Comparison

Scroll vs ScrollKeep

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Scroll

This app tracks your social media swipes, providing real-time data on your usage. Set daily limits to block apps when you exceed them, helping you build healthier digital habits. Challenge friends and review weekly summaries of your scrolling activity.

Highlights
  • Real-time swipe tracking
  • Daily scroll reports
  • Set daily scroll targets
  • App blocking when limits are reached
  • Friend challenges and leaderboards
  • Weekly activity recaps
  • On-device swipe detection
Features
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The step counter for your doomscroll. Scroll counts every swipe on TikTok and Instagram with shocking accuracy — then blocks them when you hit your limit. No other app shows you this number. You'll be floored by yours. REAL-TIME SCROLL TRACKING See your estimated scroll count throughout the day and understand how often you return to the feed. Scroll is built to give you a clearer picture of your habits in near real time. YOUR DAILY SCROLL REPORT See when you scroll most with an hour-by-hour breakdown. Track which supported apps drive the most swipe activity. Follow your habits over time and see how they change day to day. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Add friends, compare daily totals, compete on the leaderboard, and share your scroll count. WEEKLY RECAPS Each week, Scroll summarizes your activity with totals, trends, and standout days in a quick, easy-to-read recap. SET GOALS AND TAKE CONTROL Set a daily scroll target and blocks apps when you go over. Track your progress over time and use your number as a simple signal to build better habits. PRIVACY FIRST Scroll is designed to estimate swipe activity without collecting the content you watch or browse. We do not store feed content or search history. Swipe detection is processed on-device, and aggregated metrics may be synced securely to support reports, leaderboards, and app reliability. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION An active subscription is required to access premium features, including scroll tracking, daily and weekly reports, friend leaderboards, notifications, and personalized insights. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.relativecompanies.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.relativecompanies.com/privacy

About

ScrollKeep

This app acts as a digital 'Do Not Disturb' sign for your phone, allowing you to block distracting apps and feeds until a set time. It provides a brief pause before opening blocked apps and offers curated content to engage with instead of endless scrolling.

Highlights
  • Block chosen apps and feeds
  • Set 'shut down' times
  • Pause before opening blocked apps
  • Track abandoned opens
  • Curated evening content
  • Mindful breathing exercises
  • Track sleep-disrupting habits
Features
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Stop doomscrolling. ScrollKeep shuts the apps you choose, TikTok, Instagram, Reels, Shorts, any feed, from morning until tonight with Apple's Screen Time shield, and counts every reach you don't open. No account. No ads. The sign, the door, the count and the cards are free; Plus is $19.99 a year, $4.99 a month, or $49.99 once. It is the Do Not Disturb sign you hang on your own door. Hang it in the morning and the apps you name, the feed, the shorts, bed scrolling, are shut until tonight. Reach for one and the sign is there: not now, or open it anyway for a few minutes. Every reach you don't open is a pencil mark on the sign. Take it down at night to close the day. THE SIGN A card on a brass knob. Drag it up to hang it; the door goes dark and a clock counts the hours. Drag it down at night. Under a locked pledge it stays up until tonight. THE DOOR ScrollKeep shields your chosen apps with Apple's Screen Time. Inside a shut app you see the same sign with your own reason on it and two choices: Not now, or Open anyway for five minutes. That pause is the best-evidenced thing in this whole category. In a 2023 study in PNAS of a pause like this one, 36% of attempted opens were abandoned and attempts fell 37% over six weeks (Grüning, Riedel and Lorenz-Spreen). THE COUNT The only number in the app is honest: reaches you didn't open, counted from what you did, not from a usage total. Hours shut today. A month at a glance. The hour the pull is strongest, and the hour you open most, so you know when to plan for. TONIGHT'S CARDS The thing to open instead. A finite deck of things worth knowing, printed on card stock, one per screen, dealt once a night from behind the sign. Twenty cards, then it ends, on purpose. Five of last night's come back as questions. Keep the ones you want. SIT A MOMENT When the pull is strong: a breath, a two-tap answer to what you were reaching for, and two minutes for your hands. THE CLOSE Take the sign down at night. Say whether the phone sleeps outside the bedroom, the hour that costs the most sleep. Tomorrow's pledge is the hang. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No analytics. Apple never tells ScrollKeep which apps you picked, and ScrollKeep never reads your usage history. Everything lives on your iPhone. SCROLLKEEP PLUS The sign, the door, the count, the cards and the SOS are free. Plus hangs the sign for you each morning, locks it until tonight, takes every vice, and keeps every month. Yearly with a free week, monthly, or once for life. ScrollKeep is a personal companion, not a medical device. If your phone use is hurting your sleep, work, or relationships and you can't change it alone, a doctor or therapist can help.

Screenshots

Scroll3 screens
ScrollKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ScrollKeep at every 2 days against Scroll's fortnightly. Scroll's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Scroll sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and ScrollKeep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scroll against 5.0 for ScrollKeep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scroll ships an update fortnightly, ScrollKeep every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Scroll versus ScrollKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScrollScrollKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB39 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRelative Companies, Inc.NICHOLAS DANIEL MINIERI

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Scroll

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Plan (1 Week)3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Yearly Plan (1 Year)$49.991 Year
3 purchases

ScrollKeep

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • ScrollKeep Plus Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Scroll free?
Scroll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScrollKeep free?
ScrollKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scroll or ScrollKeep?
Scroll and ScrollKeep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Scroll or ScrollKeep have ads?
Neither Scroll nor ScrollKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scroll or ScrollKeep?
Scroll ships an update fortnightly, and ScrollKeep every 2 days. Most recently, Scroll was updated on October 23, 2026 and ScrollKeep on October 29, 2026.

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