Website Blocker vs Focus Firewall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Website Blocker
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Take back control of your screen time. Website Blocker uses Apple's native Screen Time API to help you stay focused by blocking distracting apps and websites โ no VPN required. Smart Blocking Block specific apps, websites, or entire categories like Social Media, Games, and Dating. Use keyword and pattern matching to filter content across Safari. Set up daily schedules to automate your focus routine. Strict Mode Lock your blocking settings so you can't give in to temptation. Choose your severity level โ from a simple unlock challenge to a full lockdown until the timer expires. Protect yourself from impulsive decisions with PIN codes, text challenges, or wait timers. Live Activities & Dynamic Island See your focus session timer right on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Track remaining time, severity level, and blocked items count โ without opening the app. Home Screen & Lock Screen Widgets Add widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen to monitor your blocking status and active sessions at a glance. Three widget sizes available for quick access to your focus data. Siri Shortcuts Control your focus hands-free. Say "Start focus session in Website Blocker" to begin, check your status, or toggle blocking โ all through Siri voice commands. Safari Web Extension Block websites directly in Safari with domain-level and keyword-based filtering. No VPN, no proxy โ pure native performance. Subscription Options Monthly: auto-renewable subscription Yearly: auto-renewable subscription with a 3-day free trial Lifetime: one-time purchase, use forever All blocking is powered by Apple's FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, and DeviceActivity frameworks โ your data stays on your device. Privacy Policy: https://sevas727.github.io/roku-terms-of-use/website-blocker-privacy-policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://sevas727.github.io/roku-terms-of-use/website-blocker-terms-of-use.html
Focus Firewall
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Focus Firewall puts a shield in front of the apps that eat your day. Choose what to block. Choose when. That is the whole app. WHAT IT DOES โข Block Now โ one stretch of focus, from 15 minutes to four hours. โข Rules โ recurring schedules that run on their own, without you opening anything. "No social media, weekdays 9 to 12." โข A real shield โ open a blocked app and you get a full screen and a short written prompt instead. โข Per-app breaks โ need one app for a minute? Take a break that opens only that app. Everything else stays shielded. โข Insights โ streaks and sessions, counted from what actually happened. PRIVACY IS THE POINT No account. No server. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. There is no networking code in this app at all, so there is nothing to send and nowhere to send it. When you choose apps to block, iOS hands the app opaque tokens โ never names. Focus Firewall never learns which apps you picked. Your iPhone draws the icons and names itself. Your Screen Time data stays inside Apple's own sandbox and never reaches us. WHAT IT WILL NOT CLAIM Focus Firewall is not unbreakable, and will not pretend to be. You can always turn off Screen Time access in iOS Settings, and no app can prevent that. Strict Mode makes a rule harder to change while it is running โ friction, not a lock. It also will not tell you how many hours you saved. That would mean knowing what you would otherwise have done. Everything in Insights comes from sessions the app itself recorded. And when something goes wrong โ permission revoked, a shield that did not fire โ it says so, instead of showing a reassuring checkmark. Settings โบ Protection check runs the whole thing end to end and reports each layer. FREE One recurring rule, three apps, Block Now up to an hour, real breaks, today's history. Not a trial. It works. FOCUS FIREWALL PRO Unlimited rules, website blocking, Strict Mode, daily app budgets, longer and more frequent breaks, weekly insights, the full coach library, your own prompts and shield message, interactive widgets, Face ID lock, and an encrypted backup. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Pro can also write your week up in plain words and turn a sentence into a rule โ running entirely on device. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings โบ your name โบ Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://yuganshjain.github.io/focus-firewall/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://yuganshjain.github.io/focus-firewall/terms.html
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Verdict
Website Blocker and Focus Firewall are too close to call on the numbers: across 3 compared parameters โ price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Website Blocker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Focus Firewall sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Website Blocker | Focus Firewall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | โ | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | โ | iPhone โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vsevolod Fedotov | Yugansh Jain |
In-app purchases
Website Blocker
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$59.99
Focus Firewall
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
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