Comparison

Phoneless Garden vs Uninstall

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

Head to head
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

About

Uninstall

This app helps you regain control of your digital life by blocking distracting applications and websites. It offers flexible blocking options, including one-time and recurring routines, with built-in friction to prevent easy overrides.

Highlights
  • Block any app, category, or website
  • One-time blocks (15 min - 24 hours)
  • Recurring routines by weekday and time
  • Multi-day schedules
  • Friction-based override system
  • Track reclaimed hours
Features
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A focus app that doesn't ask nicely. Lock the apps that own you, then walk away. Pick a one-time block, or a routine that runs itself. Want out before the routine ends? Earn it: a 10-second hold, then a 5-minute lockout. Friction beats willpower. PICK YOUR POISON • Block any app, category, or website on iOS • One-time blocks from 15 minutes to 24 hours • Recurring routines configured by weekday and time window • Multi-day schedules. Mornings before work, evenings before bed, study hours, sleep time A WEEK ON AUTOPILOT Routines run themselves. No daily decisions, no negotiating. The doomscroll dies on a schedule you set when you meant it. NO TAKEBACKS Hold to break for 10 seconds. Then a 5-minute lockout before the routine actually deactivates. Built for the version of you that committed when you set the block. Not the version of you scrolling at 2am. QUIETLY TAKE IT BACK Track the hours you reclaimed. No streaks to protect. No nudges. No badges. No b******t. Just the time back on the clock. PRIVACY FIRST Blocking is enforced on-device through Apple's Screen Time framework. We never see which apps you use, how long you use them, or any Screen Time data. Screen Time data stays on device. Blocked apps, block durations, and usage are never transmitted. Anonymous install events measure ad campaign performance. No account required. FREE TIER Block up to 2 apps with one-time blocks. No account required. UNINSTALL PRO Routines, unlimited apps per block, and full stats history. Includes a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage anytime in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Phoneless Garden4 screens
Uninstall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Uninstall at every 5 days against Phoneless Garden's fortnightly. Phoneless Garden's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Phoneless Garden sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Uninstall sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 Garden against 5.0 for Uninstall. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Phoneless Garden ships an update fortnightly, Uninstall every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Phoneless Garden versus Uninstall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoneless GardenUninstall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHanna PosioBord LLC

Customer experience

Phoneless Garden

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

Uninstall

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Phoneless Garden

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

Uninstall

Subscriptions2
  • Uninstall Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Uninstall Premium Annual3 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Phoneless Garden free?
Phoneless Garden is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Uninstall free?
Uninstall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Phoneless Garden or Uninstall?
Phoneless Garden and Uninstall are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Phoneless Garden or Uninstall have ads?
Neither Phoneless Garden nor Uninstall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Phoneless Garden or Uninstall?
Phoneless Garden ships an update fortnightly, and Uninstall every 5 days. Most recently, Phoneless Garden was updated on November 5, 2026 and Uninstall on October 31, 2026.

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