Comparison

Phoneless vs Phoneless Garden

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Convert steps to app time
  • Limit distracting apps
  • Set daily step goals
  • Earn minutes by walking
  • Subscription for full access
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

Screenshots

Phoneless4 screens
Phoneless Garden4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Phoneless ships an update every 4 weeks, Phoneless Garden fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Phoneless versus Phoneless Garden: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhonelessPhoneless Garden
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlow UpHanna Posio

Customer experience

Phoneless

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Phoneless Garden

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Phoneless

Subscriptions9
  • Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
Show 6 more
  • 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
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$99.99
2 purchases

Phoneless Garden

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly premium14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Phoneless free?
Phoneless is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Phoneless Garden free?
Phoneless Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Phoneless or Phoneless Garden?
Phoneless and Phoneless Garden are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 12 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Phoneless or Phoneless Garden have ads?
Phoneless shows ads; Phoneless Garden does not.
Which is updated more often, Phoneless or Phoneless Garden?
Phoneless ships an update every 4 weeks, and Phoneless Garden fortnightly. Most recently, Phoneless was updated on October 24, 2026 and Phoneless Garden on October 24, 2026.

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