Comparison

Steps vs Scroll Patrol

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

Head to head
About

Steps

Features
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Stop procrastinating. Start moving. Steps gives your daily walk a deadline. Set a step goal and a cutoff time. If you reach your goal before the deadline, everything stays unlocked. If you don’t, your selected apps lock until tomorrow. It’s a simple system that removes excuses and keeps you accountable. How does it work? 1. Set your daily step goal 2. Choose a deadline for the day 3. Pick the apps you want locked if you miss it Now your day has a rule: • Walk before the deadline. • Reach your goal and your apps stay unlocked. • Miss it and they lock until the next day. Designed to prevent procrastination! Many people plan to walk later… and never do. Steps fixes that by giving your activity a clear deadline and consequence. Instead of saying “I’ll walk later”, you’ll find yourself thinking: “I should go now.” Stay motivated • Live step tracking • Time remaining until your deadline • Daily streak tracking • Weekly step progress • A monster that reacts to your progress Emergency Unblocks Need access unexpectedly? You get a small number of emergency unblocks each week. Use them wisely. Walk now. Not later.

About

Scroll Patrol

Earn screen time by completing physical exercises, tracked automatically via machine learning or synced from Apple Health. Users have full control over reward rates and app restrictions, with optional password protection for added self-control.

Highlights
  • Earn screen time through exercise
  • Automatic exercise tracking (ML)
  • Syncs with Apple Health
  • Customizable reward rates
  • App restriction options
  • Password protection for settings
  • No ads or subscriptions
Features
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Scroll Patrol allows users to earn minutes by doing exercises which they can then allocate as screen time to apps that they choose to restrict. Exercises will be all automatically recorded. Exercises like pushups, situps, or squats will be counted via a machine learning algorithm that is entirely local to the application. Exercises like walking, biking, are already tracked by the Apple Health app, and Scroll Patrol simply synchs the data from there! The user has full control over their experience; being able to configure things like exercise reward rates and apps to restrict. If the user feels less confident in their self-control, they can enable a password on the settings page so that reward rates and restricted apps are locked behind a password a trusted friend can remember. No accounts, ads, subscriptions, or event internet required! No user data is collected or stored... like at all. Lower your screen time, and increase your

Screenshots

Steps3 screens
Scroll Patrol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Steps at daily against Scroll Patrol's every 4 months. Scroll Patrol's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update daily, Scroll Patrol every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Steps versus Scroll Patrol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsScroll Patrol
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony Duenez RamirezOuroboros Technologies, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Steps

No in-app purchases

None

Scroll Patrol

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scroll Patrol free?
Scroll Patrol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Steps or Scroll Patrol have ads?
Neither Steps nor Scroll Patrol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps or Scroll Patrol?
Steps ships an update daily, and Scroll Patrol every 4 months. Most recently, Steps was updated on September 19, 2026 and Scroll Patrol on July 17, 2026.

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