Reclaim vs Digital Fasting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Reclaim
This app acts as a digital bouncer for your most time-consuming applications. To access them, you must first complete a real-world task, earning you usage minutes. Once minutes are depleted, access is restricted, encouraging intentional use.
- Block time-wasting apps
- Complete real-world tasks to earn usage time
- Usage minutes expire when apps are actively used
- Customizable task list
- Self-imposed restrictions
- Privacy-focused, data stays on device
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Do one small thing. Earn time for the apps you love. Reclaim turns everyday tasks into minutes you can spend on your chosen apps. Take a walk, tidy a surface, or tackle something you've been putting off. Mark it complete, bank your minutes, and unlock your apps when you're ready. HOW IT WORKS ⢠Choose the apps, categories, and websites you want to restrict. ⢠Complete a task to earn minutes. ⢠Use your banked minutes to unlock access. ⢠Your selected distractions are blocked again when you've used your allowance. MAKE ROOM FOR EVERYDAY WINS Explore tasks for self-care, movement, tidying, work, and digital cleanup. Favorite the ones you want to find again and arrange your priorities around what matters to you. Accidentally checked something off? Undo the completion. YOUR MINUTES, READY WHEN YOU ARE Earn now and unlock later. Choose how many minutes to use, see your remaining allowance, and end a session early to return unused whole minutes to your bank. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Digital Fasting
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Start your digital fast. One number. One ritual. Every night. Digital Fasting tracks how long you stayed off your phone overnight. Start a fast before bed, a Live Activity timer runs on your Lock Screen ā tap it in the morning to see your result. Like intermittent fasting, but for your phone. THE MORNING RITUAL ⢠Start your fast before bed ⢠Live Activity timer on your Lock Screen all night ⢠Tap in the morning ā reveal your result ⢠Screenshot it. Share it. Keep the streak alive. DESIGNED TO SHARE Your result card looks like a Whoop recovery score, not a screen time report. Dark, minimal, screenshot-ready. Share your wins. Share your 5:47am failures. Both tell a story. FEATURES ⢠Live Activity ā Lock Screen timer running all night ⢠Streak tracking ā build consistency, don't break the chain ⢠Shareable result cards ā designed for Instagram Stories ⢠Fully offline ā no accounts, no servers, no data collection PRO (One-time purchase) ⢠Premium themes ā 5 handpicked dark designs ⢠Full history with calendar view ⢠Weekly summary cards you can share ⢠Personal records ⢠Streak shields to protect your streak No subscription. Buy once, keep forever. Digital Fasting applies to your data too. No trackers, no analytics, no backend. Everything stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Digital Fasting at daily against Reclaim's every 3 weeks. Digital Fasting also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Reclaim sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Digital Fasting sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Reclaim ships an update every 3 weeks, Digital Fasting daily. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Reclaim | Digital Fasting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | ā |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | ā |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ctrl Alt Go Ltd | Vectorate LLC |
In-app purchases
Reclaim
- Pro Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Reclaim Pro Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$29.99
Digital Fasting
- Digital Fasting Pro$4.99









