Unplug vs Nerve Manifest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unplug
This app helps you reduce screen time by setting daily limits on chosen applications. It offers solo and group challenges with a unique point system for accountability. Parents can also use it to manage their teen's screen time and allowances.
- Set daily time limits for apps
- Block apps when limit is reached
- Solo and group challenges
- Commit and earn Unplug Points
- Family screen time management
- Guided breathing pauses
- Customizable shield styles
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Unplug is a screen time app with something on the line. Choose the apps that pull you in, set a daily limit, and back it with Unplug Points. Stay under and every point comes back. Hit the limit and those apps stay blocked for the rest of the day. HOW IT WORKS • Choose the apps and categories to limit • Back each challenge with Unplug Points, or run it without points as a Premium practice challenge • Set a daily limit and how many days the challenge runs • Hit the limit and those apps stay blocked until tomorrow • Finish under your limit and every point you committed comes back. Go over and those points are gone. FAMILY ALLOWANCE (PREMIUM) Turn screen time into allowance. A parent proposes a weekly screen time limit and allowance, and the teen accepts on their own iPhone. Stay under all week and the allowance is earned. Unplug tracks the week, and the parent pays the allowance directly. Unplug never moves that money, and teens never stake points. During a family deal, Unplug keeps the teen's iPhone on automatic date and time, so the daily limit follows the real clock. UNPLUG POINTS Unplug Points are an in-app purchase. They have no cash value, cannot be cashed out or transferred, and do not expire. Points you commit never go to another user. Finish a challenge under your limit and every point you committed comes back. MORE WAYS TO TAKE IT ON • Personal challenges: your apps, your limit, your points • Focus lock: block your chosen apps for a set stretch, from 15 minutes to 8 hours • One Hour Club: join the weekly group round and keep each other honest • Practice mode (Premium): a full challenge without points SEE YOUR DAY Home shows today's screen time against your usual pace, the apps that take the most of it, and how often you pick up your phone. WHEN YOU HIT THE LIMIT Choose what the block screen says: • A direct "Daily limit reached" notice • A calm "Time's up for today" • A quote to pause on • A guided breathing pause before you decide (Premium) YOUR DATA Unplug uses Apple's Screen Time technology (Family Controls) to block only the apps you choose. Your progress against each challenge's limit syncs to your account so we can confirm results and settle disputes fairly. We never sell your data, and we never use your screen-time data for advertising. UNPLUG PREMIUM Premium adds practice mode, guided breathing, and Family Allowance. It is an auto-renewable subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Your price is shown in the app before you subscribe. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when your free trial ends if you start one. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms of Use: https://unplugmobile.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://unplugmobile.app/privacy.html
Nerve Manifest
Build confidence through daily, actionable challenges. This app provides a structured approach to overcoming social anxiety and overthinking with gamified progress tracking and AI coaching.
- Daily real-world dares
- Streak and XP tracking
- Daily challenge spin
- AI coach for overthinking
- Breathing resets
- Ice breaker prompts
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Nerve doesn't tell you what to do. It shows you how it goes. It starts with a conversation. Nerve asks what you want to be different, why it matters, what keeps stopping you, and the one moment you'd walk into differently if you could. Then it writes that moment — your name in it, the people who are actually in it, the room where it happens — and reads it aloud in the voice you pick. A moment you've already heard go well is a moment you can walk into. WHAT YOU GET Stories on demand. Name any moment: the conversation you keep postponing, the room where you go quiet, the ask you never make. Nerve writes it and narrates it. A voice you choose. Every story read out loud. Switch narrators whenever you want and your whole library re-reads in the new one. A daily read. One short passage each morning, written from your birth date and where you are right now. Step. One specific thing to do today — small enough to finish before lunch. Affirm. Lines built from your own answers, in your own words. Journal. Somewhere for what happened and what you noticed. Sleep and meditation. A full library to fall asleep to, in the same voice. MADE FROM YOUR ANSWERS Nothing here is generic. Every story is generated from what you told Nerve. Name the subjects you never want written about and they never appear — not once. Change your answers whenever you like. New answers, new stories. Pick the voice that reads to you: a woman's, or a man's. WHAT IT COSTS Your first story is free. After that, a subscription unlocks unlimited stories, your whole library kept, a new daily read and a new Step every morning, and the complete sleep and meditation collection. $9.99 a month or $29.99 a year. There is no free trial, and nothing is charged until you choose a plan. Nerve isn't therapy and it isn't coaching. It's a quieter thing: your own life, described the way you want it to go, read back to you until it stops sounding impossible. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Nerve Monthly — $9.99, renews monthly Nerve Yearly — $29.99, renews yearly Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.thenerveapp.com/legal#terms Privacy Policy: https://www.thenerveapp.com/legal#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Unplug at 5.0 against Nerve Manifest's 4.6. Unplug also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). Nerve Manifest's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 9) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Unplug sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Nerve Manifest sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Unplug holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nerve Manifest has 47 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Unplug's written reviews are positive against 92% of Nerve Manifest's.
Unplug ships an update every 4 days, Nerve Manifest every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unplug | Nerve Manifest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.6 (47 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 92.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Farrell Bros LLC | WILLIAM KYLE BOYD |
Customer experience
Unplug
Nerve Manifest
In-app purchases
Unplug
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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- Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- 10 Unplug Points$10.00
- 20 Unplug Points$20.00
- 40 Unplug Points$40.00
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- 50 Unplug Points$50.00
- 75 Unplug Points$75.00
Nerve Manifest
- Nerve Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Nerve Manifest Weekly Subscription7 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Nerve Manifest 1 Week Subscription3 Days trial$6.997 Days
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- Nerve Manifest Subscription Monthly$9.991 Month
- Nerve Manifest Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Nerve Manifest 1 Month$12.991 Month
- Nerve Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Nerve Manifest Subscription Yearly$29.991 Year
- Nerve Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year









