ScrollGuard vs Progress Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScrollGuard
This tool helps reduce mindless social media consumption by hiding addictive elements like feeds and short video sections within a browser. It allows users to selectively filter content, keeping essential features while minimizing distractions and the urge to scroll endlessly.
- Hide Reels, Stories, and Explore pages
- Toggle content elements on/off
- Set unlimited custom filters (premium)
- Filters content within Safari browser
- Retains useful social media features
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ScrollGuard helps you cut down on mindless screen time so you can use social media to stay connected, without getting sucked into the endless feed. Instead of blocking entire sites or apps, ScrollGuard uses a Safari browser extension to hide the most addictive parts of social media websites: endless feeds, Reels, Stories, Explore pages and other attention traps. Because it filters content directly in the browser, you don’t have to lock yourself out of your accounts, rely on willpower, or delete anything. You keep the useful parts, without the constant pull to keep scrolling. You choose what to hide, so you can still get value from social media without getting trapped in the scroll. Features: Hide Reels, Stories, Explore and other addictive sections of popular social platforms Toggle each element on or off with simple switches Premium Features: Set unlimited custom filters Terms of Use: https://scrollguard.app/terms
Progress Tracker
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Some goals are counted in hours: practice on an instrument, study for an exam, a thesis, flight time, the hours a license asks for. Chip Away turns each total into a mountain. Every session you log cuts it down, while a small figure with a pickaxe keeps swinging at what's left. Logging a session takes two taps. The app remembers your usual goal and length, so on most days you tap Log hours, then Log it. Change the hours with the quick buttons, pick yesterday instead of today, or add a note about what you worked on. Tap any session later to fix or delete it. The dashboard shows: • Hours logged and hours left, overall and for each goal • Your streak of days in a row • Hours in the last 7 days and your weekly average • The month you'll finish at your current pace Milestones get confetti. You'll see one for your first session, at 10, 25, 50, 75 and 90 percent of each goal, at round numbers along the total, like every 100 hours on the way to 700, and at 7, 14, 30, 60 and 100 day streaks. Set up to four goals, each with its own name, target and scene. Piano and Spanish, a pilot's license, one big number for a dissertation. If you count it in hours, it fits. Widgets keep the mountains on your Home Screen. Pick a goal for a small widget or a full-width scene, put every goal side by side, or see this week's hours day by day. The large widget adds the hours left and your finish month, with log buttons that open a new session. On the Lock Screen you get a ring for one goal and a bar for the total. The Log hours control goes in Control Center, on the Lock Screen or on the Action button. Already tracking in a spreadsheet? Import an .xlsx or .csv file exported from Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. Any sheet with a date column and an hours column works. You see a preview first and choose which goal each type of hours counts toward. Sessions already in the app are skipped, so importing the same file twice doesn't double count. Export to CSV whenever you want a copy. Sessions sync through your private iCloud account to every device signed in with your Apple ID. There's no sign-up, no ads and no analytics, and the developer never sees what you log. Without iCloud, everything stays on the device. Also: • Dark mode, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver • The scenes hold still when Reduce Motion is on • Works offline and syncs when you're back online • Requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Progress Tracker at none against ScrollGuard's 4. Progress Tracker also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 8 days). ScrollGuard's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. ScrollGuard sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Progress Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
ScrollGuard ships an update every 8 days, Progress Tracker daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScrollGuard | Progress Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (111 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 111 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BreakTheScroll | Vedaant Rajeshirke |
In-app purchases
ScrollGuard
- ScrollGuard Pro$3.991 Month
- ScrollGuard Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- ScrollGuard Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- ScrollGuard Pro$59.99
Progress Tracker
No in-app purchases
Questions
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