FlyOut vs App Blocker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
FlyOut
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You don't open TikTok because you decided to. Your thumb does it on autopilot. FlyOut puts a pause between the urge and the tap, long enough to choose. FlyOut is a calm screen time app with a shield inside. Instead of a blunt lockout, you get a pause, a breath, and a 77-day plan that has a last day. HOW IT WORKS ⢠Shield your apps. Block Instagram, TikTok or anything else on a schedule, on a daily time limit, or by location (home, office, gym). Built on Apple's Screen Time framework: no Shortcuts, about two minutes to set up. ⢠Breathe before you decide. When a shield fires, a 90-second breathing practice meets the urge instead of a countdown. The urge peaks and passes. Then you choose: stay out, or open the app on purpose. ⢠Start a focus session any time. A timed block for when you need to concentrate. It runs on the lock screen and ends itself when the time is up. ⢠Follow the 77-day plan. One short step a day, unlocked each morning, nothing to binge. Reflections, practices and a private journal for what you notice. The research behind the length: habits go automatic at a median of 66 days (Lally et al., UCL), and 77 leaves room to miss a few. ⢠Keep a streak three ways. A day counts if you did your plan day, wrote a line in your journal, or left your shields alone. Nothing to buy back, nothing to defend. MORNING TO NIGHT ⢠Mornings start with you. Turn on morning protection and your apps wait until you have said where the day should go: the areas you care about, today's tasks, and the shields that hold them. ⢠Evenings come back to you. After eight, a shield stops sending you to the feed and walks you to tonight's reflection instead. Two minutes a night, and the weekly recap shows what the week was actually made of. ⢠Your first day, walked through. After setup, a short guided tour shows how one FlyOut day fits together, from the morning plan to the evening note. HONEST BY DESIGN ⢠Your progress survives updates and reinstalls. Streaks sync and merge, they don't vanish. ⢠Snooze exists. FlyOut never bricks your phone and never locks you out of what you actually need. ⢠Real stats only: pickups caught and time inside apps. No inflated "time saved" math. ⢠The way back into an app always costs the same thing, a breath, and never money. There is no strict mode to buy and no emergency unlock for sale. WHO IT'S FOR Adults whose phone use runs ahead of them: the 9pm couch scroll, the pickup with no message behind it, the "just five minutes" that isn't. If the built-in limits with their Ignore button have never once stopped you, you already know why the pause has to come with a breath. PRIVACY Blocking runs on-device through Apple's Family Controls. Your journal is private. We don't sell attention back to you. Get your evenings back. Your first shield is free: set it tonight and see what the pause gives you. Terms of Use: https://flyoutapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://flyoutapp.com/privacy-policy
App Blocker
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Lock distracting apps before a night out ā or any time you need to focus. SoberLock puts a shield on social media, dating apps, and anything else that tempts you, then makes you pass sobriety tests to unlock early. BUILT FOR ⢠Nights out ā stop drunk texts, regrettable posts, and reply-all disasters ⢠Study sessions ā no endless scrolling during exam prep ⢠Deep work ā ship what matters, without the feed pulling you back ⢠Digital detox ā rebuild focus one locked hour at a time HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick an end time ā tonight, tomorrow morning, or a custom hour 2. Choose which apps to block with Apple's Screen Time picker 3. Pick a protection level ā Easy, Hard, or Impossible 4. Activate. The shield goes up. THREE UNLOCK CHALLENGES ⢠Easy ā type a short random 6-character code (free) ⢠Hard ā memorise emoji flashes, draw a steady circle, type an 8-char code ⢠Impossible ā no early unlocks. The timer decides. Period. WHY SOBERLOCK? ⢠All-or-Nothing: pass every test or the lock stays. No shortcuts. ⢠Face ID gate on Impossible ā friends can't prank-lock your phone ⢠Survives restarts ā closing or crashing the app won't cut the lock short ⢠Clean native iOS 18 design. No ads. No data mining. ⢠Uses Apple Family Controls ā the official, private way to block apps THE SOBRIETY TESTS ⢠Text test ā type a random 6 or 8-character code. One typo regenerates it. ⢠Emoji recall ā three of eight emojis flash for a second. Tap the right ones. ⢠Circle draw ā trace a smooth circle with your finger. Shaky hands won't pass. FREE vs PRO ⢠Easy level is free, forever. ⢠Hard and Impossible require SoberLock Pro ā 3-day free trial, then annual or monthly. ⢠Pro unlocks every sobriety test and every protection level. PRIVACY FIRST We don't see your app list, your data, or your pictures. Everything runs on-device through Apple's Screen Time APIs. No server, no profile, no tracking. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled 24h before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Ready to stop losing nights to your phone? Download SoberLock and take back control ā one lock at a time. Privacy Policy: https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/soberlock-privacy-policy/023 6e156-d271-4899-8c50-7646816246c6/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://doc-hosting.flycricket.io/soberlock-terms-of-use/ 0b8f61b2-74f0-4325-83a7-32bab93ee5fd/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FlyOut at every 6 days against App Blocker's every 3 months. FlyOut also leads on iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FlyOut sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and App Blocker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FlyOut ships an update every 6 days, App Blocker every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlyOut | App Blocker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days ā better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Denys Semerych | Hakan Yigit Unac |
In-app purchases
FlyOut
- FlyOut Premium ā Focus Week$5.997 Days
- FlyOut Premium ā Focus Year3 Days trial$59.991 Year
App Blocker
- SoberLock Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
- SoberLock Pro Annual3 Days trial$59.991 Year









