Daboo vs Lerf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Automatic screen time tracking
- Daily goal setting
- Friend leaderboards
- Daily and weekly progress reports
- Privacy-focused design
- No ads or trackers
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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.
Lerf
This app helps you regain control of your screen time by blocking distracting applications during specific periods. It offers flexible blocking modes and ambient sounds to support relaxation, study, or sleep. The focus is on protecting your time and peace without intrusive tracking.
- Block distracting apps
- Set custom session timers
- Easy and Strict blocking modes
- Ambient soundscapes
- Designed for minimal interaction
- Protect personal time
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10 minutes on your phone turned into 2 hours. Again. Do Not Disturb stops notifications. Lerf turns your phone back into a tool that supports your goals. HOW IT WORKS Choose apps, set a schedule (optional) or tap start and distracting apps lock down. No streaks. No account. Nothing to check. Flexible Mode lets you end blocking early. Strict Mode keeps your apps blocked until the timer (or schedule) ends. FOR Focus: work or study without negotiating with your phone. Sleep: less scrolling before bed. Family time: set boundaries around distracting apps so family time means actually being together. PRICING Lerf is free to download. Full access is $12.99 a month or $39.99 a year after a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in Settings. WHY LERF Our smartphones are our greatest tools and our worst distractions. Lerf's mission is to turn smartphones back into tools, helping people take back control of their time, attention, and technology. PRIVACY Lerf uses Apple's Screen Time framework. Your app choices and usage stay on your phone. Lerf never sees them, and there's no account to create. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lerfapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daboo at none against Lerf's 5. Lerf's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Lerf sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Daboo asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Daboo against 5.0 for Lerf. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lerf has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Daboo ships an update every 4 months, Lerf every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daboo | Lerf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Tish | Grant Hergenroeder |
Customer experience
Daboo
Lerf
In-app purchases
Daboo
No in-app purchases
Lerf
- Lerf Weekly$3.997 Days
- Lerf Monthly$12.991 Month
- Lerf Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
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- Lerf Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lerf Yearly14 Days trial$79.991 Year
