Comparison

Daboo vs Iron Mind

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

Head to head
About

Daboo

This app helps you reduce your daily phone usage by turning it into a competition with friends. It automatically tracks your screen time and displays your progress against a set goal, with a leaderboard to see who is using their phone the least.

Highlights
  • Automatic screen time tracking
  • Daily goal setting
  • Friend leaderboards
  • Daily and weekly progress reports
  • Privacy-focused design
  • No ads or trackers
Features
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Your screen time, next to your friends'. Least time wins. 5 hours a day on your phone is 76 days a year. Daboo helps you win them back by turning it into a daily race with the people who'll actually notice. IT TRACKS ITSELF Give Daboo Screen Time access once and it counts your daily total automatically. Nothing to type, nothing to remember. SET A GOAL Pick a daily limit and see every day against it. Time over your goal shows up in orange, so a bad week is obvious at a glance. RACE YOUR FRIENDS A daily leaderboard ranks you and your friends by who used their phone least. Switch between yesterday, your 7-day average and your 30-day average. KNOW WHERE YOU STAND A morning notification tells you how you placed, and a weekly recap shows how your week went. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Only a rounded daily total leaves your phone, never which apps you used, and only friends you add can see it. No ads. No third-party trackers. Delete your account and all your data any time. Put the phone down. Your friends will notice.

About

Iron Mind

Features
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You already know what this habit is costing you. The brain fog. The shame you carry alone. The hours you won't get back. The version of yourself you keep promising to become. You've probably tried to quit before. Maybe more than once. It didn't stick not because you're weak, but because you had the wrong system. IronMind: Redemption Arc is the 90-day protocol for men who are done with half-measures. HOW IT WORKS Every day, IronMind gives you a personalized roadmap of 3–5 tasks — built around your specific triggers, your schedule, and your severity level. Not generic content. Your program. Your daily tasks rotate across five categories: · LEARN — Bite-size lessons on dopamine science, discipline, and identity from real experts. 8–18 minutes. Evidence-based. · MOVE — Unconventional discipline drills. The food pause. Cold exposure. Physical challenges that prove you control your impulses. · CALM — Guided breathing exercises and meditation using techniques from neuroscience and performance psychology. Box breathing. 4-7-8. Body scan. · REFLECT — A daily check-in that tracks your energy, mood, urge intensity, and triggers. Over 30 days it builds your personal trigger map. · GUARD — Quiet hours and streak tracking that run automatically. Two tasks done for you every night. BUILT ON WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS IronMind is built on three clinically validated frameworks: Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) — men who completed MBRP-based programs reduced compulsive behavior days by 54% in peer-reviewed trials. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — identifies the automatic thought patterns that lead to relapse and builds a decision point back in. Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) — teaches you to observe urges without acting on them, building the psychological flexibility that willpower never could. THE CRAVING TOOL The most important feature in IronMind isn't the lessons. It's what happens when the urge hits. One tap opens the Craving Tool — a 3-minute guided intervention available any time. Choose from urge surfing, 4-7-8 breathing, or 5-4-3-2-1 grounding. These aren't generic coping strategies. They're the exact techniques clinical researchers use to interrupt compulsive behavior at the neurological level. —— YOUR PROGRESS, TRACKED LIKE PERFORMANCE IronMind tracks your mental health the way athletes track physical performance. Weekly reviews analyze your mood, energy, sleep, anxiety, motivation, and urge patterns across the week. You see exactly which days were hardest, which triggers appear most often, and how your numbers move over time. Your Mental Strength Score — a composite metric updated weekly — shows your trajectory in a single number. Watch it climb. —— YOUR PROGRAM, YOUR PACE Answer 11 assessment questions during setup. IronMind maps your emotional triggers, life impact areas, physical baseline, support system, phone habits, and commitment level. The result is a 90-day program structured in three phases: Phase 1: Break the Pattern (Days 1–30) Phase 2: Rewire the Brain (Days 31–60) Phase 3: Become the Man (Days 61–90) Every lesson, every exercise, every intervention is selected for where you are — not a generic user. —— WHO THIS IS FOR IronMind is for men who want to be held accountable, not coddled. If you're looking for a gentle app that congratulates you for showing up, this isn't it. If you're ready for a program that treats you like the capable man you are and gives you the exact system to prove it — start today. —— WHAT'S INCLUDED · Personalized 90-day daily program · In-the-moment craving intervention tool · Guided breathing and meditation sessions · Daily check-in and trigger pattern tracking · Weekly mental health review and progress score · Discipline drills and physical challenges · Quiet hours and streak tracking Privacy: Your data is yours. IronMind does not sell, share, or monetize your personal information. All mental health data is local https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Daboo3 screens
Iron Mind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Iron Mind at every 3 weeks against Daboo's every 4 months. Iron Mind also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

Daboo ships an update every 4 months, Iron Mind every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Daboo versus Iron Mind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDabooIron Mind
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB64 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRyan TishRadiance Okuzor

In-app purchases

None

Daboo

No in-app purchases

None

Iron Mind

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daboo free?
Daboo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Iron Mind free?
Iron Mind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Daboo or Iron Mind have ads?
Neither Daboo nor Iron Mind shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daboo or Iron Mind?
Daboo ships an update every 4 months, and Iron Mind every 3 weeks. Most recently, Daboo was updated on October 28, 2026 and Iron Mind on October 13, 2026.

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