Screen Time Limit vs Lockmode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Screen Time Limit
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ScrollLess is a screen time limit app that helps you stop doomscrolling — for real. Pick the apps that pull you in: social media, short videos, games, anything. Choose how much time you want to spend on them each day. When your time is up, ScrollLess locks them until tomorrow. HOW IT WORKS • Select the apps and categories you want to limit • Set a daily time limit that feels right • Get a heads-up a few minutes before you reach it • When time runs out, a lock screen stops the scroll 15 MORE MINUTES, ONLY WHEN IT MATTERS Life happens. From the lock screen you can take 15 more minutes, up to 3 times a day. Every break is a small pause to ask yourself: is this scroll really worth it? STRICT MODE For days with no excuses. While Strict Mode is on, tracking can't be turned off, your limit can't be raised and apps can't be removed until tomorrow. BUILT ON SCREEN TIME • Uses Apple's Screen Time framework on your iPhone • Your app usage data stays on your device • See today's usage and time left at a glance • Focus Mode timer for deep work • Turn off all tracking anytime (unless Strict Mode is on) ScrollLess Pro unlocks daily limits, the lock screen, extra-time breaks and Strict Mode. Scroll less. Live more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/ec02595b-90a0-4187-b1ac-50f4ffcab52c Privacy Policy: https://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/live/ec92399e-b7a3-48de-8020-590aeaccc8f2
Lockmode
This app helps you focus by blocking distracting apps and websites until your tasks are complete. It offers flexible blocking options, habit tracking, and challenges to build discipline. Visualize your progress and maintain streaks with detailed insights.
- App and website blocking
- Habit tracking and goal setting
- Customizable schedules
- Daily limits for apps
- Progress visualization
- Streak tracking
- Home screen widgets
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Your apps open when the day's work is done. Not before. Lockmode gives you the two things willpower does not: a list of what today is actually for, and a phone that stays shut until it is finished. THE LOCK Pick the apps, games and websites that take your day one by one, or a whole category at once. They stay shut while anything on today's list is still due, and they open the moment you tick the last thing off. There is no countdown to wait out and no timer to game. The only two ways past it are to finish, or to turn the lock off yourself one tap, in plain sight. It runs on Apple's Screen Time, so it holds when the app is closed, force-quit, or after a restart. Calls, messages and everything else keep working normally. THREE MORE WAYS TO SHUT AN APP Quick block: a saved set of apps, shut by a tap and opened by the same tap. Daily limit: thirty minutes of social media a day. Spend them whenever you like; when they are gone, those apps stay shut until midnight. Schedules: work hours, study blocks, mornings, nights. Set it once and it blocks and unblocks on its own, without you ever opening the app. Run all four at once if you want. They never fight each other an app stays shut while any one of them says it should be. HABITS THAT ASK SOMETHING OF YOU Choose which weekdays each habit is due, give it a number to hit four litres, ten pages, two sessions and a reminder at the hour you mean to do it. CHALLENGES When one habit at a time is not enough, take on a programme: 30, 75 or 90 days of a fixed standard. Its habits land on your list for the whole run, and a day only counts if you did every one of them — the run is a tally of days you earned, never a number that flatters you. A STREAK YOU CANNOT FAKE A day closes when everything due that day is done your own habits and any challenge you are carrying. A day with nothing due is stepped over. Anything less than a finished day sets the streak back to zero. SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR LIFE Every habit belongs to one of six pillars Physical, Health, Mental, Social, Career and Discipline and each is scored from what you have actually done, not what you intended. The chart shows the thin side of your life at a glance, and it is usually the one you have been avoiding. Below it, every day you have used the app, as a calendar you can scroll back through. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Seven widgets your streak, today's list, the state of the lock, a single habit you keep losing, the whole run as a grid, your six pillars, and a line worth reading first thing. While the lock is up it also sits on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account to create and no server of ours holding your habits. The blocking runs on Apple's Screen Time, Device Activity and Managed Settings frameworks which is why it holds when the app is closed, and also why we never learn which apps you chose. Apple hands the app sealed tokens, not names. WHAT PEOPLE USE LOCKMODE FOR Making the morning's real work the price of unlocking the phone. Getting through a 75-day challenge without quietly dropping a day. Studying and deep work that stay deep. Building a routine that survives the third week. Lockmode does not ask you to have more willpower. It makes the shortcut unavailable. —— Lockmode is an auto-renewing subscription. Yearly — $49.99 Weekly — $9.99 Prices are in USD and may vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://apps-website-nu.vercel.app/overwill/terms Privacy Policy: https://apps-website-nu.vercel.app/overwill/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lockmode at every 4 days against Screen Time Limit's every 9 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Screen Time Limit sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Lockmode sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Screen Time Limit ships an update every 9 days, Lockmode every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Screen Time Limit | Lockmode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | abdullah zubeyir ceylan | CARLOS MANUEL ABELLA TORRES |
In-app purchases
Screen Time Limit
- ScrollLess Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- ScrollLess Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- ScrollLess 5 Token$0.99
- ScrollLess 10 Token$1.99
- ScrollLess 25 Token$3.99
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- ScrollLess 50 Token$17.99
Lockmode
- Lockmode Weekly$4.997 Days
- Lockmode Yearly$19.991 Year
- DMNT Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
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