Lento vs ScrollMint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lento
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Lento puts one calm breath between you and the apps and websites that pull you in. Pick the apps and sites you open without thinking and give each one a daily budget of opens. When you reach for one, Lento's shield asks for a short guided breath first. Then you choose how long you need, and when the time is up, it locks again on its own. No bans and no guilt. Just a pause long enough to decide. HOW IT WORKS • Guard an app or a website: choose it with Apple's Screen Time picker. • Meet the shield: opening a guarded app or site shows how many opens you have left today. • Breathe: tap Breathe and follow Lento's glowing orb through a 15-second breath. • Choose your time: 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes, and it opens. • It locks again: when the session ends, it rests again, even if Lento is closed. A DAILY BUDGET OF OPENS Decide how many times a day each app is worth it. Six is a good start, and your opens refill at midnight. Out of opens? You can still get in, but the breath is three times longer and the open counts as over budget. WEBSITES, TOO Guard the sites you visit in Safari, on their own or together with their app on one budget. A category guard covers its websites as well. SEE THE TIME YOU WIN BACK Insights shows the time you've won back, your opens and your clear days, week by week and month by month. Home keeps your streak of clear days, and Profile a year of them. SEVEN-DAY CHALLENGES Clear Mornings, Calm Evenings, Seven Clear Days, Short Sessions and Halve It: one rule for seven days, one challenge at a time. A missed day doesn't end it, and keeping all seven days earns its badge. YOUR RULES FOR EACH APP Every guarded app or website has its own daily opens, session lengths and breath, from 5 to 60 seconds. Give it a nickname, change its rules, or remove it from Lento whenever you like. GENTLE REMINDERS A quiet "1 minute left" and "Time's up", so a session never runs on unnoticed. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Lento is built on Apple's Screen Time framework. Your Screen Time data stays on your iPhone, and the apps and websites you choose reach Lento as private tokens: not even Lento can tell which they are. Insights and challenges are worked out on your iPhone from the opens Lento counts. No account and no ads. Anonymous usage analytics help improve Lento, and you can turn them off in Profile. LENTO PRO Lento is free with one guarded app or website, and Insights and Challenges are free for everyone. Lento Pro lets you guard up to 20 apps and websites, each with its own budget. • Yearly, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, or monthly. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://getlento.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://getlento.app/privacy/
ScrollMint
This app helps you reclaim your time by locking distracting applications and allowing you to earn back screen time through physical activity, focused work, or healthy habits. It offers a unique exchange rate system to encourage mindful usage and reduce doomscrolling.
- Lock distracting apps
- Earn screen time by moving
- Earn screen time by focusing
- Earn screen time with healthy habits
- On-device rep counting with form feedback
- Reliable re-locking via Screen Time technology
- Time Bank ledger
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Earn your screen time. Don't just burn it. Lock the apps that eat your day — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reels, whatever owns you — then earn every minute back with your body, your focus or one small healthy act. 3 ways, 20+ options, no daily cap. Your phone hands you unlimited scrolling for free and quietly takes your hours, your attention and your evenings in return. ScrollMint changes the deal: an app blocker that makes you earn the unlock. Doomscrolling isn't free anymore. Move more. Scroll less. Earn your scroll back. Willpower isn't the plan — the exchange rate is. When a scroll costs a set of squats, you scroll less. And when you've earned it, you enjoy it, guilt-free. HOW IT WORKS — ONE HONEST LOOP 1. LOCK. Pick the apps that steal your day. ScrollMint shields them with Apple's Screen Time technology, so the block holds even when your willpower doesn't. One tap on the shield takes you to earning. 2. EARN. Bank minutes three ways: • MOVE — your camera counts real reps: push-ups, diamond push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, high knees, butt kicks and a squat hold. Live form feedback, no wearables. Easy moves earn 1 minute a rep, harder ones 2, diamond push-ups 3. The video never leaves your phone. • FOCUS — run a Deep Work, Pomodoro, Study or Custom session (5 to 120 minutes) and earn while you concentrate. Guided breathing and follow-along yoga pay 5×: one mindful minute buys five. • HABITS — prove a small healthy habit with a quick photo: drink water, eat something real, touch grass, nature time, make your bed, clean your desk, hang out, smile. Each earns 2 to 5 minutes and can be repeated. Verified on your device, never uploaded. 3. SPEND. Trade banked minutes to unlock your apps for 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 60 minutes. Purchases stack. When the time runs out, the apps re-lock automatically — even if one is still open. Past you stays in charge. WHY IT WORKS WHEN BLOCKERS DON'T Timers and "are you sure?" pop-ups are easy to swipe away. A price isn't. Most screen time apps give you one lever — a hard block or a single way to unlock. ScrollMint gives you three, so the deal fits the day you're having: a workout, a focused hour or a glass of water. Self control with a scoreboard, not a lecture. MADE FOR THE PROBLEMS PEOPLE ACTUALLY SEARCH FOR • Doomscrolling and mindless scrolling at night • Phone addiction and social media addiction • Blocking Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Reels without deleting them • A dopamine detox or digital detox that lasts longer than a weekend • Screen time limits that survive the ignore button • Distraction-free focus for study, deep work or Pomodoro • Procrastination that starts with "just one scroll" WHAT YOU GET • Time Bank — every minute earned and spent, in one honest ledger • A daily goal you set (15 to 360 minutes), streaks and personal bests • On-device rep counting with live form feedback — no wearables, no equipment • Reliable re-locking built on Apple Screen Time • Live Activities: follow your session from the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island • A demo of the loop before you start • No daily caps — earn as much as you're willing to work for • Private by design — camera and photo checks happen on your device, not in the cloud. No account, no login. WHO IT'S FOR Students who lose evenings to Reels. Professionals who open Instagram forty times a day. Anyone who has tried screen time limits, phone jail, deleting the apps and a detox that lasted a weekend — and wants to beat phone addiction in a way that feels good. Your feed can wait. Your body can't. Requires an iPhone with iOS 17 or later. ScrollMint uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) to lock and unlock the apps you choose. Free to download; subscription required after the 7-day free trial on the annual plan (monthly has no trial). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://scrollmint.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://scrollmint.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lento at none against ScrollMint's shown. Lento also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Lento sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ScrollMint sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lento ships an update daily, ScrollMint every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lento | ScrollMint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Next Ltd | Oner Teknoloji Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi |
In-app purchases
Lento
- Lento Pro$4.991 Month
- Lento Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
ScrollMint
- ScrollMint Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- ScrollMint Premium Annual Offer$34.991 Year
- ScrollMint Premium Annual Spin$46.901 Year
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- ScrollMint Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year








