Comparison

Unscroller vs AlignMate

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

Head to head
About

Unscroller

This app helps you regain control of your time by blocking distracting social media feeds. It allows you to stay connected for essential tasks like messaging and posting, while preventing endless scrolling and mindless browsing. It also offers tools for focus, planning, and habit building.

Highlights
  • Block social media feeds
  • Reduce doomscrolling
  • Focus sessions
  • Daily to-dos and planning
  • Habit tracking
  • Journaling and reset tools
  • Progress tracking
Features
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One quick check should not steal your night, your focus, or the goals you keep postponing. Unscroller helps you break the doomscrolling loop by removing endless feeds while keeping the useful parts of social media—messages, posting, search, and notifications. Use social media to connect and create, not to disappear into another feed. KEEP SOCIAL USEFUL On supported social surfaces, Unscroller helps you go directly to the task you chose instead of dropping you into an endless feed. • Reply to messages and DMs • Post when you have something to share • Check notifications intentionally • Search for the account or content you chose • Open individual links friends send you • Reduce home feeds, short-video loops, autoplay, and queued recommendations Coverage depends on the platform, device, account, permissions, and supported service surface. Unscroller explains supported behavior during setup. TURN RECOVERED TIME INTO PROGRESS Removing the feed creates a pause. Unscroller helps you use it. • Start a focus session • Schedule distraction-free hours or optional place-based rules • Plan your day and choose a next action • Build habits and see your progress • Journal, breathe, meditate, or use reset tools • Use optional AI coaching when you feel stuck • Share progress and find accountability in the Progress Hub PRIVACY AND CONTROL On supported iOS devices, focused browsing works within your own session. Unscroller does not ask for your social passwords or store provider cookies on its servers. Optional location, community, analytics, AI, and voice features process the data needed to provide the feature you choose. Unscroller does not sell personal information or use it to track you across other companies’ apps and websites for targeted advertising. See the Privacy Policy for full details and deletion choices. SUBSCRIPTIONS Some premium features require an auto-renewable subscription. Weekly, monthly, and annual options may be available. The price, billing period, and any eligible trial terms are shown before you confirm purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Your subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account may be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Unscroller is an independent productivity and digital-wellness app. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by third-party social platforms. It is not medical care or a substitute for professional support. Terms of Use: https://unscroller.com/terms/ Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://unscroller.com/privacy/

About

AlignMate

Features
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You get into bed. One quick check. An hour later you are still scrolling and sleep is gone. You have tried the blockers and the screen time limits. They hold for a few days, then you tap through them and feel worse than before. AlignMate does not block anything. It runs experiments. Tell it where the scroll takes over: in bed after lights out, first thing in the morning, after one quick check, on the couch. It designs one small 7-day experiment for that exact moment. Phone in a drawer before lights out. Charger across the room. Phone face down on the dresser so one check needs getting up. Then, each day, one hold of a button: did it happen. That is the whole routine. Around day three it reads your data back to you: what it sees, and how to make the experiment easier if it is not landing. At the end of the 7 days you write one line about what you learned, and the next experiment is designed from it. Miss a night? That is not a failed streak. That is data, and the next experiment uses it. What you get • A 7-day experiment built for your scroll moment, not a generic rule • One hold a day to log it, no checklists, no setup • A day-three read of your own data, in plain words • A record of every experiment you ran and what each one taught you • No blockers, no points, no levels, no guilt Built for people who want to stop doomscrolling at night, stop scrolling in bed, cut the first-thing-in-the-morning scroll, and get their evenings back from their phone. A digital detox that starts with one small test instead of a rule you will break by Thursday. Stop guessing. Start testing.

Screenshots

Unscroller4 screens
AlignMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AlignMate at none against Unscroller's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Unscroller sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. AlignMate asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Unscroller ships an update every 9 days, AlignMate every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Unscroller versus AlignMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnscrollerAlignMate
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size340 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOutFulfilled Growth Partner LLCArash Sammak

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Unscroller

Subscriptions3
  • Unscroller Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Unscroller Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Unscroller Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

AlignMate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Unscroller free?
Unscroller is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AlignMate free?
AlignMate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Unscroller or AlignMate have ads?
Neither Unscroller nor AlignMate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Unscroller or AlignMate?
Unscroller ships an update every 9 days, and AlignMate every 10 days. Most recently, Unscroller was updated on October 2, 2026 and AlignMate on October 7, 2026.

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