Phoneless vs Screen Grove
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
Screen Grove
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Screen Grove turns your daily screen-time budget into a single tree. Choose the apps, categories and websites that take up too much of your day, and give yourself a budget. As your time adds up, your tree takes chops and starts to tip over. Go over and it's cut down for the day. Every morning a new tree grows. Yesterday's tree joins the grove behind it, standing if you stayed under budget, or a stump if you didn't. Tap any day in your grove to see how it went. Plant real trees with Grove+. Every good day (a day your tree is still standing at midnight) counts toward a real tree, planted by our partner Veritree as mangroves in Kenya and Brazil, with every planting recorded with GPS and photos. Planter plants a real tree every 5 good days, Grower every 2, and Guardian every single good day. • One screen, one tree. No feeds, no streak pressure, no ads. • Exact numbers from Apple's Screen Time, shown only on your iPhone. • Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. • A notification when your budget is reached. • Budget and app changes start the next day, so today's tree can't be rescued by moving the goalposts. Private by design: no accounts, and your Screen Time data never leaves your phone. With Grove+, only your subscription's transaction ID and the dates of your good days go to our server, to count your trees. Grove+ is a monthly auto-renewing subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Screen Grove at none against Phoneless's shown. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Phoneless sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Screen Grove sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Phoneless ships an update every 4 weeks, Screen Grove fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phoneless | Screen Grove |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glow Up | THOMAS JAEHYUN MOH |
In-app purchases
Phoneless
- Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
- Monthly$17.991 Month
- Annual subscription$29.991 Year
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- Annual access7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
Screen Grove
- Grove+ Planter$4.991 Month
- Grove+ Grower$9.991 Month
- Grove+ Guardian$19.991 Month









