Merite vs Uncooked
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merite
This app helps you manage screen time by turning responsibilities into rewards. Complete tasks to earn screen time, which you can then use for breaks. It aims to reduce guilt associated with phone usage and promote balance.
- Earn screen time by completing tasks
- Block distracting apps until time is earned
- On-device data for privacy
- Guilt-free scrolling
- Promotes phone-life balance
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Make screen time a reward, not a habit. Merite helps you turn everyday responsibilities into intentional screen time. Create tasks for work, study, chores, or personal goals. Complete them to build your screen time budget, then use that time when you want a break. Instead of scrolling by default, Merite helps you pause, finish what matters, and enjoy your phone with less guilt. - Complete tasks to earn screen time - Keep distracting apps blocked until you have time available - Stay private with on-device data, no accounts, and no tracking - Enjoy guilt-free scrolling because your break is earned Turn your phone from a distraction into a tool for balance. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://artemtalko.github.io/merite.privacy-policy/
Uncooked
This app helps you regain control over your screen time by visualizing your focus decay in real-time. It offers quick, real-world habit prompts to interrupt distracting app spirals and recover your day without requiring willpower.
- Real-time focus decay visualization
- Blocks distracting apps
- Interrupts spirals with real-world habits
- Contextual warnings about lost time
- No willpower required
- Prevents accidental time loss
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You opened Instagram for a second. Now your study block is gone. Uncooked stops the spiral before it eats the part of the day that mattered. Watch your brain avatar decay in real time as you doomscroll. The deeper you go, the worse it looks — because that's what's actually happening to your focus. This isn't a battery meter. It looks like you. When you're going too deep, Uncooked interrupts with one message and one way out: Study block slipping. Drink water. Gym window disappearing. Go for a walk. Late-night spiral starting. Breathe. Complete it. Your avatar recovers. You get back to your day. NO WILLPOWER REQUIRED This isn't about quitting your apps. It's about stopping the accidental spiral before you lose the hour you didn't mean to lose. You keep TikTok, Instagram, YouTube — you just stop losing your day to them. WHAT IT DOES Block distracting apps — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, Reddit & more One avatar that shows your focus level in real time Quick real-world habits to interrupt the spiral — water, walk, breathe, journal Contextual warnings — the app tells you what specific part of your day is at risk FOR PEOPLE WHO: Open social apps at the library and lose the study hour Check their phone before the gym and never leave the couch Doom scroll before bed and lose the whole wind-down You're not trying to quit. You're trying to stop losing your day by accident. Download Uncooked. Stop the spiral. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Uncooked at 5.0 against Merite's 4.6. Uncooked also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days) and iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). Merite's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Merite sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Uncooked sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Uncooked holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merite has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Merite ships an update every 11 days, Uncooked every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merite | Uncooked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artem Talko | Denesh Raymond |
In-app purchases
Merite
- Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
- Annual Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- Buy me a pizza$2.99
- Big tip$5.99
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- Merite Pro Lifetime$79.99
Uncooked
- Uncooked Pro - Weekly$8.997 Days
- Uncooked Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
