REACH Together vs Takeback
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
REACH Together
This app helps you achieve your goals through social accountability. Create challenges, post daily proof, and get verified by friends to stay on track. Track your progress with visual streaks and build momentum towards your aspirations.
- Create daily or weekly challenges
- Post photo/video proof of progress
- Peer verification system
- Streak tracking with calendar view
- Join challenges from others
- Follow friends and build your circle
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Reach helps you achieve your goals with the power of social accountability. Create challenges, post daily proof, and get verified by friends who keep you honest. STAY ACCOUNTABLE Set personal challenges for fitness, studying, diet, hobbies, or any goal. Post photo or video proof of your progress and let your community verify you're staying on track. TRACK YOUR STREAK Build momentum with streak tracking. See your progress on a visual calendar and watch your consistency grow day by day. CHALLENGE TOGETHER Join challenges from friends or invite others to join yours. When you're accountable to real people, you're more likely to follow through. PEER VERIFICATION No more lying to yourself. Your friends review your proof and give it a thumbs up—or call you out. Real accountability from real people. KEY FEATURES: • Create daily or weekly challenges • Post photo/video proof of progress • Peer verification system • Streak tracking with calendar view • Join challenges from others • Follow friends and build your circle Whether you're hitting the gym, learning a new skill, or building better habits. Reach gives you the accountability system you need to actually follow through. Download Reach and start achieving your goals today.
Takeback
This app uses a drill sergeant persona to help you break free from excessive phone use. It negotiates your access to distracting apps and implements a progressive 60-day bootcamp to retrain your habits.
- Drill sergeant accountability
- Negotiated app access
- Progressive 60-day bootcamp
- Customizable difficulty (Chill/Savage)
- Habit retraining
- Time and attention recovery
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Every screen time app has an ignore button. That is why they stop working. Takeback does not. Open the app you swore you were done with and Sarge is there first. He is a drill sergeant, and he wants to hear your reasoning. Make your case. He decides. He is not easy. SARGE, YOUR DRILL SERGEANT He knows how long you have already scrolled today and answers accordingly. Ask for twenty minutes at midnight and see how that goes. Ask for five to reply to a message and he will probably wave you through. He negotiates. He counts. He remembers. YOU CANT FOOL HIM Try to talk your way past him and he will ask you to prove it. Say you are at the gym and he wants a photo from the gym. Pictures of pictures do not work on him. THE 60-DAY BOOTCAMP Your daily limit tightens every week. Every clean day pulls your baseline back down. By day 30 most people stop reaching for the phone on reflex. CHILL OR SAVAGE You pick how hard he goes. Chill hears you out. Savage makes you earn every minute. Switch whenever you want. WHAT YOU GET BACK Evenings that end in sleep, not a 2am feed. An attention span you can feel coming back. Hours a week that used to vanish with nothing to show for them. A phone you finally trust yourself with. HOW IT GOES Day 1, Sarge learns your habits and starts easing your limits down. Day 7, the feed starts feeling boring. Day 30, you have hours back and you are spending them on something. Day 60, you are not fighting your phone anymore. Start free for 3 days. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trytakeback.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: REACH Together at none against Takeback's 3. REACH Together also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Takeback sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. REACH Together asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for REACH Together against 5.0 for Takeback. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: REACH Together has 10 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.
REACH Together ships an update every 11 days, Takeback every 10 days. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | REACH Together | Takeback |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NIKHILSHAN GUNAS MARUDAI | Gatarn Games Ltd. |
Customer experience
REACH Together
Takeback
In-app purchases
REACH Together
No in-app purchases
Takeback
- Takeback Monthly$19.991 Month
- Takeback Annual$24.991 Year
- Takeback Annual$29.991 Year





