Flux vs App Usage Limiter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Flux
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SEE YOUR TIME DIFFERENTLY. Flux is a visual time tracker, life clock, Memento Mori companion, countdown timer, Pomodoro focus timer, and time widget app designed to make every day feel more intentional. See how much of today, this week, this month, this year, and your life has passed ā then create beautiful countdowns for the moments that matter next. VISUALIZE YOUR LIFE & TIME ⢠LIFE CLOCK & MEMENTO MORI Turn your birthday and lifespan target into a visual life progress clock. See days lived, time remaining, life stages, decade rings, and your progress through life at a glance. ⢠TODAY: 24-HOUR TIME DIAL Track elapsed and remaining hours with an interactive daily clock, day/night awareness, and solar progress. ⢠WEEK, MONTH & YEAR PROGRESS See exactly how far you are through the current week, month, and year with simple visual progress dials. ⢠BIRTHDAY COUNTDOWN Count down to your next birthday and see upcoming age milestones in a dedicated birthday timer. COUNTDOWN TIMER FOR ANY EVENT Create custom countdowns and progress clocks for: ⢠Vacations and trips ⢠Weddings and anniversaries ⢠Exams and study deadlines ⢠Projects and product launches ⢠Marathons, fitness and health goals ⢠Move-in days, birthdays and milestones ⢠Any important date or personal goal Choose custom icons, set start and target dates, add reminder alerts, and pin your most important countdowns for instant access. POMODORO & FOCUS TIMER Turn intention into action with built-in focus sessions. ⢠Start 25-minute, 45-minute, or custom focus timers ⢠Use Pomodoro-style sessions for work, study and deep focus ⢠Connect focus sessions directly to your tasks ⢠Track tasks with due dates, tags, filters and batch actions LIVE ACTIVITIES, DYNAMIC ISLAND & WIDGETS Keep time visible without constantly opening the app. ⢠Live Activities with a real-time countdown and progress bar ⢠Dynamic Island support in Expanded, Compact and Minimal views ⢠Lock Screen and StandBy countdown progress ⢠Home Screen widgets in Small, Medium and Large sizes ⢠Lock Screen widgets for Today, Life Progress, custom countdowns and tasks AESTHETIC TIME TRACKING Flux is designed to make time feel clear, calm and visual. Choose minimalist monochrome themes for a clean OLED-friendly look, or use vibrant color themes for different time periods. Smooth animations and subtle haptics make every interaction feel deliberate. PRIVATE & OFFLINE FIRST Your core time tracking works offline with local storage. No mandatory account is required. Optional sign-in and cloud backup are available when you want them. WHY FLUX? Flux combines a life progress tracker, Memento Mori life clock, countdown timer, daily time tracker, Pomodoro focus timer, task manager and aesthetic widgets in one visual experience. Whether you want to see your life in perspective, count down to a wedding or vacation, stay focused while studying, track a major deadline, or simply understand where your time is going, Flux helps make time visible. Make every second count. Download Flux and start seeing your time clearly.
App Usage Limiter
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You already know how much time you want to give an app. Free Full Usage Limiter is what makes that decision stick. Pick an app, give it a daily budget, and when the budget runs out the app stops opening. That's it. No streaks, no coaching, no account to create. SET LIMITS THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY THINK ⢠Per app ā give one app its own daily budget. ⢠Per folder ā group several apps together and give them a single shared budget. Twenty minutes across all your social apps, however you split it. When the budget is gone, they all lock at once. TWO WAYS TO BE STOPPED Friction mode leaves a door, but makes you work for it. To buy back a few minutes you type out a full sentence by hand ā pasting is rejected ā and then sit through a countdown that restarts if you leave the app. Most of the time you'll close it instead. That's the point. Absolute mode has no door. When the time is gone, it's gone until midnight. An absolute limit also can't be loosened or deleted afterwards; you can only make it stricter. Choose it when you already know you'll negotiate with yourself later. IT NOTICES WHEN YOU KEEP TRYING Every time you hit the lock screen, the message changes. The first one is a gentle nudge. By the tenth it isn't gentle, and it tells you how many times you've tried today. Seeing that number is usually what breaks the loop. SEE WHAT YOU GOT BACK A weekly report shows how much less you used your phone compared to the same point last week ā overall and app by app. Not a guilt chart. Just the hours you took back. BUILT TO BE BORING ABOUT YOUR DATA No account. No sign-up. No subscription. No ads. No analytics. No third-party code of any kind. There is no server, because there is nothing to send anywhere. Your limits live on your iPhone and nowhere else. Your usage numbers are read inside an isolated system extension that Apple does not let apps read from ā which means even this app cannot see them. That's also why the main screen shows a progress bar rather than a live countdown: iOS genuinely does not allow it. HONEST LIMITATIONS ⢠Requires Screen Time permission. It's what makes blocking possible. ⢠Blocks can take up to a minute to appear after your time runs out. That's how iOS reports usage. ⢠Deleting this app removes every block, including absolute ones. Apple does not allow that door to be closed, and we'd rather tell you than pretend otherwise. Free, completely. There is no paid tier to upsell you to.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: App Usage Limiter at every 9 days against Flux's every 6 weeks. Flux's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flux ships an update every 6 weeks, App Usage Limiter every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flux | App Usage Limiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 ā better | 17.4 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STEPHAN HENNING | JAIME MANUEL SERRANO GONZALEZ |
In-app purchases
Flux
No in-app purchases
App Usage Limiter
No in-app purchases









