Foki vs App Usage Limiter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Foki
Regain control of your phone usage by blocking distracting applications and setting smart time limits. Track your screen time and identify which apps consume the most of your attention. This app prioritizes your privacy by running entirely on your device.
- Block all distracting apps instantly
- Set flexible app blocking rules
- Track daily screen time and usage
- Schedule app access by time
- Limit app opening frequency
- Private by design, no account needed
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Does this sound familiar? You pick up your phone, and suddenly you're scrolling social media. Without even deciding to open it. Foki helps you take back control. Block apps, set smart limits, and see exactly where your time is going. —— BLOCK EVERYTHING IN ONE TAP When you need to truly disconnect, Block All shields every distracting app at once, from social to games. Keep the few apps you still need on your allowlist, and Foki lets only those through. It's the fastest way into deep work, a study session, or a screen free evening. —— BLOCK APPS YOUR WAY Flexible rules that fit how you actually live: • Block Now for instant focus the moment you need it, blocking everything or just the usual suspects • Schedule Block to switch apps off automatically during the hours you set, everything or your selection • Time Limit to cut an app off once you've hit your daily cap • Open Limit to cap how many times you open an app each day, with a max length per session • Scheduled Access to allow apps only during the hours you choose —— TRACK YOUR REAL USAGE The Insights tab reveals your true screen time, daily pickups, and which apps pull you back the most. Most people are surprised by what they find. —— PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. Nothing leaves your device. Foki runs entirely on Apple's Screen Time framework - it can't read your messages, passwords, or personal data. —— Reclaim your time. Live with intention. —— Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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 — give one app its own daily budget. • Per folder — 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 — pasting is rejected — 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 — 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 — 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 in-app purchases: App Usage Limiter at none against Foki's 4. App Usage Limiter also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Foki sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. App Usage Limiter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Foki ships an update every 5 weeks, App Usage Limiter every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Foki | App Usage Limiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Barbosa | JAIME MANUEL SERRANO GONZALEZ |
In-app purchases
Foki
- Monthly Plan$3.991 Month
- Weekly Plan3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Yearly Plan3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$24.99
App Usage Limiter
No in-app purchases









