Sundial Browser vs Craving Cat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sundial Browser
This browser helps you regain control of your internet usage. It introduces intelligent friction to addictive websites, allowing you to browse without losing hours. Features include session limits, cooldown periods, and daily budgets for mindful web consumption.
- Session limits for browsing time
- Cooldown periods between site visits
- Daily usage budgets
- High-visibility countdown timers
- Private browsing with no tracking
- Full-featured browser experience
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The internet was built to keep you scrolling. Sundial Browser gives it a rhythm. Every other browser opens a door and walks away. You go in for one thing and surface an hour later, not sure where it went. Sundial Browser is a full web browser that wraps the sites that pull you in — Reddit, X, YouTube, the news — in timed sessions with a beginning, a middle, and an end. You still get everywhere you need to go. You just stop disappearing into it. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pace the sites that pull you in. Pick the sites you want to manage. When you open one, a session begins. You browse freely — you just stop scrolling on autopilot. 2. Built-in rest. When the session ends, the site locks. A short rest period follows before you can return. No override. No "just five more minutes." The boundary holds itself. WHAT WE DON'T DO No accounts. No tracking. No data collection. Your history never leaves your device. Sundial Browser paces how you browse — it doesn't watch what you browse. THE FULL BROWSER YOU EXPECT Tabs, bookmarks, search suggestions, and private mode. Everything a modern browser does, without the part that does it to you. Restore your rhythm online. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.thesundial.app/privacy
Craving Cat
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Craving Cat helps you interrupt compulsive app use before it turns into another long scroll. Instead of guilt or shame, it gives you a gentle pause right when you need it: when you are about to reopen the apps you keep getting stuck in. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Choose the apps that are hardest to stop • Set a daily total limit and a single-session limit for each app • Use Apple's Screen Time protection to block impulse re-entry • Long-press the cat for a brief breathing reset • Keep setup free, then unlock native protection with trial, monthly, or one-time access WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT Craving Cat is built for digital wellbeing, not self-judgment. No shame-driven charts. No productivity theater. Just a real pause, a softer visual language, and a breathing moment that helps you step out of autopilot. BEST FOR • Social media doomscrolling • Repeated impulse opens • Late-night overuse • People who want a kinder app blocker Craving Cat uses Apple's Screen Time APIs. You choose what to manage, and your data stays on-device.
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Verdict
Sundial Browser and Craving Cat 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
Both are free to download. Sundial Browser sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Craving Cat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sundial Browser ships an update weekly, Craving Cat every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sundial Browser | Craving Cat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joseph Casey | 皓东 马 |
In-app purchases
Sundial Browser
- Monthly Premium Access$2.991 Month
- Annual Premium Access$9.991 Year
- Intentional Premium$34.99
Craving Cat
- Craving Cat Monthly$4.991 Month
- Craving Cat Lifetime$29.99
Questions
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Do Sundial Browser or Craving Cat have ads?
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