Disciplines vs Deflect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Disciplines
This app integrates tasks, habits, goals, and focus sessions to help users achieve their objectives. It offers app blocking during focus sessions and provides analytics to measure productivity.
- Integrated task, habit, and goal tracking
- App blocking during focus sessions
- Task timers with app blocking
- Habit tracking with streaks and progress
- Goal breakdown into tasks with deadlines
- Productivity score based on time, accuracy, efficiency, consistency
- Detailed analytics and charts
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Disciplines is the productivity system for people who are serious about getting things done. Most apps track one thing. Disciplines connects your tasks, habits, goals, focus sessions and analytics so nothing falls through the cracks. FOCUS SESSIONS & APP BLOCKER Start a focus session and Disciplines blocks distracting apps the moment it begins. Use it for deep work, a sleep routine or a wind down session. Difficulty modes (Normal, Timeout, Deep Focus) control how strictly you can quit early. TASK & HABIT TIMER Time any task or habit while blocking distractions at the same time. Track exactly where your hours go on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Home Screen widgets and Apple Watch. APP LIMITS Set a daily time budget or open hours for the apps that steal your attention. Choose Easy limits you can adjust anytime, or Strict limits that stay locked until the window opens or the budget resets. HABIT TRACKER Track daily habits with streaks, completion rates and weekly progress. Every check in compounds. Every streak builds momentum. GOAL PLANNER Break big goals into tasks, assign deadlines and watch your progress with built in charts. Goals aren't just saved, they're worked on every day. PRODUCTIVITY SCORE & ANALYTICS Your daily score is built from four factors: time management, accuracy, efficiency and consistency. No vanity metrics, just an honest read on how locked in you actually were. Disciplines is for the person who doesn't need motivation. They need a system. Privacy Policy: https://www.ken.engineer/disciplines/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.ken.engineer/disciplines/terms
Deflect
This app helps you control your screen time by requiring you to justify app usage through a conversational AI. It remembers your past requests and uses context to decide if you get extra minutes, making it harder to break your own limits.
- AI-driven app access justification
- Focus sessions and schedules
- Daily limits and always-on blocks
- Conversational request system
- Customizable strictness levels
- Photo verification for goals
- Personalized AI voice options
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The screen-time blocker you have to convince. Every blocker has the same flaw: the person who set the limit is the same person trying to break it. You tap "skip," you tap "5 more minutes," and you win every time. Deflect takes that negotiation out of your head. When you open a blocked app, there's no override button. You have to ask Deflect, and explain why. A real reason that can't wait? You get exactly the minutes you need. "Just a quick check"? Deflect remembers the last time you said that. HOW IT WORKS - Block any app or category with focus sessions, schedules like Bedtime, daily limits, or always-on blocks - Open a blocked app and tap "Ask Deflect" to make your case in a quick text-style chat - Deflect asks questions, weighs your reason, and decides in a few messages - Earn a short, time-boxed pass for what you said you'd do, nothing more - Hard mode: blocks can't be ended early. Deflect or an emergency pass are the only way in IT REMEMBERS Deflect remembers your past week of requests and which excuses worked. Asked for 2 minutes to reply to one message, then came straight back for more? It knows. Begging louder doesn't work either. It judges the reason, not the volume. IT READS YOUR DAY Time of day, how long you've already spent in the app, how many times you've asked, and what kind of block you're in. A focus session you started yourself is the hardest one to talk your way out of. Each unlock gets shorter as the day goes on. PROVE IT When a story sounds thin, Deflect can ask for a photo: the email, the assignment, the delivery text. Give a block a goal like "finish calculus homework" and Deflect checks whether it's done before letting you back in. MAKE IT YOURS - Voice: Supportive (warm and on your side) or Unhinged (18+, permanently fed up, roasts your excuses) - Strictness: Easy, Normal, or Hard - Set the most minutes a single unlock can give - Set your end goal, like "more time with my kids," and Deflect reminds you of it on hard days PRIVATE BY DESIGN Deflect uses Apple's Screen Time framework to block apps. Before your first chat, Deflect asks permission and explains exactly what's shared with its AI provider. Your name, email, and age are never sent to the AI. No ads, no tracking, and your data is never sold. Deflect Pro subscription required. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://deflectai.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://deflectai.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Disciplines at 100% against Deflect's 0%. Disciplines also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7). Deflect's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Disciplines sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Deflect sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Disciplines holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Disciplines's written reviews are positive against 0% of Deflect's.
Disciplines ships an update every 2 weeks, Deflect daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Disciplines | Deflect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | NERSISYAN LLC | Adam Otani |
Customer experience
Disciplines
Deflect
In-app purchases
Disciplines
- Disciplines Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Disciplines Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
Deflect
- Deflect Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Deflect Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year









