Comparison

Well Earned vs Couples Screen Time

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

Head to head
About

Well Earned

This app helps you reduce screen time by earning access to your phone's apps through completing real-world habits. It offers a clean interface and flexible tracking for various activities, promoting focus and consistency.

Highlights
  • Earn screen time by completing habits
  • Minimal habit tracking system
  • Screen time limits and rewards
  • Track diverse habit types
  • Consistency streak tracker
  • Calm, minimal design
Features
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Live more offline. Your phone is designed to keep you distracted. Instead of endless scrolling, earn your screen time by completing healthy habits. Well Earned helps you build focus and reduce screen time by creating a positive feedback loop to unlock your apps. Unlike typical habit trackers or screen time blockers, Well Earned connects your digital life to real-world actions using verification and accountability. Key Features • Earn Screen Time Complete real-world habits to unlock screen time for social media and apps. • Habit Tracker Quickly log daily habits with a clean, minimal habit tracking system. • Screen Time Control Reduce phone addiction with built-in limits, cooldowns, and smart rewards. • Flexible Habit Types Track movement, reading, mindfulness, hydration, meals, and more. • Built for Consistency Simple streak tracker - progress at your own pace. • Clean, Minimal Design Calm visuals designed to keep you focused, not overwhelmed. A subscription is required after the free trial to continue accessing these premium features. Most productivity apps motivate you with points and notifications. Well Earned motivates you with something real: your time. Privacy Policy: https://wellearned.xyz/privacy Terms of Service: https://wellearned.xyz/terms

About

Couples Screen Time

This app helps couples manage screen time and tasks together. By sharing a screen time pool and to-do lists, users earn minutes back by completing tasks, keeping a shared flame alive. It encourages accountability and shared goals for digital well-being.

Highlights
  • Shared screen time pool
  • Shared to-do lists
  • Earn screen time by completing tasks
  • Visual flame indicator
  • App locking when time is up
  • Individual and couple modes
Features
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Screen time for couples. Cut it together. Burn is a screen time app for couples. Invite your partner, share one pool of screen time, and share whichever to-do lists you like. Finish tasks to earn logs and feed them to Burn, a little flame you keep lit together. Doomscroll the pool dry and both of your distracting apps lock. No willpower required. Just someone in your corner, and a flame worth keeping lit. BURN DUO: SHARE IT WITH YOUR PARTNER (FREE) • One shared screen time pool, with a daily goal either of you can change • Share any to-do list: groceries, chores, date night plans. Everything else stays private • Either of you ticks a shared task off, it's done for both • One log pile: tasks either of you finishes refuel you both • See your partner's day: how much they burned, and where it went by the app groups they name • Get a heads-up when your partner adds or finishes a shared task • One flame, one streak. It breaks the moment either of you burns the last minute • Own Burn+? Your partner gets it too while you're in a Duo • Syncs through your own iCloud. No Burn account, no sign-in HOW IT WORKS • Start each day with a screen time budget • Scrolling the apps you pick burns through it, minute by minute • Hit zero and those apps lock • Finish tasks to earn logs • Feed logs to Burn: every log buys 10 more minutes Rather go solo? Burn works just as well on your own. GET STUFF DONE • Give every task its own log reward, so big jobs pay more • Daily, weekday, or custom repeating tasks for your habits • Plan Today, Tomorrow, and the days ahead • Sort tasks into color-coded categories, private or shared • Shake to undo if you tap too soon A FLAME WORTH KEEPING LIT • Burn reacts to your day: happy when you're on track, worried when time runs low, out cold when it's gone • Tap, pet, and drag logs in to feed him • Dozes off at night with a sleepy face • Keep Burn lit all day to build your streak YOU'RE IN CONTROL • Choose exactly which apps and categories burn fuel • Everything else stays open • Set your own daily budget • No account, no sign-in, no ads. BURN+ (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) • 13 flame colors, each with a matching app icon • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including a task list you can check off without opening the app • Live Activity: watch your fuel count down in the Dynamic Island • Low fuel warnings before your apps lock • Screen Time Insights: see which apps ate your time, by day, week, and month Burn uses Apple's Screen Time to track and limit only the apps you choose. What you do in them never leaves your device. In a Duo, your partner sees only your totals, the app groups you name and your shared lists, synced through your iCloud.

Screenshots

Well Earned4 screens
Couples Screen Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Couples Screen Time at free with in-app purchases against Well Earned's subscription. Couples Screen Time also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). Well Earned's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Well Earned sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Couples Screen Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Well Earned holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Couples Screen Time has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Well Earned ships an update every 4 days, Couples Screen Time every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Well Earned versus Couples Screen Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWell EarnedCouples Screen Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGAPV IncVincent Nguyen

Customer experience

Well Earned

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Couples Screen Time

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Well Earned

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Plan7 Days trial$24.991 Year
1 purchases

Couples Screen Time

One-time1
  • Burn+$9.99

Questions

Is Well Earned free?
Well Earned is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Couples Screen Time free?
Couples Screen Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Well Earned or Couples Screen Time?
Well Earned is rated higher. Well Earned averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Couples Screen Time averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Well Earned or Couples Screen Time have ads?
Neither Well Earned nor Couples Screen Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Well Earned or Couples Screen Time?
Well Earned ships an update every 4 days, and Couples Screen Time every 2 weeks. Most recently, Well Earned was updated on October 31, 2026 and Couples Screen Time on October 31, 2026.

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