Phoneless vs Phoneless Garden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phoneless
This app encourages you to walk more by converting your daily steps into minutes you can spend in distracting apps. Set a step goal and choose which apps to limit. Once your minutes are used up, you'll need to move to earn more time.
- Convert steps to app time
- Limit distracting apps
- Set daily step goals
- Earn minutes by walking
- Subscription for full access
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Walk more, scroll less. Phoneless turns your daily steps into the time you’re allowed in distracting apps. How it works - Choose the apps you want to limit (e.g., TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat). - Set your daily step goal. - Phoneless converts your steps into minutes you can spend in those apps. Run out of minutes? Time to move. This feature is available with a Phoneless subscription, which includes access to all app functions and regular updates. Terms of Use: https://glowupllc.com/#phoneless-tos Privacy Policy: https://glowupllc.com/#phoneless-pp
Phoneless Garden
This app helps you achieve your daily screen time goals through mindful pauses, not forceful blocking. It visualizes your progress with a growing plant and offers insights into your phone usage patterns. Designed with privacy as a priority, your data stays on your device.
- Set daily screen time goals
- Grow a plant to visualize progress
- Track mood and phone use correlation
- Journal daily reflections
- Receive weekly usage insights
- Customizable pauses and notifications
- Dark mode support
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Twenty minutes in, you find out it has been twenty minutes. Phoneless Garden does not block anything. It comes back when your time is up, with the day's total and one question. Close the app, or keep going. Both are real answers. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps you want to be more mindful with. Social, video, news, whatever pulls at you. • Every time you open one, the pause comes first. It shows your time on these apps today, and asks nothing else. Close, or continue. • Continue and you choose how long. When that time is up, the pause comes back, and this time it asks what you want from the next few minutes. WHY NO BLOCKING Blockers punish you, and punishment is easy to switch off. Phoneless Garden takes the opposite approach. It puts one moment of noticing between the reach and the scroll, and leaves the decision with you. Nothing to unlock, no passes to spend, no lockout to wait out. Not all screen time is wasted time. A long call with a friend is not the same as twenty minutes you cannot account for. This app does not pretend to know the difference. It just makes sure you are the one deciding. WHAT YOU GET • A pause with one question, every time you open the apps you choose • Your own words on the pause: write what you would rather do, and the pause shows it every other time • Gentler questions on days you log your mood as Low or Hard • A pause length you can set for each app, from five to ninety seconds (Premium) • A daily screen time goal that flexes. The app asks what kind of day it is, so work days and weekends can differ • A plant that reflects your day. Under your goal it grows, over your goal it rests. It never wilts • Mood check-ins, so you can see how screen time and mood move together • A few seconds of journaling when you want it • Insights into how often you open these apps, when your pauses happen and the timers you pick • Your month as a garden (Premium) • Dark mode PRIVACY Your pauses, moods and notes stay on your phone. No accounts, no email, no tracking. Purchases go through Apple and RevenueCat. Terms of Use: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.phonelessgarden.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Phoneless Garden at none against Phoneless's shown. Phoneless Garden also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Phoneless's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 4). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Phoneless sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Phoneless Garden sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Phoneless against 5.0 for Phoneless Garden. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 4 respectively.
Phoneless ships an update every 4 weeks, Phoneless Garden fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Phoneless | Phoneless Garden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glow Up | Hanna Posio |
Customer experience
Phoneless
Phoneless Garden
In-app purchases
Phoneless
- Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
- Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
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- Monthly$17.991 Month
- One Time Offer$19.991 Year
- Annual subscription$29.991 Year
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Annual access7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$99.99
Phoneless Garden
- Monthly premium14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year









