Promise Piece vs Takeback
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Promise Piece
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Promise Piece helps you build lasting habits by tracking your daily promises for 28 days. Keep your promise today with: • Simple daily tracking • 28-day countdown calendar • Visual progress tracking • Streak tracking • Beautiful, minimalist design
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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Takeback is Sarge, an AI coach who lets you into your social apps when you have a real reason and cuts off the doomscrolling. Not another app blocker. Other blockers lock everything, so you delete them by Friday. Or they're easy to skip. Sarge is tougher, but fair. A REAL REASON GETS YOU IN DMing a friend? Work? You get in. Doomscrolling? He cuts you off. He knows how long you've already scrolled today. 5 MODES. FIND YOURS. Some days your apps stay open, and the second you start doomscrolling, they lock. Some days every open costs a short wait while he tries to talk you out of it. On Blackout days, only a strong reason or a real emergency gets you in. Sarge picks your first modes, then you choose the one that works. HARDCORE WHEN YOU NEED IT On Hardcore days you say it out loud. Hold to talk, tell him why you need your apps, and he talks back. HE LEARNS YOU How you scroll. When you slip up. Then he adjusts your plan, and your daily limit steps down to your goal. YOUR ANTI-ALGORITHM Thousands of engineers. Billions of dollars. One job: keep you scrolling. Willpower can't beat that. It was never your fault. Sarge is an AI on your side against a billion-dollar feed. WANT MORE TIME? EARN IT. Go for a walk, work out, touch real grass, or hold a focus block. He checks the proof: your steps, a fresh photo, or 45 minutes with no unlocks. Pictures of pictures don't work on him. WHAT CHANGES Evenings that end in sleep, not a 2am feed. An attention span you can feel coming back. Hours that used to vanish with nothing to show for them. A phone you finally trust yourself with. WHO'S BEHIND IT Takeback is run by Stan Tatarnykov. He built games played by 80M+ people, so he knows how apps keep you hooked. Now he's on your side. 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: Promise Piece at none against Takeback's 9. Promise Piece also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price 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 9 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Promise Piece asks for nothing beyond the download.
Promise Piece ships an update every 4 days, Takeback every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Promise Piece | Takeback |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Mill | Gatarn Games Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Promise Piece
No in-app purchases
Takeback
- Takeback Monthly Plan$8.991 Month
- Takeback Pro Weekly$9.997 Days
- Takeback Yearly Plan$19.991 Year
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- Takeback Monthly$19.991 Month
- Takeback Annual3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Takeback Yearly$39.991 Year
- Takeback Annual$44.991 Year
- Takeback Annual3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Takeback Pro Annual$69.991 Year









