Dopamine Menu vs Seize Week
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dopamine Menu
This app provides a personalized menu of enjoyable activities to combat doomscrolling and executive dysfunction. Organize your hobbies by duration and energy level, with smart reminders and home screen widgets to help you choose what to do in seconds.
- Personalized activity menu
- Categorize by duration and energy
- Home screen widget
- Smart reminders
- Customizable categories and activities
- Exportable menu
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Your apps stay locked until you've done something you actually love — and taken a photo to prove it. It's not a willpower problem. Your phone is engineered to be the fastest dopamine within reach, and every brain loses that fight. So Dopamine Menu doesn't ask you to fight. It asks you to swap. HOW IT WORKS Build your menu — the things you'd rather do than scroll. Read ten pages. One song, eyes closed. Walk to the corner. Guitar, badly. Lock the apps that eat your evenings. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — your pick. When you reach for them, your menu shows up instead. Your own words, on top of the app. Do one thing. Take a photo of it. The apps unlock — for 15 minutes. Watch the score. "It tried 47 times today. It got through 2." WHY IT WORKS You can't delete a craving. You can redirect it. Cut the scroll and you leave a hole the phone will fill; swap it for something you enjoy and your brain still gets its hit — nothing to resist. Deciding the swap in advance is what psychologists call an if-then plan; across 94 studies, it roughly doubled follow-through. The photo just makes it real. WHAT YOU GET The Shield — the apps you choose stay locked until you've done something from your menu and shown the proof Your menu on your home screen — no deciding in the moment; you already decided Wins — every photo builds your wall. "I won against the algorithm 23 times. And I can prove it." The scoreboard — how many times the algorithm tried, how many times it got through, and which apps tried hardest Your time, back — the hours you spent on your book, your walk, your guitar, counted Share the proof — one tap turns your wall into a poster (blur your photos if you like) PRIVACY, FOR REAL Your photos never leave your phone. No account, no upload, no cloud. Dopamine Menu can't see what you do inside other apps — Apple's Screen Time framework keeps that on your device, where it belongs. FREE AND PRO Free: unlimited menu, soft blocking, wins, the wall, sharing. Pro: the Shield that actually holds, home-screen widgets, unlimited menus, the weekly recap. Built for anyone whose evenings keep disappearing — ADHD brains, chronically online humans, and everyone who used to have hobbies. Get your time back. No willpower. Just a better plan. — Dopamine Menu Pro is available as an auto-renewing subscription ($2.99 per week or $44.99 per year) or a one-time lifetime purchase ($79.99). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your Apple ID settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when — FREE TO TRY To access all features, subscribe via Apple Pay, managed through your Apple account. No account required. Your data stays on your device. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ — A NOTE FROM US We built this app because we needed it ourselves. Your guitar exists. Your sketchbook exists. That walk you keep putting off exists. You just need a reminder that they're there. The internet is full of apps that want your attention. This one wants to give it back. That's all this is. A menu. Your menu.
Seize Week
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Your whole life, drawn as a grid of weeks. The weeks you've lived are filled in; the weeks ahead are waiting. The end of the grid is not a fixed number. It is a live estimate that responds to your Apple Health trends, built to be illustrative rather than predictive. Most "life in weeks" apps show the same static grid to everyone. Seize Week moves. As your fitness, heart, sleep, and activity trends improve, weeks get added back to your grid. Let them slip, and you'll see that too. It is a clear way to see how today's habits move the estimate. HOW IT WORKS • Start from a national life table for your age, sex, and country. • Adjust it with evidence-based factors from your 90-day Apple Health trends — VO2 max, resting heart rate, daily steps, sleep duration, exercise minutes, body measurements, and blood pressure — plus a couple of things Health can't measure, like smoking and alcohol. • Every adjustment shows its source. Tap any factor to see the research behind it and how your own trend is moving. • Each week, your horizon updates. See exactly which habit moved it, and by how much. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No sign-up. No servers. • Your health data is read-only and never leaves your device. Only your estimate history syncs, through your own private iCloud. • Free with ads (CloudX); a one-time Remove Ads purchase turns them off. Your Health data is never used to target them. AN HONEST ESTIMATE Seize Week is a motivational visualization, not a medical prediction or health advice. Nobody knows your number. What this app shows is how your choices move the odds — and how much of your life is still ahead of you. Carpe septimanam. Seize the week.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seize Week at none against Dopamine Menu's 2. Dopamine Menu's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Dopamine Menu sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Seize Week asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dopamine Menu ships an update every 6 days, Seize Week every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dopamine Menu | Seize Week |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Damien Doumer | sebastian totte |
In-app purchases
Dopamine Menu
- Full Dopamine Menu$3.997 Days
- Full Dopamine Menu Yearly14 Days trial$24.991 Year
Seize Week
No in-app purchases
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