Lilo vs unscroll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lilo
This app transforms solo study sessions into engaging, social challenges. Compete with friends, track your progress, and climb leaderboards to make learning fun and motivating. Build lasting focus habits through friendly competition and visible achievements.
- Focus timer with distraction avoidance
- Study challenges with friends
- Live leaderboards for comparison
- Progress tracking and stats
- Habit building and streaks
- Social accountability
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Lilo is the study timer you use with friends. Start a focus session or a Pomodoro, challenge your friends, climb the weekly leaderboard and keep your study streak alive. 500K+ students have downloaded Lilo and left 200K+ ratings, because studying together works better than studying alone. STUDY TIMER AND POMODORO - Focus timer, stopwatch and Pomodoro with breaks. - Pick a subject and tasks before you start, so every session counts toward a goal. - Timer scenes and a full screen mode keep your phone out of the way. - A Live Activity and a home screen widget show your session and streak at a glance. CHALLENGES WITH FRIENDS - Invite friends to a study challenge: streak, time goal, speed race or ranking battle. - Follow everyone's progress live and see who stays focused the longest. - Join a challenge from a link, even before you create an account. LEADERBOARDS AND STREAKS - Weekly rankings with your friends. - Daily study streak with streak protection, so one bad day does not erase your progress. - Comment on your friends' sessions and keep each other accountable. PLANNER AND STATS - Day planner with tasks and subjects. - Study history, subject distribution, activity heatmap and advanced stats. - Share your weekly results to Instagram Stories in one tap. FOCUS MUSIC AND SCENES - Lofi, nature sounds and white noise inside the timer. - Choose a timer scene and an accent colour that matches your mood. WHO IS LILO FOR High school and university students, exam season, homework, language learning, thesis writing, and anyone who focuses better with a bit of friendly competition. Lilo is free to use. Lilo Premium adds Pomodoro and stopwatch modes, the full focus music library and extra scenes. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms: https://lilostudytimer.com/terms/ Privacy: https://lilostudytimer.com/privacy/
unscroll
This app helps you reclaim your time by blocking distracting applications and replacing them with curated articles, video essays, and podcasts. It allows you to set custom blocking schedules and provides an offline reader with no ads or popups. You can also listen to articles as audio and track your progress in taking back your scrolling time.
- Block distracting apps
- Focus sessions with timers
- Custom blocking schedules
- Curated articles, videos, podcasts
- Offline reader with no ads
- Article to audio playback
- Track reclaimed time
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unscroll blocks the apps that steal your time and replaces them with curated articles, video essays, and podcasts. Same impulse, better outcome. How it works 1. Pick the apps you want to block 2. Open a blocked app — a shield appears 3. Tap "Send me something to read" — get a curated article instantly What you get • Block distracting apps with iOS Screen Time • Focus sessions with timers and intentions • Custom blocking schedules (work hours, evenings, always-on) • Curated articles, videos, and podcasts • Clean offline reader — no ads, no popups • Listen to any article as audio • Read YouTube videos as text transcripts • Translate articles into 30+ languages • Create and share collections with a code • Track your progress and reclaimed time Why unscroll is different Other apps just block your phone and leave you staring at a wall. unscroll gives you something better to do. You still pick up your phone — but now you read, learn, and grow instead of scrolling. The numbers don't lie The average person scrolls 3+ hours a day. That's over 1,000 hours a year. Enough to read 170 books. Learn a new skill. Finish 25 online courses. unscroll helps you take that time back. Subscription unscroll requires an active subscription. Plans start with a free trial so you can explore everything risk-free. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://unscrollread.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://unscrollread.com/privacy Support: support@unscrollread.com
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Verdict
Lilo and unscroll both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 66% of Lilo's written reviews are positive against 0% of unscroll's. Lilo also leads on ratings volume (4.6K vs 134) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Lilo sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and unscroll sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Lilo against 4.8 for unscroll. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lilo has 4.6K ratings behind it against 134, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Lilo's written reviews are positive against 0% of unscroll's.
Lilo ships an update every 9 days, unscroll every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lilo | unscroll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.6K ratings) | 4.8 (134 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.6K — better | 134 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pawel Gladysz | Titun LLC |
Customer experience
Lilo
unscroll
In-app purchases
Lilo
- Premium Access Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Access$6.991 Month
- Premium Access Yearly$25.991 Year
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- Premium Access Yearly$29.991 Year
- Premium Access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
unscroll
- unscroll+ (weekly)$4.997 Days
- unscroll+ (monthly)$9.991 Month
- unscroll+ (yearly)$34.991 Year
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- unscroll+ (yearly)3 Days trial$59.991 Year









