Comparison

PeerPause vs Cookie Jar

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

Head to head
About

PeerPause

This app helps you manage screen time by requiring a trusted friend to approve any extensions to your daily app limits. It prevents self-override, ensuring you stick to your goals and reclaim your time.

Highlights
  • App blocking for social, video, games, and shopping
  • Daily screen time limits
  • Time extension requests to a trusted friend
  • Buddy confirmation for limit changes
  • Streak tracking and improvement insights
  • No instant self-override
Features
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Screen time limits only work when you can't quietly undo them. PeerPause fixes that by putting one person you trust between you and the "just five more minutes" button. Set a daily limit for the apps that eat your day. When the time is gone, the app locks. If you genuinely need longer, you send a request to your Time Buddy — a friend, partner, or sibling who taps accept or deny. No secret override, no deleting the limit at 1am. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the app that distracts you most. 2. Set its daily limit. 3. Add a Time Buddy. 4. When you hit the limit, the app locks. 5. Ask for more time, with a note if you want. 6. Your Time Buddy decides. WHAT YOU GET • Blocking for social, video, game, dating, and shopping apps • Daily limits built on Apple's Screen Time • Time extension requests, answered by a real person • Buddy confirmation before a limit is changed or removed • Streaks and insights that show what's actually improving • No instant self-override when you hit the limit WHY A BUDDY BEATS WILLPOWER Every other blocker lets you turn it off. That is the whole problem — the moment you want to break the limit is exactly the moment you are least able to argue with yourself. Handing that one decision to someone else takes about two seconds and changes the outcome. Your Time Buddy is not a parent or a monitor. They see the app name, how much time you asked for, and any note you send. They cannot see your messages, your browsing, your photos, or what you do inside any app. Your Screen Time data stays on your device. BEING SOMEONE'S TIME BUDDY Answering requests for a friend costs nothing — install PeerPause, get added, and tap accept or deny when they ask. A PeerPause Pro subscription is what lets you create and manage your own limits. Pause first. Scroll less. Take your time back. TERMS OF USE https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Cookie Jar

Features
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You did something good? Don't let it disappear! We're wired to remember what went wrong. The missed deadline sticks; the project you nailed last month quietly vanishes. Cookie Jar is a place to keep the good stuff. Every time you achieve something - big or small - you bake a cookie for it. Choose your dough, pick your chips, set the size to match how big the win felt, and write down what you did. Then drop it in the jar. - Watch your jar fill up Your cookies stack up in a real, physical-feeling jar. Tap it and they tumble and settle. Swipe between jars as your collection grows. It's not a list you'll never scroll back through — it's a pile of evidence that you've been doing well, right there on your screen. - Make each cookie yours Chocolate or buttery dough. Chocolate chips or rainbow. Small for a quiet everyday win, huge for the one you'll still be proud of next year. After a while you'll recognize your own achievements just by looking at them. - Little reminders, when you want them Turn on gentle nudges - one, two, or three a day - and Cookie Jar will surface something you already accomplished. Not another task. Not another thing you're behind on. Just a small "hey, remember when you did this?" - Relive any win Tap a cookie to open it up and read what earned it. And when you're ready to let one go, you can always eat it. - Simple, private, quiet No accounts. No feeds. No followers. No streaks to break or scores to chase. Your jar is yours, and nobody else is looking in it. -- Finished the thing you'd been dreading? Went for a run? Said no when you needed to? Called your mum? Fixed the bug? Got out of bed on a hard day? They all count! Bake a cookie! -- Terms of Service: https://cookiesjar.app/cjtos.html Privacy Policy: https://cookiesjar.app/cjpp.html

Screenshots

PeerPause4 screens
Cookie Jar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PeerPause at 18.0 against Cookie Jar's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PeerPause sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Cookie Jar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PeerPause versus Cookie Jar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeerPauseCookie Jar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB13 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAndrei TarceTomasz Milczarek

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PeerPause

Subscriptions4
  • PeerPause Weekly$3.997 Days
  • PeerPause7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • PeerPause3 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • PeerPause Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Cookie Jar

One-time1
  • Full Jar Forever$9.99

Questions

Is PeerPause free?
PeerPause is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cookie Jar free?
Cookie Jar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PeerPause or Cookie Jar have ads?
Neither PeerPause nor Cookie Jar shows ads.

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