Comparison

Awake vs Untethered

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

Head to head
About

Awake

This utility app prevents your device's screen from automatically locking, ensuring uninterrupted access. It's particularly useful for time-sensitive online queues and events where you need to maintain your position without interruption.

Highlights
  • Prevents screen auto-lock
  • Uses Picture-in-Picture
  • One-tap start/stop
  • Lightweight floating window
  • Fast and reliable sessions
Features
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Keep your screen on when it matters most. Awake starts a lightweight Picture-in-Picture session that helps prevent Auto-Lock on iPhone and iPad. Tap Start to keep your display awake while you wait, read, cook, monitor, or hold your place in a time-sensitive queue. Useful for: - ticket drops and preorder queues - recipes, instructions, timers, and checklists - reference pages, dashboards, and monitoring screens Important: Awake uses iOS Picture in Picture/media playback. While it is active, other audio or video may pause. Simple one-time purchase. No subscriptions. No account. No data collected.

About

Untethered

Features
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You open Safari to check one thing and 45 minutes later you're deep in Reels. Untethered stops that and allows you to reclaim that lost time. Untethered works by creating content blocking rules that block short-form video from being displayed in Safari. What gets blocked: Instagram & Facebook Reels YouTube Shorts TikTok (entire site) Short-form video on X, CNN, BBC, and more How to Enable the App: Enable the extension in Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions. That's it. Works automatically in the background. The app only blocks short-form video in Safari and not in third-party apps. To see the full benefits of Untethered, delete the third-party social media apps (e.g. Instagram) and use Safari to access these. Privacy: There is no data collection, no tracking, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs. All blocking happens on your device. The app cannot see any browsing activity. Browse the internet again. Without the scroll.

Screenshots

Awake2 screens
Untethered3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Untethered at Free against Awake's $1.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Untethered is free to download; Awake costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Awake versus Untethered: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAwakeUntethered
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex KitcoffROBERT ANDREW KLEINMAN

In-app purchases

None

Awake

No in-app purchases

None

Untethered

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Awake free?
Awake costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Untethered free?
Untethered is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Awake or Untethered have ads?
Neither Awake nor Untethered shows ads.

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