Lento vs LockIn
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/
LockIn
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Temporarily block distracting apps and websites while you focus. Choose the apps, categories, and websites that pull your attention, start a Focus Timer or Pomodoro, and LockIn uses Apple’s Screen Time technology to shield them for the duration of your session. Blocking continues if you leave LockIn or lock your phone. When the timer ends, everything unlocks automatically. BLOCK DISTRACTIONS WITH A TIMER • Select apps, complete categories, or specific websites using Apple’s private activity picker • Set a custom session lasting anywhere from 2 minutes to several hours • Keep blocking active while using other apps or while your phone is locked • See a clean Screen Time shield when you try opening a selected app • Automatically remove every shield when your session finishes • Use Strict Mode to help prevent ending a session early THREE WAYS TO LOCK IN FOCUS TIMER Start one protected deep-work session. Choose your duration, block your distractions, and remain focused until the countdown ends. POMODORO Work and rest in structured rounds. Begin with the classic 25-minute focus and 5-minute break routine, or customize the intervals to suit your workflow. Your selected apps and websites remain shielded throughout the routine, including its breaks. MEDITATE Choose 5, 10, or 15 minutes, or create your own duration. Play calming ambient sound, breathe, reset, and return sharper. Meditate mode does not block apps, so you can use it as a simple calming timer. MAKE IT YOURS Visit the Styles gallery to explore and preview different timer experiences before choosing your favorite. Available timer styles include: • Sprint • Flip Clock • Ring • Stealth • Intervals STAY IN THE ZONE • Play a deep-focus pad, brown noise, rain, ocean, or soft rhythm • Continue listening while using another app or while your screen is locked • Control playback from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or in-app mini-player • Follow the countdown through a Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity WATCH YOUR FOCUS COMPOUND Your Training Log helps you understand your progress with: • Total focus time • Daily streaks • Weekly totals • Personal best sessions • Your strongest focus window • Focus and meditation history PRIVATE BY DESIGN LockIn uses Apple’s Screen Time framework and works with opaque activity tokens. It does not identify or collect a list of the apps installed on your device. Your selected restrictions, focus sessions, meditation activity, and training history are stored on your device. No account is required. LOCKIN PRO A LockIn Pro subscription is required to access the app. Pro includes unlimited sessions, Focus Timer, Pomodoro, Meditate mode, every timer style, Strict Mode, presets, ambient sounds, and your complete Training Log. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription from your Apple Account settings. Focus is a skill. Train it. Terms: https://sunnyrk.github.io/LockIn-Website/terms.html Privacy: https://sunnyrk.github.io/LockIn-Website/privacy.html
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Verdict
Lento and LockIn are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 LockIn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Lento | LockIn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Next Ltd | Sunny Radadiya |
In-app purchases
Lento
- Lento Pro$4.991 Month
- Lento Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
LockIn
- Weekly Pass$5.997 Days
- Yearly · Best Value$24.991 Year








