Eclipta vs Moth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eclipta
This app helps you regain focus by locking distracting applications until you complete a short meditation session. It uses system-level blocking with no in-app bypass options, encouraging consistent attention training.
- Non-bypassable app blocking
- Integrated meditation timer
- System-level blocking via Screen Time API
- Focus Score and streaks
- Apple Health sync
- Per-app rules and time-of-day windows
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You don't have a willpower problem. You have an off-switch problem. Every blocker puts its escape hatch where the temptation is. Eclipta asks you first: switch on Strict mode and the block holds until you meditate. "Ignore Limit." "15 more minutes." A switch buried three menus deep. Every app that promised to guard your attention also shipped the button that hands it back. In Strict mode, Eclipta ships no such button. You train your attention, then you unlock. That is the entire mechanism. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that own you: social, news, games, anything you open on reflex. 2. Choose how they're held: a scheduled window, a daily allowance that runs out, or time you earn by meditating. 3. Open Eclipta and meditate. The apps open when you've done the work. FOUR KINDS OF BLOCK • Scheduled block: a window you set. It can run overnight, end at a fixed time, or stay shut until you've meditated. • Daily allowance: a budget for the day. It shows what's left, counts down as you spend it, and closes when it runs out, whether or not Eclipta is open. • Earned time: every minute you meditate buys app minutes at a rate you set. Meditate longer, get longer. • Instant block: one tap, blocked now, for when you can feel it starting. Each block picks its own apps and its own days. Set once, runs on its own. Need one app for a moment? Without Strict mode, open an app you picked for 1 to 15 minutes, up to 15 minutes a day, and the rest of the block stays on. WHAT ELSE YOU GET • Guided sessions: a calm voice leads you into deep rest in 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes. Or choose breathwork, or a quiet unguided timer, timed or open-ended, with a bell or in silence. • System-level blocking built on Apple's Screen Time (FamilyControls): not a timer you can swipe away. • Clarity: one daily number from your meditation, focus and recovery, with streaks that show your attention compounding week over week. • Apple Health (Mindful Minutes) sync and cloud backup, offline-first, across your devices. • No courses, no mood sliders, no sleep stories. It looks like a tool because it is one. WHY MEDITATION AND NOT JUST A BLOCKER Feeds have spent years training your brain to crave the next swipe. A blocker alone stops the damage but builds nothing back. Ten focused minutes a day trains the attention itself. In Strict mode, Eclipta forces the trade: no session, no apps: so the two compound instead of taking turns. PRIVATE AND SECURE Eclipta uses Apple's Screen Time API, so your app usage is read on your device and stays there. Your browsing data never leaves your phone. Eclipta does not sell or share your data for advertising. Eclipta is free to download and needs a subscription to use. There is no free tier and no ads; the annual plan begins with a free trial. This is for people who have already tried Screen Time, grayscale, and three other blockers, and watched themselves switch every one of them off. With Strict mode on, this is the version with no door. Subscription Information: Service: Eclipta Premium (Weekly, Monthly or Annual access) Payment will be charged to your App Store Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen plan. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off in Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://eclipta.app/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://eclipta.app/terms-of-service/
Moth
This app helps you understand the financial cost of your screen time. Set an hourly rate to see how much time spent on certain apps is costing you, and track your progress towards goals. It offers features to improve focus and connect with friends for challenges.
- Set hourly rate to quantify screen time cost
- Categorize apps into positive, negative, and neutral
- Focus Score based on habits and progress
- Social features for challenges and leaderboards
- Goal tracking linked to app usage
- Quiet Hours and home-screen widgets
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Your time has a price. Moth shows you what you're paying - and helps you stop. Set your hourly rate, sort your apps into three buckets, and watch the meter run. Time in apps you've marked Negative costs money. Time in apps that move you forward earns it back. YOUR FOCUS SCORE - One number for the last 14 days, built from five tiles: Scroll Control, Habits, Balance, Body and Progress - Ten levels from Doomscrolling to Untethered, so you always know where you stand - Tap any tile to see what it measures, its 14-day history and the fastest way to move it - Judged against your own settings, never against other people FRIENDS AND CHALLENGES - Make a profile, add friends by @username or from your contacts, and compare Focus Scores, streaks and badges on a leaderboard - Everyone gets the same challenge on the same day - call a friend, read a book, a walk without your phone. Fitness challenges count from Apple Health once you tap Start, and some are timed - Seventeen badges earned from your days, kept on your account HOW IT WORKS - Every day you get scroll time you choose - guilt-free minutes for scrolling - Past it, your blocked apps lock behind a pause screen showing exactly what the time cost: pages of your book unread, words of a language unlearned - Want in anyway? One honest tap buys a few more minutes - but it tells you it will end your streak first - Streaks count your days inside your scroll time. A flame for every day, a ring past six, ten colours from day 15, and a full moon at 100 - Alerts on the whole day's screen time against a daily target you set MONEY, NOT GUILT - Your own hourly rate turns minutes into dollars, earned and lost - Big totals also read as business time: 8 hours is a work day, 40 a work week - A daily breakdown shows every app's time, money, and how it compares to yesterday - Turn on True cost to price your scroll time too GOALS THAT PUSH BACK - Pick goals - read a book, learn Spanish, get fit - and see what wasted time could have bought - Link positive apps to a goal (Audible to reading, Duolingo to Spanish) and time in them earns real progress automatically - Pages roll into chapters and books; words roll into subjects QUIET HOURS AND WIDGETS - A Focus Filter for your Do Not Disturb schedule, and Start and End Quiet Hours shortcuts - Home-screen widgets built around your score, today's challenge, your friends' leaderboard, your buckets and your top goal YOUR HISTORY, KEPT - Week, month, year and all-time views with tappable charts - green, red and neutral time for every day - Weekly, monthly and yearly reviews that tell the story of your days - On iPhones in the EU, Apple lets Moth read your Screen Time directly, so your full history syncs to your account. Elsewhere, Moth runs on opens: you pick your scroll apps and how many times a day you open them, every open is a visit, and Apple draws your numbers inside the app PRO Moth Pro unlocks Year and All-Time history, month-by-month browsing, Earn Scroll Time by moving, the In-Flight Pass, and per-app App Intentions - open limits with a mindful pause and per-app streaks. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO It never polices anyone else's phone - this is a tool you point at yourself. Your data is never sold and never shared with advertisers. Blocking only ever applies to apps you choose, and you can pause it any time. Friends see your score, streak and badges - never your apps, minutes or money, and your sleep and movement figures only if you choose to share them. An account is optional. Without one, everything stays on your device. Privacy Policy: https://mothflame.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://mothflame.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Eclipta at 11 against Moth's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Eclipta sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Moth sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Eclipta against 5.0 for Moth. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eclipta has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Eclipta ships an update every 9 days, Moth every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eclipta | Moth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bingen Larranaga | Peter Mascheroni |
Customer experience
Eclipta
Moth
In-app purchases
Eclipta
- Eclipta Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- Eclipta Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Eclipta Pro Annual14 Days trial$79.991 Year
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- Eclipta Pro Annual1 Month trial$79.991 Year
- Eclipta Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
Moth
- Pro Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$59.991 Year









