Comparison

Spool vs Arteeoo

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

Head to head
About

Spool

This app helps you break free from excessive screen time by making you pause and justify your phone usage. It uses research-backed techniques to disrupt habit loops and offers instant blocking for apps and websites to help you reclaim focus and improve mental clarity.

Highlights
  • Justify phone usage before scrolling
  • AI-powered trigger insights
  • Identify peak phone usage times
  • Instant app and website blocking
  • Reclaim focus and mental clarity
Features
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Less scrolling, more living. Spool blocks doomscrolling, brainrot, and screen addiction at the source — by making you justify yourself before you scroll. Most screen time blockers don't work because they treat phone addiction like a discipline problem. It's not. It's a habit loop your brain is stuck in — a dopamine cycle reinforced every time you reach for your phone without thinking. Spool interrupts the cycle. Before any blocked app opens, you have to state your case to our AI. Use the same excuse too many times and Spool locks you out automatically. Built on cognitive behavioral techniques and behavioral research on attention and habit formation. WHY YOU'LL LOVE SPOOL - Understand your hidden triggers with daily AI insights - Track your phone addiction patterns over time - Discover when you reach for apps most (and why) - Instant app and website blocking that actually works - Schedule blocking windows for your weak hours - Lock in during deep work with custom focus sessions - Reflect on every excuse you've made and spot the loops - CBT-inspired techniques to break the dopamine cycle - Detox from doomscrolling, brainrot, and mindless scroll WHO IT'S FOR Spool is for anyone struggling with phone addiction, doomscrolling, or losing hours to TikTok, Instagram, Reels, YouTube Shorts, or X. Built for people who've tried Screen Time, willpower, and other app blockers — and want something that actually changes the habit, not just the limit. WHAT MAKES SPOOL DIFFERENT Other apps just block. Spool teaches you about yourself. Every excuse you make becomes data. Every reflection makes you more aware. Every blocked attempt strengthens the new habit. Reclaim your focus. Build a more intentional relationship with your phone. ————————————— Spool Full Access — Weekly Length: 1 week, auto-renewing Price: $4.99 USD / week Spool Full Access — Yearly Length: 1 year, auto-renewing Price: $44.99 USD / year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thespoolapp.com/#/privacy

About

Arteeoo

This app helps you track your return-to-office compliance by calculating your in-office days against your company's target. It provides GPS evidence with biometric verification and generates PDF reports for proof. Integrate with your calendar to plan your workdays around personal appointments.

Highlights
  • RTO compliance calculator
  • GPS evidence with biometric verification
  • PDF evidence report generation
  • Google Calendar integration
  • Home screen widget
  • Apple Watch companion app
Features
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Your company says "Be in the office 60% of the time, or there will be consequences." They have data. Now you do too. That's the problem Arteeoo solves. It does the attendance math you don't want to do — work days minus holidays minus PTO minus sick days — and tells you exactly where you stand. Updated automatically as you plan your month. KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU STAND The compliance calculation isn't simple. Your company's PowerBI dashboard runs their numbers. Arteeoo runs yours. Set your target percentage once. Mark your in-office and remote days as you plan them. The app calculates the real number — not the naive "days worked / total days" version, but the correct one that accounts for eligible days only. Your stats update as you go. YOUR BADGE SYSTEM MAY BE WRONG. NOW YOU CAN PROVE IT. Badge readers fail. Turnstiles malfunction. HR systems lose data. And when your compliance report shows 48%, you know you were there, but you'll lose that argument. Arteeoo logs your GPS location with a timestamp and biometric verification (Face ID or Touch ID). Multiple times per day if you want. Each log shows your exact distance and direction from your registered office — "94m NE of Downtown HQ" — not raw coordinates that HR can wave away. When you need it, you generate a PDF evidence report that looks like it came from a real system, because it did. PLAN AROUND YOUR ACTUAL LIFE Connect your Google Calendar (optional, read-only) to see personal appointments when you're deciding which days to go in. Long-press an event to pin it as your reason for being remote — "Dentist appointment 1:30 PM" becomes your logged reason for that day. Your work schedule and your real life in one view. YOUR COMPLIANCE ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND YOUR WRIST The home screen widget shows your current status, this week's days, and where you stand for the month — without opening the app. The Apple Watch companion logs your location in one tap while you're walking into the building, before you've even reached your desk. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE - RTO compliance calculator: the real math, not the simple version - GPS evidence with Face ID verification and timestamped office distance - PDF evidence report, shareable directly from your phone - Google Calendar integration (read-only — I never write to your calendar) - Home screen widget (small and medium) - Apple Watch companion app - PTO, sick day, and time-off budget tracking - Automatic holiday detection (US federal; add your own) - Works offline, no account required - iCloud sync optional YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account required. No servers. No analytics. Everything is stored on your phone. GPS data is never transmitted anywhere. iCloud sync uses your iCloud, not mine. I cannot see your data even if I wanted to. ONE PRICE, EVERYTHING INCLUDED One-time purchase. No subscription, no free tier with artificial limits, no premium upsells. Every feature, including future updates. WHY I BUILT THIS I got pulled into a meeting about a PowerBI dashboard that said I was at 48%. I thought I was higher. Turns out they weren't excluding holidays and PTO from the denominator — and I had no way to check their math. So I built Arteeoo. Now I always know my number before they tell me theirs.

Screenshots

Spool4 screens
Arteeoo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spool at 73% against Arteeoo's 0%. Arteeoo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Spool sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Arteeoo asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spool versus Arteeoo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpoolArteeoo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (171 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings171 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionPaid — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size406 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrafull SharmaHyena Studios, LLC

Customer experience

Spool

All ratings171 ratings
Positive87.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative26.7%

Arteeoo

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Spool

Subscriptions7
  • Spool Features Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Full Access: Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Spool Premium Annual$19.991 Year
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  • Full Access: Limited Time Offer7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Full Access: Yearly$34.991 Year
  • Full Access: Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • Full Access: Yearly$44.991 Year
None

Arteeoo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spool free?
Spool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arteeoo free?
Arteeoo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spool or Arteeoo have ads?
Spool shows ads; Arteeoo does not.

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