: https://scrollmates.app/terms

Screenshots

Breakr4 screens
Scrollmates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Scrollmates at freemium against Breakr's subscription. Scrollmates also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Breakr's advantage is ratings volume (184 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Breakr sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Scrollmates sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scrollmates holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breakr has 184 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Breakr's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scrollmates's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Breakr ships an update every 2 weeks, Scrollmates monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Breakr versus Scrollmates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreakrScrollmates
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (184 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings184 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB25 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperChris PenaINNOV8 VENTURES COMPANY LTD

Customer experience

Breakr

All ratings179 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%

Scrollmates

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Breakr

Subscriptions16
  • Breakrr (Full Access)3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Breakrr Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Breakrr Monthly Discount$4.991 Month
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  • Breakr (Full Access)$12.991 Month
  • Breakrr (Full Access)$14.991 Month
  • Breakr (Full Access)$14.991 Month
  • Breakrr Yearly Discount$14.991 Year
  • Full Access (Lowest Price)$19.991 Year
  • Full Access (Lowest Price)3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Breakr (Full Access)$24.991 Month
  • Breakrr (Full Access)3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Breakrr (Full Access)$29.991 Year
  • Breakr (Full Access)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Breakr (Full Access)3 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Breakr (Full Access)3 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Breakr (Full Access)3 Days trial$129.991 Year
2 purchases

Scrollmates

Subscriptions2
  • Bond Monthly14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Bond Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Breakr free?
Breakr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scrollmates free?
Scrollmates is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Breakr or Scrollmates?
Scrollmates is rated higher. Breakr averages 4.7 out of 5 from 184 ratings, while Scrollmates averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Breakr or Scrollmates have ads?
Breakr shows ads; Scrollmates does not.
Which is updated more often, Breakr or Scrollmates?
Breakr ships an update every 2 weeks, and Scrollmates monthly. Most recently, Breakr was updated on October 21, 2026 and Scrollmates on October 14, 2026.

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